Hi,
so coming from a steel work background, the old way was to cut it with a flame torch, or crop it out using a metalworker, even for shape tune ends, there are specialist machines to scallop out the end of the tube so the match up with the attaching section ( tube handrails)
We sort of moved to laser profiling some years back, create for sheet/plate work, even some beam work, water jet etc. Now we have multi axis profiling machines that rely upon G Codes etc. using their own software to interact with the machine from the generated part as a Step or Iges file.
So what's the preference now for delivering the project of steelworks in the prep stage of a project to the supplier or to your own shop for production, Traditionally it was always NC files, but with the shift to more automation of the pre-production methods, should system be offering more integrated back end solutions direct from the modelling platform, rather than running thought a post processing tools for MIS/ERP etc.
should those output focus upon them being a Step file of the component to allow for fuller integration.
Inventor is separate to Say Advance Steel, but users still do Steel in inventor, they have export methods to steop/iges direct G codes to tool centers. Advance Steel you can get 3rd party tools to extend the ability to export in Step/Iges at a component and model level.
Just wondering if anyone had a preference and a reason why, Have the move from DSTV NC Standard now required, should Steel software offer Iges/Step as standard export method. should there be some form of director export method to integrate directly to machine centre. ( i call that a CAM interpreter file to take my XML Data and then convert that to relative G Code for work-center.)
Thoughts anyone?
John Bennett
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