What’s New in GibbsCAM 2025
Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful
GibbsCAM 2025 incorporates cutting-edge turning technologies, equipping their clients with AI capabilities, and offering convenient access to extensive manufacturing and tooling expertise. The integration of Sandvik’s cutting-edge technology continues, starting with Sandvik Coromant PrimeTurning™, the implementation of Y-axis turning, and now Sandvik OptiThreading™. This leads to a significant improvement of efficiency and productivity, both in engineering as well as in production. GibbsCAM continued to work towards its goal of becoming the CAM solution of choice for Sandvik Coromant turning technologies.
Unlocking the full potential of turning
With the insert positioned in the Y-Z plane, Y-axis Turning effectively directs the primary cutting forces into the milling spindle, providing exceptional stability. This yields superior chip control, improved surface finish, and increased cutting speeds. Furthermore, the inclusion of a third axis for tool rotation allows for optimal positioning of the tool, enabling the cutting of intricate shapes with a single tool. This also enables a seamless “sweeping” motion for cutting complex shapes, preventing any blend marks and ensuring precise control of the insert wiper effect.
Sandvik Coromant OptiThreading™
GibbsCAM’s new turning strategy for OptiThreading™ enables controlled chip breaking to eliminate long stringy chips that can damage a component’s surface and interfere with the cutting zone. It is just as suitable for simple threads as it is for cutting complex thread profiles, in high-strength alloys or exotic materials.
Using cutting data from CoroPlus® Tool Library, OptiThreading™ enables users to develop optimized thread turning tool paths that specifically overcome the challenge of chip control with these operations. This is achieved by specialized GibbsCAM tool paths that use controlled, oscillating movements in and out of the cut for interrupted cuts on all passes except the last one. The result is controlled chip control for improved component quality, faster cutting speeds and less manual work by reducing the need to manually clear long chips during the machine run cycle.
