CAD/CAM
Feature Recognition—The Missing Link To Automated CAM
Software that analyzes design geometry and identifies what is a pocket, a hole, a slot or another machinable shape promises to have a major impact on the productivity of CNC programmers.
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Program Configures Complex Fixtures
Klune Industries is a $30-million, 170-employee job shop that produces products such as bomb racks, missile sections and numerous other complex structural components for both military and commercial aerospace applications.
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Programming Multi-Axis Lathes
You're going to need more than the CAM program you're currently using for your standard CNC lathes and mills.
Read MoreHigh Speed Milling: A Competitive Necessity
The use of high speed milling in moldmaking shops is no longer viewed as merely providing a firm with a competitive advantage. It is a disruptive technology that is becoming a competitive necessity.
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Software Streamlines Mold Production
The design and manufacture of injection mold tooling for plastics connectors can be extremely complicated, with many of the forms, profiles and angles required on these small components being particularly intricate.
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Sparking Better Designs
By automating repetitive splitting and electrode-design work, an Ohio mold and die shop spurs creativity and expands EDM applications.
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Five-Axis Mold Making Software Keeps Tires Rolling
Unless it goes flat, a tire is something most of us take for granted. In fact, the process of making a tire is very specialized and is becoming more sophisticated all the time.
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Machines For Today's Toolrooms
If there's room for improvement in any NC program, this shop addresses the problem once and for all by making the correction in the postprocessor.
Read MoreManufacturing Technology Keeps Knife Company On The Cutting Edge
'While most companies are dealing in thousandths of an inch, we're dealing in tens of thousandths. That's a lot more complex.'
Read MoreFor World's Biggest Statue, CAD/CAM Plays A Crucial Role
The line of CAD/CAM products offered by Delcam (Windsor, Ontario) will play a crucial role in the production of a 500-foot statue of religious figure Maitreya in Bodh Gaya, India. The ambitious, international-scale undertaking is called the Maitreya Project. The hope and goal of this project is for the completed statue to serve as a destination for pilgrims and tourists from around the world.
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