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A CAM system for 2 ½-axis programming, SolidMill
Traditional delivers complete support for all machining cycles, including
2-½ axis machining, roughing, finishing, and all point-to-point canned
cycles. This package also includes all the “core” functionality as
described in the general specifications of the Product Overview brochure.
The capabilities of SolidMill Traditional are included inside all the ESPRIT
milling packages listed here.
 | CAM for 2½-axis milling |
| Feature Based Machining from any solid,
surface, 3D wire frame model or 2D drawing automatically recognizing
depth, thickness, holes, pockets, slots, profiles, etc. |
| Extensive control over all cutting
conditions |
| Contour – profile cutting for roughing,
slotting, semi-finishing, and finishing straight or tapered walls with
constant or variable cutting depths |
| Hole making cycles - drilling, peck
drilling, boring, taping and up to 13 other point to point machining
cycles |
| Face milling - climb, conventional and
alternating zigzag |
| Pocketing – concentric-in, concentric-out,
bi-directional zigzag, one way zigzag with control over climb versus
conventional cutting and straight or tapered walls. |
| Spiral cutting – outside-in or inside-out
cutting as a true spiral or tangent arcs |
| Thread milling – internal or external
climb or conventional thread cutting |
| Library of standard tools - flat, ball
nose, tapered, corner round, chamfered, and dovetail end mills. Face mill,
thread mill, drill, center drill, reamer, tap, boring bar |
| Library of standard holders - 30, 40, 45,
50, and 60 taper |
| Unlimited custom tools and holders with
any geometry |
| Library for materials, speeds and feeds
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| Knowledge Based Machining
 | Project Manager to
organize your work with Feature tab, Operation tab, and Tool tab
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| Property Browser
providing extensive control over all cutting conditions |
| Process Manager to
machine one or more part features with one or more machining cycle(s) in
one simple step |
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| Universal post processing with an
extensive library and custom post generator |
| Solid simulation and verification with
comprehensive collision detection |
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SolidMill Production includes all the capabilities of
SolidMill Traditional and the “core” ESPRIT functionality with the
additional support for 4th and 5th axis, giving you the ability to use any
style 4/5-axis machine utilizing any combination of rotary axes, tilting
heads, rotary tables.
| CAM for 5-axis milling (indexing and
rotary cutting) |
| Includes SolidMIll Traditional plus:
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| Rotary 4-axis simultaneous “Wrap”
machining cycles
| Contour - profile
cutting for roughing, slotting, semi-finishing, and finishing straight
or tapered walls with constant or variable cutting depths |
| Pocketing - concentric
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| Hole making -
drilling, peck drilling, boring, taping and up to 13 other point to
point machining cycles |
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| 4th and 5th axis index positioning used in
conjunction with any machining cycles |
| Any style HMC and VMC rotary axes
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| Using any combination rotary axes, tilting
heads, and rotary tables |
| Local or global coordinates with any
number of workshifts and fixture offsets |
| Solid simulation and verification in
5-axis |
| Universal post processing for 5-axis
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A full 3D CAM system for all your 3D surface and solid
machining needs. SolidMill FreeForm includes all the functionality of
SolidMill Traditional and SolidMill Production plus the “core” functionality
of ESPRIT while adding the power to program full 3–axis machining of any
complex 3D free-form shape.
| CAM for 3-axis multi-surface/solid 3D
milling |
| Includes SolidMIll Traditional and
SolidMill Production plus: |
| NURBS based 3-axis solid machining
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| NURBS based 3-axis surface machining
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| Unlimited number of surfaces, solid bodies
and faces as “Part Surfaces” or “Check Surfaces” |
| Roughing - zigzag or offset from any shape
stock using any boundaries and check surfaces |
| Finishing - Planar, Translation, Normal,
Rotation, Offset, Parametric, Spiral on the entire part or a sub-section
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| Z-Level machining – climb, conventional,
uni-direction, bi-direction, optimized for near horizontal and near
vertical zones |
| Rest Material – automatic re-machining of
un-cut areas with pencil tracing, parallel flowline, or spiral cutting
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| Project-Contour – Profile cutting
projected onto any set of surfaces |
| High Speed Machining (HSM) support and
G-code optimization |
| High-speed solid simulation and
verification including “as designed” versus “as machined” comparisons
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| Universal post processing for NURBS and 3D
NC cutter compensation |
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ESPRIT
SolidMill FreeForm
