GibbsCAM 2016 continues to build on the power of the revolutionary UKM technology introduced in GibbsCAM 2015. Its powerful suite of enhancements gives users the flexibility they want along with the control they need. Improvements, which range from milling and turning functionality, to 5-axis milling and multi-axis turning deliver increased efficiency, programming speed, visualization and accuracy.
MILLING
Thread Milling
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Multiple Contour Control
VoluMILL (Wireframe and Solids)
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5-AXIS MILLING
- New pattern type, Flowline, creates U or V aligned toolpath on a single surface without selecting additional bounding geometry
- Extend/Trim now allows Side Extensions in addition to Tangential when extending or trimming surface based toolpaths
- New Mirror Toolpath function available for Surface, Triangle Mesh, Swarf Machining and Wireframe strategies
- New function, Follow Surface Topology, available in Swarf Machining when using multiple slices that allows for stripe milling, which follows the actual curvature of the surfaces, improving toolpath for convex shapes such as gear flanks and pressure sides of impeller blades
- Multi-axis machining now allows multiple floor faces to be selected as the floor surface definition
- 5-Axis Drilling improvements allow users to specify direct or stepped retract moves between holes when using an incremental clearance area
- A new Gouge strategy, Along tool plane, avoids collisions by retracting along a plane normal to the tool axis while retaining tool orientation and height
- Porting option includes new Roll over edge function to extend the toolpath starting cuts and new Auto choices for automatic calculation of radius and/or direction of the Connection cylinder
TURNING, MILL-TURN, and
MULTI-TASK MACHINING (MTM)
Oriented Turning
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DATA EXCHANGE
- ACIS/SAT read/write option is now available free of charge for all licenses that include the 2.5D Solids option
- New option for importing UGS/NX *.prt models using Spatial
- Spatial options for NX, CATIA, and STEP now import Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) data
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