Tube angle CAD/CAM software aswell accommodates laser tube cutting

Version 2.6 of the TubeWorks tube angle CAD/CAM software, accessible from Unison, provides able pre-production accoutrement for laser acid as able-bodied as tube bending.

slashes programming time for tube angle and laser acid

simplifies design/manufacture of locations with circuitous aeroembolism and cut-outs

Scarborough, UK, September 15, 2014 - A new adaptation of the TubeWorks tube angle CAD/CAM software, which now provides tubular metal fabricators with able pre-production accoutrement for laser acid as able-bodied as tube bending, is accessible from the tube angle apparatus architect Unison.

Developed by the UK-based software consultancy 3DCompound, TubeWorks is a specialist add-in bore for the accepted SolidWorks automatic CAD package. By accumulation able visualisation capabilities with automatic cipher abstraction and book generation, the software enables metal fabricators to essentially admission the abundance of their tube administration operations through optimal use of accomplishment data. The time that it takes to advance programs for CNC tube angle and laser tube acid machines, for example, is about bargain from hours to just minutes.

For tube bending, the software automatically extracts key accomplishment advice such as angle angles and rotations from a built-in SolidWorks archetypal or a accepted CAD book such as STEP, IGES or ParaSolid and creates the angle table for actual use on a CNC angle machine, as able-bodied as the XYZ coordinates and a 2D cartoon of the modelled tube.

Version 2.6 of TubeWorks extends this functionality significantly, by enabling users to ?unbend' the CAD models of angled tubes into collapsed (or straight) configurations absolute abounding abstracts of all holes and cut-outs, to accommodate the ascribe abstracts for laser tube acid machines. Manually flattening a CAD archetypal of a angled tube allotment requires specialist abilities and is a awfully time-consuming and potentially error-prone task. For example, flattening the archetypal of a tube allotment that appearance 5 or six multi-plane aeroembolism and a brace of holes could yield a artist several hours. In contrast, accomplishing this application TubeWorks alone involves a few abrasion clicks and takes about 30 seconds.

As able-bodied as automating the abstraction of accomplishment data, TubeWorks offers abundant functions to added advice users minimise the pre-production architecture time of machine-based tube acid and bending. These cover automatic centreline conception through tubular geometry (for both annular and non-round profiles) and automatic about-face of alien tube models into built-in SolidWorks models for CLR (centreline radius) modification.

Fig.: Unison's all-electric tube angle machines are backed by a advanced ambit of abundance acceptable software tools.

Two new ?Power' functions are advised accurately to advice users affected a frequently encountered botheration area SolidWorks does not recognise the tube face of an alien archetypal as cylindrical, which makes centreline conception added time consuming. The Power Centreline action enables users to actualize a centreline account artlessly by beat on adapted appearance of the displayed model, while the Power Recreate action can be acclimated to bound reinstate archetypal abstracts from a centreline sketch.

The latest adaptation of TubeWorks aswell now offers an automatic Deduct Breadth action that enables users to compress bedfast tube configurations artlessly by allegorical the appropriate breadth change and the point at which it should be applied, to atone for the addendum apparent by their alike barometer apparatus (CMM). They can again anon actualize a new YBC book forgas detectors
the angle apparatus and a new ParaSolid book for the laser tube acid machine.

Alan Pickering, MD of Unison, credibility out, "TubeWorks has accepted actual accepted with tube abetment companies for dispatch their citation and assembly procedures. The accession of laser tube acid functionality agency that the software will now address to an even added chump base, abnormally if they are gluttonous to abate design-to-manufacturing times by administration all tube angle and acid operations in-house."

TubeWorks is a absolutely chip add-in for the SolidWorks CAD amalgamation and is accessible alone from Unison. It eliminates the charge for any added software to accomplish accomplishment abstracts for the design, development and assembly of tubular metal parts, while accouterment absolutely able admission to SolidWorks' able architecture functions.

A video demonstrating TubeWorks' key appearance and affluence of use can be beheld on Unison's website at: wholesale industrial supplies


Unison has one of the a lot of all-encompassing portfolios of tube angle technology in the industry. As able-bodied as an awfully advanced ambit of angle machines, administration systems and automatic plan cells, the aggregation offers abundance acceptable software accoutrement accoutrement every aspect of tubular metal artifact - from architecture and accomplish through to final inspection. Proprietary articles cover Unison's able PC-based Unibend Office and Opt2Sim 3D simulation software for offline creation, analysis and validation of angle programs, as able-bodied as a different calculator app for evaluating angle apparatus applique that runs on Apple's iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Unison aswell distributes the VTube-STEP and VTube-LASER software produced by Advanced Tubular Technologies. These bales abridge the conception of production-ready programs for tube benders application CAD data; VTube-LASER extends this adequacy by acceptance abstracts from alike barometer machines to be acclimated for gas monitor
angle alteration or about-face engineering purposes.

The TubeWorks tube angle CAD/CAM software is a specialist add-in bore for the accepted SolidWorks automatic CAD package.