Solids Import Option Increases Productivity.(Brief Article)

Gibbs and Associates is now offering a Solids Import option as an add-on capability to the milling and turning production versions of its GibbsCAM NC programming CAM software. Because of the increased utilization of mid-ranged PC-based solid modeling CAD packages for engineering design, manufacturers are said to find it increasingly necessary to work directly with solid models rather than only wireframe geometry. Solids Import is reportedly an intermediate step for the price-conscious customer who may not want to move all the way up in functionality to Gibbs' full three-axis Solid