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GibbsCAM Basic Information

11/18/2009 10:18 PM

Friends, I have a situation in which I could use a little advice. The boss dumped new projects on me, and I'm having to use GibbsCAM to work up machining routines.

I have never even seen the program until Monday evening, and I'm trying to flesh out some of the procedures. I'm having decent success, but I would like to inquire about one thing.

I assume there is a procedure to rotate a part 180 degrees so I can face mill and counterbore/machine some detail on what would be the "backside". I have most of the "front" detailed; the next step is to get at the "back" to continue. Help menus are a bit vague. Any advice would be appreciated.

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11/20/2009 6:01 AM

I have had some trouble with Gibbs myself , Try this website www.cnczone.com/ , they have a forum on Virtual Gibbs Cam. But I would also suggest training from Gibbs. I find that creating geometry is difficult and unpredictable (they need to improve it a lot!),If you have a Cad program create it there and import into Gibbs always work off your origin (X0, Y0) moving geometry is difficult. too. This is my opinion I'm sure some will disagree. But to me, creating basic geometry should be easy, other that than that Gibbs is a good cam program.

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11/20/2009 9:10 AM

Never used GibbsCAM myself, but most graphical machining systems allow you to set up a new Cartesian coordinate system to re-orient the tool and post process based on that new axis setup.

I'm presuming you're talking about 2 1/2 or 3 axis machining, of course; no rotary table or head. So, you're not actually going to rotate the part just the coordinate system.

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