Unleash Your True Potential with Hurco 5-Axis Machining

The Power of FIVE: The Definitive Guide to 5-Axis Machining

by Michael Cope

Maggie Smith sits down with Michael Cope author of THE POWER OF FIVE: The Definitive Guide to 5-Axis Machining to talk a little bit about his book and what it's about.

Unleash Your True Potential
with Hurco 5-Axis

Fifteen years ago, we made 5-axis a priority—both the engineering of the machine and the development of the control technology—because we determined
that the transition to 5-sided machining would be the most efficient way for our customers to instantly increase their profit margins.
Similar to the transition from manual machining to CNC machining, the transition to 5-sided machining will dictate your future success.
Find out why Hurco leads the industry in 5-axis technologies.

How does Hurco give you the power to transition to 5-Axis?

Transform Plane is the key feature of the Hurco control that makes the transition
to 5-axis easy. When it comes to usability, nobody can touch the Hurco control. Designed the way machinists think. Designed to let you determine the best way to approach each part because it’s equally powerful whether you use conversational programming, NC, or CAD/CAM—you can even combine NC and conversational with our signature NC/Conversational Merge feature. Nobody does 5-axis better than Hurco.

Click the button below to download the PDF and learn more about Hurco control features specifically for 5-axis and 5-sided machining.

CUSTOMER Input: Force American Made (FAM)
machine shop at John Force Racing (JFR)

FAM manufactures tens of thousands of parts per year that range from small consumable parts to super chargers, engine blocks and cylinder heads.
Approximately 90% are 7075 and 7050 aluminum and the other 10% are Titanium Grade 9 (6AL4V).

Antonelli said the Hurco CNC machines have outperformed his expectations. Antonelli and Nic Barnes, the Machine Shop Supervisor, said the benefits they appreciate the most from the new Hurco CNC machines are the surface finish quality, fast rapids, rigidity, accuracy, the robust technical specifications of the Hurco control, the swing-arm ATC design and tool capacity, and the productivity gains from adopting 5-sided machining for parts they used to manufacture on 3-axis machines.

ABOUT HURCO

Hurco is an American company (Nasdaq: HURC) with global reach. Based in Indianapolis, Hurco engineers have been inventing technology that makes machinists more productive and job shops more profitable since 1968. We build CNC machines that are equipped with the MAX control powered by WinMax® software. The Hurco control is the most flexible in the industry because it is equally powerful whether you use conversational or Industry Standard NC programming…or you can use the best of both with Hurco’s NC/Conversational Merge feature.

Programming 5-Axis Transform Planes Using IJK UVW Vectors

I recently received a comment on one of my previous blog posts – “5-Axis Programming: programming with tool vectors”- asking about how to designate a 5-axis Transform Planes using IJK UVW vector tokens, instead of the traditional ABC rotary axis designations. Instead of just replying to that comment, I thought I would write this post as a response. Since this will be a continuation of the previous article on tool vectors, I suggest that you read and understand using IJK tool vectors as a pre-cursor to this article.

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We Took Five for 5-axis…will you?

Hurco recently partnered with Modern Machine Shop magazine for an educational online 5-axis webinar, called: “Take Five for 5-Axis”. It was very well received by everyone who attended, and the feedback afterward was outstanding. In this webinar, I try to present this information in a very simple way, and attempt to explain things in a manner that even those who have no history of 5-axis machining can understand it. After all, that was the intention…to educate and teach!

5-Axis…it just ain’t that scary

In February of 2013 I posted an article titled: “5-Axis…it just ain’t that scary”, and to date it has been one of the most popularly read articles in my blog series. So, I thought I would expand on that article a little bit, and dive a little deeper into what can be done with 5-axis technology…

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The Power of FIVE:
The Definitive Guide to 5-Axis Machining