GibbsCAM integrates Sandvik Coromant Adveon ISO 13399 tool library
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GibbsCAM is to sell its product with Sandvik Coromant's Adveon Tool Library software integrated.
Adveon holds data in compliance with ISO 13399, which defines cutting tool data representation and exchange. Adoption of this standard allows for the accurate exchange of tooling data among computer aided applications that support and adhere to the standard, including CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, PLM and tool management systems.
Users can quickly and easily create tool assemblies, see immediate representations in 2D and 3D, and use them for simulation with GibbsCAM's integrated Cut Part Rendering and Machine Simulation. GibbsCAM is sold in the UK through Tech CADCAM.
Gibbs and Associates, a Cimatron company, will begin marketing Adveon integrated with GibbsCAM immediately, and begin shipping it with the GibbsCAM 2015 release. Adveon will initially support milling tools, and incorporate turning tools when the data becomes available. GibbsCAM users with current software maintenance will receive Adveon free of charge.
The Adveon Tool Library provides three inter-related functions. First, a specially formatted library (based upon ISO 13319) allows customers to download or enter data for tooling items, including tool holders, adapters, cutting tools and inserts, to create a master catalogue. A second function enables users to collect and categorise the various tooling items they use, while the third allows them to quickly and easily create tool assemblies from these components. Applications that support the standard, can then access the cutting tool assemblies without further searching or definition.
Says Robb Weinstein, senior vice president of sales and strategic planning of Gibbs and Associates: "We applaud Sandvik's leadership and initiative in implementing ISO 13399 with Adveon, and look forward to our partnership in delivering a great time-saving solution to manufacturers everywhere.
"Adveon is a perfect fit with GibbsCAM, which has the inherent ability to associate specific tools with machining processes and the parts and part features the tools cut, to facilitate fast CNC programming and even faster engineering changes."
