Many companies today claim they are faster and much more accurate but the most successful manufacturing companies today are using integrated CAD/CAM systems to reduce costs and get products to market faster.

InventorCAM is completely integrated inside today’s leading CAD solution, Autodesk Inventor. Due to its integration, all machining strategies are defined without ever leaving the CAD environment, using the full functionality of Autodesk Inventor when defining the CAM operations. Autodesk Inventor+InventorCAM CAD/CAM Solution is an easy to use, powerful pairing of applications that has a low initial investment and a short ROI timetable.

With the single-window integration of InventorCAM in Autodesk Inventor, all machining operations can be defined, calculated and verified without leaving the parametric Inventor environment. All 2D and 3D geometries used for machining are fully associative to the Inventor design model. If you do any changes to your Inventor model, all your CAM operations will be automatically updated.

The powerful geometry selection and creation tools found within your design environment are augmented by additional tools in InventorCAM. The combination of these tools minimizes the time spent selecting areas to be machined. The user works in assembly mode so he can simply pull components from a library to the model including machine tables, fixtures, and vises.
 
The full associativity with the Inventor design reduces errors when the model changes and facilitates the process when updates are received for models already machined.

InventorCAM HSM is a very powerful and market-proven high-speed-machining module (HSM) for molds, tools and dies and complex 3D parts. The HSM module offers unique machining and linking strategies for generating high-speed toolpaths.

Simultaneous 5-axis machining is becoming more and more popular due to the need for reduced machining times, better surface finish and improved life span of tools. InventorCAM provides intelligent and powerful 5-axis machining strategies, including swarfing and trimming, for machining of complex geometry parts including mold cores and cavities, aerospace parts, cutting tools, cylinder heads, turbine blades and impellers. InventorCAM provides a realistic simulation of the complete machine tool, enabling collision checking between the tool and the machine components.

Manufacturing can be automated through the use of the built-in knowledge database. This database is not a static template, but it can be dynamically driven by changes in tools, geometry and strategies.

When using InventorCAM, there is no loss of data or other problems with translation that tend to plague stand- alone CAM software packages. Because InventorCAM is truly associative, changes to the design are automatically updated through to the tool path.

The hallmarks of InventorCAM are its ease-of-use combined with its powerful CAM functionality and customized post-processors that generate ready-to-go CNC-code.

InventorCAM is used in the mechanical manufacturing, electronics, consumer products, medical, machine design, automotive and aerospace industries, in mold, tool and die and rapid prototyping shops.

About SolidCAM LTD.

Founded in 1984 by its Managing Director Dr. Emil Somekh , SolidCAM Ltd. provides manufacturing customers with a full powerful suite of CAM software modules for 2.5D and 3D Milling, High-Speed Machining, Multi-sided Indexial 4/5 axes Milling, Simultaneous 5 axes Milling, Turning, Turn-Mill up to 5-axes and WireEDM. SolidCAM Ltd. is the leader in integrated CAM and provides the highest level of CAD integration, with seamless, single-window integration and full associativity to the CAD model. The integration ensures the automatic update of tool paths for CAD revisions. InventorCAM powers up the user’s CAD system into the best integrated CAD/CAM solution. SolidCAM Ltd. has today more than 14,500 seats installed. The company has been on a very rapid growth path since it implemented its CAD integration strategy.

 

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 11:35 am and is filed under News.