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News Release from: Open Mind Technologies UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2006
HyperMILL in pole position for autoSport
At AutoSport 2007 Open Mind Technologies will be demonstrating its technology leading 5-axis CAD/CAM system hyperMILL.
At AutoSport 2007 Open Mind Technologies UK will be demonstrating its technology leading 5-axis CAD/CAM system hyperMILL The hyperMILL system provides UK manufacturers and in particular the Motorsport industry with a major competitive edge through faster setups and increased machine tool productivity unrivalled in the industry
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Jul 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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To be held at the Birmingham NEC from 11-14th January, the exhibition will be the ideal platform to demonstrate the hyperMILL.
This revolutionary product is ideal for almost every machining operation, including hole and pocket milling, feature based solid machining, freeform surface machining, deep cavity, dome and tube machining as well as demanding motorsport components.
The motorsport sector is currently demonstrating considerable growth for Open Mind and the company is confident that AutoSport 2007 will be a success.
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More modules improve CAM software
A series of software modules developed by Open Mind for five-axis CNC milling using its Hypermill and Hyperform products represents a major step forward in computer-aided manufacturing (CAM).
Software for 5-axis interpolative metalcutting
Making its UK debut at CIM 2000 will be a software module developed by Open Mind for full 5-axis CNC milling using its hyperMILL and hyperFORM computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) products.
The high performance geometry oriented CAM software offers 2.5D, 3D and revolutionary 5-axis machining strategies under one uniform interface.
It is these attributes combined with the 40 dedicated 5-axis cycles (11 of which are 5-axis drilling cycles) that enables manufacturers to select the operation best suited to the job in hand.
This ensures the user does not have to rely on the 5 or 6 generic 5-axis operations typically offered by other CAM vendors.
Open Mind Technical Director Adrian Smith comments: "The problem that many customers have with packages from alternative vendors is collision detection".
"Our system interrogates the surface and guides the tool around the geometries in 5-axis taking into account any obstacles".
"With alternate packages this is not guaranteed, and if an obstacle is found the package will re-calculate the toolpath and re-run".
"This series of events will perpetually repeat itself until a suitable path around the obstacle is found".
"With the Open Mind hyperMILL, the toolpath will avoid collision automatically and without the need for additional simulation products to assist tool collision avoidance".
Richard Nolan, Sales and Marketing Director at Open Mind Technologies UK says: "Many people are surprised that with hyperMILL you also have industry leading 2, 3 and 4-axis cycles".
"hyperMILL's advanced collision avoidance technology gives customers a new level of confidence not just in 5-axis, but also 2, 3 and 4-axis".
Encompassed within the forty 5-axis cycles is what Open Mind calls 'Logic Cycles'.
These logic cycles are dedicated to single and/or multi-blade machining and tube machining, taking ease-of-use to a completely new level.
If you are a competent CNC control programmer or have good CAD or CAM skills (2D or 3D), with less than two days training with hyperMILL's logic cycles, you can be cutting highly complex 5-axis, simultaneous parts.
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