2D functions have been improved, for example, through path compensation during pocket milling or the new option for automatic edge breaking, all with no additional programming effort. Proven 5-axis strategies such as radial machining and the tube machining cycles now deliver even better results in terms of surface quality.
Benefit: Improved machining quality and various optimization and intervention options.
Further improvements make this strategy the benchmark for blow mold machining.
Benefit: Precise machining of vertical surfaces with a constant infeed.
The finishing strategy has been fundamentally enhanced and now offers new and improved functions.
Benefit: Improved machining quality, simplified programming and various optimization options for the user.
The hyperMILL® VIRTUAL Machining technology now also supports additive machining programs. This means the Optimizer technology can now be used in NC code generation to obtain NC code that is perfectly adapted to the machine. Additive and subtractive production processes are simulated with the hyperMILL® VIRTUAL Machining Center on an NC code basis – for maximum reliability.
Benefit: NC code simulation of additive tool paths and integration with the hyperMILL® VIRTUAL Machining technology.
The new “Optimized Table-Table Logic” option can be selected on the “NC Safety” tab for table-table kinematics. The user selects a distance value and the OPTIMIZER automatically calculates the safety distances using the raw part, component, and clamps selected in the job list. The defined distance is maintained from all components and the movement sequences are automatically optimized. Controlling the ideal link movements is even easier as a result.
Benefit: Simplified programming, reduction of auxiliary processing times.
Tool data from hyperMILL® can be transferred directly to the machine controller. The tool length, radius, corner radius, tool number, and tool name are transferred to the controller. This makes it possible, for example, to import calibrated tools from a tool management system into hyperMILL®, to create programs, and to transfer the tool list or individual tools to the machine. Time-consuming entry of the tool information in the controller is eliminated by the end-to-end process and errors are avoided.
Benefit: Transfer of tool information to the controller, improved reliability for the setup of tools in the controller.
The two new feature types “Turning Generic Feature” and “Turning Plunging” make programming turning processes much easier and faster. Component areas for turning or plunging are reliably recognized and structured and displayed in the feature table. hyperMILL® uses feature levels to automatically divide the recognized features into several areas that can be turned, plunged, or machined with both technologies. This saves the user a lot of time in contour selection and programming, with full access to all recognized contours.
With VIRTUAL Tool and macro technology, components can thus be programmed automatically with just a few mouse clicks.
Benefit: Easier and faster programming.
hyperMILL® now offers convenient programming for two-sided machining on machines* with a main and counter spindle. The machining jobs are simply programmed under the “Main Spindle” and “Counter Spindle” containers, and thereby assigned to the respective machining side. The component or bar material, with or without parting, is simply transferred with the new transfer job. NC output from the main side, opposite side, and component transfer are realized in one end-to-end NC program with a machine model and a post-processor.
Benefit: Straightforward programming of main and counter spindle machining.
*Type DMG MORI CTX machines are supported in release 2022.1 and up. More manufacturers and machine types will follow.
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