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cad/cam cuts complex moldmaking shapes.
by：Gewinn
2020-06-06
CAD/CAM technology has taken nearly 20 years and has made significant progress in the manufacture of the mathematical complex surfaces of the core and cavity required for plastic injection mold tools, this programming and processing is the most demanding of all metal cutting.
Complex curves, spline lines, tangents, and mixtures in mold processing (
Where three or more surfaces are connected)
Until recently, all but the most expensive hardware and software programs were overwhelmed.
All of this is changing, and the benefits of this technology appear in multiple ways in the results of the entire business
Some of them were removed from the metal cutting itself.
Business Tools & tooling company, a medium-sized enterprise
Large mold manufacturing and mold shops in MI Grand Rapids make CAD/CAM software by using an advanced manufacturing technology department MI Troy called tool manufacturer fromCIMLINC Inc.
Methods include obvious, such as tying distant and/or different heights together
Ultimately design the system and enable skilled new workers to build career paths through intelligent use of technology.
Here is an overview of the five benefits: reducing design time in mold manufacturing.
High business expectations with confidence
CAD/CAM integration will save 30% of the design time in the moldmaking.
\"We haven\'t got there yet,\" said sdoug Bouwman, president of the city of CIAL, \"but we expect to get there soon.
\"Of course, from a business perspective, it\'s important how business choices save 30%.
First dimension of integration enabled by high-
End CAD and CAM are more closely connected with customers.
\"30% means that we can provide faster delivery if we are stuck in a continuing war,\" Mr Bouwman said . \".
\"Delivery time is the biggest competitive issue.
Over the years, the typical lead time we got has dropped from 20 weeks to 16 weeks and is now moving towards 12 weeks or less.
We have to meet these delivery dates because they are customersdriven.
Of course, if any mistake is made, it must be corrected on the floor no matter what time is left.
\"30% also means increased floor time because we have more time to deal with engineering changes and issues so we can run a more controlled store.
Or we can use new capacity to increase sales.
For any business, getting bigger sales through sameresources means a bigger margin and being more competitive in aprice --
Sensitive industries.
Mr Bouwman noted, however, that \"it is too early to talk about better profits.
Maybe we can see it in a year and a half.
By then, all the learning curves will become more favorable.
Integration of NC programming.
\"We are working to provide our four mold designers and four programmers with the tools they need to work as a department.
We want to eliminate any manual division of labor between mold design and CNC programming . \"
The programmers at the deutcial support 10 CNC milling machines and wire EDMs.
BobBarnhart, a senior CNC programmer at socicial, explains that sometimes programmers have to go into the system and create some new surfaces before they can process the mold properly.
\"We don\'t live in a perfect world, so nothing can be precise, from zero to zero --
Mold covers and pop-ups, for example.
So when the programmer sees what is necessary, the designer leaves a little spot in stock at the last minute.
\"Again, sometimes designers need to create machined surfaces.
What we get from tool manufacturers is an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)
In this way, people who do not have a lot of 2D CAD experience can learn 3D work in this environment.
Mold for business designers and programmers
Makeron as a customer is on the floor of the store.
\"We work for them,\" Mr Barnhart said . \".
Buteach moldmaker does one or two tools at a time, and each designer does five or six at a time.
He pointed out that the \"shop\" time for programming, processing and mold manufacturing is several times larger than the \"office\" time for mold design, which amplified the impact of programming errors.
On the road to achieving one\'s own career, robots and programmers in one person\'s relationship will gain something.
\"When mechanics learn to use these systems, they are qualified to start programming.
Mr. Barnhart said that as the knowledge of programmers grows, there is also an increasing integration of them with mold designers.
\"Our workers mold manufacturers are very skilled in organizing the work of the store.
\"It should be noted that there is an active apprenticeship program for business companies.
Translation of IGES.
IGES integrates commercial systems with their customers\' systems and integrates PC-based andUNIX-
Based on the internal system.
\"The IGES translation has been a problem until we start using tool manufacturers,\" Mr Barnhart said . \".
\"Ifa drawings were introduced into our early systems along with IGES, and we only had 40 hours of work to clean up the translation errors.
It\'s perfect now.
\"Coincial runs its software on 7 Silicon Graphics indigoworksites and SGI Indy file servers, using IGES to always move the geometry back and forth between pc and SGIs.
Fusion 2D and 3D.
Mr. Barnhart said that in general, jobs are cut by two packages, one is a 2d package and the other is a 3D package.
\"Because a lot of work requires 2D and 3D, we use them very closely together.
\"3D work is done by the manufacturer of commercial use tools.
\"The PC packaging is not as good as the ability of 3D, nor is it as complex work,\" Mr Barnhart claimed . \".
\"With CIMLINC, we don\'t use pc anymore --
Based on multiple packagesaxis work.
Business also runs CATIA (
Dassault System from France)
On ibm rs/6000.
But for Mr Barnhart, in business, it is largely due to the high cost of its use.
\"We only have one seat.
This is a very good modeler, but it has a long learning curve.
We also have to equip a catia nc specialist for two days of additional training.
With CIMLINC, the actual operation for three weeks
Training is enough.
Mr. Barnhart said: \"The learning curve of the CIMLINC is very fast.
\"We want to get designers and programmers up in six months and they are ready to start in three months.
I mean, their program can process steel tools directly from the screen.
In the air or lowdensity foam.
When they started, the designers were not proficient in CAD, but they were not proficient in it.
Business must do the right thing.
Mr. Bouwman reported that the business grew from 15 employees at the start of the business in 1986 to 73, with an enviable annual growth rate of 25%.
Like many other mold manufacturers, the company offers additional services.
Including two plastic injection molding machines (a 300-ton and a 500-ton machine)
There is also a model store for the tryouth work, casting fixtures and fixtures.
Mr Barnhart believes that even if the model store is only used to rework old tools, it will never be completely eliminated in mold manufacturing.
\"For physical models, this is much easier than digitizing surfaces, bringing data into CAD, and splitting points into surfaces.
This is done by reverse engineering to get the geometry, \"said Barnhart.
He also predicted that commercial copiers and tracer could not be completely eliminated.
Milling can also be controlled.
There are three such machines for commercial use.
\"Not everything can be integrated,\" he said . \"
Complex curves, spline lines, tangents, and mixtures in mold processing (
Where three or more surfaces are connected)
Until recently, all but the most expensive hardware and software programs were overwhelmed.
All of this is changing, and the benefits of this technology appear in multiple ways in the results of the entire business
Some of them were removed from the metal cutting itself.
Business Tools & tooling company, a medium-sized enterprise
Large mold manufacturing and mold shops in MI Grand Rapids make CAD/CAM software by using an advanced manufacturing technology department MI Troy called tool manufacturer fromCIMLINC Inc.
Methods include obvious, such as tying distant and/or different heights together
Ultimately design the system and enable skilled new workers to build career paths through intelligent use of technology.
Here is an overview of the five benefits: reducing design time in mold manufacturing.
High business expectations with confidence
CAD/CAM integration will save 30% of the design time in the moldmaking.
\"We haven\'t got there yet,\" said sdoug Bouwman, president of the city of CIAL, \"but we expect to get there soon.
\"Of course, from a business perspective, it\'s important how business choices save 30%.
First dimension of integration enabled by high-
End CAD and CAM are more closely connected with customers.
\"30% means that we can provide faster delivery if we are stuck in a continuing war,\" Mr Bouwman said . \".
\"Delivery time is the biggest competitive issue.
Over the years, the typical lead time we got has dropped from 20 weeks to 16 weeks and is now moving towards 12 weeks or less.
We have to meet these delivery dates because they are customersdriven.
Of course, if any mistake is made, it must be corrected on the floor no matter what time is left.
\"30% also means increased floor time because we have more time to deal with engineering changes and issues so we can run a more controlled store.
Or we can use new capacity to increase sales.
For any business, getting bigger sales through sameresources means a bigger margin and being more competitive in aprice --
Sensitive industries.
Mr Bouwman noted, however, that \"it is too early to talk about better profits.
Maybe we can see it in a year and a half.
By then, all the learning curves will become more favorable.
Integration of NC programming.
\"We are working to provide our four mold designers and four programmers with the tools they need to work as a department.
We want to eliminate any manual division of labor between mold design and CNC programming . \"
The programmers at the deutcial support 10 CNC milling machines and wire EDMs.
BobBarnhart, a senior CNC programmer at socicial, explains that sometimes programmers have to go into the system and create some new surfaces before they can process the mold properly.
\"We don\'t live in a perfect world, so nothing can be precise, from zero to zero --
Mold covers and pop-ups, for example.
So when the programmer sees what is necessary, the designer leaves a little spot in stock at the last minute.
\"Again, sometimes designers need to create machined surfaces.
What we get from tool manufacturers is an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)
In this way, people who do not have a lot of 2D CAD experience can learn 3D work in this environment.
Mold for business designers and programmers
Makeron as a customer is on the floor of the store.
\"We work for them,\" Mr Barnhart said . \".
Buteach moldmaker does one or two tools at a time, and each designer does five or six at a time.
He pointed out that the \"shop\" time for programming, processing and mold manufacturing is several times larger than the \"office\" time for mold design, which amplified the impact of programming errors.
On the road to achieving one\'s own career, robots and programmers in one person\'s relationship will gain something.
\"When mechanics learn to use these systems, they are qualified to start programming.
Mr. Barnhart said that as the knowledge of programmers grows, there is also an increasing integration of them with mold designers.
\"Our workers mold manufacturers are very skilled in organizing the work of the store.
\"It should be noted that there is an active apprenticeship program for business companies.
Translation of IGES.
IGES integrates commercial systems with their customers\' systems and integrates PC-based andUNIX-
Based on the internal system.
\"The IGES translation has been a problem until we start using tool manufacturers,\" Mr Barnhart said . \".
\"Ifa drawings were introduced into our early systems along with IGES, and we only had 40 hours of work to clean up the translation errors.
It\'s perfect now.
\"Coincial runs its software on 7 Silicon Graphics indigoworksites and SGI Indy file servers, using IGES to always move the geometry back and forth between pc and SGIs.
Fusion 2D and 3D.
Mr. Barnhart said that in general, jobs are cut by two packages, one is a 2d package and the other is a 3D package.
\"Because a lot of work requires 2D and 3D, we use them very closely together.
\"3D work is done by the manufacturer of commercial use tools.
\"The PC packaging is not as good as the ability of 3D, nor is it as complex work,\" Mr Barnhart claimed . \".
\"With CIMLINC, we don\'t use pc anymore --
Based on multiple packagesaxis work.
Business also runs CATIA (
Dassault System from France)
On ibm rs/6000.
But for Mr Barnhart, in business, it is largely due to the high cost of its use.
\"We only have one seat.
This is a very good modeler, but it has a long learning curve.
We also have to equip a catia nc specialist for two days of additional training.
With CIMLINC, the actual operation for three weeks
Training is enough.
Mr. Barnhart said: \"The learning curve of the CIMLINC is very fast.
\"We want to get designers and programmers up in six months and they are ready to start in three months.
I mean, their program can process steel tools directly from the screen.
In the air or lowdensity foam.
When they started, the designers were not proficient in CAD, but they were not proficient in it.
Business must do the right thing.
Mr. Bouwman reported that the business grew from 15 employees at the start of the business in 1986 to 73, with an enviable annual growth rate of 25%.
Like many other mold manufacturers, the company offers additional services.
Including two plastic injection molding machines (a 300-ton and a 500-ton machine)
There is also a model store for the tryouth work, casting fixtures and fixtures.
Mr Barnhart believes that even if the model store is only used to rework old tools, it will never be completely eliminated in mold manufacturing.
\"For physical models, this is much easier than digitizing surfaces, bringing data into CAD, and splitting points into surfaces.
This is done by reverse engineering to get the geometry, \"said Barnhart.
He also predicted that commercial copiers and tracer could not be completely eliminated.
Milling can also be controlled.
There are three such machines for commercial use.
\"Not everything can be integrated,\" he said . \"
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