Ease, speed, efficiencyĪt SolidWorks World 2013, Aughinbaugh demonstrated a SolidWorks part with pockets and other complex features. SolidWorks users also benefit from the user interface, making it easy for designers and manufacturing professionals to learn, and to use, Gibbs claimed. This makes programming faster and results in more accurate parts produced more quickly. When an updated part file is transferred into GibbsCAM, it identifies changed features automatically and updates all machining processes “with one or two clicks,” according to the developer. GibbsCAM has numerous new capabilities that allow “seamless integration” with SolidWorks, notably its new automation functionality, GibbsCAM Feature Manager, which reads and preserves features from SolidWorks files.įeature Manager will make it possible for NC programmers to read features from the SolidWorks Feature Tree, such as extrusions, patterns, and revolved features, easily identify and select areas for machining, and apply machining processes required to make the part.Ī singular benefit to users is GibbsCAM’s ability to handle the engineering changes that require modifying a part. In addition to being a SolidWorks Certified CAM product, GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Program and is a Siemens Solution Partner Program-PLM for Solid Edge product. It is compatible with Windows 7 and certified for Windows Vista, and GibbsCAM’s data exchange capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. It also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. The GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. Aughinbaugh demonstrated how GibbsCAM uses “knowledge-based machining” to read SolidWorks part features automatically, and machine them with just a mouse click. Steve Aughinbaugh, an applications engineer for the CAM software developer made a presentation at that event, “Machining SolidWorks Features,” emphasizing the program’s simplification of machining solids created in SolidWorks. Gibbs and Associates reports that its GibbsCAM software is optimized for machining parts designed in SolidWorks ®, developments that it introduced at the recent SolidWorks World 2013 Conference.
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