Computer-assisted manufacturing automation tools CAD/CAM tools from Cimatron streamline the generation of safe and accurate CNC toolpaths.
What’s new? Cimatron’s CAD-AI, a new computer-assisted design technology that integrates seamlessly into Cimatron’s CAM tools. Using artificial intelligence, CAD-AI automatically detects and sorts various mold features, such as holes, pockets and slots. To streamline CNC programming automation, visualization tools within CAD-AI enable users to assign colors to CAD geometry. It is appropriate for 2.5-axis to five-axis machining. Future developments will enable users to teach the system how to recognize specific part features using their own data.
Benefits Increased efficiency; and accelerated mold design, manufacture and delivery. By leveraging CAD data to generate accurate toolpaths and efficiently drive CNC machinery supports, CAD-AI improves machine utilization and reduces scrap. It simplifies repetitive and error-prone design tasks, and streamlines the process of sharing CAD data with the CAM software needed to communicate manufacturing instructions to machine tools.
Cimatron Ltd., Petah-Tikva, Israel, 877-596-9700, www.cimatron.com
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
