BobCAD-CAM V36
18 articles in BobCAD-CAM V36
Pack2Go
The new Pack2Go utility takes the current file and all supporting files and zips it into an easily sharable file. This is a great way to ensure when a file is shared, the recipient will have everything needed to simulate and post the exact same result!
Over Machine
The Over Machine option allows you to optimize the milling conditions for hard metal milling to compensate for long tool deflections and cutting forces. This helps to avoid chatter caused by thin walls generated by tool deflections and helps prevent tool and spindle damage!
Remove Stock Pillars
The new Remove Stock Pillars option, for the Advanced Rough Adaptive pattern, allows you to finish the last of the stock on a given depth by leaving a cylinder of stock which is then finished with a single spiral ramp motion. This helps eliminate adverse cutting conditions, like vibrations and heat generation in small areas, which can be created when the pattern whittles down the stock to a thin walled island before finishing it off. With this new option, you can create optimal cutting conditions and help extend tool life.
Redesigned Tool Crib
With our redesigned Tool Crib, you no longer need to open the Tool Library as a separate window and add your tools one at a time! The Tool Library is visible in the same window, you can select multiple tools to drag into the crib at the same time, and even save tools from the Tool Crib to your Tool Library for the first time!
Minimum Depth Step
The new Minimum Depth Step option in the Advanced UI of the Advanced Rough toolpath adds extra control to intermediate steps by allowing you to remove steps under the main depth, that are below the specified amount. This enhances the cutting conditions during roughing and reduces vibrations and chatter.
Migration
By popular demand, we now offer a simple migration tool to help you update into the latest and greatest BobCAD version without needing to manually copy individual items. With the new BobCAD Utility, simply select whether you are updating your version on the current computer, or exporting to a new PC. You can then select the version you're migrating from, and to, and even update saved features to templates!
New barrel tool options
With Barrel tools becoming more and more common place, the Mill 3 Axis Pro toolpaths have been updated to support the three barrel types which were previously unsupported. These operations can now utilize all seven barrel types!
Multiple Selection in picking boxes
Multiple selection now works for items in the CAM Tree, Feature Geometry Picking dialogs, and picking boxes in CAD features! Easily select multiple items to interact with for the first time ever!
Undercuts - Flatlands Toolpath Operation
The Flatlands toolpath just got even more power with the ability to handle inverted flats! When using a capable tool, simply select the undercut option on the Parameters page to handle all your flats at the same time.
User defined tool orientation on lead-in/ lead-out
In order to give you as much control as possible, this new feature allows you to set how the tool is oriented moving into or out of the lead moves! Just set the Tool axis orientation to User defined direction, and choose between x, y, z, or user defined to choose anything in between! The tool will then move through the lead an morph into the orientation defined for the operation.
Chain Picking Manager
The new chain selection options give you an enormous amount of power to select entire chains, from wireframe and solids alike, with speed and ease! Whether you’re selecting geometry for CAD features or assigning geometry to CAM features, these new options have you covered!
Contextual Toolbars
The new contextual toolbars give you easy access to the most frequently used commands! In this version, there's really no need to right-click items to then search through the context menu to find the desired command. Simply left-click the item once and the Contextual Toolbar appears, allowing access to the commands you use time and time again!
Copy Machine Setups
In this latest version copying and pasting entire machine setups is possible! In some cases, when building a machine setup, another machine setup is needed and the same features and settings, or many of them can be applied to the new setup. Now, you can save a huge amount of time by simply copying and pasting to recreate the existing machine setup.
Advanced UI
Your Mill 3 Axis Pro operations now allow you to bypass the Standard UI and choose the Advanced UI to program your toolpath. This new user interface unlocks tons of brand-new options to give you an unprecedented amount of control over every aspect of your operations!
Avoid contact point on tip - Deburring
This new option allows you to automatically tilt the tool so the tip is not used in the deburring process. Since the very tip of the tool is the least efficient contact point in material removal, this is the perfect way to avoid it without needing to actively choose a specific contact point to use!
Floor Finishing - 4-Axis Advanced Finish
New options in the 4 Axis Advanced Finish allow you to choose between a Radius Constant finish, or the new Cylindrical or Conical Surfaces finish! This additional option gives you the tools you need to focus on the desired machining surfaces!
Homing sequence
A new feature has been added to the Mill 3 Axis Pro toolpaths allowing you to define the home position of the operation, and even how the tool moves from and to that home position! There are tons of reasons you may want to define where your operation begins, and how you approach and exit the workpiece, and in this new version, we allow you full control over how it's done!
Finishing > Support for multiple unconnected surface finishing - Multiaxis Machining
This version now supports multiple unconnected surfaces for finishing to make programming your job that much easier! Don't worry about needing to create multiple operations, just select multiple surfaces, to use the same settings and reduce inter-operation linking.