Just received an email with information about some new cad/cam systems or at least some new features. These may be of interest.
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{lots of other neat stuff like a cnc tubing bender and new 5-axis MC}
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software should have forward looking features that allow you to work in a traditional programming approach and to step up into a more organized environment that includes storing process knowledge and corporate experiences.
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SolidSurfacer provides higher-level surface and solid modeling capabilities. Advanced functionality to machine surfaces and solids is also included.
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the plain language command and real-time 3D graphical generation capabilities of Siemens ShopMill and ShopTurn software for off-line programming and simulation routines. These, in turn, keep the company's five-axis work cells with Sinumerik 840D controllers in near continuous operation.
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Jerry Piesch reports that the basic part design files in his 3D FeatureCAM system let him generate toolpaths quickly and easily without needing to create part programs from scratch for each new order.
Enjoy
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).