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Tackle Complex Surfaces with Autodesk PowerMill Advanced Toolpaths

Tackle Complex Surfaces with Autodesk PowerMill Advanced Toolpaths

Customer challenge

Kenstone was dealing with complex shapes for their jigs and fixtures to support assembly. The existing CAM solution that the customer is using cannot fulfill the need for a solution to tackle complex shapes and quickly generate toolpaths for CNC machines. Dealing with numerous parts that needed to be machined required a shortened lead time for programming and machining. Especially the complex shapes must be in good surface quality. Autodesk PowerMill was identified to likely be the best solution that solved both the important time and quality need. Moreover, the possibility of automated programming will be a big advantage to achieve more production.

Project goals

Kenstone is expanding and needed to prepare the technical team for more machining time, tasks and production. The Autodesk PowerMill solution helped them become more confident to hire new staff members and get them quickly familiar with the job workflows run by PowerMill with 100% confidence.

Solution

From reviewing the specific components and requirements that Kenstone needed to machine, OneCAD Vietnam's expert team recommended Autodesk PowerMill as the best solution in the market that can handle the production demand, the component quality and shortening the lead-time required for manufacturing. OneCAD Vietnam provided the following services: 1) Getting Kenstone users familiar with Autodesk PowerMill by offering a combination of on-site installation and training one-on-one sessions. The training objective is to get users familiar with PowerMill as soon as possible as the demand for machining cannot stop just because they are changing the CAM solution. 2) Quickly apply PowerMill to the workflow: With a team of experts verified by Autodesk, a pilot project was run with PowerMill on the component that gave challenges in the past. This approach was a great help as the customer can see directly how to handle and tackle issues with PowerMill from a vendor who can be trusted.

Business outcome

The ease-of-use and advanced toolpaths helped Kenstone’s engineers have more time to optimize process and gain more confidence before implementing the streamlined CNC programming workflows with Autodesk PowerMill. OneCAD Vietnam continues the same quality of support to help ensure the best outcome for the customer's investment.

Conclusion

The Autodesk PowerMill solution with OneCAD Vietnam's expert services significantly reduced programming times for Kenstone by applying automated CNC programming with macros and templates that can be customized.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 60
  • 2021-10-12

    Autodesk solutions

  • PowerMill

    Services provided

  • Product Training
  • Product Activation & Onboarding
  • Technical Support

    Customer industry

  • Subtractive Manufacturing
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