Because it uses data from the CAM model, companies can achieve repeat accuracy and company-wide consistency. The system enables companies to reduce calculation time and calculate costing of components based on the actual NC code of a part.
Solidline CAMculator supports the automation and costing of parts for up to five-axis simultaneous machining. CAMculator uses data from the CAM model to calculate cycle time, which can be used to ultimately program and calculate the cost of an entire component. The company says that traditional costing is calculated using old stock, estimated values or trial programming.
Solidline CAMculator is designed to optimize costing to save time and labor. HCL CAMWorks says support for barrel tools expands the technologies available within integrated CAD/CAM to accelerate production and streamline machining.The German PLM systems company Solidline GmbH expands its CAM solution offerings to the USA through a partnership with HCL Technologies, makers of CAMWorks, and the release of Solidline CAMculator. CAMWorks will notify the user if the tool geometry falls outside the defined parameters. Options for maximum diameter and corner radius of the barrel tools are also included in this new HCL CAMWorks Version 2022. Barrel tools can also be filtered, identified and added to the user-specific tool cribs in CAMWorks. With the new Barrel Tool interface in HCL CAMWorks Version 2022, users can now view, edit and save barrel tools in the CAMWorks Technology Database (TechDB). Barrel tools reduce cycle times for finish and semi-finish milling operations with increased stepdown into the material with each pass, and due to their unique tool geometry, also provide improved surface finish with fewer cutting passes. As demand increases for lightweight components with higher surface finishes, barrel tools are leveraged by shops to improve productivity and surface finish of machined parts. CAMWorks now supports standard, conical tangent, tapered, lens and advanced user-defined barrel tools utilized in CNC milling operations.Īccording to the company, barrel tool support was added in direct response to CAMWorks customer feedback and is beneficial for moldmakers and manufacturers of complex parts in industries such as automotive and aerospace. HCL Technologies announces the addition of barrel tool support in HCL CAMWorks Version 2022.
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