Port Expert – Axsys Incorporated

Facilitating toolpath generation for CNC cylinder head porting

Port Expert

Mastercam Port Expert facilitates toolpath generation for CNC cylinder head porting. It is a fast and easy-to-use software for creating multiaxis toolpaths within cylinder head ports, complex tubes, or deep pockets. This software creates accurate, efficient porting motion on surface patches or solid body data. It minimizes unnecessary motion at the machine, which results in a highly efficient toolpath with superior finish quality.

Toolpath motion can be limited to either end of a port or allowed inside both ends of a port, meeting in the middle. When cutting from both ends of a port, there is an integrated link move between the cuts, as well a seamless transition where the two cuts meet.
Port Expert creates finishing motion that runs parallel to, or perpendicular to the flow direction.
Port Expert works seamlessly with Mastercam Mill 3D and Mastercam Router 3D.

Simply define the port shape and any geometry to avoid, then configure your tool and machining parameters. Port Expert does the rest!

Accurate and efficient Porting Motion

The Port Expert add-on for Mastercam creates accurate, efficient engine cylinder head porting toolpaths on port surface or solid data. Port Expert uses a lollipop tool, and has collision checks for the entire tool (shank, arbor, and holder).

The Port Expert toolpaths use three-axis machining as far into the port as possible, and then convert automatically to five-axis motion with minimum tilt. This prevents fishtails and inefficient reverse moves, and smoothly transitions where the toolpaths meet at the middle of the port

Common Applications

Cylinder Head Manufacturers

Racing Teams

Engine Builders

Aerospace

Education

Features

dynamic
Roughing

Create highly efficient roughing motion with Dynamic Motion™ toolpaths, or traditional offset-based roughing motion.

Collission
Avoidance

Checks for collisions between the tool and workpiece. It automatically tilts the tool to eliminate collisions while keeping tool motion as efficient as possible.

Ease of use

Programmers will appreciate the simple user interface and intuitive approach to efficient toolpath Generation.

Efficiency

Create the same efficient tool motion using one smooth single drive surface or with hundreds of reverse-engineered drive surfaces stitched together.

Intelligent
Motion

Regardless of the user’s choice of a 4-axis or 5-axis machine, Port Expert will minimize wasted machine movement by remaining in 3-axis mode for as long as possible.