Article From: 8/28/2006 Production Machining
Bob-CAD-CAM's new version 22 2D and 3D CAD/CAM system has been rebuilt from the ground up. It provides a new user-friendly interface, fully associative job tree for managing jobs from start to finish, user definable operation sequences, complete tool and material libraries as well as pre-definable composite operation sets all geared towards giving the operator ultimate control and improved automation. The job tree offers capabilities for reordering operations or simply turning operations on or off as needed when posting to the machine. V22 achieves advancements, according to the company, in 3D tool path for models that include an equidistant offset contour toolpath operation that allows you to maintain an equal tool step over no matter what the surface topology is.
