Dolphin CAD CAM

Partmaster Lathe Main Features include:

• Supports 2 Axis Lathes with either a rear or front turret or toolpost, also lathes with a cross slide configuration, Sliding head machines are also supported
• Supports Bar feeders, pullers, and part catchers, Automatic Chuck Open/Close and programmable tailstocks
• Multiple Tooling Databases with user configurable tools
• Tool Types: Turn - Face - Groove - Trepan (Face Groove) - Boring Bar - Thread - Drill - Ream - Bore - Tap
• Display Tool Center Line or Complete Tool Animation with Tool Holder etc.
• Canned Cycles for Facing and Turning (G71 & G72)
• Automatic Area Clearance between billet and finished profile
• Facility for defining stock such as a casting or forged blank
• Canned Cycles for drilling, tapping, boring, reaming, and threading (parallel or tapered)
• Grooving cycles for face and diameter with options for lip and root chamfers or fillets
• One hit machining with Grooving tools, the groove tool can be used to rough and finish in a single operation.  Works on any shape
• Part surface programming
• Constant surface speed control
• Cycle time estimates
• RS232 Comms With Drip Feed
• Operator Set-Up Sheets show tooling required and machining sequence

Machine from a casting to a finished profile
PartMaster allows you to define ANY shape that represents the stock material; you can then machine only the material between the stock and the finished profile. An easy to use yet very powerful function.

Many options such as grooving, threading and facing off require no geometry input at all, just define the  Z, X, start and finish points and specify any options.

Boring Intricate profiles with in Partmaster Lathe
The system allows you to area clear a bore by indicating the start and finish points and a "check"  
surface. Because PartMaster knows the tool tip geometry it will not allow the tool to "overcut" the check surface.

Different finishing allowances can be specified in Z and X. The profile can then be finished machined with a boring tool or a grooving type tool.

Thread Machining in Partmaster Lathe
Machining threads is simplicity itself, you simply define the start and end coordinates and enter the  required data using the dialog shown below. The thread may be parallel or tapered, internal or external.

Using a Groove type tool you can even produce square Acme type threads.

Full Toolpath Animation showing stock removal