CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 February 2005
Product News
GibbsCAM 2005 Enhancements to be Previewed at WESTEC
Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM®, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software for programming computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools, announced that they will preview GibbsCAM 2005 during the WESTEC 2005 Conference. The convention is being held from April 4th - 7th at the Los Angles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. GibbsCAM 2005, expected to be released to customers shortly after WESTEC, contains a number of significant enhancements that extend GibbsCAM's overall capabilities or expand existing functionality across all GibbsCAM modules.
"The GibbsCAM 2005 release continues to add more functionality and value to the overall product line," states Bill Gibbs, president and founder of Gibbs and Associates. "The list of enhancements included in this release was directly developed from feedback from GibbsCAM Resellers and end users. Existing users will be very pleased with the content and people looking at GibbsCAM for the first time will be impressed with its breadth and depth of capability."
The following items are some of the new functionalities included in the GibbsCAM 2005 release (grouped by major product themes):
Machining Solid Models
• Import Alignment tools
• Feature Drilling for smart depths and clearances
• Profiler support for drilling
• Improvements to Hole Manager and Automated Feature Recognition (AFR)
• Gen III Pocketing for smart volume removal
Production Milling & Turning
• User-controlled entries and exits in contouring and pocketing
• Mill tool holder library for simulation display
• Form tool support in Turning for contouring function
• Support for Mazak flash tooling
• 5-axis simultaneous milling for mill, mill-turn, and MTM
• Import data in STL format
• Management tools for the operations of large programs
• Automatic mirroring for left-hand parts
• Helix Bore
• Associativity tools
3D Milling
• Gouge-protected Surface Flow for finishing surfaces
High Speed Machining
• Methods to further optimize toolpath
• Methods to further optimize feedrate
In addition, GibbsCAM's Network License Option has been enhanced in this release to allow multiple GibbsCAM sessions to be launched on a single PC. The GibbsCAM 2005 release also ensures full compatibility with popular mainstream, PC-based CAD systems, Autodesk Inventor R10, Solid Edge V16, and SolidWorks 2005.
Along with GibbsCAM 2005, Gibbs will also demonstrate the new GibbsCAM TMS module, an option that specifically targets programming multiple parts fixtured on a tombstone, which has become a common machining practice in high throughput, lights-out facilities. After the user orients and positions the various parts on the tombstone, this module automatically generates the offsets and rotations necessary for optimal machining. GibbsCAM Machine Simulation module can then be used to simulate the machine tool motions to verify that there are no collisions between tooling, fixtures, parts or the machine.
The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling, turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM. GibbsCAM also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. GibbsCAM has received Microsoft's "Designed for Windows XP/2000" certification. GibbsCAM's data exchange capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program, is a Solid Edge Certified Select Product, and is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product. GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed by a number of leading worldwide
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