A pratical aplication of 3DCalculator App to calculate driven points for multi-tasking tools in VERICUT Tool Manager

Ok… Two posts in less than a week after years of retirement? I can´t believe it myself either… Hey – Don´t hold your breath… 😉

Last post I shared my 3DCalculator app which can help to calculate rotated coordinates… In this post I´m going to share a practical example of where this tool can be of help.

So I just bumped into this situation where you have a multi-tasking tool in a VERICUT tool library and need to calculate the position of each driven point.

Continue reading

3DCalculator – A small freeware to calculate 3D rotations

Hi folks…

Many years without an update in the blog… I really don´t know when I´ll blog again, but in the meantime, I´d like to share a tool I developed to help a colleague to re-work a VERICUT tool library, and then I decided to take part of the main application and create a smaller one and share it with you…

Continue reading

Is the CAM industry awakening?

Well, well, well…

Long time since my last post uh… like you, I was starting to question if CAMZone was ever going to get a new post… This one came to my mind when I was at the bed already… then the light came and I said: Let´s do it before it´s gone…

It´s true that the inspiration for today´s post came from some events in the last two days, more precisely the new cool features Siemens PLM put on NX 8.5 – Let´s talk about them among other things… today´s post is more about the industry, with a few technical points… it´s about my perceptions about where the CAM tools are heading to…

Like I said earlier, from time to time the CAM user base demands a new milestone in CAM – It´s like those guys in the 80´s that used to say that verification was a luxury, just wireframe toolpath simulation was fine, and then some guys set a new milestone and the rest is history. Then in the middle of the 90´s machine simulation was eye candy stuff, and by the beginning of the 00´s new rules were stablished, and today, a vendor without machine simulation does not get a chair around the table anymore.

Continue reading