“FeatureCAM gives us the high-quality surface finish we need for our specialist surface treatments”

Martin Brown, Director
Lion Engineering, UK

• 2.5D Machining

• 3D Machining

• 5-axis Machining

• Turning

• Turn/Mill

• Wire EDM

• Tombstone Machining

• 2.5D Machining FeatureMILL2.5D enables you to machine holes, pockets, grooves, bosses and threads quickly and easily. Benefits: • Imports industry standard file types such as IGES, DWG and DXF, for easy communication with your customers • Creates reliable toolpaths quickly and easily with the help of step-by-step wizards, saving you time • Combines single part programs into multiple part programs, minimising programming times • Supports tombstone machining on both horizontal and vertical machines, letting you machine several parts in a single set-up • Includes proven post-processors for all major machine tools, reducing machine commissioning time Typical Applications: • General shop parts with simple slots, holes and side features • Tooling fixtures and fittings • Covers, plates and brackets

• 3D Machining FeatureMILL3D offers a wide range of strategies for both conventional and high-speed 3D milling. Benefits: • Maximises metal removal rates, helping you make parts faster • Maintains constant cutter load, increasing tool life • Minimises sudden changes in cutting direction, preventing tool breakage and part damage • Produces parts with excellent surface finish quality, eliminating hand finishing Typical Applications: • Simple moulds and die tooling • Final machining of castings

• 5-axis Machining FeatureCAM supports both 5-axis positional and simultaneous machining, including 5-axis drilling, trimming and swarf machining. Benefits: • Produces complex parts with fewer set-ups, saving time and reducing errors • Increases accuracy by machining parts with shorter, more rigid, tools • Controls the tool axis, allowing machining of areas that cannot be machined with 3-axis strategies • Converts 3-axis toolpaths to their 5-axis equivalents automatically, preventing collisions between holder and part Typical Applications: • Highly complex mould and die tools with undercuts • Very high tolerance aerospace parts • Turbines and stator vanes • Highly complex engine ports

• Turning FeatureTURN provides quick and easy programming of all types of turned parts Benefits: • Creates both common and specialist hole types, facing and cut-off features, and grooves and threads on the outside or inside diameter, letting you machine all types of turned component • Supports a wide range of canned cycles, including rough and finish profiling, threading, grooving, drilling and tapping, making the most efficient use of your machine controller • Posts code to almost any CNC controller on the market today, letting you machine successfully from day 1 • Supports machines with sub-spindles, bar feeders and bar pullers, increasing productivity by reducing material loading times Typical Applications: • Hose fittings • Bearing pins & axles

• Turn/Mill FeatureTURN/MILL enables both turning and milling features to be created on a single machine in one set-up. Benefits: • Supports machines with C and Y milling capabilities and sub-spindles, letting you machine more complex parts • Easily programs drilling or milling features on the face or outside diameter of a part with the FeatureTURN/MILL feature wizard, so you get parts onto your machine tool faster • Contains all of the milling features in FeatureMILL2.5D, including holes, slots, pockets, grooves, sides and patterns, for increased flexibility Advanced Turn/Mill Benefits: • FeatureTURN/MILL’s Multi-Turret Turning technology controls turn/mill machines with multiple turrets, speeding production through true multi-tasking processes • Synchronise and optimise your turn/mill operations between multiple turrets through an easy-to-use ‘drag and drop’ graphical interface on a time or operation-basis • Sub-spindle and multiple spindle part transfer is available in FeatureCAM through defined feature operations • Simultaneous B-axis turning in FeatureCAM enables you to create multiple machining orientations in a single set-up and quickly program complex machining operations • Switch between C-axis milling and Y-axis milling to help improve the surface finish of milled parts with the tick of a box Typical Applications: • Complex drilling heads for the oil & gas industry • Engine crank shafts

• Wire EDM FeatureWIRE offers an automated approach for programming the full range of 2-axis and 4-axis wire EDM equipment. Benefits: • Automatically provides the operations for different cutting strategies • Includes a cutting conditions database that contains wire EDM generator settings, flushing settings and cutter compensation settings • Supplied with proven post-processors for industry-leading machines, including Agie-Charmilles, Fanuc, Mitsubishi and Sodick • Supports a range of features for part creation, including dies, punches and sides Typical Applications: • Gear blanks • Hydraulic actuators • Precision valve parts

• Tombstone Machining Tombstone machining in FeatureCAM enables easy programming of production milling. Benefits: • Supports both horizontal and vertical machines • Manages the placement of the parts on the tombstone • Helps you determine the milling coordinate systems • Sequences the operations so that tool changes are minimised • Simulates the NC code while displaying the tombstone, parts, tool, tool holder and spindle • Detects any gouges during simulation for safe machining • Allows maximum machine uptime for lean manufacturing techniques Typical Applications: • Finish machining of castings • Short production run machining