Cimatron Advanced Programming Manual

Author: Dazong Studio
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Cimatron is a world-renowned excellent NC machining software. In addition to its functions that can meet general machining needs, it also has the following various humanized features:
1. It has intelligent workpiece recognition functionality. By establishing the workpiece and comparing it with the part, it obtains the material allowance for each part of the part through comparison, thereby determining where the tool should and should not move, maximizing the elimination of empty cuts. This is an important contribution of the Cimatron software to machining intelligence.
2. The system provides thoughtful layer-by-layer cutting technology, enabling roughing to achieve more ideal results and providing workpieces with more uniform allowances for subsequent finishing, creating conditions for better machining quality.
3. It can automatically distinguish steeper areas from flatter areas based on the slope analysis of the surface, using circular cutting in steeper areas and linear cutting in flatter areas to achieve better machining results. This eliminates the need for manual specification of different areas for separate toolpath definition, as it completes the task automatically in one go.
4. When using all linear cutting, it comprehensively considers the surface conditions and automatically adjusts the tool spacing, rather than rigidly performing fixed spacing cutting. Most software can only control fixed 2D or 3D spacing.
5. When using all circular cutting, it can specify different sub-centers for the circular paths based on the concave and convex conditions of the surface to improve the toolpath.
6. It automatically identifies areas where the previous linear cutting was not optimal and performs supplementary machining only in those areas.
7. It can generate MURBS post-processing files, resulting in smoother toolpaths than linear and circular interpolation.
8. It can directly machine triangular surfaces.
9. It supports high-speed machining.
In addition to the above features, CimatronNC machining also has advantages such as fast toolpath calculation and short NC files. This book only discusses the three-axis milling machining of Cimatron. Most of the content is presented in a question-and-answer format, primarily explaining important parameters or concepts, accompanied by selected examples to help readers gain a deeper understanding of Cimatron.
This book is mainly intended for programmers with a certain foundation in Cimatron and NC machining experience, as well as self-taught college and university students and engineering technicians. It is particularly helpful for those who can grasp things quickly.