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SmartCAM Advanced Fabrication

SmartCAM Advanced Fabrication™ CAM software creates optimized toolpath and code for a variety of CNC fabrication machines, including punches, burners, lasers, waterjets, punch/plasma, and punch/laser combinations. Not only will SmartCAM Advanced Fabrication help you reduce scrap and improve your fabrication processes, like all SmartCAM® applications, Advanced Fabrication is designed to help you reduce your programming time and deliver your customer's parts quicker.


Shorten Part Delivery Times
SmartCAM Advanced Fabrication provides comprehensive solutions that help you get jobs done faster and shorten part delivery times, including:

Fast, flexible toolpath geometry.

Better organize your data using Containers, Show/Hide, improved Layer functions and View Filters.

Auto-indexing support for an unlimited number of tools.

Automated area clearance with spiral or zigzag routines.

Auto Tool Select searches profiles for common fabrication shapes, then searches the job operation setup file, and automatically selects tools that fit the shapes. It then creates tool path for removing material from inside the profiles using the selected tools.

The Profile Modeling Tool creates centerline tool path for a single cutting pass.

Canned cycle support for bolt hole circles and grids at any angle.

Automated folding and unfolding compensates for bend allowances and unfolds the part in a single step. (Because SmartCAM is a full 3-D system, you can modify geometry on the part before or after unfolding it.)

Automatic flat pattern layouts for HVAC transition pieces.

Toolpath optimization functions that will automatically find the most efficient tool motion.

Automatic or interactive nesting, including subroutine support that saves material. (SmartCAM will tell you if your subroutines provide optimal toolpath, giving you the choice of using them or not.)

What should you know about SmartCAM?
Toolpath & Geometry Modeling

Toolpath Modeling ~ If you can draw it you can cut it. If you create a CAM‑mode line, arc, or profile then CNC Code is immediately available. SmartCAM's extensive Toolpath Modeling functionality allows both CAD Layer construction and CAM Step toolpath geometry to be constructed and edited using the same set of SmartCAM tools.

CAD Layer geometry, including geometry imported from a CAD design, can be property‑changed to become Toolpath Elements. The reverse is also true, from Toolpath to Layers.

What is the significance of SmartCAM Toolpath Modeling to you?

SmartCAM Toolpath Modeling means that you are able to create Toolpath and CNC code to the exact and sometimes unique needs of your CNC manufacturing business.

SmartCAM can generate Process Containers. These take the results from SmartCAM's toolpath generation functions and place it in a regeneratable wrapper. Allowing you to quickly adjust the parameters for the previously generated toolpath and generate and replace the existing toolpath.

Toolpath Modeling is a part of what we like to refer to as The SmartCAM Difference. Watch our two minute video - which contains audio narration - to learn just a bit more about The SmartCAM Difference:

Toolpath Verification
Toolpath Verification
Every SmartCAM license at any product level includes Toolpath Verification.

Verification supports both toolpath motion simulation and full material removal. Rapid moves through remaining stock and rapid or feed moves that cause a collision condition between any part of the tool assembly and remaining stock or fixturing can be flagged and clearly marked on the verification model.

Standard and custom cutting tools and holders can be included in the verification.

The resulting stock model can be saved and used as the stock for subsequent component operations.

Using CAD Drawings and Solid Models in SmartCAM

All SmartCAM licenses can read and write wireframe, surface and solid CAD files using ACIS SAT, STEP, IGES, DXF or DWG file formats.

Additional native CAD file translators are available, at an additional cost, that read SOLIDWORKS® .SLDPRT, Autodesk® Inventor® .IPT files, Solid Edge® .PAR and .PSM part files and ProE®/CREO® .PRT and .XPR files.

All SmartCAM applications can use CAD wireframe, surface, and solid data as reference geometry, toolpath, toolpath boundaries, stock boundaries, and more.

Users of the higher‑level SmartCAM applications can model Toolpaths directly from the imported CAD surfaces and solids.

The SmartCAM Code Generator (aka Post Processor)
Why use a CAM system?

The single‑most important reason for investing in any CAM system is to enable you to quickly and easily generate high quality and reliable CNC Code for your CNC machining operations.

The SmartCAM Code Generator tools delivered with every single SmartCAM subscription are probably the most open and flexible in the CAM world. They are not inaccessible black boxes but are based upon open formatting, output control and logic functions that enable SmartCAM users to modify and fine‑tune outputs to their precise needs.

Code Generators are most often created using an existing SmartCAM library code generators as a template. Naturally - as with any software that is new to you - there is a learning curve before you can fully understand the tools and how to apply them. If you prefer to concentrate on producing parts then a chargeable code‑generation consultancy service is available.

The SmartCAM Customization ToolKit
Customize, Extend, Automate

SmartCAM is designed and created by engineers for engineers. We know a lot about CNC machines, CNC Machining and CNC Code. The tools in SmartCAM are comprehensive and flexible.

The SmartCAM community rates the fact that if you were to hit an apparent limitation then there is usually a technique that can be used in SmartCAM to deliver exactly what it is that is required. We know that SmartCAM users would not have it any other way.

The SmartCAM Customization Kit is another of our open set of tools, delivered with every SmartCAM subscription, that can be used to customize your use of SmartCAM.

A manufacturer of volume parts used in the hydraulic and pneumatic industries, for example, would benefit from parameterized family of part programming that could be created using the SmartCAM CTK. Customization can flawlessly produce Toolpath, CNC code and other outputs time and time again. In fact we know that customers who have created such customization seldom bother to check graphical Toolpaths or code. It works, every time.

A further example scenario for application of the SmartCAM CTK is in automating small‑ or large‑scale tasks that are specific to your CNC manufacturing procedures, machines and personnel when necessary. Your setup and work practices may, for example, require you to frequently apply tasks or sequences of tasks that are not in the box of any CAM system.

The SmartCAM Customization Toolkit
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