“However, as the company grew we needed to reduce our labour time in producing drawing and preparing the machines. We simply added tool paths to the DXF files,” he says.
“Previously, everything was routed manually. Trifibre invested in Alphacam when it purchased the Morbidelli to supplement the Pacer. Sales manager Trishanth Parari says the company specialises in working with major blue chip organisations, manufacturing flight cases that meet military specifications, bespoke polyprop cases, complex bespoke metal containers, made to measure metal fabrications, wooden packing crates and custom made wooden and plastic presentation cases. And now, around five years later, it programs the Biesse Rover, a Morbidelli and the original small Pacer.Įstablished in 1981, Trifibre Ltd has grown into what is believed to be the UK’s leading case producer, providing innovative casing design and manufacturing solutions to a wide range of industry sectors including aerospace, surgical and medical, motorsport and automotive, and clothing.
MORBIDELLI POST PROCESSOR FOR FEATURE CAM SOFTWARE
IT WAS an open and shut case when Leicester-based Trifibre was looking for CAD/CAM software to drive its new CNC router. Modifications can be easily made either before the execution of the part either in correction mode once the automatic processing has been executed.Trifibre 'jigsaw' nests in Alphacam aid bottom line It is possible, among other things, to edit the machining direction or the bladed direction, to define a lead-in and a lead-out, to assign repetitive strokes, to rotate the part position on the machine and to/or overturn it and to activate calibrating or not. Thanks to the contextual menu, it is possible to assign various operations, new geometric properties, or other tools which are defined by the CAD or new tools on geometries that we are designing and that have no technological properties yet. On the side of the graphic representation, sorted by face, the machining, their geometric and their technological properties are displayed. PARAMETERS MODIFICATIONĪ graphic rendering of the parts and their machining is presented to the operator. Machining rules can be defined by the operator or by Quality. Programming this directly on the CAD would be expensive and would require two different machinings, defining directions etc.
This avoids damaging the edges while leading out. For example in the case of a cut, one can assign a machining that will not execute straight from one point to the other, but one that will start from the middle of the path and then reverse to the other point to finish up the machining. ASSOCIATION TABLE FOR MACHININGĪllows to program special machinings to tools assigned by the operator. MACHINE SETUPĪllows to define the individual properties of the machine: working coordinates, spindle maximum rotation speed, coordinates for tool changing etc. In this mode, the operator who is working with the CAD must not know how the machine is set up, and if several machines are available, it is not necessary to duplicate the tools codification. TABLE FOR TOOL ASSOCIATIONĪllows maximum freedom to associate virtual tool names to be used on the CAD with the real tools set up on the CAM. For example, one can assign a diamond cutter to one material or a widia cutter to another one. The operator can define his set of machining rules according either to the geometry (depth, path etc.), either to the file name, material name etc. WOODLAB CAM directly generates the manufacturing programs in the language used by the machine (for example Biesseworks, TPA, Woodwop, Genesis, CN12, Xilog, etc.). WOODLAB CAM systematically comes with a post-processor compatible with the one driving the carpenter's CNC. They can very easily be modified by the user, who can even create new rules.
WOODLAB CAM is based on a set of rules designed to interpret the different machining and drilling operations it receives from WOODLAB CAD according to:Īll the rules are created by the technician installing WOODLAB CAM on the joiner's working site. It is hence not a CAM program with a programming interface like Alphacam, Mastercam, etc. It is an entirely automatic CAM program, also known in the industry as: " Black box". WOODLAB CAM can only be operated in combination with WOODLAB CAD. Testimony of a carpenter: my CNC saved me ! WOODLAB CAD is aimed at carpenters and cabinet makers working with a digitally controlled machining center, or CNC.
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