OPEN MIND Debuted hyperMILL? 2012 at IMTS

OPEN MIND Technologies debuted its new release of high-performance hyperMILL? CAM package at IMTS 2012. OPEN MIND regularly provides enhancements to all technology segments of hyperMILL? in new product releases. Some of the key functions in hyperMILL? 2012 include innovative 2D pocketing techniques, enhancements to the work-horse profile milling cycle and enhancements to 5-axis shape offset procedures. hyperMILL? 2012 enhancements focused on streamlined programming techniques and efficient manufacturing processes. These attributes have fundamental impact to prototype and short-run shops, as well as production job shops. The new adaptive pocket technique simplifies programming by reviewing the characteristic geometry of rectangular pockets and automatically assigning best-practice tool path techniques to different categories of pockets (square, long, open, closed). In combination with Feature Recognition utilities, the geometry on simple as well as complex pockets can be organized, and then machining techniques can be dynamically assigned to obtain optimal machining. Too often, highly automated techniques rely on sub-optimal machining processes to enable to assurance and automation on the programming side.
The hyperMILL? shape-offset technique provides roughing and finishing as offsets from reference surfaces. This provides improvements to machining and leaves consistent rest material for subsequent operations, comparing to “stair-steps” that would remain after using traditional z-level procedures on a curved bottom surface. This procedure is also available in combination with hyperMAXX? high-performance roughing that is based on Celeritive Technologies’ Volumill? kernel. The latest enhancement to shape-offset techniques includes axial sorting whose benefits are dramatized in shape-offset “rest machining” in corners. With axial sorting, air transition moves are reduced compared to working level by level.