

The new product closely related and similar to a previous design must be found.

Thus, this paper describes an approach to estimate manufacturing cost and to produce the machining strategy of a new model by the reuse of the CAM data and manufacturing expertise, acquired during the realization of old products. The use of the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) leads to the rapid determination of the manufacturing cost from the data of a CAD model. The proper reuse of the company's know-how guarantees the correct estimation of the manufacturing cost while respecting the required quality. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle.The manufacturing industries must correctly and quickly predict the production cost of a new product to face increasingly stiff competition. Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies.

This has been possible due to the tight integration with SolidWorks that allows CAMWorks to store CAM data within the SolidWorks part file reducing file management and leveraging SolidWorks’ familiar interface to provide the users the best in class ease-of-use capabilities. CAMWorks 2013 boasts an enhanced user interface (UI) for easier access to improve productivity.ĬAMWorks 2013 has bolstered an already comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) suite, with the addition of a wide variety of APIs including one that helps interpret Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI) data for advanced users to automate significant portion of their design to manufacture life cycle reducing the drudgery of manual programming.ĬAMWorks combines with SolidWorks to bring the world of design and manufacturing a step closer. Geometric, a leader in advanced manufacturing software will be releasing the latest version of its intuitive solids-based CNC programming solution, CAMWorks 2013, at the SolidWorks World 2013, which will be held from January 20-23, 2013 at Florida, USA.
