The HyperMill Maxx Machining HPC package has once again been expanded to incorporate 5-axis tangent machining of any arbitrary faces with conical barrel cutters. The use of conical barrel cutters is said to enable performance increases of up to 90%, compared to conventional production methods.
A further enhancement is the 5-axis rest material roughing module. This has been designed to create high speed, optimised toolpaths for rest machining from a previous roughing operation. The definition of the tilt angles for the B and C axes are straightforward: the user can choose whether to automatically create the tilt angle in 3D mode within a specified angular range, or generate it from the normal planes.
Open Mind has also given HyperMill 2016.2 numerous enhancements for 3D operations, such as 3D plane level machining.
