Program your manufacturing processes with CAD / CAM software

Com­put­er-aid­ed design and com­put­er-aid­ed man­u­fac­tur­ing refers to com­put­er soft­ware that is used to both design and man­u­fac­ture prod­ucts. CAD/CAM appli­ca­tions are used for both design­ing a prod­uct and pro­gram­ming man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es like machin­ing. The CAD soft­ware cre­ates mod­els and assem­blies that are used by the CAM por­tion to gen­er­ate tool paths that dri­ve the machines to turn the designs into phys­i­cal parts. CAD/CAM soft­ware is most often used for machin­ing of pro­to­types and fin­ished parts.

IRB­CAM was devel­oped specif­i­cal­ly for indus­tri­al robots. Its gen­er­at­ed robot code is ver­i­fied with ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, and Motoman. It has an intu­itive and user-friend­ly 3D inter­face. Com­plex robot­ic sys­tems with exter­nal axes can be con­fig­ured intu­itive­ly with graph­i­cal wizards. 

IRB­CAM released a CAD/CAM add-in soft­ware pack­age for ABB​’s Robot­Stu­dio – the 3D offline pro­gram­ming envi­ron­ment from ABB. The add-in now allows tool-paths gen­er­at­ed from CAD/CAM pack­aged to be import­ed into Robot­Stu­dio. This allows the user to sim­u­late the robot­ic machin­ing paths in 3D graph­ics and check for col­li­sions using the same soft­ware as on the IRC5 robot con­trollers from ABB. Fur­ther, Mul­ti­Move can be used on CAD/CAM tool­paths to dis­trib­ute the motions between the robot and exter­nal actuators.

As the desire to increase effi­cien­cy dri­ves indus­tri­al com­pa­nies, con­trollers are increas­ing­ly impor­tant. The Fanuc iPen­dant is a fac­to­ry-hard­ened, portable dis­play and oper­a­tion pan­el that is high­ly cus­tomiz­able. It has mul­ti­ple appli­ca­tions with the Fanuc CNCs, like com­pli­ment­ing the pri­ma­ry dis­play so the user can get near large machine appli­ca­tions. The iPen­dant sup­ports all the stan­dard CNC screens for oper­a­tion, pro­gram­ming, and main­te­nance with a touch pan­el interface

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