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NEWS RELEASE: SmartCAMcnc announces release of SmartCAM v2024Monday, February 12, 2024 - Springfield, Oregon - SmartCAM® v2024 delivers improvements for retract/home position handling, milling tool types, user interface and usability, verification display and image creation, high density surface display performance, macro automation, and CAD data translation. As well as many productivity boosting, customer requested enhancements to SmartCAM core functionality. New Job Operations Planner The Job Operations Planner has been modernized and provided a more consistant User Interface, matching some of the other features added to SmartCAM in recent releases. This includes providing information about Steps and Tools in a more useful Grid display; allowing users to select what information they would like to have included. Adding mouse-level support for managing the Steps and Operations. While still providing the wealth of needed functionality required to successfully manage the project. "The Job Operations Planner is a fundamental feature of SmartCAM; used and relied upon with every job." said Douglas Oliver, Senior Product Manager at SmartCAMcnc. "These updates will make the Planner a more capable and easier to use tool, as well as providing a consistent user-interface experience with other recent SmartCAM additions." New Work Setup Home Position Ability to establish an overall Home Position location, allows program start/end home coordinates to be defined; generally for milling and by turret for turning. Instead of needing to establish a home position for each step, using geometry, the location can be configured for all steps and tools. Additionally, this same location can optionally be use for Tool and Plane Change events, for live tools, with the tool either returning to the home XYZ or just retracting the the home Z. When simulated using Verification, the simulation shows the first tool starting at the home position and the last tool returning to it. All turning tool changes occur at the home location as well. Tool and Plane Change events are used for live tools when enabled. New Milling Tool Types Support for Chamfer Mill, Rounding Mill, and single point Thread Mill tools have been added. The Chamfer and Rounding Mill tools may be used for edge milling operations and, optionally, could be offset to accommodate the Tip Diameter using the Left/Right Offset property. The Thread Mill tool type may be used with the Thread Mill process to generate multi-revolution thread milling toolpath. Verification Enhancements The User-Interface and Image handling capabilities of Verification have been expanded. These additions include:
Performance and General Improvements Several user requested improvements have been made to frequently used areas of the product, including the following highlights.
"With each new release we implement many core productivity features applicable to all of our applications. We think users are pleased to see their suggestions being added," said Oliver. Macro Improvements v2024 builds on SmartCAM's automation strengths by providing several new capabilities including the ability to find an element's mid-point coordinate, check whether a Named Group already exists, and add debugging and status information to the Diagnostics log. Oliver went on to say, "SmartCAM v2024 demonstrates our commitment to continued improvement across the SmartCAM product family. We look forward to bringing more valuable improvements for our users in coming releases." About SmartCAM & SmartCAMcnc For over 30 years, the SmartCAM family of computer-aided manufacturing software provides toolpath modeling and CNC programming for prismatic production work to complex molds, dies, and prototypes. SmartCAMcnc provides affordable software subscription contracts, updates, upgrades and technical support for all SmartCAM users, regardless of version. All SmartCAM applications include standard CAD translators and access to optional native CAD translators. SmartCAMcnc is an Oregon-based company that develops and markets the SmartCAM suite of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software for the benefit of its worldwide customer base. Gregg Olson, founder and president of SmartCAMcnc, has been involved in developing CNC programming systems since 1979, with over two decades of experience in various product development capacities for Weber Systems, Point Control, CAMAX, and SDRC. To monitor further developments please visit www.SmartCAMcnc.com. - ### - Media Contact: Sales |
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