BobCAD-CAM Integrations

Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware. Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine. Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry. Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software. Read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES files. Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software. Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed. Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.

SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD solutions provide easy-to-learn, yet extremely powerful functionality that shortens product development time, reduces costs, and improves quality. SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD solutions provide easy-to-learn, yet extremely powerful functionality that shortens product development time, reduces costs, and improves quality. Take advantage of the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD and the benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a single cloud-based product development environment. Quickly create and collaborate on 3D designs in the cloud and deliver innovative products to market faster. Quickly create and collaborate on organic shapes and complex surfaces in the cloud and deliver innovative products to market faster. Rapidly generate and detail 2D drawings from 3D models, speeding up the design-to-manufacturing process. Harness the power of the world’s most widely used 3D design software in a fully-integrated engineering suite, backed by the community.

The Predator CNC Editor is the most popular CNC code editor available on the market. It includes hundreds of features to improve the day to day productivity of CNC machine tools, operators and CNC programmers, yet it is extremely easy to use. The Predator CNC Editor is the ideal choice for the small job shop or the largest manufacturer.

Since 1994, Predator Software focuses on automating manufacturers worldwide with innovative and award-winning software applications. Predator Software is an industry leader in Industry 4.0, lean manufacturing, industrial networking solutions and automation via shop floor control or SFC. Predator's SFC technologies include CNC networking, machine monitoring, OEE, production data management, data collection, machine simulation & verification, tool & gage crib management, traveler management, CNC post processing, flexible manufacturing systems and robotic cell control software.

Predator DNC software provides an industrial networking solution for all of your CNC machines, robots, CMMs, PLCs, laser markers, dot peen markers, tool presetters and test stands. Predator DNC transfers your CNC programs, CNC variables, offsets, parameters, PLC registers and other production data to and from your manufacturing equipment. It supports 50+ industrial communication protocols for dripfeeding, downloading, and uploading via parallel, RS-232, RS-422, Ethernet and wireless Ethernet. Stop using USB drives, diskettes, PCMCIA cards, switch boxes, paper tape or a proprietary hardware contraption to communicate with your CNC machines, robots, CMMs, PLCs, 3D printers, laser markers, dot peen markers, tool presetters and test stands. Predator DNC provides a true network solution ensuring the latest files are pulled from your file server or Predator PDM vaults and, when changes occur, the edits are stored back on your file server.

Predator PDM is a paperless manufacturing driven Production Data Management application designed to organize and control CNC Programs, Robot Programs, CMM Programs, PLC Programs, setup sheets, safety procedures, CMM programs, quality documents, and others with complete revision control. Predator PDM supports paperless shop floor operation with integration with DNC, CNC Editor, Virtual CNC, MDC and Tracker. Predator PDM provides the right balance of flexibility, control and accountability to simplify adhering to international standards including CFR21 Part 11 or AS9100. Quality personnel will appreciate that Predator PDM helps to ensure that quality priorities are met by providing documented and structured change management to help avoid FDA, FAA and DOD audit findings. Manufacturing Engineering and CNC programming personnel will appreciate the day to day benefits of visualizing the manufacturing process, and revision control of manufacturing files.

Predator MDC is real-time machine monitoring software that automatically collects, reports, charts and processes real-time shop floor manufacturing data including OEE, cycle time, idle time, setup time, teardown time, machine downtime and more. Predator MDC improves manufacturing by supplying accurate shop floor productivity KPIs and metrics to improve operations and to make better decisions. Predator MDC creates a continuously up to date knowledge base of your manufacturing performance. It quantifies how well your machines are utilized, the productivity of your people and the rates of production. Predator MDC can establish and compare continuous improvement results for lean manufacturing efforts. Predator MDC organizes your real-time data into actionable KPIs and metrics for availability, quality and performance. KPIs and metrics for specific machines or rolled up KPIs and metrics for an entire department across multiple plants are available with a few mouse clicks.

Predator RCM software is a flexible robotic cell controller and scheduler designed to automate a cell of CNC Machines, robots, CMMs, gage inspections, part markers, part cleaners and other manufacturing equipment. Predator RCM provides lights out operation and production with flexible manufacturing and complete automation. Predator RCM schedules the robot to load and unload every CNC machine, CMM and work center within the cell. Hands free operation from raw material to finished parts. Predator RCM supports a wide range of pallets, tooling, RFID tags, load stations, unload stations, part washing and more. Maximize the productivity of your CNC machines while reducing the number of operators/labor required. With proper fixtures and robotic grippers, Predator RCM is capable of robotic machine tending (machine loading and unloading) any type of machine. Common machine types include CNC machines, CMMs, laser markers, part washers and other manufacturing and inspection processes.

Predator Virtual CNC software is designed to simulate and verify operation of your CNC machines on your PC. By simulating the machining process offline, you save money, lost time, scrapped parts, broken tools and machine crashes while improving safety and overall productivity. Predator Virtual CNC™ supports all standard vertical, horizontal and complex machine configurations with 2 to 5 axis. User definable machine tool configurations with our flexible reverse post processors allows standard VMCs and HMCs to be supported. Standard milling, turning and drilling cycles are all supported. Advanced cycles include subs, macros, variables, trig and logic codes are all supported. Predator Virtual CNC is optimized for 3-axis surface machining and can support huge files without running out of memory. Processing speeds can be up to 3,000 blocks per second, while retaining the accuracy that you require. Complete 3+2 support is also available within Predator Virtual CNC 5 Axis.

Predator Touch HMI is a touch first, Human Machine Interface, designed to replace shop floor bar code readers, QR code readers and hand held terminals. Machinists and operators love the simplicity and IT loves the ease of creating new applications and deploying them. Predator Touch HMIs run on almost all Windows editions. Predator Touch HMI simplifies real-time manual data collection, DNC and utilizing other applications with a modern touch first interface. Supports data collection for machine downtimes, scrap reasons, and more. Predator Touch HMIs can be created for assembly lines, test stands, light towers, MDC and DNC to improve manufacturing processes and operations. This solution provides a great alternative to costly PLC+HMI touch screen options. Lots of Windows tablets, PCs and laptop choices can be used for harsh manufacturing environments. Create custom CMM or inspection front end client HMI applications for use with a wide range of CMM and inspection applications.

Cut3D is a dedicated toolpath engine for CNC machining 3D models that have been designed using a 3D CAD or Graphics design product such as AutoCAD, Rhino3D, 3D Studio etc. or scanned using a laser or touch probe device. Cut3D's exceptionally easy to use interface leads you step-by-step through the process of loading a model, setting the size, interactively placing tabs to hold the job in place, calculating single, double or four sided roughing and finishing toolpaths, previewing the results and finally saving the CNC code to run on your machine. 3D Models that are too large/thick to machine because of gantry height, cutter length or limited material thickness can be 'sliced' into separate pieces. Each slice can then be machined and the complete job assembled. Cut3D includes powerful import filters that work with most of the industry-standard mesh file formats. Standard postprocessors are included for virtually all CNC machine control systems.