SmartCAM V14.5 Improves Solid Machining

By DE Editors

SmartCAMcnc (Springfield, OR) announced SmartCAM V14.5, which is said to significantly modernize SmartCAM's macro language, and builds on to its ability to work with solids, visualization, and usability themes found in the SmartCAM product family.

In addition to SmartCAM's existing computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) applications for milling, turning, fabrication, and wire EDM, in V14.5 the macro language offers dynamic arrays, simpler string construction, and additional branching capabilities. New macro commands are designed to solve specific programming needs. V 14.5 also provides the opportunity for additional customization capabilities to be added in future releases.

V 14.5 demonstrates SmartCAMcnc's established commitment to solids machining: added to FreeForm Machining is the ability to create a solid model from a set of stitched surfaces. Continuing on with the machining from solids improvements of V14.5, several new geometry modeling tools and selection techniques are provided: a new arc/line poly line fit function allows prismatic edge geometry to be extracted from an entire surface/solid model and new curve extraction tools allow 4th axis tool paths to be created using the edge data of 3D wrapped features (advanced products only).

Additional topological selection methods allow simple selection of an entire solid, and provide options to select all faces connected to the current selection set, or only those that are tangent.

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