Delcam offers CAM developments with PowerMILL Robot

Pasadena, California – The latest release of PowerMILL includes improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, developments in toolpath simulation and verification, improved collision checking to also cover near misses, and more efficient raster finishing, area clearance and drilling, plus more options for customization by users.

 

Complete verification, covering cutting moves, leads and links, and tool changes, can now be undertaken of a PowerMILL project for machine-tool issues such as collisions, saving considerable time compared to undertaking verification of each individual toolpath in turn. Comprehensive verification is performed, including ensuring that the machine tool is capable of running the proposed strategy, as well as checking for both machine-tool collisions and tooling collisions.

 

As well as benefitting from the many enhancements in PowerMILL itself, the latest release of PowerMILL Robot enables manual and CNC programming of robots to be combined in a single program so providing the maximum flexibility. Other enhancements include improved collision checking, automatic avoidance of wrist singularities, and the ability to generate robot programs from tape files produced in other CAM software.