CAM Software Blog

Extracting an electrode – it should be easy, shouldn’t it?

For companies producing a lot of electrodes the speed and ease of manufacture is of vital importance. Thankfully most design data comes as a solid or surface model and, with hybrid modeling, which can work with both types of data in the same environment, extracting the geometry and turning it into an electrode is easy [...]

Collision Avoidance or Detection? (Part 2)

Automatic Avoidance is always better than detection. In the last Blog Post, there was discussion about collision avoidance and detection, especially as automatic avoidance relates to 5-axis machining. Today we will look at collision avoidance earlier in the process, during roughing. Difference between Collision Detection and Avoidance. Collision detection is when your CNC CAM software [...]

CNC – Collision avoidance or collision detection?

For 5-axis applications not only does the CADCAM software have to consider actual collisions with the tool and the tool holder, but also the kinematics of the machine tool itself. For 3-axis machining the concern is mainly the tool length and holder ensuring that it can get into each part of the job without a [...]