SmartCAM Products

SmartCAM Advanced Turning

SmartCAM Advanced Turning™ software creates efficient toolpath and CNC code for 2-through 6-axis lathes and mill/turn centers. Like all SmartCAM™ applications, it is designed to help you reduce your programming time and deliver your customer's parts quicker.

Supports a Broad Range of Machines

2-Axis
4-Axis
Live Tooling

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

Fast, flexible toolpath geometry
Automatic roughing routines for linear, contour, and groove roughing.
Comprehensive threading support for inside and outside diameter, left- or right-hand, and straight or tapered threads.
Better organize your data using Containers, Show/Hide, improved Layer functions and View Filters.
Intelligent drilling cycles that create code or canned cycle output for drilling, tapping, boring or counterboring operations with minimum input.

Simplifies 4-Axis Turning

Automatically synchronizes tool motion for both turrets, yet lets you control timing.
Shows you merged tool motion as it will occur at the machine with feed rates represented in correct relation to one another.
Automatically creates balanced or pinch turning operations from a single profile and synchronizes tool motion.

Combine Mill/Turn Operations in a Single Model

Solid Model Pocket Roughing - Create milling pocket roughing toolpath on solids containing prismatic features.
Solid Model Profile Finishing - Create finish and multi-pass, semi-finishing milling toolpath from solids containing prismatic features.
Integrate C-axis operations with turning functions in a single machining model.
Support radial and axial live tool orientations, and Y-axis motion.
Support a full range of milling operations including milling, off-center and cross drilling, tapping, slotting, pocketing, and facing.

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

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.

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