25.03.2019 DEVELOP3D Review: Edgecam 2019 Since Hexagon took over the Vero portfolio, things have moved on apace. Al Dean takes a look at the latest updates to its production machining-focused Edgecam. From its origins as a 3-axis focused production CAM system, Hexagon’s Edgecam has come a long way in recent years.

14.03.2019 Manufacturing Intelligence: Hexagon’s CEO is the New King of CAM He is building a “manufacturing intelligence empire”. The goal is to cover major aspects of the smart factory and manufacturing concepts. In fact, Ola Rollén, chief executive officer of Hexagon, owner of CAE player MSC, could be considered the new global king of CAM.

18.02.2019 CAD/CAM Integration: what's the right choice for you? If you are involved with CNC machines, you are probably involved with CNC programming and CAD/CAM systems. The biggest change in recent times for the CAD/CAM industry lies with the term "integration". Integration plays a very important role in the future of CAD/CAM products. There have been big workstation integrated CAD/CAM systems around for many years. They provide CAD and CAM integration by providing all pieces from the same company.

28.01.2019 Sheet Metal Manufacturing Industry Trends for 2019 This has been a good year in metal fabrication and manufacturing and we head into 2019 with optimism. Here are some of the trends we expect to shape not only the next year but the future of industry.

17.01.2019 Managing change: 5 steps you can follow Since all companies will at least at some point deal with some kind of change – and to guide them through the implementation of a production solution, which allows them to collect data in real-time through mobile devices, we have collected five simple steps that you might take into account when preparing your change management

20.12.2018 The Journey: DXF to G-Code The in-house CAD/CAM software of the sheet metal fabricator has to be able to import or read these files and convert them to file types the in-house software can use. The .dxf (Drawing Exchange Format) CAD file type is a common type of input file for the fabrication of sheet metal parts and other file types are often converted to dxf before further processing.

07.12.2018 How to Plan for and Invest in a New CAD/CAM System The increased functionality of today’s CAM and CAD/CAM systems is too great to ignore, and includes high-efficiency machining techniques such as trochoidal milling and chip thinning.

12.11.2018 The benefits of becoming a digital machine shop Information already drives the machine tool industry to a certain extent, but in today’s digitalized world, managing and sharing knowledge is fast becoming a critical competitive advantage. Unfortunately, at traditionally run machine shops, that knowledge resides in spreadsheets and multiple software systems, and is shared among process owners on thumb drives, paper and other uncontrolled file systems.  Let us discuss what can be done to eliminate this.

29.10.2018 The Impact of Optimizing Tool Path in CNC Punching Sheet metal software can help save time and make sheet metal fabrication more efficient by automating routine jobs and by calculating the best and fastest way to accomplish cutting and punching. The tool path optimization features can reduce time spent punching sheet metal by up to 50 percent or more through a mathematical optimization process based on tool path length.

24.09.2018 The best CNC Programmers also know how to edit Post Processors The Post Processor is the fundamental link between the work you do inside your CAM system, and the machine that is removing the metal. Without a properly formatted post processor, you must resort to making hand-edits to your NC code. This is an error-prone and dangerous process. Making hand-edits to your NC code breaks the link between the CAM program, and the code being run on the machine.

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