OPEN MIND will be presenting its hyperMILL® CAD/CAM suite and the agile Hummingbird-MES at the Formnext exhibition from November the 19th to 22nd, at Stand 120-A39, Hall 12.0, at Messe Frankfurt am Main. The focus will be on hyperMILL® ADDITIVE Manufacturing, the CAD/CAM solution to control additive and subtractive processes. Visitors to the OPEN MIND stand can find out about the latest technologies and see additive workpieces programmed and machined with hyperMILL®.
hyperMILL® ADDITIVE Manufacturing expands the possibilities of 5-axis simultaneous machining for the Direct Energy Deposition (DED) process and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). The NC codes can be conveniently programmed and automatically simulated to avoid collisions. As an end-to-end software solution, hyperMILL® supports efficient hybrid machining that combines additive and subtractive processes on one machine.
Repairing instead of scrapping - with hybrid processing
OPEN MIND will be demonstrating what additive, hybrid manufacturing can achieve at Formnext: even highly utilized parts can now be repaired using the hybrid machining process.
An illustrative example of this is a turbine blade. A blade was repaired on a HERMLE C 32 5-axis machining center using hyperMILL® with a Blum TC52 touch probe. This complex task includes the steps of blade inspection, removal of damaged area, material application, recording of shape and deformation, programming and machining. hyperMILL® VIRTUAL Machining makes this repair an efficient process. Based on the measured values, this software generates a digital twin of the workpiece and the machine situation for NC code simulation and optimization.
