Software Uses Specialized 5-Axis Features

Key New Features & Enhancements

• Improved Support for Swiss-style Machining – Rendering for toolpath verification and simulation will now include guide bushings and provide more accurate visualization of Swiss-style parts.
• Mill Feature – Users will be able to assign certain machining attributes directly to part features, allowing them to save and reuse knowledge-based-machining information for families of parts or similar-part machining. Handling new parts and part changes will be quick and easy, with a single mouse click.
• Surface Flow – Improved machining strategies for solids machining include an improved algorithm to handle most nonplanar fillets and other blended faces for better surface finish and smoother, more efficient toolpath.
• Profiler Modes – The Profiler, frequently used to inspect part models, find hidden features, and develop cross sections for turning or milling, will add slicing of spun bodies, silhouettes, and cylinders to its slicing function.
• Drilling and Thread Milling Patterns – Users will be able to place Drilling and Thread Milling in patterns. Pre-mill drilling of patterned milling operations will automatically recognize and execute Drilling and Thread Milling patterns.
• Lathe Threading & Thread Whirling – Users will be able to define lathe threads from any valid shape, including shapes that contain arcs or splines. Thread Whirling will accept arcs and splines as input, and generate threaded arcs as output.
• Lathe Plunge Roughing – Improvements to Lathe Plunge Roughing will result in toolpaths that remove more material, in less time, with reduced tool wear.

The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM, and also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling.

It is Compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Certified for Windows Vista, with data exchange capabilities that are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Program, is a Siemens Solution Partner Program-PLM for Solid Edge product, and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product.

This software is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers, including GE Fanuc, Infimatic, Siemens, Doosan Infracore, DMG / Mori Seiki, Haas, Index, MAG, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Okuma and Tornos. Gibbs and Associates distributes its products worldwide through a network of international Resellers. www.GibbsCAM.com, www.cimatron.com