PartMaster Milling is a system designed to create complete prgrammes for NC and CNC milling machines and machining centres. PartMaster Milling is completely icon driven with easy to understand dialogs to input all programme information - no programming language needs to be learned, all required geometry can be automatically extracted from a PartMaster CAD drawing or read directly from a DXF file. PartMaster Milling is ideal for those new to CNC machining, whilst offering many advanced features for the experience user.

Programme verification is made easy by fast, clean toolpath display in top, side, front or isometric views

Example of the Merge command to create a ruled surface between 2 contours at different Z heights

Example of Z-Profile for shapes with non vertical sides

Example of surface patch defined by two profiles

Example of raised lettering

• Support for  2, 2.5 and 3 axis milling and rotary axes A and B.
• Tooling database.
• Display of component and toolpath in Plan, Side and front Elevations and Isometric Views.
• Display tool centre-line, tool path envelope or full tool animation.
• Canned cycles for milling, drilling, drilling, peck-drilling, deep-hole drilling, reaming, boring, tapping and pocketing.
• Subroutines.
• Simplified 2D contouring control with automatic generation of lead-in and run-off.

• Z axis profiling which allows machining in the ZX & ZY planes.
• Tool offsetting for ball-nose and square ended tools.
• Merge top and bottom 2D contours to produce and machine aruled surface (square ended tools).
• Automatic area clearance of any contour with up to nine islands, with many machining options.
• Engraving facility that allows any text to be machined, with size, angle and mirror image options, also radial text.
• Ramping with arc, straight line or zig-zag approach

• Machining of surface patches defined by two profiles.
• Ruled surfaces defined by profile along line or turned around point
• Cycle time estimates.
• Output to virtually any machine tool controller, with the built-in post processor.
• Operator set-up sheets which show tooling required and machining sequence.

Choose from over 50 Post Processors including Fanuc, Heidenhain, Siemens, Rambo, Hurco etc.

The end result ? reliable machine code that you can trust without having to edit by hand