Mastercam's Blade Expert add-on simplifies the toolpath creation process for any multi-bladed parts, including fans, propellers, impellers, turbines and marine screws. Its aim is to eliminate guesswork and minimise the need for extra geometry creation.
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Vortex and Machine DNA from Delcam are claimed to be revolutionary roughing technologies and able to shave up to 60% off machining time. The new technology will feature as part of forthcoming versions of PowerMILL, FeatureCAM, Delcam for SolidWorks and PartMaker and will be demonstrated at the MACH exhibition – Birmingham NEC, 16-20 April - on stand 4011.
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Open Mind Technologies has developed machining strategies for its 2011 version hyperMill CAM system, so integrated hyperCAD/hyperMill now supports tool and mould makers right from importing item data to NC program post-processing.
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Citizen Machinery's CNC Wizard, a low-cost NC programming aid, can now be used to program Miyano fixed-head machines, as well as Citizen CNC sliding-head turn-mill lathes.
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SigmaNEST Version 9 nesting software significantly enhances the user interface and provides key functionality to get to production faster with fewer steps. This release introduces a highly intuitive user interface, while reducing screen clutter and number of clicks to an action.
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ZW3D 2012, formerly VX CAD CAM, promises significant improvements in many areas, with a special focus on increased modelling efficiency and advanced CAM operations, as well as the new ribbon interface.
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A 'latticework ball', submitted by the Japanese firm Inaba Engineer, machined on a DMG DMU 40 monoBLOCK 5-axis machining centre and programmed with Open Mind's hyperMILL CADCAM system, won the gold medal in Mori Seiki 'Cutting Dream Contest 2011' in the Design/Prototyping category.
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Metalcutting and composite machine CNC program simulation software expert CGTech reports significant international growth in 2011, with revenue increasing around 30% across the globe, and with all CGTech world-wide companies reporting positive growth against 2010 figures.
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Delcam's PartMaker division has released PartMaker 2012 which supports a number of the architectures found on today's latest bar-fed mills and turn-mill centres and has been developed in co-operation with a number of the industry's leading machine-tool builders. It includes support for such novel machine tool architectures as the Star SF and Mori-Seiki NTX, where the sub-spindle can work at articulated positions in addition to the articulation of these machines' tool head in the B-axis plane.
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ProtoTRAK, which is programmed via 'plain English' prompts, was developed by Southwestern Industries in California more than 25 years ago and is fitted exclusively to the XYZ range of CNC/manual machines.
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Geomagic, developer of 3D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, has launched 2012 versions of Geomagic Studio, Geomagic Wrap, Geomagic Qualify, Geomagic Qualify Probe and Geomagic Wrap OEM Edition.
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Delcam's 2012 version of its integrated CAM system for SolidWorks includes programming of 2D wire EDM for the first time together with comprehensive options for the programming of turning, mill-turn, drilling and 2 to 5-axis milling. Four-axis wire functionality is planned for Delcam for SolidWorks 2012 R2, due for release in January 2012.
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Delcam's 2012 version of its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system incorporates enhancements that both make programming faster and easier and make toolpaths more efficient for greater machine productivity.
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Open Mind Technologies UK will be demonstrating its new hyperMILL 2011 CAM software on Stand 611 at the Aero Engineering 2011 exhibition, held at the Birmingham NEC from the 9 to 10, including toolpath optimisation capability hyperMAXX..
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Machinery recently covered milling NC toolpath optimisation in depth (See here), but another CAM company, SolidCAM, is now promoting its solution more heavily in the UK, with a series of forthcoming demonstrations of the process now underway. Andrew Allcock reports
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Andrew Allcock attended Delcam's regular press update, this year held in Milan, to get a broad overview of the company's business and product developments (extended online article)
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Vero's CAM system has been used to program the milling of a helical form on a circular spigot. It is shown here being machined on a 5-axis vertical machining centre.
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