hyperMILL^® Features for Mold Making Applications

To avoid problems during the molding process, it is necessary to create sharp corners at the junction of the upper and lower halves of the mold in all machining operations. An automatic tangent extension function makes manual CAD steps to extend the numerous surface elements in complex designs redundant. The software also includes a new feature for advanced milling surface extension in the ‘3D shape plane finishing’ and ‘3D profile finishing’ strategies. With it, surface extensions are not created unless they are suitable from a process perspective. This allows users to reliably protect sharp edges and subdivide machining zones with ease, guaranteeing high surface qualities in combination with the ‘Soft overlap’ option.

Toolpaths for halfpipes

The ‘5-axis halfpipe finishing’ strategy makes it easy to program high-quality toolpaths for grooves and tubes with any cross-section along an arched guide curve. A wide range of applications are made possible with this strategy. This includes, for example, applications for molds and dies with a tool axis pointing preferentially in the direction of demolding, for cylinders and flanges with a radial tool axis, and for geometries with variable accessibility. Machining operations for these geometries can be easily programmed and executed with a high surface quality and level of precision.