To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Open Mind Technologies says it is offering a comprehensive expansion of its hyperMill CAM software. The expansion includes:
• The introduction of a range of tool types to include reamers, lens cutters and barrel cutters – the latter available as general, tapered and tangential variants.
• The use of a measuring sensor for the 3D point measuring cycle.
• Improved 5-axis rework machining.
• Strategies for adjusting the tool to the machining model (axial and lateral projections can be selected for this purpose).
• Automatic 3D rest machining, which allows the automatic detection of rest material areas where additional roughing is necessary.
• The ability to define the direction of drilling using workplanes. Relative clearance planes are now used for different workplanes according to user specifications (global clearance planes are no longer used).
• Simplified turbine blade milling.