CAD/CAM
Data Translator Eliminates Auto Supplier's Problems In Reading Customer Files
By using the C-TAD Integrator, an automotive supplier is able to convert IGES files produced by the various CAD systems of its customers into a target system without the loss of data.
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Find The Time
This mold shop shows where to look. Faced with tighter lead times, it achieved faster workflow by using existing machinery and manpower in more efficient ways.
Read MoreCAM Means Mission Productivity
The primary mission of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the exploration of the solar system and extend outward to the search for extra-solar planetary systems. Tools such as this software system are brought in at ground level.
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Tying It All Together
This combination product line manufacturer and job shop is a classic example of an environment that calls for a fully integrated CAD/CAM system.
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The Flow Through CAM
The route from CAD to CAM to CNC can meet blockage both upstream and downstream from the programmer. However, this shop cleared away most of the obstacles to efficient electronic transfer just by updating its CAM system. The results include a new level of efficiency and new capabilities for a 10-year-old machine.
Read MoreTranslation Software Translates Into Savings
This precision machine shop faced the prospect of purchasing a $30,000 CATIA workstation to make translations of CATIA models for their CNC programming system, or lose business.
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A Solid Footing
When a manual pattern maker stepped up to CNC machining, he needed a simple way to write tool paths for his complex patterns. He found it. He also found a source of revenue he never anticipated.
Read MoreTaking The Broad View On CAD/CAM Functionality
It is a complete CADD through CAM system that includes the SolidWorks solid modeler, multiple-surface milling, tool path simulation and verification, photorealistic rendering and animation
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Interpolating Curves
The ability to import complex curves into CNCs promises to let shops finally get beyond old limitations imposed by contouring with linear interpolation. Faster and smoother cutting will be the result.
Read MoreNew CAM Technology Links Knowledge And Solid Modeling
Some CAM developers are beginning to integrate the power of solid modeling with intelligent manufacturing applications that "know" how shops want to machine their parts.
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