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May 2007

OPEN MIND Technologies AG, Wessling

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hyperMILL 9.51 SP1

English
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1.   General information

2.   Improvements / Bug fixes

3.   Known issues

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1.   General information

The Service pack mentioned above is dedicated to hyperMILL V9.51

hyperMILL V9.51 SP1 supports these platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP

Supported CAD platforms:

- hyperCAD 2005.1, hyperCAD 2005.2, hyperCAD 2006.2

- thinkdesign 2005.1, thinkdesign 2005.2, thinkdesign 2006.1, thinkdesign 2006.2
- from AutoCAD 2000i up to AutoCAD 2006

- from AMD 6 up to AMD 2006

- Inventor 9, 10 and 11

- Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 and 3.

One of these versions need(s) to be already installed before the service pack can be installed.

This document contains informations which are included neither in the written documentation nor in the online help.

Please download the file hyperMILL_V9_51 SP1.exe, execute it and follow the instructions. You need administrator rights for installing!

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2.   Improvements / Bug fixes

valid for SP1:

Area Call ID Description

nightSHIFT                                                                 31432               Joblist sequence in nightSHIFT now corresponds to the hyperMILL joblist sequence.

                                                                                  31429               Cycle name for 2D Helical Drilling is correctly displayed now in nightSHIFT.

2D Cycles

2D Helical Drilling                                                      31373               No more collision when moving to clearance distance.

2D Pocket Milling                                                       31146 Correct recognition of (inner) pockets in 2D Mode and no more error messages resulting from boundaries using the 3D Mode.

3D Cycles

3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing                                      31158 All planar surfaces are machined completely.

3D Profile Finishing                                                   31401 No more collision when using tapered tools (with thick shaft).  

                                                                                  31358               Improved milling behaviour when undercut surfaces selected.

3D Automatic Rest Machining                                    31241               No more double machining when using the Activate Z-level search option.

31391 Corrected movements to clearance plane.

3D Pencil Milling                                                        31447               Optimised milling behaviour in short movements.

3D Z-Level Rest machining                                        31271               No more new jobs can be created in this cycle, because functionality is implemented in the cycle 3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing                                                                                                

5X Cycles

5X Cavity Cycles                                                        31382               Default value for Max. angle to Z (5 Axes tab) changed to 30°.

5X Rework Machining                                                31269               No more collision when using stock models/boundaries.

5X Swarf Cutting 1 Curve                                           31398 Optimised collision check.        

5X Contouring                                                            31563               Problems with units when using freely defined tool holders are solved.

5X Rest machining                                                     31193               When replacing the cycle by the 3D Automatic Rest Machining cycle (function: Replace by), values for the Min. rest material height                                                                                                                      are taken over.

Hotfix 31269

No more tool paths, not proved on collision, when using stock models or boundaries in the 5X Rework Machining cycle. (SCR 31269).

Hotfix 31339

No more 5X Drilling license required for 2D Drilling (SCR 31339).

The SP1 contains the following changes / improvements as well:

3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing

Setup tab

To avoid "empty paths" in undercut areas when stock model machining with multiaxis indexing, you can use the Undercut trimming option.

3D Profile Finishing

Strategy 2 tab

Using the Fillet interior corners function, paths can be rounded smoothly at corners with abrupt changes in direction.

valid for SP2:

Area Call ID Description

Feature Technology                                                   32000 Starting points of a Contour feature are taken over correctly.

31827 Feature mapping is working correctly independent from the kind of used solid.

2D Cycles

2D Drilling                                                                  31697               All hyperMILL dialogs can be opened during the addition of holes.

2D Pocket Milling                                                       31677               No more wrong messages in 2D mode.

3D Cycles

3D Z-Level Finishing                                                  30951               Correct machining of all pockets when using Milling surfaces (Boundary tab)

3D Equidistant Finishing                                             32113               No more collision in the Additional surfaces area when using a 3DF file (Setup tab)

5X Cycles

5X Rest Machining                                                     31750               Correct collision check when using multiple boundaries.

5X Profile Finishing                                                   32074               Correct tool paths output when using the Offset strategy (Strategy tab) in combination with all available infeed modes (Strategy 2 tab).

valid for SP3:

5X Cavity Cycles:

Setup tab

Advanced 5X: Advanced 5X

Only if you activate this option, all available strategies (Manual curve, Radial Z  and Offset curve) are activated in the 5 Axes tab.

Otherwise only the strategies Fixed and Automatic. By default the function is not activated.

5X Multiblade Cycles

5X MB Roughing / MB Hub Finishing

Strategy tab (only MB Roughing)

Milling strategy: Flow

Using this strategy, depth infeed is flow, see finishing of blades in Point Milling. As roughing is an exact premachining of a following finishing, this kind of machining has advantages especially for the machining of multiblades, where alternating roughing and finishing operations in several passes proceed.

Infeed strategy: Zigzag flow next

Compared to Zigzag flow, where up- and downward paths of a pocket from inside to outside are helical connected, here paths are meander shaped connected (with the directly next path). Advantages: less movements of rotary- and linear-axes.

5 Axes tab

Avoidance strategy: Camberline

This option is activating a new strategy of collision avoidance, which is dominantly realised perpendicular to the middle of the pocket. Advantage of this method is, that you can possibly use tools, which utilise the small cavity in a better way. Thereby you can realise less machining time and higher parameter values.

Avoidance strategy: Around Z

With this option, the up to now behaviour is activated, where collision avoidance is dominantly realised by pivoting of Z-axis. Advantage: very simple movement of the tool, which can lead to constant speed of rotary axes.

MB Point Milling

Strategy tab:

Pocket mode: Activate

Alternatively to the known continuous machining around the selected (main) blade, here machining of the main blades within the pocket is realised by machining of the right blade surface of the left blade and the left blade surface of the right neighbour blade in one operation. Advantage: reducing of vibrations in the neighbour pockets.

5 Axes tab:

Avoidance strategy: Camberline

This option is activating a new strategy of collision avoidance, which  is dominantly realised perpendicular to the middle of the pocket. Advantage: you can possibly use tools, which utilise the small cavity in a better way. Thereby you can realise less machining time and higher parameter values.

Avoidance strategy: Around Z

With this option, the up to now behaviour is activated, where collision avoidance is dominantly realised by pivoting of Z-axis. Advantage: very simple movement of the tool, which can lead to constant speed of rotary axes.

Edge behaviour: Min. angle - leading edge / trailing edge

Now you can define a separate angle for boths edges. Thereby you can better accommodate different edge shapes. 

Intermediate angle down / Intermediate angle up: Angle to Z / ISO position (from leading/from trailing)

When using avoidance strategy around Z, for downward movements and/other upward movements at the most critical position (normally between the main blade and the leading edge splitter blade) you can additionally define an intermediate position by specifying an ISO parameter, for which the tool should have a defined angle to Z axis. Advantage: you can possibly use tools, which utilise the small cavity in a better way. Thereby you can realise less machining time and higher parameter values.

Macro tab:

Link macro: Split paths

When using 4axes machining, continuous machining around the blade can be splitted automatically at both edges and newly merged with an additional macro. Advantage: You can use tapered tools on 4axes machines, which would damage the edges, in continuously circulating machining mode. Thereby you can realise less machining time and higher parameter values.

Setup tab:

Check tool: Neighbour clearance

This parameter enables to consider the additional offset of the (possibly not machined) neighbour (blade). Collisions with non-cutting tool elements can be definitely avoid.

Check tool: Edge tolerance

When using the Split paths and 4X machining options, you can define a separate tolerance for collision check of the edge. This allows it to increase tapering of tools additionally.

Area Call-ID Description

                                                                                  32593               No more saving of wrong data, when working in modal mode and opening a model while another model is already open. The lastly opened                                                                                                                       model will be closed and can be loaded again, not until hyperMILL is restarted. Also the model already open, is closed and saved as backup

                                                                                                          with an attachment in file name (date). A correspondent message is generated simultaneously.

Macro Database                                                         32186               Changed macros are always saved now.

Feature Technology                                                   32140               Contur attributes are taken over correctly when copying and replacing jobs.

                                                                                  31479               When using the Hole Flip option (Feature: Through Hole) in Feature-Job-Connector, always the frame is turned too.

                                                                                  32564               Reading in of feature lists in the following formats:

                                                                                                          - OneSpace Designer/SolidDesigner (*.hyf)

                                                                                                          - SolidDesigner ( *.V14 and *.hym)
                                                                                                          - CATIA V5 (Moldware V1.1)

                                                                                                          - SolidWorks OPENMIND Plugin

                                                                                                          For reading in feature lists, choose New > Import hole in the feature browser and select format and file.

                                                                                  32375               hyperMILL 9.5 in Pro/E: no more crashes when changing a frame within a feature.

                                                                                  32512               hyperMILL 9.5 in Pro/E: no more crashes when using a bounding geometry within stock definition.

nightSHIFT                                                                 30768 When transfering joblists/jobs to nightSHIFT, only one project directory is created for several joblists.

                                                                                                          Thereby also joblists, which contain jobs, that reference jobs from other joblists, can be transfered together to nightSHIFT.

Restrictions:
                                                                                                          - only transfering of complete joblists possible.

                                                                                                          - checking of  special characters in project names is not complete. Therefore, the following special characters should not be used:

'#' '=' '(' ')' '[' ']' '{' '}' ',' ';'

                                                                                                          - possibly name conflicts in nightSHIFT (after paths adaptions)

2D Cycles

2D Circular Pocket                                                     32327 Correctly transfering of the Offset bottom parameter (Parameters tab) when taking and recalculation of V9.0 jobs.

3D Cycles

3D ISO Machining                                                     32125 Correct POF status check (hyperMILL Settings: Document, Check geometry)

valid for SP4:

With version  9.5 of hyperMILL, we provide a new manual version for Dutch language (Start > Programs > OPEN MIND > hyperMILL 9.5).

General

                                                                                  28858               Before calculation of complete job lists, hyperMILL is checking the availability of all necessary licenses.

                                                                                  33140               Tool path parameter: reduced infeed is correctly transferred to hyperMILL.

Additional functions                                                   32590               Search double entities: all elements are correctly recognised (hyperCAD 2005.2).

3D Cycles

3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing                                         29887               All areas (including plane levels) are recognised always correctly (AMD 2006).

3D Z-Level-Finishing                                                     32809               Correct calculation also when using several boundaries.

                                                                                  32889               Correct tool path calculation when using machining priority Spiral (Strategy tab).

5X-Cycles

5X MB Hub Finishing                                                    32520               No more collisions.

5X MB Point Milling                                                      32660               Correct milling behaviour when using Link macros in combination with the Split paths option.

32935 Correct creating of tool paths at outer blade surfaces.

5X Rework Machining                                                   32659               Collision avoidance of C-axis at retract macro of reference tool path (5X MB Hub Finishing), option: 4x machining)

5X Z-Level-Finishing                                                      32603               Correct milling behaviour (without outlier)

Feature Technology

                                                                                  32652                Feature mapping: all threads of  holes are recognised completely.

nightSHIFT 33016                 nightSHIFT now calculates all jobs in Inventor.

Hotfix 33658

3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing

No more "empty toolpaths" on planes when using the cycle as 3D Restmachining

hyperMILL in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 und 3

Problems when saving hyperMILL data solved.

Macro-Technology

Problems in connection with Features (with threads) when automatically tool search are solved

5X MB Roughing and MB Hub Finishing (SCR 33719)

All  toolpaths are collision checked when using Camberline as Avoidance Strategy (5Axes tab).

hyperMILL in AMD resp. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 and 3

No more chrashes when closing the internal simulation.

Hotfix 33768

hyperMILL in Inventor 11
Problem with converting of some fillets is solved (SCR 33768)

3D Profil Finishing
Converter problem is solved (SCR 33735)

valid for hmill 9.51

2D Cycles

2D Drilling                                                               33914                  Optimised drilling behaviour when using the 5X Drilling as Drilling strategy

3D Cycles

3D Automatic Rest Machining                                 33663                  Problems when using tools with thick shank are solved.

3D Profile Finishing                                                 33710                  Problems when using tool with thick shank are solved.

3D Free Path Milling 33687                  Problems with creating macros are solved

3D Z-Level Finishing                                                33204                  Optimised milling behaviour

                                                                                33512                  Optimised milling behaviour

                                                                                33985                  Correct output of G2/G3 paths

34250                  gouge of part removed when G2/G3 output is used

5Axis Cycles

MB Flank Milling                                                     33794                  Optimised milling behaviour

Z-Level Finishing                                                     33323                  No more wrong recognised toolholder collisions.

                                                                                33766                  No more neeedless retract movements when using the Machining priority Spiral in connection with undercut machining

Contouring                                                               34075                  Optimised milling behaviour

nightSHIFT 33837 / 33839      Localisation problem solved

valid for hmill 9.51 SP1

General

Internal Simulation                                                    34265               Corrected display of the tool type Chamfer cutter.

3D Cycles

3D Automatic Rest Machining                                    34366               No more break-ups during calculation, wehn using tolls with thick shaft.

                                                                                  34252               Improved recognition of restmaterial in steep areas (Strategy tab), improved milling behaviour, when using tool reference Tip or Center                                                                                                                          (Tool tab, Technology).

34657               No more collision if user cancels the calculation

3D Arbitrary Stock Roughing                                      34500               Improved milling behaviour when using the Rapid in strategy and very small value for the parameter Fillet radius

                                                                                  34571               Improved milling behaviour on planes (reduced paths number).

34750/              No more collision

                                                                                  34132

3D Z-Level Finishing                                                  34532               Correct macro generation (independent from the way of of tool check).

5Axis Cycles

5X Top Milling                                                            34354               No more surface damages.

5X Blade Top Milling                                                 33317 Improved milling behaviour when using tool reference Tip (Tool tab, Technology).

5X MB Hub Finishing                                                 34573               No more collisions (independent form the Frame angle limitation parameter, 5Axes tab).

only hyperMILL in Pro/E

5X MB Hub Finishing                                                  34568               Correct path output.

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3. Kown issues

2D Contour milling

Application of Chamfer Cutters

The definition of nominal diameters lower than 0.001 mm or lower than 0.0001 inch may lead to issues regarding cutter compensation. Please avoid the definition of such diameters.

Drilling cycles

(Contours tab)

Despite of activated collision check, currently the tool is not collision checked during rapid movements. Only the tool holder is checked. Therefore all axial rapid movements have to be checked for tool collisions

by simulation.

Supported tool types

hyperMILL supports  the tool types in accordance with the delivered manual only. All other tool types (like angular tools, knives etc.) are not supported.

Feedrates

All feedrates defined in hyperMILL relate to the tool reference point (center or tip). The feedrates related to the several axis may differ from the one defined by the user. In general any parametric output of feedrates is not designed.

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