Tools often have to be repaired or reworked during their production life, and the DED process can be of great help for this purpose. Using hyperMILL ADDITIVE Manufacturing, adding material precisely where it is required and then remachining the part in a single set-up can now be achieved with one system.
OPEN MIND Technologies offers an additive manufacturing (AM) capability option in hyperMILL CAM software to support 3D printing/additive processes. hyperMILL with ADDITIVE Manufacturing provides efficient hybrid processing with additive and subtractive processing, including material deposition, on one machine.
For highly complex 5-axis simultaneous processing, hyperMILL ADDITIVE Manufacturing enables an array of flexible options for any Directed Energy Deposition process (DED) such as Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM), Laser Powder, Laser Hot-Wire and Electro-Beam Hot-Wire and more.
hyperMILL enables users to perfectly program the cladding and milling together. True-to-detail additive and subtractive simulation as well as stock tracking between the individual process steps provide greatest possible reliability.
Key additive applications include repair of damaged components, cladding of additional surface skins, or creation of new components from a substrate. This also creates totally new options for combining different materials, such as when high-quality material layers need to be applied to the substrate.
Using Powder Bed Fusion (PBF), hyperMILL supports the full potential of AM. The finishing of some functional surfaces and the removal of support structures can be performed using 5-axis cutting processes. Also, due to the best fit capability built into the hyperMILL Virtual Machining strategy, it is now possible to virtually align the NC code to the real clamped part position, optimizing the 3D printed part.
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OPEN MIND Technologies USA, Inc.
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Needham, MA 02492
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