ONGAA CAM – Meeting the challenges of Computer Aided Manufacturing
Automating manufacturing comes with a long list of questions. The question that follows ‘Which CNC machine to buy?’is usually followed by ‘How do get from my drawing to the CNC making parts ?’.
Each CNC vendor has a basic solution for that. Type in all the numbers by hand …. or at least try to type them in (correctly).
If the ‘program’will never change and will make several million units,then this simple process is cost effective enough. But what about the smaller manufacturer? 2-10 Units a year (of that size and shape). Manually typing in each number for every size is just not practical.
If you use a 3D modeling program like SOLIDWORKS then adjusting the size of a ‘Model’is relatively simple. If there was only a way to attach the processing information to the Solidworks Model. That way the processing stretches as my model does. Even better …why not … Read the rest
