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Article: CAM cuts crucial design time: five new software techniques speed manufacturing. (CAD/CAM Software).(computer aided manufacturing)
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- Design News
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- November 18, 2002
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NEWTON, MA -- Even the best-designed parts and molds are useless until they're actually built. Yet importing CAD files, writing CNC code, and massaging the results can take days of valuable time. Now five advances in CAM software could help speed the process of transforming digital designs into tangible parts.
One solution is Delcam's (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) PowerSHAPE and Power-MILL software, which enabled a South African company to generate tool-path codes and "send the results directly to our various CNC machines without even verifying them."
Novate Industries (Johannesburg, SA) makes tooling for complex plastic and cast components, such as pool ...