One of major enhancements in turning is the new User Interface associated to the geometry selection. On each operation, the intermediate stock is displayed through a specific profile and available to relimit automatically the entire area to machine.

The part profile is also automatically computed from the 3D geometry selection (faces/surfaces) and the manipulators allow the user to define quickly the area to machine. All the radial limits capabilities or the stock & part profiles extension are very easily created thanks these manipulators without any need to use additional geometry, increasing the associativity.

This enhancement reduces the programming time and increase the flexibility in gemetry definition.

A second important improvement is the specific tool path associated with the hard material available in turning for roughing operation. After the milling area where this Concentric technology has been successfully incorporated into several operations, the rough turning operation takes into account a similar algorithm to protect the life of the insert during machining of hard material.

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