Waterjet cutting CAM software generates tool paths from 3-D models

OMAX® Corp. offers CAM software for cutting complex, precision parts on its JetMachining® waterjet cutting machines.

Free to OMAX machine owners, Intelli-CAM™ 3 software interfaces directly with the company’s intuitive Intelli-MAX® software suite, generating 3-D tool paths from 3-D solid models and performing 3-D to 2-D file conversions.

Through its 3-D Pather tool, the CAM software generates multiaxis, machine-ready tool paths from complex 3-D solid models. It automatically recognizes viable cutting surfaces from those 3-D shapes, including variable bevels and tilted cones. This functionality eliminates the need to add 3-D attributes manually to a 2-D file.

With the 3-D file imported, users extract the desired 2-D profile directly from a slicing plane, shadow, or face. Intuitive navigation tools allow users to position and orient the slice, including rotations around all axes, orienting to a face, or projecting as a shadow.