Hypermill with Solidworks

[almo0797]

Thanks Alan. While your on does HyperMill have AFR. I have had some experience of this and it can be a bit hit and miss depending on the features in the part. Also what is it like for assembly machining of multiple parts and does the CAM data stay with the part or is it like SolidCam which creates another part?

[Alan L]

Sure I'd say our AFR is very good, but in reality the best would be to try it out yourself.

hyperMILL stays with the SolidWorks model (part or assembly), not a copy.

[almo0797]

Cheers Alan for your info. As I said prevoius I am a former user of Pro-Mfg. And if HyperMill performs as well as that did on copied programs I will be "well chuffed" (Northern English for quite pleased).

[dvaliket]

I've been using Hypermill in Solidworks for a few months now and I can't imagine it being any better integrated. I came from using Mastercam and Hypermill is just as good at making geometry, sketches, check surfaces, etc. to assist in creating the toolpaths you want. It can calculate one toolpath while you work on another, but most of the time it calculates very quickly anyway. All the toolpaths are saved in one file so you don't need to copy a folder full of files if you want to take it home. I typically get the file from the designer, then save a copy with HM at the end so I don't take a chance at changing the designer's work. Their service is excellent, they don't make stuff up. If your question can't be answered locally(this happened once with us), they will get the answer from the headquarters in Germany. Being in the US, it works great for us because we can ask the question at the end of our day, and have the answer the next morning, because Germany is 9 hours ahead of us. We have Mastercam, Powermill, and Hypermill, and Hypermill has the best service, with no BS. I would recommend it, and no, I'm not a reseller.

[almo0797]

Thanks Divaliket. What I would like to know is do you use copied parts and assemblies with CAM data and how does it handle modified features. I want to reduce the programming input as much as possible on parts where the features are slightly modifed from the donor they were copied from.

[single phase]

Hypermill job steps handle modified features well. To use a job step in conjunction with boundaries and stop faces and the like requires care in the setup. The associativity and programmability is there for solving parametric machining problems if you so choose to learn it and use it.


Cheers
SF