CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 June 2008
Events News
Delcam to Preview New-Look PartMaker at IMTS
Delcam will preview the forthcoming release of its PartMaker CAM software for programming turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes on booth D-3005 at the IMTS exhibition to be held in Chicago from 8th to 13th September. Major highlights of this new version of PartMaker, Version 9, include a revamped and more productive user-interface, improved capabilities for programming directly on solid models and improved machine simulation for the ever increasingly complex machine architectures of today’s multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. A host of other productivity, user-driven enhancements will also be featured in PartMaker Version 9.
The 2008 exhibition will be the first IMTS where PartMaker will be exhibited in the Delcam booth. The software will demonstrated along side Delcam’s other manufacturing products including the PowerMILL, FeatureCAM, ArtCAM and PowerINSPECT. The Delcam booth will be the largest CAM booth at the exhibition, and will feature the most comprehensive range of CAM products at the show.
"PartMaker Version 9 is another big step forward in the life cycle of the PartMaker suite of CAM software,” says PartMaker Inc. President, Hanan Fishman. "PartMaker Version 9’s enhanced user interface and other new features will make PartMaker users even more productive in programming their CNC equipment, while offering new users and even easier to learn, more capable CNC programming platform.”
PartMaker is a Knowledge Based Machining system, allowing it to provide a substantial gain in programming efficiency by remembering the tools, material and process information necessary to machine individual part features. It thus relieves the user from re-entering the same features information for subsequent parts. It also improves productivity by placing the emphasis on tool management functions.
PartMaker pioneered the field of specialist CAM software for turn-mills and Swiss-type lathes with its patented Visual Programming Approach for programming multi-axis lathes with live tooling. The software makes extensive use of pictures to help the user describe tools, part features and machining data. Synchronization of tools working on multiple spindles is achieved by a few mouse clicks.
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