manufacturing of workpieces. Most machining progresses COMPARISON OF through four stages, each of which is implemented by a variety of basic and sophisticated strategies, depending on the PROGRAMMING material and the software available The 8 largest CAM software products and companies, by vendor revenues in year 2015 are, sorted alphabetically: PRODUCTION OF THIN Autodesk Inventor CAM HSM PRO WALLED PARTS USING BobCAD-CAM CATIA from Dassault Systèmes DIFFERENT CAM SYSTEMS CSoft MICHALIK PETER, ZAJAC JOZEF, HATALA MICHAL, DUPLAK Cimatron from Cimatron group JAN, MITAL DUSAN Dynavista from Nihon Unisys Technical University in Kosice with seat in Presov Edgecam from Planit Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies Esprit from DP Technoogy Presov, Slovak Republic HyperMill from Open Mind Mastercam from CNC Software DOI: 10.17973/MMSJ.2016_10_201632 NX (Unigraphics) from Siemens PLM Software e-mail:
[email protected] Powermill from Delcam Creo from PTC The article deals with comparing the programming of SolidCAM from SolidCAM production of thin-walled parts using CAM software. Were Space E from NTTD evaluated by the number of clicks buttons and the amount of SurfCAM from Surfware time during which the G codes generated. One side parts has TopCAM from Missler been produced by the program generated by CAD applications Tebis from Tebis AG Creo Parametric 2.0 and the other side part using Autodesk VisiCAM from Vero Inventor Professional HSM PRO 2016 was made on CNC vertical VisualMILL from MecSoft machining centre Pinnacle VMC 650 S. Vericut from CGtech KEYWORDS WorkNC from Sescoi [Michalik 2012]. thin-walled parts, CAM software, NC program, CNC machining centre The stages are: Roughing: This process begins with raw stock, known as billet, 1 INTRODUCTION and cuts it very roughly to shape of the final model.