The new method for limiting the machining areas impresses with simplicity. The cumbersome handling with boundary curves is no longer necessary. The user have nothing more to do than to select the planes to be machined.  The feature of Condacam is, that the input of tolerances such as offset/ offset values, or the determination of stop surfaces is not longer required. In this way the pocket bottoms with adjacent steep faces let be finished precisely without affecting the adjacent steep faces in the upper area for example. The limitation by means of faces or polysurfaces is integrated in the following standard strategies:

• Offset-finishing
• Parallel- finishing
• Offset-finishing
• Circular finishing
• Circular spiral finishing
• Rectangle spiral finishing
• Finishing flat Areas
• Pencil milling
  

The innovative HSC/HPC-Milling of Condacam3.1 enables the setting of entry points. The tool can be brought in pre-drilled positions to the machining depth without being exposed to critical plunging loads.  Furthermore the use of tools is possible which does not cut over the middle.

Contrary to the conventional strategies a further feature of the HPC/HSC-strategies (also called adaptiv-milling) is, that the tool load is kept constant over the entire milling process. By this way solid carbide tools with a high level of process reliability can be used and feeds with high speed. The tool life is considerably extended which means that longer-lasting milling processes can be implemented with a tool.  Furthermore greater steps in the depth can be realised in the Z-axis.  The larger plunge step causes an evenly cutting wear of over the whole cutter length of the tool whereby all together a greater material removal can be achieved.    

Already during programming save time with the latest multicore-technology.

Not seldom the programming time requires quite a lot more time than the actual milling process.  The “bottleneck” is determined not seldom by the Cam-software. Particularly the rendering speed and the handling of the Cam software result in the programming speed. The steady striving for acceleration of the production processes should therefore already start before the machine running time with selection of the proper Cam software.   New pc generations possess 12 CPU-cores and 24 calculation threads. For exploiting the power of 24 calculation threads it is required, that the software used supports the multi-core technology and can split the calculation task into several calculation threads.  The multicore technology can be exploited most effective by the way the Cam-software already on the algorithm level makes the division of the calculation task into several cores, or the calculation threads.     In this way tremendous speed increases can already be obtained at individual calculation tasks.

The multicore-calculation on the algorithm level is supported by Condacam 3.1 in all computationally intensive modules and has been tested and optimised on a system with 32 cores. 

Already at the data import the power of the multicore computation is exploited. Moreover in the 3D calculation strategies as well as in the CNC simulation the multicore calculation is applied to the algorithm level. 

Half a year after launch the new Condacam 3.1 receives a steady positive feedback.    Significant new developments in Condacam 3.1 still enable a faster programming and more effective tool paths.   Key feature of Condacam 3.1 are the highly modern HSC/HPS strategies and the innovative milling of contact surfaces or the new selection functions.  Combined with the exceptional favourable price service ratio the Condacam software is on a constant growth path.