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| Machine Complex Free-Form Shapes with Ease |
| ESPRIT’s NURBS-based machining engine handles fabricating difficult free-form shapes
with ease. Specifically designed to address the 3D challenges in the mold, die, and toolmaking markets,
ESPRIT provides you with a powerful set of tools and machining cycles for free-form roughing, Z-level
machining, finishing, and re-machining in 3-axis or 5-axis. |
| 5-axis Free-Form Machining |
| Machining complex 3D parts in a single setup is easy with the powerful ESPRIT CAM system.
ESPRIT streamlines programming and provides dynamic onscreen program verification, eliminating the need for
expensive machine-tool dry runs. For 5-axis finishing, ESPRIT gives you a full range of options, including
planar, normal, transitional, parametric, and offset styles. Program your 3D 5-axis machine cycles with ESPRIT
and benefit from the superior surface quality, part accuracy, and material removal rates provided by today’s
multi-axis machine tools. |
| High-Speed Machining |
| ESPRIT’s high-speed machining (HSM) functionality is built into all its machining cycles
allowing you to cut hardened materials in minimal time while maintaining constant loads on cutting tools utilizing
the smooth, continuous movements so critical in 3D HSM. Your choices include sharp corner smoothing, loop-style
bridge movements, ramp and helical entry into material, spiral-style cutting with constant overlaps,
tangency entry, and constant Z-level cutting. HSM optimization for NURBS, spline-curve and
arc-optimized G-code output is built into ESPRIT’s universal post processor. |
| Z-Level Machining |
| ESPRIT’s Z-level machining cycle automatically maintains constant loads on cutting tools
for smooth, continuous high-speed toolpaths. When creating a Z-level finishing operation you have the option to
machine the entire part or selectively machine only vertical or horizontal areas. When machining the entire part
you can choose to cut the vertical and horizontal areas with different tools and use both roughing and finishing
options. |
| Roughing and Finishing for Complex Parts |
| Achieve high-quality surfaces with ease with ESPRIT’s roughing and finishing cycles, with
one- or two-tool options. ESPRIT’s 3D roughing cycle performs zigzag, offset and spiral-style rough machining on
even the most complex free-form solids and surfaces. Select from nine different semi-finishing and finishing
cycles and machine your 3D workpiece to perfection — use one cycle for finishing the entire part, or define
containment boundaries and machine zones differently using the most appropriate cycles and cutting styles
for each. |
| Automated Rest Material Re-Machining |
| Automate re-machining of the uncut areas of your part for maximized part quality and
minimized bench work with ESPRIT’s rest-material re-machining cycles. ESPRIT monitors the material left over
from previous machining operations and uses the information to automatically perform any number of roughing
and finishing cycles. Choose from pencil tracing, lace cutting, parallel flowline, and spiral tool-motion
patterns, then select a cutter to automatically remove all remaining material. |
| Machine Regular and Irregular Workpieces |
| All ESPRIT free-form machining cycles are optimized for machining regular and
irregular-shaped stock and workpieces including surface, solid and STL models, and previously machined
workpieces. All cutting is identified and contained "limited to the material to be machined for the final
part" resulting in optimized machining, reduced cutting time, elimination of air cutting and extended
tool life. |
| Simulation and Verification |
| See exactly what will happen at the machine before you ever cut a chip. View the entire
machining environment, including stock materials, fixtures and clamps, in dynamic, solid-shaded graphics.
All the kinematic action of your machine is displayed in "real time", giving you an incredibly accurate
verification of the entire machining process. Using ESPRIT’s built-in part inspection you can easily
compare the original "as-designed" part to your "as-machined" workpiece to assure part accuracy. The
realistic images let you see the part as if you were holding it in your hand |
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Pencil tracing style re-machining being performed on a complex 3D mold component
Z-level 3D pre-finish machining of an EDM electrode
5-axis swarf cutting of 3-blade propeller
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