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Best CAM practices

Best CAM practices

Best CAM practices

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We are using Gibbs CAM now and I was looking for tips on the best practices for supplying our 3D models for programming.  We can supply our programmer with SW part files but whats the best way to do that?  

Give him a copy keep the original out of harms way what if a REV. is done.   Just overwrite that copied file?  Basicaly should that file for programing reference the orginal in case there is a REV. etc.?  If thats even possbile?  I suppose i could insert the "master" part into a part and supply that.

Thanks
 

Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2008 X64 SP 3.1
Dell Precision T5400
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
Xeon 2.5GHz Quad Core, 4GB RAM
XP Pro X64 SP2.0
 

RE: Best CAM practices

I can tell you how I used to do it up until 2.5 years ago. At another company we used CAMWorks and PDMWorks. The machine shop checked out a copy of the original SW part file from PDMW, created the CAM data, then checked it back in to PDMW in their own machine shop folder that controlled their own revs. The parts saved the NC data with them. Whenever there was a change with the original engineering parts, the machine shop was notified with a rev'd drawing, they checked out a copy again, then CAMWorks would read the data NC data back in plus any changes. It worked very well.
I have not used Gibbs, maybe it would work the same.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Apr 30, 2008)

RE: Best CAM practices

When we send models to our machinists, we add the revision to the file name.  This revision matches the released drawing revision.  We send them native SW files now, but in the past had to send parasolid files.

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