SURFCAM Step Reduction Milling[$reg] Patent Granted
(Westlake Village, California, USA, March 18, 2004) Surfware, Inc., maker of
SURFCAM CAD/CAM Systems, announced today that their popular SURFCAM Step
Reduction Milling software is now patented technology. United States Patent
No. 6,704,611 B2 was issued to Surfware for their System and Method for
Rough Milling on March 9, 2004.
"Surfware is pleased to have been granted this patent. The technology it
protects is unique in every sense of the word, and the acknowledgement of
the approach we've developed for rough milling application is gratifying,"
noted Brian Kindilien, Surfware Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "With
this protection, we can confidently offer a product capability that will
help manufacturers who are striving to increase efficiency of one of the
most time-consuming aspects of machining: bulk material removal," stated Mr.
Kindilien.
Step Reduction Milling, featuring new patent pending technology, is a
multiple tool programming procedure that creates one optimal NC program to
run an entire set of tools as a single set-up process - all of which can be
created in a single step. SRM reduces rough machining time by up to 50% or
more and reduces NC programming time by up to 90%. This new technology
represents a major breakthrough in the rough milling of complex multiple
surfaces by automatically synchronizing the depths-of-cut for each of the
tools used in the process such that each tool is running at its optimum
material-removal parameters, all material is removed with the largest
possible tool, and no tool is over taxed.
Alan Christman of CIMdata, Inc., an independent industrial research and
analysis service, states, "As an add-on module to SURFCAM, CIMdata believes
that this function provides Surfware with leading-edge technology in this
important segment of machining. CIMdata believes that Step Reduction Milling
could minimize or perhaps eliminate the industry's need for rest roughing
and/or feed-rate optimization software. Both of these capabilities are
generally viewed as advanced technologies that are important in roughing of
molds or other parts with complex surfaces. To obviate the requirement for
this type of software would be a significant accomplishment." |
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