CAM for “C” 2½-axis milling on a mill-turn machine tool

Feature Based Machining from any solid, surface, 3D wire frame model, or 2D drawing

Adaptive machining processes

Wrap Pocketing – any regular or irregular profile

Wrap Contouring - profile cutting for roughing, slotting, semi-finishing, and finishing

Wrap Drilling – hole making with up to 13 other point to point machining cycles

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

Unlimited custom tools and holders with any geometry

Library for materials, speeds and feeds

The ESPRIT KnowledgeBase™ for milling:

Project Manager Feature Tab, organizing your work piece

Project Manager Tool Tab, managing your cutting tools

Project Manager Operation Tab, managing your machining cycles

Process Manager, machine one or more part features with one or more machining cycle(s) in one simple step.

Speed & feed calculator and material library

Property Browser providing extensive control over all cutting conditions

Universal post processing with an extensive library and custom post generator

Solid simulation and verification with comprehensive collision detection

CAM for “C” & “Y” 2½-axis milling on a mill-turn machine tool

Includes SolidMillTurn Traditional plus:

Support for “Y”-axis off center milling utilizing the following machining cycles:

Facing – any regular or irregular profile with or without islands and pockets using climb, conventional, and alternating zigzag machining patterns

Pocketing – any regular or irregular profile with an unlimited number of sub-pockets and islands.  Use concentric-in/out and uni/bi-directional machining patterns to perform climb or conventional cutting with roughing, wall finishing, and floor finishing options

Contouring – profile cutting for roughing, slotting, semi-finishing, and finishing straight or tapered walls with constant or variable cutting depths

Rest Machining – automatic Pocketing and Contouring of the uncut areas of remaining material

Hole Making - drilling, peck drilling, boring, taping and up to 13 other point to point machining cycles

Spiraling – machining circular pockets and bores, concentric-in/out cutting as a true spiral or tangent arcs

Threading – thread milling cycle for internal/external right/left hand threads

Manual Milling - operates from user-defined locations and manually selected geometry inside the work area.

Custom Cycle -  machine specific instructions, comments, and in-line G-Code

Park – pause the cutting process and retract the cutting tool for part/tool inspection

Insert – change machining parameters at any point during a machining cycle

CAM for “C”, “Y”, and “B” 5-axis milling (indexing and rotary cutting) on a mill-turn machine tool

Includes SolidMillTurn Traditional and SolidMillTurn Advanced plus:

Extends the capabilities of SolidMillTurn Advanced machining cycles to support “B”-axis

4th and 5th axis index positioning used in conjunction with any SolidMillTurn Advanced machining cycle

Wire Frame Milling – 3D machining of simpler surfaces/solids using surface/face edges as drive and base curves

CAM for simultaneous 3-axis multi-surface/solid 3D milling on a mill-turn machine tool

Includes SolidMillTurn Traditional, Advanced, and Production plus:

Solids - NURBS based 3-axis free-form machining

Surfaces -  NURBS based 3-axis free-form machining

STL** -  NURBS based 3-axis free-form machining

4th and 5th axis index positioning used in conjunction with any 3-axis SolidMillTurn FreeForm machining cycle

Roughing  - zigzag or offset from any shape stock using boundaries and check surfaces

Finishing - Planar, Translation, Normal, Rotation, Offset, Parametric, Parametric Spiral machining across any/all sections of the work piece

Z-Level Machining – uni/bi-directional climb/conventional machining optimized for near horizontal and near vertical zones

Re-Machining – automatic re-machining of un-cut areas with pencil tracing, lace cutting, flowline, flowline spiral patterns

Remaining Stock Machining – cutting cycles are optimized for the actual remaining material based on the original stock and previous machining operations

Project-Contour – Profile cutting projected onto any set of surfaces/solids

High Speed Machining (HSM) support and G-code optimization

High-speed solid simulation and verification including “as designed” versus “as machined” comparisons

Universal post processing for NURBS and 3D NC cutter compensation

CAM for simultaneous 5-axis multi-surface/solid milling on a mill-turn machine tool

Includes SolidMillTurn Traditional, Advanced, Production, and FreeForm plus:

Solids - NURBS based 5-axis free-form machining

Surfaces -  NURBS based 5-axis free-form machining

STL* -  NURBS based 5-axis free-form machining

FreeForm Finishing and Project-Contour 5-axis cycles