"WESTEC sets the pace for the machine tool and metalworking industry in this area", said Robert W. Conway, V.P. of Sales and Marketing at NCCS. "It provides us with the ideal opportunity to showcase our latest technology."

"NCCS has implemented hundreds of new features and enhancements to our products", said Mr. Conway. Some of the new features that will be demonstrated include:

• An all-new Windows interface including fast Open/GL graphics.
• New Z-level roughing that, within minutes, will automatically generate tool paths to efficiently rough machine an entire component, regardless of complexity.
• Enhanced sequential milling which allows the user to easily flank mill a series of tangential or intersecting surfaces using a variety of 4 and 5-axis machining strategies. Ideal for structural aerospace components.
• The ability to mathematically compare an imported model to an existing model for the purpose of incorporating engineering changes.
• Enhancements to the Aerospace Application Library (AAL), which include the ability to machine common features such as flange tops, tight corners, and closed-angled walls with a few mouse clicks.
• Enhancements to the Turbomachinery Application Library (TAL), including: Automated step-down roughing of radial impellers, with or without splitter vanes; new strategies for machining leading and trailing edge radii; automated lead-angle spiral milling of airfoil blades and vanes; and automated 5-axis point milling of axial impellers (blisks) composed of arbitrary (non-ruled) vanes.

NCL is a powerful Computer-Aided Manufacturing software package, which generates simultaneous 2 through 5-axis NC tool paths and provides parametric 3D modeling. All geometric modeling and tool path functions are fully associative. A change to the model results in an immediate change to corresponding tool paths. NCL is ideally suited for multi-axis machining applications and environments where design changes are frequent.

NUMERICAL CONTROL COMPUTER SCIENCES (NCCS)
Numerical Control Computer Sciences (NCCS) has been an international supplier of Computer Aided Manufacturing software and services for over 25 years. As a recognized leader in software solutions for multi-axis machining applications, its flagship product NCL is used throughout the world.