Delcam’s PartMaker Division will demonstrate a completely novel approach to post-processing for multi-axis machine tools in PartMaker at North America’s premier precision-machining event, the PMTS 2015 exhibition to be held in Columbus, Ohio, from 21st to 23rd April.
The latest version of PartMaker includes a revolutionary approach to CAM post-processing for multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. PartMaker 2015 offers the ability to generate a ‘Post-Processor Reference Guide’, an on-command manual explaining how to program any given multi-axis lathe with PartMaker and so take advantage of all the machine’s capabilities.
The company will also introduce its new, free productivity application, the PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer, at PMTS.
Other highlights of PartMaker 2015 include improved support for today’s latest breed of multi-tasking machine tools, more powerful milling and turning functionality, and improvements in the software’s knowledge-based technology for storing optimal feeds and speeds for additional tools.
"As the pioneer of CAM software for multi-tasking turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes, PartMaker continues to innovate to bring our users the most sophisticated technology for programming these machines,” says PartMaker Division President, Hanan Fishman.
"The advent of the Post-Processor Reference Guides and other improvements to PartMaker’s industry leading post-processing technology ensure PartMaker users have the most robust post-processors possible,” said Mr. Fishman. "Using PartMaker’s unique, cloud-based post-processor update utility, customers can always be sure that they have the most recent post-processors for their machine tools.”
PartMaker 2015 also includes specialist support for a new breed of machine tools that has been growing steadily in popularity in recent years called vertical mill-turns (VMT). These machine tools provide the turning functionality typically found on a VTL (Vertical Turret Lathe) with the milling capabilities of a five-axis VMC (Vertical Machining Centre). PartMaker 2015 will also offer support for turret-based Swiss lathes with programmable B-axis live-tooling attachments.
As a special attraction at the PartMaker booth at PMTS, the company is introducing the new PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer app on the show floor. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer is an utterly unique, free software application for users of multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes to quickly view their multi-channel NC programs side-by-side, for virtually any multi-channel machine/control combination. The PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer will be configured for visitors to the booth by a PartMaker product specialist for their shop’s exact line-up of multi-tasking machine tools. By visiting the booth at PMTS, visitors will not only receive the PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer to install on their PC, they will also have it configured on the show floor to take away on a USB stick.
