ICAM Releases Virtual Machine V18 Featuring Material Removal

By DE Editors

ICAM Technologies Corporation has released Virtual Machine V18, the latest version of its machine tool simulation solution. Version 18 supports material removal/verification capabilities for in-process stock collision and gouge detection within a simulated machining environment.

Implementing Virtual Machine with CAM-POST, ICAM’s NC post-processing development and deployment product, provides a graphical NC post-processing and machine simulation workbench that enables NC programmers to optimize and test programs during post-processing. The benefit to the end-user is the ability to maximize machine productivity while increasing manufacturing process efficiency.

Virtual Machine’s material removal/verification feature,  available for 3-axis and 5-axis machining applications, allows NC programmers to compare the processed stock model to the original CAD/CAM design. Virtual Machine computes in-process stock geometry to identify, list and display surface gouges, excess material, inaccessible areas and rapid-motion collisions at any time during the post-processing and verification phase.

Other new and enhanced Virtual Machine V18 features include:

• New tool definition and functions to support probe simulation.
• Head attachments can now be defined, modeled and loaded/unloaded during simulation.
• New component grouping feature simplifies model definition and utilization.
• Improved collision detection definition.
• Better control over “time-line” playback function.
• It is now possibile to compare differences between two revisions of a model.
 

ICAM’s complete NC manufacturing product line including Virtual Machine V18 is now available for 64-bit processors and supports Windows Vista. The ICAM database supports extended model names and virtually unlimited saved model revisions.

Download a video demonstration as 25MB zip file.

For more information, visit ICAM Technologies Corporation.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.