Software

Know Your Control

A new training center will enable Heidenhain to support its CNC users by ensuring that they are aware of all that the control can do. The value of some control capabilities don’t become apparent until they are seen in use.

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Bevel Gear Software Eliminates Need for Dedicated Machine

Dontyne Systems’ Bevel Software Production Suite has been expanded to include transmission error with load and roll-check analysis.

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Data-Driven Manufacturing Enabled with Tool Lifecycle Management

This video presents a lively and easy-to-follow scenario of how information about cutting tool availability links design, planning and production. Although TDM's tool lifecycle management software is brought into focus at relevant spots in this video, the larger message that "tool data management will be the control room of digitally controlled production" is sound and compelling.

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Documenting within CNC

Including messages directly in the program can help operators run it accurately.

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Five-Axis

Five-Axis Machining for Multi-Part Processing

Several parts at various orientations in one setup create what would seem to be a programming challenge, but control features make this cycle simple to create.

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CAD/CAM

CAD/CAM Software Eases Turning, Milling, EDM Operations

Edgecam 2016 R1 includes a number of new and updated CAD features and CAM functions for milling, turning and wire EDM, such as new and enhanced strategies, operation options and memory-handling capabilities.

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CNC Enables Four-Axis Turning without CAD/CAM System

The expanded contour machining cycle for Siemens’s Sinumerik controls now facilitates four-axis turning on lathes, enabling two turning tools, opposite one another, to machine a workpiece simultaneously for reduced machining time.

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Calibration System Software Eases Data Capture, Analysis

Renishaw offers its Carto 1.1 software suite free for its calibration systems, including the Capture and Explore applications, which provide data capture and analysis for the XL-80 laser interferometer system.

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CAD/CAM

Thread Milling Software Eases NC Code Generation

OSG says its ThreadPro thread milling NC code generator software is said to eliminate the hassle of having to enter data as text, copy and replace.

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CNC System Can Be Customized for Three Different Operators

Okuma America introduces OSP Suite, an open-architecture CNC system that combines the company’s “Intelligent Technologies” with various software applications to improve cycle and lead times while achieving optimum machine conditions.

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