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3-D WORLD Volume 6, Number 3 Annual Subscription: $29,95 News For The CADKEY User Summer 1992 3-D WORLD Volume 6, Number 3 Annual Subscription: $29,95 Alf[!ost too good to be true, but it is true! Joint Announcement of "', ' . American-Japanese Development Fanuc, Cadkey, Kubota, and Sun Microsystems Form Major Technology and Business Alliance On May 19,1992, FANUC LTD., Cadkey, Inc., Kubota Corporation, and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation announced that they have signed a new OEM agreement to produce the F ANUC CAD DIE(') workstation system. FANUC LTD. ofOshino-mura, Upper left: CUTTING EDGE model of welding jig for manufacturing drive-shaft supports with Japan, the world's leading initial tool path. F?lght: Gilles Charron, Kerry Folkes and Brian Richards standing with the supplier of machine-tool finished welding jig stili mounted on ENSHU milling machine, Lower left: finished welding jig. controllers (See Editor's Note #1 ), will use exclusively CADKEY(') 5, Cutting Steel with CUTTING EDGE CADKEY(') SURFACES, and only 3 Hours after Installation CADKEY(') Dynamic Extension S'~ , (Continued on page 2) Total Brake Industries of programming experience, Dorval, Quebec, Canada, designs ordered CUTTING EDGE on IN THIS ISSUE: and manufactures automotive May 8. Peter Barnett of Kemeny brakes, thermostats and drive­ Automation, Inc., their CADKEY o MACHINE DESIGN and shaft supports. They have been and CUTTING EDGE dealer in APPLIANCE MANUFAC­ designing the components for Montreal, delivered the software TURER honor Cadkey...... 3, 18 their products in CADKEY(') on May 12. o Fan Maker Creates Agricul since 1990. They also use Total Brake had to make a tural Vacuum Cleaner............. 3 CADKEY to design the dies, welding jig for manufacturing o Fadal Designs Vertical molds, and welding fixtures in drive-shaft supports. Brian Machining Centers .................. 5 their manufacturing processes. Richards decided to use this o Small Shop Does Big Work ..... 9 Tuesday, May 12, 1992, marks production piece as the first o Cadkey Now on CompuServe the beginning of their use of project for CUTTING EDGE. CADD/CAM Forum ............... ll CUTTING EDGETM to machine "We had designed the drive-shaft o New Ink Technology and their dies, molds, and welding support earlier, by hand," Brian New Type ofPrinter .............. 12 jigs. Herein lies a remarkable said. "My assistant, Kerry o CADKEY User Designs story. Folkes, had already recreated the Furniture ............................... 13 Gilles Charron, plant part in CADKEY in 3-D, and he o Third-Party News ..... l0, 14, 17, manager of Total Brake had designed the welding jig for 19 Industries' Stamping Division, it, too." Brian planned to cut the o Cadkey Training Centers ...... 15 and Brian Richards, a tool fixture on the company's o A Little Seed Money and a Big Garden of Ideas ............... 22 designer with 12 years of CNC (Continued on page 2) Cutting Steel Quick Move into Fanuc (Continued from page 1) Production (Continued from page 1) Mter minor modifications of ENSHU ACCU-MILLT" machine output code, Brian verified the with F ANUC's own CAM soft­ with a FANUC 6M'" controller. tool path on the screen. Based ware, in the FANUC CAD DIE. on his visual verification of the This system is FANUC's latest­ Quick Start-up Time tool path, Brian decided to generation, advanced CAD/CAM "Mter I received CUTTING eliminate the usual step of system, for the design and EDGE, I spent about a half hour proving-out the tool path by manufacture of dies and molds reading the Getting Started cutting a test part in wax. "We with sculpted surfaces. The manual," Brian said. "It took did not need to have a wax test," FANUC CAD DIE will run about 15 minutes to load the Brian said. "Perhaps it was not exclusively on Sun Microsystems' software. Then I followed the prudent, but I was not at all SPARC Station'" hardware with directions for the first two afraid to start cutting the UNIX-based Solaris(R) exercises of the tutorial in the immediately in steel." operating system. manual. It was marvelous. "I sent the post processor's This agreement follows four There were no problems. About output file to the FANUC 6M years of collaborative develop­ two hours had gone by. Now, I controller on our ENSHU milling ment by FANUC, Cadkey, and loaded the 3-D part file for the machine, using Crosstalk'" Kubota, Cadkey's Japanese welding jig to be cut in steel. communication software, and we distributor, with strong technical The fixture's overall dimensions were ready to cut steel." support from Sun Microsystems are: 11 .5 inches long, 5.8 inches Approximately three hours had Computer Corporation (SMCC), wide, and 5 inches high. It passed since Peter Barnett had a subsidiary of Sun Micro­ needed to have a pocket cut into delivered CUTTING EDGE systems, Inc. of Mountain View, this block: 7.565 inches long, earlier that day, May 12. California. Kubota Corporation 4.528 inches wide, and 3.536 "We began cutting steel the of Osaka, Japan, is a century-old inches deep. Cutting steel with a next morning," Brian said. "I manufacturing company with three-inch, three-flute, carbide­ find that CUTTING EDGE is the recognized expertise in custom­ insert mill, we can cut a way it should be. I got on the izing technology to new maximum 32 thousandths of an system and made a program applications. SMCC is a world inch with each pass." right away. You can see what leader in the development of "To program a part with you are doing. You see what the client-server, networked, CUTTING EDGE," Brian machine is going to do, and it workstation-based computing continued, "you do not need to does it." Cutting the pocket in systems for commercial and read the manual. You just have the welding jig took 20 hours. technical applications. to read the screen properly. Make sure that there are Editor's Note #1: Because CUTTING A First numbers where numbers are EDGE is a brand-new product, some This marks the first time supposed to be. If you are not readers may find it difficult to believe that that F ANUC has chosen sure, put the cursor at the Total Brake Industries got their new hardware and software location on the screen, and click. CUTTING EDGE system into technologies other than its own Something will happen. And, if manufacturing production so speedily. for integration into a product. what you select does not work, Any reader may contact Gilles Charron or F ANUC selected CADKEY 5 you can always go back and Brian Richards to verify the accuracy of and CADKEY SURFACES select again." this article. You can contact Gilles or because of their high-level 3-D "To do the pocket, I specified Brian at Total Brake Industries, 1949 modeling and surface the starting point and the chain 55th Avenue, Dorval, Quebec H9P 1G9, capabilities, award-winning of entities on the part's surface. Canada. Telephone: (51 4) 631-5758. interface, ease of use, and the When it requested the next Fax: (514) 631-9197. Or, you may contact CADKEY Dynamic Extensions entity, CUTTING EDGE showed Peter Barnett at Kemeny Automation, (CDE). FANUC chose the me that part of the jig's geometry 2453 Guenette Street, Montreal, Quebec was not complete. CUTTING H4R 2E9, Canada. Tel: (514) 745-0535. 3-D WORLD is published quarterly by Fax: (514) 745-0542. Cadkey, Inc., 4 Griffin Road North, Windsor, EDGE created the tool path CT 06095-1511. anyway, but I am fussy. I do not Editor's Note #2: ACCU-MILL is a Editor: Frank Simpson like to work with incomplete Contributing Editors: Maribeth Schneider trademark of EN SHU LTD, Hamamatsu, Mary Beth Staron geometry. So, I corrected the J apan. FANUC 6M is a trademark of For additional copies. changes in mailing geometry, and redid the tool FANUC LTD, Oshino-mura, J apan. address. information about 3-~ WORLD, path. CUTTING EDGE TELEPHONE: (203) 298-8888 Crosstalk is a registered trademark of FAX: (203) 298-6401 calculated the speeds and feeds Digital Communications Associates, Inc., © Copyright 1992 by Cadkey, Inc. All rights beautifully." Alpharetta, Georgia. reserved. 2 3-D WORLD, Summer 1992 SPARCStation for its open MACHINE DESIGN Honors Cadkey, Inc. architecture, speed, power and conformance with international with CAD/CAM Leader Award standards. FANUC, Cadkey and The May 21, 1992 issue of MACHINE Kubota engineers h ave MACHINE DESIGN awarded concentrated their efforts on its 1992 CAD/CAM LEADER developing customized tools and AWARD to Cadkey, Inc. "for extensions specific to the tool­ improving the vision of design and-die industry, especially engineers," with a system in manufacturing companies that which "design, analysis, and su pply the automotive and manufacturing software are aerospace industries. They u sed combined into one neat package, Cadkey's CDE technology producing a compact version of throughout their work to create concurren t engineering." DESIGN is published by Penton a modular integrated system. MACHIN E DESIGN Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of "The product and the honored Cadkey and 20 other Pittway Corporation, 1100 relationships that we are companies in the CAD and CAM Superior Avenue, Cleveland, announcing represent the best of indu stries. MACHINE Ohio 44114-2543. international cooperation," said Livingston Davies, President of Cadkey. "Besides allowing a Industrial Fan Manufacturer Creates group of engineers to work on a project simultaneously, it lets Agricultural Vacuum Cleaner with CAD KEY one engineer work on variou s aspects of a project - CAD, surfaces, and CAM - without getting out of his chair." The FANUC CAD DIE made its first public appearance in Osaka, Japan, in May 1992. The system will become available internationally during the third quarter of 1992. E ditor's Note #1: The Investment Report published by Schroder Securities (J apan) Limited, dated November 5, 1991 , states that FANUC LTD.
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