MachineWorks solutions have been integrated within leading CADCAM applications since 1994, including DP Technology’s Esprit, Delcam’s FeatureCAM, Open Mind and Vero’s Edgecam and Alpacam (full list here), so end-users may not be aware that MachineWorks software is being hosted.
Machine Works claims that its hybrid machine tool simulation has a the degree of flexibility and customisation through different APIs that it claims as unique. The Boolean operations to calculate material removal work in reverse to add the material. Whether it is layer by layer addition or cutting material on the same stock, MachineWorks simulates the complete hybrid manufacturing process.
For 5-axis machining, Version 7.4 provides much improved finished surface quality, thanks to the new algorithm for 5-axis swept volume generation that is the culmination of several years of research and development. The development team has managed to achieve both higher quality and faster performance in 5-axis simulation, without compromising on accuracy or stability with the “revolutionary” 5-axis algorithm.
The new 5-axis swept volume method allows more flexible quality optimisation, which further enhances the finished surface accuracy and performance, in terms of CPU time and number of faces of the stock after simulation.
Furthermore, the software’s new sampling engine offers greater accuracy of graphical representation whilst maintaining great performance and constant memory footprint throughout the simulation. The sampling engine manages to retain detail, even when zoomed in. The enhanced ray-traced image contains surface details that would normally be lost when using a sampling technology.
