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Open Mind recently added technology to focus on the production of a good part, more than just developing a good toolpath. Levine: In demanding applications, customers want to reduce post-machining processing. ME: Manufacturers continually want to improve surface finishes-what differentiates hyperMILL and its surface finishing capabilities? Now, the latest hyperMILL CAD/CAM suite, 2019.2, adds a range of new features including high-precision 3D finishing five-axis tangent machining high-performance turning and new CAD-for-CAM technologies that integrate more CAD utilities directly into CAM strategies for faster programming. Levine: Introduced last year, hyperMILL 2019.1 offers several new features and enhancements, including an expanded Finishing Module in the hyperMILL MAXX Machining Performance Package process optimizations such as a new thread milling module a new function for reducing calculation times tool database flexibility and CAD optimization. ME: WhatвЂ™s new in your hyperMILL CAM suite updates? These market pressures have increased the range of customer needs, so that a successful CAM system has to support this increased scope. Manufacturers face continual pressure to increase all productivity metrics, including faster part production, high machine utilization, flexibility to produce families of parts and address broader applications, all at a lower cost per unit.

Today, the customer expectation has increased to not only include high-quality toolpaths, but to increase the technology scope to connect to CAD systems, feature and macro technology, tool management systems, automation, simulation, probing, and more.

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Levine: About 10 years ago, customers were primarily seeking high-performance toolpaths from a CAM software provider.

ME: What are key ways that hyperMILL CAM software has evolved to meet customer requirements along the way? Increasing importance of automation to reduce programming times and compensate for the lack of skilled programmers. Some examples include applying high-performance roughing to multi-axis shaped surfaces and new solutions using conical barrel cutters that produce dramatic machining improvements and cycle time reductions. In the last five to ten years, we have focused on innovations within CAM to increase user productivity.

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Additionally, many end users have redesigned components to leverage the benefits of five-axis machining, including increased quality due to fewer part set-ups, increased productivity with the use of shorter cutters, reduced assembly times due to the manufacture of more complex components rather than a series of simplified sub-components, and more. Together with new five-axis technology, machine tools and control systems, CAM software has enabled productive use of indexing and simultaneous multi-axis machining. Since that time five-axis technology has grown disproportionately larger when compared to the increase in overall manufacturing growth. (Provided by Open Mind)ДЄlan Levine: Twenty years ago, Open Mind first introduced CAM software capabilities to address five-axis machining in the mold and die industry and other general applications. What are the most significant trends youвЂ™ve seen in CAM during that time? The high-precision surface mode in hyperMILL 2019.2 shown here ensures ultra-smooth surfaces, in the micron range. Manufacturing Engineering: Open Mind Technologies is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

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