

An improved display of collisions and near misses helps operators locate these problems.

PowerMILL collision checking for five-axis machining uses color codes to warn of near misses, depending on user-specified clearances. Obviously, overall cutting time depends on a part’s shape, but Delcam predicts machine cutting will be about 20% faster than earlier releases of Vortex. Last, the roughing algorithm requires fewer lifts per toolpath slice. (The conventional approach has tools dive down to a surface or ramp into the material.) Second, the default feedrate of non-cutting moves will double. In version 2015, PowerMILL can generate toolpaths that approach a part from outside the stock at the cutting height for open pockets or where previous cuts exist.
