OPEN MIND was one of the first CAM manufacturers to investigate how special milling cutters can be used to enhance 5-axis machining. This R&D effort yielded high-performance strategies for finishing planes and any continuous surfaces as well as fillets using different types of barrel cutters. The enormous time savings of up to 90 percent are achieved thanks to the special cutting geometry of the tools and the matching CAM strategies. Even when turning, a large cutting radius is exploited to substantially increase performance.