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What exactly is VoluMill? (http://celeritive.com/)

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.

Key Advantages and Benefits:

1) High-performance, smart toolpath engine.
2) Powerful, efficient toolpaths for open shapes.
3) Intelligent slot milling and side milling options.
4) Fast machining of small pockets.
5) Up to 100% stepover with no uncut material.
6) High-feed repositioning with floor clearance.
7) Cleanup Milling.
8) Automatic feedrate adjustment.

For more information, please visit VoluMill's website: http://celeritive.com/index.php