Free software with Helitronic MiniPower system

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Sep 19, 2000

Walter GB's Helitronic MiniPower Production tool and cutter grinder is currently being offered with a host of additional special software packages and added-value options at no extra cost.

Walter GB's Helitronic MiniPower Production tool and cutter grinder is currently being offered with a host of additional special software packages and added-value options at no extra cost.

Included in the autumn promotion for the five-axis MiniPower - which can grind tools up to 270 mm long and 100 mm diameter - is Walter's innovative Cyber Grinding software.

This three-dimensional simulation package allows the grinding process to be precisely simulated on-screen, for verification and optimised tool design, grinding result, operation sequence and grinding wheel paths.

Cyber Grinding therefore promises savings in cutting tool design and production by allowing non-standard new tools to be designed and 'manufactured' off-line.

The result is that time-consuming and costly prototypes, test batch work and interruptions to production can all be eliminated.

The autumn MiniPower added-value package also includes step tool software, automatic hydraulic steady rest and six wheel adaptors for grinding wheels sets along with a 319 collet sleeve (diameters of 3 mm to 10 mm) and five collets to suit.

With a 9 kW spindle producing 6 Nm of torque and an infinitely variable speed of 9,500 revs/min, MiniPower Production has X, Y and Z axes traverses of 350 mm, 200 mm and 470 mm, A axis length of 150 mm, C of 200mm.