PowerMill 2022.1.1 update
The fixes in PowerMill 2022.1.1.
| Toolpaths |
| A problem has been fixed that caused the direction of spiral segments in Steep and Shallow Finishing toolpaths to be incorrect when using a cut direction of Any. PMILL-17107, PMILL-17257
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| A regression in PowerMill 2022.1 has been fixed that could cause Automatic Collision Avoidance to fail to avoid collisions in specific situations. PMILL-16883
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| A problem has been fixed that caused a straight link in an Area Clearance toolpath to pass through excessive unmachined stock. PMILL-16879
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| A problem has been fixed that caused the calculation time of a stock model rest boundary to increase. PMILL-17171
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| Problems that impaired the accuracy of the boundary around flat areas of the model have been fixed. PMILL-17081, PMILL-17091
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| The calculation of a drilling toolpath now takes account of any tool axis limits that have been specified. PMILL-16506
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| It is once again possible to set the sweep angle of an arc lead with a negative value. PMILL-16886
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| A problem has been fixed that prevented offset profile passes and infill passes from being generated in a Feature Construction toolpath. PMILL-16872
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| The time taken to calculate Feature Construction toolpaths has been reduced. PMILL-16872
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| An issue that would have prevented the correct approach moves from being added to Slice Area Clearance toolpaths, and could also have caused gouges in some toolpath, has been fixed. PMILL-17118, PMILL-17132
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| A problem has been fixed that could cause PowerMill to close unexpectedly when calculating a Rest Area Clearance toolpath in specific situations. PMILL-16621
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| General |
| To improve accuracy, exporting of Hole Feature Sets in imperial units is now done to 5 decimal places. PMILL-17319
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| A new right-click menu option has been added to toolpaths to display a window that contains a list of all the entities that lock the selected toolpath. PMILL-16285
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| An issue which caused NC toolpaths to sometimes have the incorrect status after the NC Program was verified using the background processor has now been fixed. PMILL-16664
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| A performance improvement has been made to the process of activating a toolpath by not updating unused verification sets. PMILL-16526
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| An issue that sometimes caused the thickness shading to not be displayed correctly has been fixed. PMILL-10335
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| Customer error reporting (CER) |
| A problem has been fixed that caused PowerMill to close unexpectedly when calculating a Point Projection Finishing toolpath. This issue was identified by CER. PMILL-17151
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