CAD/CAM

Automatic Detection And Repair Of Self-Intersecting Geometry

Another Step Toward CAM Automation

A CAD/CAM software provider has taken an important step that will enable CNC machine tool users to benefit from emerging data-communications standards designed to promote a truly “paperless” manufacturing environment. The key is a STEP AP224 interface.

Making The Most Of Production Time

Real-Time Analysis Quickens Design Process

Employee-Driven Software Purchase Saves Time, Money

Ideas about new ways of doing things don't always come from the upper tiers of management. At this facility, a CAD package that a shop floor employee had been using for home projects transformed the company's design process.

User Interface Features Single Graphics Environment

Get Better Before You Get Bigger

Rather than making a major new machine tool purchase just yet, this shop is finding additional capacity on the equipment it already has. What once was a vertical machining center will become a flexible automated production center for unattended machining.

An Alternate Route For Generating An Alternate Tool Path

A universal toolpath engine for roughing pockets optimizes cycle times by maintaining a constant material removal rate regardless of part geometry. This toolpath engine is not a CAM system. Instead, users pay a monthly fee to upload geometries to a secure Internet server and quickly receive tool paths that can be used with any CAM system.

CAM Software Linked To Machine Simulation Package

CAM Software Delivers Faster Punching Times