ONGAA CAM for Wood CNCs

Vacuum loss while machining is a real problem. Vacuum drops with each pierce and cut. Since the coefficient of friction is based on the area of the part, smaller parts are the most affected. Unfortunately, the lateral force applied only varies by material and feed so what was ok for large parts may not work at all for small parts.

Step one is to ensure that there are no machine vacuum leaks and than the spoilboard edges are seals etc. Here are several strategies that will help with the movement problem. Two of these strategies try to conserver vacuum for when it needed most and the third reduced the force feed.

Option 1: Conserve vacuum by not cutting through the material.

Leave an ‘onion skin’ to reduce the amount of air passing through the spoilboard. Parts hold more firmly. Two passed are required to fully cut the parts. The … Read the rest

ONGAA CAM for Holzer (or any NC-HOPS machine) is available.

The initial release provides all the basic operations, V Drill, H Drill, V Mill, V Saw and V Pocket. Horizontal operations are included in the next phase and will include H Mill and H Pocket.

ONGAA CAM Nest is available now.

The final phase will be to include all A+C axis functions; Drill, Mill, Pocket and Saw.… Read the rest

New with ONGAA CAM – for Homag, V 1.3.44 is the PNX file export capability during Nesting and Assembly level MPR generation.

PNX files are intended for integrating Panel Saw Optimization with CutRite / MagiCut.

As stated in the PNX format specification, the file contains the following fields with comma separators:

• Part Code
• Material Code
• Length
• Width
• Quantity
• % Over
• % Under
• Grain
• EdgeCode
• L1 Edgeband
• L2 Edgeband
• W1 Edgeband
• W2 Edgeband
• InfoBox1
• InfoBox2
• InfoBox3
• InfoBox4

Fields from L1 Edgeband to InfoBox4 are filled from Solidworks Custom properties, where all other fields are filled from ONGAA CAM data properties.

The actual format including which fields to shown is configurable (order and whether shown or not) which allows ONGAA CAM to integrate with other applications / process streams using only one format.

The intended usage is as follows: 

A model is created in Solidworks … Read the rest

The latest version of ONGAA CAM specifically designed for G-Code driven machines has been released.

Vertical Drilling, Vertical Milling and Vertical Pockets provide the functionality required by most for wood panel machining.

In addition, Nesting makes the process of panel machine complete, with both assembly based and batch based nesting.

Labels can be created for automated placement as well as manually placement.

A standalone G-Code visualization tool allows you to preview both individual parts and nested sheets before machining.

Currently released:

Syntec Controller
Fanuc OM