PowerMill Additive is a plugin that enables you to create toolpaths for additive or hybrid manufacturing, that is driven by directed energy deposition. It utilizes PowerMill's existing multi-axis CNC and robot capabilities to create multi-axis additive toolpaths with detailed process parameter control along every point of the toolpath. These process parameters enable you to finely control the operations of deposition at a toolpath point level.
PowerMill Additive is targeted to address the part classes 1 to 6.
Linear 2.5D extrusions — walls and bricks.
Surfaces of revolution — buckets.
Features on: cylinders, planes, and arbitrary bases.
Surface coating — patches and single layers.
Coaxial features — 360 degrees.
Blades and blisks — varying cross-section.
Part classes 7 to 10 require a combination of functionality available in PowerShape and PowerMill in addition to the PowerMill additive plugin to create suitable toolpaths.
Multi-axis sweep — varying cross-section tubes.
Non-adaptive repair.
Adaptive repair.
Artisan.