3 Axis Surface Machining
New Functionalities
- Part Operation:
- You can now use the Part defined at the Part Operation level,
Collision
Checking is available at the Part Operation level.
- Four probing operations:
- Holes or Pins Probing,
Slots or Ribs Probing,
Corner Probing,
Multi-Points
Probing.
Enhanced Functionalities
- 3/5-Axis Converter:
- Now available for all
End Mill tools, TSlotters and Lollipops,
A new strategy guide is available:
Normal to drive surface,
An Angle parameter has been added to the Thru a guide
strategy mode,
ZLevel tool path can be
optimized.
- Tool Path Editor lets you now:
- Edit feedrates of tool paths, either locally or globally,
Edit PP
Words in tool paths,
Edit V4 NCMill operations.
- Roughing
- Management of start
point is enhanced,
- You can choose to compute a tool path free of
collision with the tool holder,
- For pockets, you can create engagements from
external zones, and add
a circular approach
for automatic macros,
- You can skip
small holes in the rough stock, instead of avoiding them.
- Plunge Milling
- A new grid type has been added: By
Offset,
You can
visualize plunging points before computing the tool path,
A new parameter is available for retract motions:
Axial corner radius,
You can modify the
feedrate of the clearance macro.
- Contour-Driven machining operations:
- Improved guide definition for parallel
contour mode,
(guide defined by faces boundaries, zig-zag motif defined by either two points
or one point and an axis),
New Strategy side
parameter for parallel contour mode,
Option Reference
now available in mode Parallel contour with Constant 3D strategy,
Improved selection of faces in a polygon trap: new option to select visible
faces only,
In Between contours mode, with a constant 2D stepover, the offset on guides
can be
applied to stops.
- ZLevel machining operations:
- An offset on tool
path in the machining plane is now available,
You can compute a
circular interpolation of the tool path, or approximate one,
The Reverse Machining Conditions command inverts the
Climb and Conventional
cutting modes.
- Spiral Milling
- A new strategy mode has been added: Back and Forth,
- A new option Always stay on bottom
has been added to the Helical tool path style,
- Face Mill Tool is now available,
- Clearance feedrate management occurs via a contextual menu,
- New
Ramping up to a plane macro is available.