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The VX QuickMill suite offers dramatic speed and tool path improvements for tool and die machining applications-yet has exceptional ease of use to minimize training and support. A full range of material handling and cutting techniques is supported to allow extremely complex milling in 3D. Even difficult steep and shallow mold situations are easily performed in VX QuickMill with advanced limiting, which eliminates milling problems in molds with steep walls or where a part needs to be progressively milled with a variety of tools and holders.
Roughing: Offset 2D with interlaced steps

Users can rough parts using QuickMill with a variety of techniques. The tool path shown is of minimal cutting length yet provides a constant scallop height. Users can implement all QuickMill roughing routines with AFC to ensure maximum productivity and reduced cutting tool wear.
Roughing: Rest roughing

Using QuickMill, rest roughing with small tools is easy to accomplish. QuickMill automatically detects leftover material and generates tool path accordingly. Users can program QuickMill to use related tool paths combinations. To produce optimum cutting results these cutting combinations can use various finishing and roughing cycles with an assortment of tools and cutting parameters. As each cycle completes QuickMill dynamically updates the machined stock for use in the next cycle.
Roughing: Plunge

QuickMill plunge roughing offers choices such as waterfall or single point plunge. When used with special machines and tools, the new roughing technique is reputed to offer maximum cutting productivity.
Roughing: Using QuickMill finish paths

Users can use any QuickMill finishing tool path as a roughing cycle through a simple parameter switch. Here, you see a parallel lace cycle used for roughing.
Finishing: Combination Strategies

This example shows how users can combine different QuickMill strategies to achieve optimum cusp-height and milling efficiency. The example shown takes advantage of angular feature recognition and doesn’t require any manual user intervention. Users can fine-tune tool efficiency by combining multiple cutting technologies into one unified solution.
Finishing: Z Level with flat place detection

This “one-touch” cycle is extremely easy to use and offers an efficient tool path with excellent continuity. It’s especially useful for parts that have long shallow features. 
Finishing: Parallel Lace with steep wall detection

All QuickMill projection cycles (such as flow-curve, lace and offset 2D) automatically detect steep walls which enables tool paths to maintain a uniform cusp-height finish. QuickMill calculates the required tool motion quickly and calls for no user intervention.
Finishing: Offset 3D

This example shows how QuickMill’s constant scallop height machining works with detailed undulating surfaces. QuickMill helps programmers create efficient continuous tool path and ensure machine productivity with uniform tool loading.
Finishing: Parallel lace & Z Level combo

Because users can interactively combine multiple functions, QuickMill offers the ultimate in freedom. By combining the simplicity of parallel lace on flat areas with the efficiency of Z Level motion on steep walls a user gets optimum cutting tool performance.
Finishing: Parallel lace combo

Here is another example of combining two different cutting techniques to achieve optimum cusp height. This example shows the combination of parallel lace on flat areas with zigzag lace on steep walls.
Finishing: Parallel lace: top to bottom

Users have complete control of tool path direction and flow (climb, conventional, zigzag, top-to-bottom and reverse, etc). This example highlights the automatic top to bottom lace milling functionality that users can implement with a single keystroke.Notice the display shows “at-a-glance” tool flow. Blue indicates the start and red the end on each individual cut.
AFC: Adaptive Feed rate Control

To achieve maximum productivity at the machine tool users can use QuickMill’s AFC to optimize feedrate. Optimized feedrate also significantly reduces machine and cutting tool wear. Here the “at-a-glance” display shows where the tool accelerates and decelerates.
Rest Finishing: Offset 3D, reference tool

One of the premier features of QuickMill is the ability to create tool paths that efficiently remove the material left by a previous cutting tool or tool path. Shown here, the programmer has used a 6mm tool to remove the material left by a 20mm tool. Notice that the tool path is optimized for minimal tool retracts and always mills from outside-in to ensure constant tool loading (seen by the “at-a-glance” rainbow palette).
Rest Finishing: Z level

Using QuickMill’s automatic region recognition, a user can create optimal tool paths that are linked using splines. This enables high productivity for high-speed machining applications.In the example shown, QuickMill optimized a highly fragmented Z-level tool path using region analysis and smooth linking.
Rest Finishing: Pencil milling

Here the user has combined both the Pencil Trace (shown in red) with the Pencil Drive curve (shown in green). The resulting tool path is optimized for high-speed milling and is smoothly continuous. This technique also generates fewer retracts than other rest-milling techniques.
Rest Finishing: Progressive Holder

This capability is especially useful for calculating tool paths with short, rigid cutting tools. QuickMill calculates the material left by avoiding holder collisions (green) and produces an efficient rest milling path using an extended tool (red).Users can apply this capability to all QuickMill finishing paths.
Special Purpose Cycles: Flow 3D

This cycle allows QuickMill users to define curves that will guide the tool to produce smooth, consistent finish.The cycle uses a 3D projection algorithm to create an equal cusp finish on any number of surfaces or solid features.
Special Purpose Cycles: Flow 2D

Using Flow 2D a user can direct the tool path flow according to part requirements. Users can employ this technology to follow specific features such as fillets, bulges, surfaces of revolution, etc.
Special Purpose Cycles: Drive Curve

Drive curve cycles use the offset 3D technology to provide in-depth tool path manipulation and constant scallop height control along custom features.
Special Purpose Cycles: Bulge Cut

In generally, this cycle is used for special purpose machining of disperser lighting products such as mirrors, headlamps, taillights etc.
High Speed Machining: Corner rounding lace

QuickMill users can enable corner rounding for a smoother tool engagement. Using corner rounding to eliminate sharp, sub-optimal features QuickMill delivers best possible high-speed tool path. Using HSM functionality with pencil milling, pencil drive curve or rest cut provides extremely efficient milling.
High Speed Machining: Corner rounding Z level

By using HSM corner rounding applied to a Z Level cut, users can eliminate possible undercuts and improve toolpath continuity.
High Speed Machining: Spline Linking

The user can use advanced leading and linking to convert any classic cycle into a high-speed machining tool path. Here vertical arc leads and spline-curves are used to improve toolpath smoothness.
High Speed Machining: Conversion to Spirals

The user can convert any closed curved tool path into continuous spirals thus improving continuity.