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The VoluMill Advantage:
What exactly is VoluMill?
VoluMill is a high-performance toolpath engine from Celeritive Technologies.
Using VoluMill in place of traditional pocketing routines will reduce your cycle times,
extend the useful life of your cutting tools, and place considerably less stress on your
machine tools, thereby reducing your costs while increasing your productivity. VoluMill
provides the above benefits by fully utilizing the performance capabilities of modern
machining hardware to maintain a constant rate of material removal; it plans the toolpath
based on the abilities designed into the machine tools and cutting tools, irrespective of
the shape being cut. Traditional toolpath strategies, by contrast, are derived from the
geometry being machined, filling the bounded area with a zigzag pattern at some fixed
angle, or offsetting the boundary geometry until it collapses on itself.
Why does it increase productivity?
The VoluMill approach brings several advantages, all of which result in the opportunity
to leverage your machining hardware capabilities more effectively. Since VoluMill toolpaths are significantly different
from their traditional counterparts, they need to be used differently in order to realize their
benefits. A VoluMill toolpath is slightly longer than a traditional toolpath. This additional
length, which is necessary to maintain a constant rate of material removal, is more than
compensated for by using more aggressive machining parameters. Since determining
exactly which machining parameters to use depends on many factors, and can vary greatly from
shop to shop, here are some conservative guidelines to improving your productivity.
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