MachineWorks to Demo New 5-axis Engine

By DE Editors

MachineWorks Ltd is presenting its latest release version 7.1 and showing its new multi-axis simulation engine at EMO Hannover. MachineWorks had just gone through a major rewrite to make the MachineWorks code thread-safe. Its latest release, MachineWorks v7.1, takes advantage of that thread-safety via internal multithreading on existing engines as well as our newest sampling engine. Now users can take full advantage of multi-core CPUs.

MachineWorks v7.1 has added a new sample based simulation engine to its family of engines. Originally, the purpose of this engine was to achieve multi-axis milling within a manageable memory footprint. Since it is sample based, memory consumption is largely dependent on the grid resolution used to represent the stock, and not on the number of cuts in the toolpath. This will mean that often the memory usage will be roughly constant throughout the simulation.  

Also recently launched at CAD’11, Polygonica toolkit is our new set of libraries for carrying out a wide range of geometrical operations on 3D polygonal solid geometry and 2D profile geometry. The algorithms inside Polygonica have had heavy industrial use and been extensively tried and tested. Polygonica’s complex algorithms have also been wrapped.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.