“Intelligent” CAM System Adapts to the Job
SolidCAM’s iMachining CAM software features an algorithm designed to eliminate potentially time-consuming, trial-and-error approaches to optimizing cutting parameters.
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These potentially time-consuming, trial-and-error adjustments happen every day in shops of all types and sizes—a fact not lost on SolidCAM when it developed its iMachining CAM system. This software is designed not only to provide effective tool paths, but also to enable users to efficiently apply those toolpaths according to their own particular preferences and application circumstances. Read this article to find out how.
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