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ESPRIT 2013 includes new productivity-enhancing technology for all CNC programmers and for all machining disciplines. This latest version focuses on providing new and enhanced machining technology that ensures smarter, more efficient toolpath and new strategies for greater overall productivity.
Featuring functionality that emphasizes higher cutting speeds, longer tool life and suitability to increasingly complex geometry, ESPRIT 2013 is comprehensive in its ability to handle today’s most advanced machine tools and demanding machining applications.
New ProfitMilling Pocketing
Experience better CAM programming with ProfitMilling, a smart and efficient toolpath that puts greater profit in your pocket. New to ESPRIT 2013, the patent-pending ProfitMilling strategy for 2-, 3- and 5-axis roughing cycles allows customers to remove more material in a shorter period of time. Using highly advanced technology, the ProfitMilling strategy optimizes engagement angle, chip load, material removal rate (MRR), lateral cutter force and machine acceleration to achieve optimal results.
This innovative machining cycle represents the “best of both worlds” by utilizing trochoidal tool motion and a traditional offset of the toolpath, allowing usage of the full tool flute length.
“Our tests have shown that ProfitMilling typically reduces cycle time by 70 percent, minimizes programming time, reduces energy consumption, and increases tool life by an average of 500 percent,” said ESPRIT Product Manager Kenyon Whetsell. “We’ve seen the most dramatic benefits in using the ProfitMilling strategies with light to medium-duty machine tools.”
Trochoidal tool motion pattern has been improved in ESPRIT 2013 to take you even faster through your cuts. Improvements include an optimized trochoidal strategy to reduce cycle time and additional tool lifts during transitional moves to reduce tool drag.
New Improvements to Lathe Grooving
ESPRIT 2013 offers new options for cutting grooves faster and more efficiently by taking advantage of the latest technology in grooving inserts. Among these upgrades is a new plunge setting added to the plunge turning (zigzag) cycle. Using a pre-plunge along walls reduces the tool load against walls and cuts wide grooves faster.