HyperMill v2022.1.SP1

3D Plane Machining

• This fully automated strategy searches for suitable, high-performance path layouts according to the situation. It now takes the adaptive pockets into account as well.
• Thanks to selected avoid surfaces, manually excluding specific milling areas is now straightforward
• Using the “Minimum Pocket Size” parameter allows milling areas (pockets and bore holes) that fall below the defined value to be automatically excluded from the calculation
• Plunge points now allow the user to influence the position at which the job begins with processing

5-axis Radial Machining

Further improvements make this strategy the benchmark for blow mold machining.

• With the new “Flow Equidistant” infeed strategy, creating tool paths with a constant infeed is now also possible for vertical and challenging surfaces. This means these surfaces can be integrated into the overall machining sequence and processed in a single step. Seamless machining with a very high surface quality is guaranteed.
• New undercut detection automatically identifies undercuts and makes the corresponding machining adjustments, if desired. This means that undercut areas can now be skipped with no manual effort and generating additional surfaces is no longer necessary.
• For application on 3-axis machines, the 5-axis radial machining cycle has an orientation option to select output for 3-axis postprocessors.
• The “Smooth Overlap” function can now also be used for the general milling area and therefore without selecting a boundary curve.

5-axis Tube Finishing

The finishing strategy has been fundamentally enhanced and now offers new and improved functions.

• “Fixed 3D” Tilt Strategy
  A new calculation method ensures that the start and end of machining can also be optimized for this tilt strategy with woodruff cutters. Programming is simplified compared to simultaneous machining (without collision avoidance and slope angle).
• “Virtual Surfaces”
  “Virtual Surfaces” allows open areas of a channel to be closed or surfaces at the beginning to be correspondingly extended for the calculation of the tool paths. Unlike “additional surfaces”, virtual surfaces are not included in the collision check and avoidance. Since collision avoidance takes place exclusively on the model surfaces, activating the “Virtual Surfaces” option has no influence on the available machining depth.
  In addition, the “Parallel” option makes it possible to trim the tool paths in the areas of the virtual surfaces or to optimize the infeed.
• “Parallel” Infeed Strategy
  Three different options for parallel machining are available for selection to influence the machining process and the cutting parameters:
  • “Direction constant – from outside to inside”
  • “Direction constant – from inside to outside”
  • “Zigzag”

  To optimize the process and the cutting conditions, a pre-finishing process with its own lateral infeed and its own feed rate can be generated for the two infeed strategies “Zigzag” and “Direction constant – from outside to inside.”

• Smooth Overlap
  To improve the surface quality for machining from multiple directions or with multiple tools, the “Smooth Overlap” function is now also available in tube machining. An overlap zone can be defined at the beginning and end of machining in order to attain an optimal machining quality.