Roughing
Roughing and re-roughing toolpaths in WorkNC enable large volumes of stock to be removed in a single pass with large depths of cut, while dynamic stock management gives it the sensitivity to work with small diameter tools too.

Toolpath Optimization
Toolpaths optimized for high speed machining make it easy to rapidly and safely cut the hardest materials, reducing the need for EDM.

Collision Detection
Advanced collision detection and avoidance checks the tool, its holder, the machine tool itself, and the machine limits, to produce completely reliable toolpaths. It automatically splits the collision free and collided sections of the toolpath. WorkNC is so reliable that many users maximize productivity through unattended, “lights out” machining.

User Interface
WorkNC’s intuitive GUI enables users to become productive in the shortest possible time.

Analysis Tools
Analysis tools simplify the interrogation of CAD data to check features such as draft angles and the smallest radius. The intuitive operation and automated machining strategies make WorkNC ideal for use on the shop floor.

Toolpath Editing
WorkNC’s powerful graphical toolpath editor enables users to quickly and intuitively modify the toolpath to suit their individual requirements from a single command.

Job Preparation
There is more to programming than just creating toolpaths. WorkNC contains specialized CAM-oriented CAD functions that can be used prior to programming. Automation tools, such as sequences, can be created to streamline programming. The less time you spend preparing your model for machining, the faster it can be machined.

CAD Data
WorkNC can import model data from all the leading CAD packages and can easily manipulate the largest files. WorkNC includes popular neutral file formats such as IGES, STEP, STL, Parasolid and Soliworks. For specific, native CAD files, WorkNC’s direct translators can be used to open those files. WorkNC’s direct translators have been continuously developed to provide an optimum level of performance and reliability when opening native CAD files. WorkNC direct translators are constantly updated to stay current on changes to the native file formats.

WorkNC Viewer
WorkNC Toolpath Viewer is an ideal tool when not programming directly on the shop floor. This low cost yet high value product allows you to open WorkNC CAM files for viewing, analyzing, simulating, verifying and then post processing without the need for tying up a full WorkNC programming license. Machine operators can load a WorkNC workzone and check the part or toolpath anywhere, without interrupting a programmer or stopping what they are currently doing.

Highly Efficient Roughing Strategies:
WorkNC’s automated Roughing and Re-Roughing toolpaths enable engineers across the world to reliably and safely achieve unprecedented metal removal rates. Using its dynamic stock model management, the software’s algorithms know exactly where material needs to be removed at any instant, keeping tool loads constant while checking for potential collisions and minimizing retract and wasted movements.

Parallel Processing Technology
Multi-threaded processing operates across WorkNC’s toolpaths and Workzones, running on multiple cores simultaneously and producing speed improvements of up to ten times, allowing several toolpaths to be calculated at the same time to greatly reduce programming and calculation times.

Roughing and Re-Roughing Strategies Include:
• Constant tool engagement rates through the Waveform lgorithm.
• Localized retracts and corner smoothing for HSM.
• The ability to cut at large Z depths in a single pass to maximize metal removal and make the best use of the tooling.
• Flat surface machining across the complete part, automatically creating the correct 3+2 machining orientation for each of the multiple toolpaths.
• Spiral core roughing for a highly fluid and high speed tool trajectory.
• High volume roughing with a plunging action.
• Batch processing of long toolpaths with integrated collision detection.

Finishing & Re-Machining
A raft of finishing and remachining strategies in WorkNC gives users the ability to easily tailor machining operations to suit their individual requirements. Coupled with the powerful graphical toolpath editor and the ability to create sets of knowledge based automatic cutting strategies, WorkNC will deliver extremely short programming times and greatly improved quality and productivity.

Rest Material Technology
Rest material technology detects the remaining material, limiting unnecessary tool movement and enabling engineers to work successfully with the smallest and most fragile cutters while reducing overall machining times. Optimization for high speed machining includes helical approach paths, elimination of unnecessary retract moves, corner smoothing, and global finishing strategies which keep the tool in contact with the part. For even greater ease of use, 3D surfaces can be selected by simply rolling the mouse across them, ready for machining.

Finishing Toolpaths Include:
• Global finishing for a continuous spiral toolpath across a contoured surface.
• Planar finishing for shallow surfaces
• Flat surface finishing
• Z-level machining and optimized Z-Level machining for steep surfaces
• Undercut remachining
• Z level remachining
• Contour remachining
• 3D drive curve machining
• Thin wall machining

Standard 2 Axis Machining
WorkNC automatically programs 3D models. For 2D geometry, powerful 2D curve machining options simplify and speed up the programming even where the geometry is damaged or intersecting. The advanced toolpaths which WorkNC produces are highly reliable, and result in short machining times and long tool life.