CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 March 2007
Events News
Delcam to Show Dental CADCAM at IDS Exhibition
Delcam will highlight its recently acquired Dentmill and SwissCAM CAM systems for the medical and dental industries on stand A048 at the International Dental Show to be held in Cologne from 20th to 24th March. The company will also demonstrate its full range of CADCAM software for design, reverse engineering and inspection, and show how these can be used within the dental industry.
Dentmill is a stand-alone program based on Delcam's PowerMILL CAM system. It provides a knowledge-based machining process for caps, bridges and implant bridges in ceramics and titanium. The software can accept geometry from dental design software or from dental 3D scanners in most point cloud and triangulated data formats.
The Dentmill process begins by splitting the model into the areas to be machined from above and from below the parting line. The user then specifies the positions for the pins to hold the part during machining. Software shading provides a warning if the pin positions will lead to any machining of undercuts. The positions can then be adjusted to eliminate the problem. Once the correct orientation has been set, toolpaths can be generated automatically for the appropriate type of part and material.
SwissCAM is the industry-leading applications for the programming of Swiss-type lathes. These machines are used in the medical and dental industries for the mass production of precision parts. The world's three largest medical device manufacturers, and many smaller companies, have chosen SwissCAM for the programming of their machines.
SwissCAM simplifies programming of these complex machines resulting in significant savings of both time and money. The software's patented Visual Programming approach allows users to divide any complex part into a set of planar and rotary faces. Machining functions, such as turning, plane milling and cylinder milling, are programmed separately for each face in an intuitive manner, with feeds and speeds for each tool calculated automatically. The various elements can then be synchronised for optimum overall machining times.
The complete program can be simulated on the computer using a true machine model. These simulations give the user complete confidence that any program generated with SwissCAM will work flawlessly on the machine.
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