CNC Machines Information

MachineWorks Ltd, supplier of the leading toolkit for CNC simulation and verification, has announced the release of its latest version, MachineWorks v6.4. with original facilities for supporting full machine simulation and a significant improvement to the breadth and performance of rendering.

Complex Turning

MachineWorks v6.4 includes innovative support for full machine simulation with particular emphasis on complex turning simulations. “One of the reasons why market leaders choose MachineWorks to add the latest simulations into their applications is because of the advanced solutions MachineWorks can offer for the latest CNC machining”, comments David Manley, Managing Director.

Real Time Speed Simulation

MachineWorks has developed enhanced hardware acceleration of rendering resulting in a significant improvement in the performance of simulation. Mike Nicholson, Sales & Marketing Director said, “We have made considerable efforts towards achieving machine tool simulation in real time. In our opinion simulation will become standard on all CNC controllers and the speed factor is going to have a big impact on the development of simulation on controllers”.

Automatic Gouge Detection for Simultaneous 5-Axis

MachineWorks has now extended their automatic gouge detection to continuous 5-axis milling cuts. Less input from operators is necessary thanks to intelligent features like on-the-fly gouge detection. Due the complex nature of 5-axis simulation, MachineWorks put a great development effort in order to make clever features work simply.

Some of the numerous features of version 6.4 include a much greater flexibility to handle input geometry models including open solids. Also the addition of ‘render objects’ across all engines to allow applications to render their own geometry and annotation objects.