CNC Programming Automation to be Featured at SOLIDWORKS World 2015
January 14, 2015Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron company, will participate at the SOLIDWORKS World 2015 Conference with a presentation and booth demonstrations of GibbsCAM software's optimization for machining parts designed in SOLIDWORKS. GibbsCAM is a SOLIDWORKS Certified CAM Product that provides seamless integration with SOLIDWORKS. Gibbs was selected to give a presentation called "Manufacturing Complex Solid Models with GibbsCAM," to be delivered by Steve Aughinbaugh, a GibbsCAM applications engineer, on Monday, February 9, 2015, from 6:45 PM to 7:00 PM. The presentation will highlight GibbsCAM's integration with SOLIDWORKS, and demonstrate the use of automation features of both products to read a complex part from SOLIDWORKS and program it for machining with GibbsCAM. Aughinbaugh will demonstrate the ease of programming turning, milling, mill-turning and drilling operations on a multitasking machine, and finish with full simulation of the machining process. In addition to the presentation, GibbsCAM demonstrations will be available in Booth 525 of the Partner Pavilion. The conference runs February 8 - 11, 2015, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ.
Aughinbaugh's presentation will be centered on GibbsCAM's MTM and Machine Simulation for programming, simulating and verifying multitask machining (MTM) operations in making parts designed in SOLIDWORKS. He will demonstrate how GibbsCAM directly reads SOLIDWORKS part models, preserving features and attributes, and use these to identify, organize and select features for machining. The use of a complex part - a cylindrical part with flat areas, pockets, holes and compound holes - for the presentation will enable Aughinbaugh to demonstrate the ease and speed of GibbsCAM's CNC programming for various different operations required to machine parts. Use of a complex machine for programming and simulation will enable him to highlight GibbsCAM's new underlying architecture, the Universal Kinematic Machine engine, which allows programming and simulating machine tools of any configuration, simple or complex. His presentation will finish with simulation of the entire machining process, including the machine tool, its moving components, tool blocks and cutting tools as they make the part.
Inherent to the presentation will be GibbsCAM's optimization for SOLIDWORKS, which includes the integration of GibbsCAM's Hole Manager with SOLIDWORKS' Hole Wizard to identify, categorize and machine simple and compound holes, and GibbsCAM's Automatic Feature Recognition and Feature Manager, to read and preserve features from the SOLIDWORKS Feature Tree to identify and select areas for machining. This integration, in combination with other GibbsCAM automation features, is designed to simplify solids machining and provide substantial time savings for the SOLIDWORKS user. GibbsCAM's user interface enables additional productivity from its ease of use and speed of programming.
"The combination of GibbsCAM 2015 and SOLIDWORKS 2015 provides a complete CAD/CAM solution for most manufacturing environments," said a company spokesperson. "Whether parts have simple geometry needing only 2.5-axis milling or 2-axis turning, or complex geometry requiring use of 5-axis machining, MTM or Swiss-style turning centers, the SOLIDWORKS-GibbsCAM combination accommodates and optimizes the machining process. GibbsCAM verifies the toolpaths with gouge detection and interference checking, dynamically and visually simulates them on virtual machine tools, and accurately post-processes them to generate optimal NC programs. GibbsCAM features help users eliminate scrap and reduce cycle times, while they maximize efficiency, safety and profits."
For more information contact:
Yvonne Anderson
Gibbs & Associates
323 Science Dr.
Moorpark, CA 93021-2092
805-523-0004
yvonnea@gibbscam.com
www.gibbscam.com
SOLIDWORKS World 2015 Booth 525
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