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On Stand 5150 at MACH 2010, OPEN MIND Technologies will be giving its UK debut to a number of new developments. OPEN MIND will be pleased to present its hyperMILL® 2009.2 with CAD-integrated solutions for Autodesk® Inventor®, SolidWorks®, thinkdesign and its own hyperCAD® package. Alongside this will be the recently introduced intelligent functions from its hyperCAD® 2009.1 package.

To deliver faster more reliable design and for effectively preparation of existing digital models for subsequent CAM programming, the new intelligent functions for the hyperCAD® 2009.1 package will be shown. The newly developed functions recently received their exhibition premiere at EMO, where visitors to the stand were astounded with the user friendliness and programming speeds.

The exciting 3D CAD system now includes new display options for improved transparency, increased system performance and better quality control. Project-specific CAD environments can now be created using templates. With new ‘hyperReshape’ functions, the system allows users to directly modify STL data models.

Destined to be a crowd pleaser at MACH 2010 will be the new hyperMILL® 2009.2. With CAD-integrated solutions for Autodesk® Inventor®, SolidWorks®, thinkdesign and its own hyperCAD® package, the new system also launched at EMO 2009 enables users to benefit from the seamless connection between their familiar CAD application and a powerful CAM application.

The CAD-integrated version of hyperMILL® allows the user to take advantage of arguably the most modern CAM programming system in their own familiar software environment. hyperMILL® can be accessed directly using the hyperMILL® button and is available within the user’s familiar CAD interface. Furthermore, data import issues and read/write errors can be avoided as both the CAD and CAM systems have access to the same data model. It is possible to interact between the CAD and CAM systems at the same time. If changes are made to the CAD data, all defined CAM operations are updated automatically.

The new hyperMILL® 2009.2 release also allows users of the various CAD platforms to access the full range of functions of hyperMILL® 2009.1. The highlights include an optimised fast travel concept, job linking, an improved tool database, an extended job list as well as transformation and mirroring functions. The new version of hyperMILL® 2009.2 also provides the CAM solution as part of the latest release of Autodesk® Inventor®. Autodesk® has officially certified the integration. This confirms full integration and data associativity with Autodesk® Inventor®.

In addition to the solutions for Autodesk® Inventor®, hyperMILL® integrations are available for Solid works, thinkdesign and OPEN MIND’s own hyperCAD®. Specifically adapted to the user interface of the respective CAD software, all integrations combine a wide array of machining strategies and optimisation functions offered by hyperMILL®. This enables flexible and efficient CAM programming for continuous process flows. Direct interfaces also allow seamless data imports from CATIA V4® and CATIA V5®, Pro/ENGINEER®, NX (Unigraphics®), Parasolid® and SolidWorks®. Common standard interfaces such as IGES, STEP or STL are also available for exchanging data.

The hyperMILL® CAM software has an extensive range of machining strategies, from 2D and 3D milling, HSC and mill/turning, right through to 5-axis milling based on hyperMILL®’s world-leading 5-axis technology. Thanks to fully automated collision avoidance, programming 5-axis machining operations is no more difficult than 3D jobs. To complete 2D tasks, users can choose between face milling, pocket machining, contour milling, rest machining, drilling and 5-axis drilling. The 3D strategies offered by hyperMILL® include roughing, profile finishing, Z-level finishing and automatic rest machining. Additional 3D strategies such as complete finishing, equidistant finishing, ISO machining, curve machining and 3D reworking are also available.

Using the CAD-integrated versions of hyperMILL®, users can select the strategies they prefer for drilling or milling the geometries of the CAD model on the machine. Next, the hyperMILL® CAM solution calculates machine and controller-independent tool paths. Postprocessors then generate optimised NC programs based on this neutral data. OPEN MIND develops postprocessors for each individual customer, specifically designing them to suit their production tasks, machines and type of controllers. This offers two benefits: Firstly, the intelligence of the corresponding controller (control cycles, path correction, program part repetition etc) can be better exploited. Secondly, every customer receives a solution ideally tailored to their manufacturing processes. For a demonstration of how OPEN MIND can improve your productivity, please come and visit us at MACH 2010 on Stand 5150.

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