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Reduced programming, more productivity with Edgecam 2010 R2

Reduced programming, more productivity with Edgecam 2010 R2

The latest release of Edgecam will be on show at MACH 2010 and helps reduce user programming time and increases productivity.

The latest release of Edgecam, 2010 R2 delivers full support for angled head tools in the Milling environment, extending Edgecam’s already extensive 3, 4 and 5 Axis solutions. This provides additional machining capabilities and combined with enhancements to the Edgecam Tool Store, using these tools is made easy.

The feature finder has been enhanced to complement the angled head support, enabling users to identify and machine hole features within components, providing greater flexibility in the way they manufacture their components.

An additional enhancement to the feature finder operation offers complete manufacturing flexibility. It enables a user to choose whether they would like to rough and finish features individually or complete the roughing operation for all features and subsequently finish them. This provides the ability to reduce machining times by completing operations in the most efficient way.

Enabling customers to take full advantage of their multi core hardware, Edgecam 2010 R2’s Background Processing delivers superior efficiency. Background Processing allows multiple cycles to process simultaneously, resulting in reduced time to create the required tool path.

Russell Franks, Planit CTO, comments “It’s essential for our customers to create accurate tool paths and do this in the most efficient way possible, utilising the latest technology. With tests proving the new Background Processing feature to typically reduce tool path generation by up to 60%; this is a significant development for Edgecam users.”

Edgecam 2010 R2 develops the extensive Thread Mill capabilities into the Mill Turn environment, delivering a greater number of machining capabilities and functionality. In addition, the Thread Mill operation for milling has been enhanced to provider greater ease of use.

Utilisation of multi tools dramatically saves time in the machining process, removing the time consuming need to completely change the tool. The latest release of Edgecam provides complete support for multiple tools in a single tool position, such as Sandvik Mini Turrets. With full simulation of multi tools, users can be sure their manufacturing will be collision free.

Edgecam’s hole feature finder has also been enhanced, with the ability to define specific hole attributes that can be named and stored for later use. When combined with Edgecam’s knowledge based manufacturing solution, Strategy Manager, users can automatically apply specific manufacturing processes where the defined hole feature is present. Users can utilise the “feature teacher” to define features that can be machined with special purpose tools or where there is a common hole feature that is typically used across a number of components. Whatever the hole feature, this new enhancement provides significant improvement to hole machining productivity.

Development to the Trochoidal machining in the roughing cycle delivers a number of additional benefits, including increased tool life and increased machining speed.

On Edgecam’s latest release, Russell Franks comments “We’ve continued to invest in Planit’s development team and evidence of this can clearly be seen in the enhancements and developments in this release. Edgecam 2010 R2 enables our customers to continue to get the most from their machine tools and increase their productivity, both of which are essential to their continued success”.

See the latest release, Edgecam 2010 R2, at MACH on Stand 5480, Hall 5