CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 March 2008
Events News
VX to Demonstrate New Automated Machining at METAV 2008
VX Corporation will be demonstrating major productivity and machining quality enhancements to VX’s QuickMill™ suite of milling tools at METAV 2008, March 31 – April 4 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
METAV is established as an international manufacturing technology and automation showcase making it a great venue for displaying VX’s most recent advances in machining automation and milling technology. Two new features of particular attention will be VX’s new Intelligent Machining Automation and Feature Aware Machining.
VX’s Intelligent Machining Automation captures machining logic into a library that can be instantly applied to a vast array of other parts. With VX CAD/CAM, users apply their own operating procedures and intelligence to machining. This is possible because VX’s QuickMill takes a unique, whole part approach to machining. Users establish “rules of engagement” to control and contain tool paths. VX even automates small changes to individual machining operations; for example, changing a tool size automatically adjusts the XY step over in a roughing operation. This rules-based approach is extremely effective in rest milling operations where a machinist simply wants VX to remove material that the previous operation didn’t remove. The automation comes from machinists storing their logic and intelligence in a library of operations. QuickMill provides optimum tool loading, extremely efficient material removal, and high quality finished molds to reduce machine wear and tear, improve machine tool utilization and reduce polishing time.
Feature Aware finishing helps with the particular challenge of ensuring product features with crisp highlights are maintained and preserved in the finished mold and sharp parting edges are not violated. Show goers will see the benefit of VX CAD/CAM’s new QuickMill machining tactic called Offset3D Feature Aware Machining. This is a robust, ease-to-use solution that lets machinists target highlight areas, and then the software automatically adjusts tool path motion to preserve fine, sharp-edge detail and maximize tool cutting efficiency with smooth, high-speed enabled motion. Machinists save milling and polishing time with Feature Aware Machining.
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