Enhanced Functionality
- Roughing,
Spiral Milling
- Concentric tool path style now supports zig-zag sequencing
on a circular pattern.
- Roughing Parameters
- Select the Dynamic pattern explicitly; in other operations (Roughing, Cavity Roughing, Power Machining, Spiral
Milling, Multi Axis Spiral Milling, Lathe Rough Turning and Groove Turning) every open pocket uses the Dynamic pattern.
This pattern is optimized regarding the machining time but the computation time increases hugely with small radial engagement.
The computation time has been reduced to make it acceptable for these use cases.
- Automatic horizontal areas
- Along horizontal areas, the remaining material can reach up to the axial distance between paths, which is large compared to the part over thickness.
In this context, the option Automatic horizontal areas detection is important to achieve this objective.
Improvements in the horizontal areas detection;
- Compute the exact location of the horizontal area (if the tool axis is OZ, the exact Z value),
- Compute contouring paths close to the horizontal area so as to remove the exceeding material,
- Compute the hard/soft attribute along each horizontal area,
- Manage the tool holder collision checking,
- Manage the circular interpolation,
- Manage the offset group feature,
- Iutput Helical interpolation when helix macro is defined.
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