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Laser, Plasma, & WaterJet

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High Performance CAD-CAM for CNC Laser, Plasma, & WaterJet Machines

BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS™ Gold Partner CAM solution for laser, plasma, and waterjet CNC machines offers powerful 2-5 axis cutting capabilities right inside of SOLIDWORKS™. Seamlessly transition from creating your part model to assigning advanced toolpath strategies, simulating jobs, and generating g-code programming.

NEW FEATURE: Job Templates

BobCAM’s New Job Templates allow you to program faster with fewer clicks. Save your stock, set up location, machining features and more. Great for similar projects, part revisions, and standard processes. Get more done with fewer steps using BobCAM V8.

Features of BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS™ for CNC Laser, Plasma, & WaterJet

BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS™ software is a powerful CAM solution for CNC laser, plasma, and waterjet machines. It delivers the precision you need to machine everything from simple 2 axis jobs to complex multiaxis parts. You control a full range of sophisticated and fully associative machining strategies using an intuitive wizard driven interface that makes toolpath programming faster and easier than ever before. You can even test and confirm your CAM programming in the BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS™ simulation to give you the peace of mind in your programming before ever cutting a chip.

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Tabs

Tabs

Keep parts connected to stock with tabs. Defined be number of tabs, length between or pick your own locations. Customizable tab width, lead length and radius.

Compensation

Compensation

Define cutter compensation / Kerf comp use one of 3 compensation ( Kerf) methods. Offsetting your profiles for the laser, plasma or waterjet to cut to size.

Lead In/Out

Lead In/Out

Multiple lead In/Out options to control how you enter and exit cuts. Choose from vertical, parallel, right angle, circular and blend. Optional overlap setting adjust lead out move past your entry position.

Machine Sequence

Machine Sequence

Control the order your shapes are cut with one of the 6 sort order options. Choose from closest, no sorting, X direction, Y direction, custom direction and optimized.

Advanced Feedrates

Advanced Feedrates

Remove dog leg rapids with BobCAD’s general overrides, reduce your feed rate on approach and exit and slow down your feedrate when cutting arcs. All defined in the toolpath wizard and are easy to change.

Cutting Conditions

Cutting Conditions

Speeds, feeds, power settings, torch height and more can be saved to tools in the tool library. Allowing users to quick load cutting data for different gages of material.

Toolpath Patterns

Toolpath Patterns

Create copies of machining features for same part instances. Choose from array, translate, rotate and point locations.

2 Axis

2 Axis

Fully customize and save your profile operations as a user defined template. Making it faster to program open, closed, inside and outside shapes.

3 Axis

3 Axis

Drive toolpath along curves surfaces using BobCAD’s 3 Axis wire frame toolpath feature. Allowing users to cut shapes and patterns into corrugated and other curved stock shapes.

4 Axis

4 Axis

Use BobCAD’s wrapping groups to program 4 axis shape cutting machines. Great for holes, slots, text, coping, notches and more.

5 Axis

5 Axis

Using BobCAD’s index systems users can automatically calculate rotations for 5-sided machining. Special multiaxis cutting patterns are used to drive cutting around corners and along compound curves and shapes.

OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE

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Tool Crib

Job Setup Wizard

Dynamic Machining Strategies™

Copy & Paste Operations

Expand & Collapse in Tree

Customizable Setup Sheets

Stock Wizard

Multiple Machine Setups

Material Speed & Feed Library

Tool Holder Library

Individual & Compound Drilling Operations

Tool Database

Material Based Calculated Feeds & Speeds

Ability to Save & Load Features

3D Simulation

Work Offset Selection

Coolant Selection

Sub Program Output

3D Arc Fit – G17, G18, & G19 Plane Cutting

Associative CAM Tree

Part & Assembly Programming

Tool Library

Tool Crib

Tool Holders Library

Stock Wizard

Setup Sheet

Tool List

Feature-based Programming

Save & Load Features

Copy & Paste Features

Multiple Machine Setup Locations

Material Library

Dynamic Machining Strategies

Toolpath Backplot

Toolpath Editor

Solid 3D Simulation

Toolpath Statistics

Feedrate Mapping

Universal Post Processor

3D Arc Filter ( G17, G18, G19 Plane Cutting )

Associative CAM Tree

Toolpath Groups

Toolpath Patterns (Transform/Rotate)

Tool Dominate Machining Order

Feature Dominate Machining Order

Feature Geometry Picking Manager

Toolpath Wizard

Machine Sequence Sort Order Optimization

 

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