Latest version of PartMaker CAM software offers many enhancements

Version 8.6, the latest PartMaker CAM for turn-mill equipment and Swiss-type lathes, and supporting software for milling, turning and wire EDM offers a number of improvements. Benefits include the concept of Face Planes for solids-based programming which simplifies the programming of parts with multiple faces from solid models and improves visualisation of the areas that need to be machined on a model. A Surface Machining Wizard offers improved machining strategies by adding axial step options to finishing and projection strategies, giving effectively nine more roughing strategies and more control in finishing operations. Supporting the simulation of inclined turning tools used on lathes equipped with B-axis heads, Version 8.6 also supports the simulation of mini-turrets, which must be tipped on an angle when used in practice. Users can now also automatically select a turning, grooving or threading tool in any turning profile machining strategy and full machine simulation has been improved to support even more complicated machine architectures.