![]() ![]() The end result of all of this automation is a net speed gain. Thanks to this element, the cutting toolpaths that are generated automatically can more faithfully reflect the need of a complex part. This element provides a way to assign different tolerance ranges to different features, and also to specify which machining strategies are to be used for each tolerance range. It recognises that different features may have different tolerances, so achieving closer tolerances requires different tools, feeds and speeds to those employed to cut a feature having wider tolerances. It applies pre-set parameters to process the features found in the model in the previous step to create machining operations – including tools, speeds and feeds.įinally, a new CAMWorks element called ‘tolerance-based machining’ increases the sophistication of the process. This employs a technology database that aims to capture programming practices. Video: įourth is another existing CAMWorks element that provides automation – ‘knowledge-based machining’. During the automatic feature recognition process, CAMWorks finds all of the machineable features in the annotated 3D model it can apparently recognise 20 different types of features.ĬAMWorks 2016 reads GD&T data on a SolidWorks 3D model and selects cutting paths based on features’ pre-set tolerance ranges. The third element involves an automated step that is not new. Says CAMWorks’ Marc Bissel: “The combination of Solidworks and CAMWorks allows the design and manufacturing models to become one and the same.” It automatically translates the different upper and lower tolerances specified by designers for features, such as press fits, into mean figures suitable for machining. The second element, also new, helps to overcome a niggly problem in this process that bridges a gap between design and manufacturing engineering. Earlier this year, CAMWorks 2016 was augmented to be able to extract those data, called MBD or ‘model-based definitions’. ![]() Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) information that might normally be found on a 2D drawing has, for some time, been able to be added into a Solidworks 3D model, using the standard DimXPert functionality. Some are brand new some not.įirst is a development in Solidworks 3D CAD, with which CAMWorks can link, as the latter’s developer is a certified gold partner of Solidworks (also available from New Technology CADCAM). This solution rests on five different technology innovations, each of which accomplishes a small part of the whole. ![]() Starting from an annotated Solidworks 3D part model, it will identify features and generate a toolpath, choosing speeds, feeds and tools. One of the more dramatic product claims heard recently comes from Geometrics, developers of CAMWorks 2016 (New Technology CADCAM 01844 295 235), which states that CAMWorks automates the machine tool programming process. ![]()
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