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News Release from: ACI (UK) | Subject: Acu-Rite Millpwr
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2004
CNC provides cost-effective control
The Acu-Rite Millpwr two-/three-axis CNC can handle even the most complex jobs by operators with little or no programming experience.
The Acu-Rite Millpwr two-/three-axis CNC for intuitive knee-type milling operations being displayed at MACH by measurement and control specialist ACI Europe will highlight the system's cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness, as well as its ability to handle even the most complex jobs by operators with little or no programming experience Visitors to the stand will see how Millpwr can both speed machine setups and minimise scrap while producing consistently accurate and repeatable workpieces
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition to quickly and easily creating, then saving part programs, Millpwr users can use the CNC to translate DXF files directly into program code.
Also the system can combine conversational shop-floor programming routines with G code files for full three-dimensional contouring routines.
Millpwr incorporates a host of standard features that set it apart, including several easy-editing routines: explode - explode a program step into several, more detailed steps for easier editing; reverse step - switch the start/end points and tool offset of any step; reverse path - reverse a continuous tool path; change steps - change/edit the depth, offset and feed rate of several steps simultaneously; delete steps - erase single or multiple steps; and copy/move steps - duplicate or re-arrange steps.
"In addition", comments ACI Europe Managing Director, Phil Goulding, "Millpwr's long list of special functions - for skew, rotate, mirror image, contour, engrave, ellipses, chamfer, island and spirals, for example - have consistently made it the market-leading choice for two-/three-axis knee-type mills".
"That popularity is based on the system's ability to handle even the most complex job with little or no programming experience, since Millpwr is so user-friendly".
The MACH display being staged by ACI Europe will also feature examples from the Acu-Rite DRO range and Anilam CNCs and DROs, as well as Quadra-Chek DROs for measuring applications.
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