Milling Operations


The Milling Operations toolbar allows the user to perform various operations used in the manufacturing of parts. All the operations can be exported directly to CIMCO Edit or to the clipboard, for insertion in a user-defined location.

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Face Milling

Face milling creates a facing operation based on a selected outline contour.

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Pocket Milling

Pocket milling creates pocket operations for one or multiple pockets. These pockets can contain multiple islands, or none. In a single operation, it is possible to make both roughing and finishing cuts, but only with one tool.

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Contour Milling

Contour milling creates operations for contour milling. A contour operation can machine multiple contours with roughing and finishing cuts, but only with one tool.

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Drill Holes

Drilling creates drilling operations for hole drilling. From a drawing, the hole positions can be selected with the use of a filter, or by simply indicating the hole position. If multiple holes are drilled, they can be arranged in both rectangular and circular patterns.

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Helix Drilling

Helix drilling can generate operations for helix drilling. Like normal drilling, multiple holes can be selected with the use of filters, or by selecting the individual circles from the drawing.

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Thread Milling

Thread milling can create threading milling operations. The threads can be inside or outside, and can be created for tools with one or multiple teeth. Again, multiple threads can easily be selected with the use of the filter function.

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Mill Letters

Simple letter milling can generate operations for milling simple letters on the drawing. These letters will have to be drawn using the simple letter function, but then all letters can be selected with the window functions, and machined in operations based on their start and end depths.

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Mill TrueType Letters

TrueType letter milling can create operations to mill the outline and/or the interior of the individual letters. The letters can be selected with the window function, and all letters with the same parameters can be machined in one operation.

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Export Contour

Export contour can export a contour that the operator has selected on the drawing. If a controller has smart canned cycles, for example a specific pocket operation, the user can create a macro in the editor to support this, and then export the actual contour for insertion in the canned cycle.

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Calculator

Feed and speed calculator is used to generate tool changes, or to simply calculate the feed and speed, based on the data of a specific tool.