CAD/CAM

When Probing Is Pivotal

Software for using the probe at angles expands the productive capabilities of this plant’s five-axis machine.

Constant Material Removal: The Key To Hard Milling

Features of the CAM software can keep the cut from exceeding the tool’s limits, without compromising part quality or productivity.

Turning Ideas Into Parts

To get maximum leverage from its manufacturing know-how, Krieger Machine, a CNC shop in Stuart, Florida, draws on all of its software resources - CAD, CAM and shopfloor programming. The shop relies on KeyCreator from Kubotek as its main CAD resource. Mastercam from CNC Software is its main CAM resource. On the shop floor, conversational programming on the Hurco vertical machining centers proves to be another vital resource. All three systems help the shop succeed as a reliable producer of precision parts for a variety of industries.

CAM Software For Probing

Software for creating probing routines off-line promises to make machine tool probing easier to use. As a few examples show, different software providers look at this off-line programming in different ways.

CNC Milling Software

Making It In Medical Machining

Examining this shop's healthy medical machining business shows that both medical components and medical customers require special care.

Slashing Programming Time For Similar Parts

There’s no reinventing the wheel for this shop! It saves machining programs in a knowledge base for use on future jobs.

The Process Before The Program

CAM automation can change the very focus of the programmer’s attention. Reduced programming time is only one of the benefits.

Plugging Into Tombstone Productivity

Customized software helps this machine tool builder maximize the output of its horizontal machining centers.

You Can Automate More Than You Think

This shop expedites 3D milling work by reducing its dependence on employees for all of the information-related tasks that occur before the machining center can start to cut.