The bottom line here is that the faster you can program a part, the faster you can get it out to the shop floor and make chips.

Specifically, on the roughing toolpaths there have been cases where speed improvements were up by up to 30 percent! Other strategies such as rest machining strategies also showed up to a 20 percent increase. One speed improvement that stands out, in particular, is faster toolpath calculation.

Below you’ll see a chart comparing the calculation speeds with respect to PowerMill 2020: Commands such as finding/avoiding collisions, toolpath calculation and processing stock models have all been improved and the results are quite astonishing. One of the biggest improvements that took place the PowerMill 2021 release was calculation speed. Below we’ll cover a few of our favorite improvements with the latest release of PowerMill 2021. Ever since the acquisition of Delcam, Autodesk has made it their mission to not only focus on core user experience, but to ensure that software usability, reliability and speed keeps enhancing every release. This article was contributed by Alex Alvarez of KETIV Technologies.Īutodesk’s flagship CAM software, PowerMill just keeps getting better and better.

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