TubeWorks V2.6 from Unison aids bending and cutting
A newly developed version (2.6) of TubeWorks tube bending CADCAM software provides tubular metal fabricators with pre-production tools for laser cutting as well as tube bending. It is available in the UK exclusively from Unison.
TubeWorks is a specialist add-in module for the SolidWorks CAD package. By combining visualisation capabilities with automatic code extraction and file generation, the software enables metal fabricators to increase productivity through optimal use of manufacturing data, says Unison. The time that it takes to develop programs for CNC tube bending and laser tube cutting machines, for example, is typically reduced from hours to just minutes, it is claimed.
For tube bending, the software automatically extracts key manufacturing information such as bend angles and rotations from a native SolidWorks model or a common CAD file and creates the bend table, XYZ co-ordinates and a 2D drawing of the modelled tube.
