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Using the Volumill Milling Advisor the closest I can come to the testing at Pier 9 was this. Especially the recorded speeds and feeds.

will take you to the post referenced there and I want you to go there now and check it out. Keep this in mind as we delve into this thread. Volumill has used Helical as their benchmark endmills for the Milling Advisor speeds and feeds calculator available on their site. Today over at a post on Helical end mills some interesting things come out. On same parts and work holding and cutters today I find that not only does HSM Adaptive find all levels better it almost always does so with quicker cut times when compared to Volumill and with chip loads at least as good at worst and better in most cases. Fast forward to today when I was forced to look past Volumill due to Geometric’s failure with Camworks for Solid Edge and it is a different story. HSM was good but Volumill was a bit better. Cutting “Jaws of Life” blades out of S-7 tool steel was the test at that time and Volumill in CAMWorks cut a more consistent chip load especially around the pivot hole where HSM spiked pretty badly in tool load. Roughly three years ago I tried both CAMWorks and HSMWorks. To make sure that what is there works and then also steadily improves.įirst though a bit of background for HSM Adaptive from my experience. But there are a number of things that go on under the radar with Autodesk HSM (A-HSM) that are parts of an ongoing quest to improve the program.

In that train of thought there were some pretty amazing results achieved by Helical in testing with HSM’s Adaptive that was something I could not talk about until today. In my last post I talked about the idea of software quality control. Well it is not really a secret for those of us who use it but for everyone else I am sure there is a lot they don’t know.

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