SmartCAM v2016 delivers a substantially updated Knowledge-Base Machining (KBM) Library, as well as improvements to the user interface and to the core milling functionality.

The improved KBM library supports the storing and re-use of tooling and operation settings, greatly increasing the efficiency with which new programs can be created using proven and repeatable processes.

This ensures consistent and accurate CNC methodologies are used throughout the manufacturing facility.

With the improvements to the v2016 KBM Library, that flexibility is still retained, but with the additional benefit of having all their manufacturing data stored and managed in a single repository, said Doug Oliver, Senior Product Manager at SmartCAMcnc.

Data stored in the library can be given a group name and associated to materials and machines allowing the data to be quickly filtered and recalled for reuse.

The SmartCAM List View, a key component of the interface, now displays model data in a tree structure that is expandable and collapsible.

The Group Pocket process now supports separate pocket and island groups, including support for multi-level nested pockets and islands.

Also added to Group Pocket, the Part Offset and Morph-path type options can be used to produce smoothed, continuously-tangent toolpaths that are suitable for high speed milling (HSM) techniques.

The enhanced KBM library and its integration into the product greatly improves the ease with which proven tooling and operation settings can be reused and managed.

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