Tebis CAD/CAM stations are tailored to the special needs of die, mold and pattern manufacturers. We can combine different CAD and CAM modules on the same Tebis workstation, depending on your range of functions and components. While Tebis systems consisting of only CAD stations or only CAM stations are available, over 85 % of all our workstations worldwide have a combined CAD/CAM design. 

Advantages of the combined workstations include:

• Check the quality of imported surface and solid data in seconds
• Correct inaccuracies quickly and with a minimum of fuss
• Add all necessary components quickly and easily
• Design complete die layouts based on CAD product data
• Combine surface and solid data using any digitized data (meshes)
• Fully automatic or interactive calculation of all necessary milling strategies
• Reuse intermediate NC processing results such as updated blanks in CAD processes
• Calculate high-precision milling programs that are suitable for high-speed cutting (HSC)
• Feature-supported NC programming for 2.5D drilling and milling

Special time-saving functions for tooling design

Tebis CAD stations provide a wide range of specialized design functions for constructively incorporating manufacturing technologies, including fillets, component partitions and draft angles in casting as well as overbends, radius reductions and trim line developments in sheet-metal working.
Tebis also has an automated solution for designing electrodes in mold manufacturing. If geometric or economic considerations make it impossible to use milling technology, EDM electrodes can be derived quickly and easily.

 

“CAD plus CAM” technology ensures highest quality and flexibility in NC manufacturing

Efficient production planning and scheduling is possible only if NC programmers also have powerful analysis and CAD functions. Production planners use Tebis stations to analyze imported data sets for problems and repair any problem areas quickly and precisely. Add-on, extension and protection surfaces are generated to enhance reliability and improve the quality of milling results, while the parts are structured according to cutting and stop surfaces.

 

Tebis hybrid core supports surfaces, meshes

Tebis designers work both with digitized STL surfaces and FEM meshes and with polynomial surfaces created or imported via curves and interfaces. The Tebis hybrid technology enables both. Imported solids are kept together in a structured fashion as topological composites. In principle, in Tebis all the surfaces can be machined and optimized in a targeted way that allows them to be converted to solids immediately in the target system.

 

Wire frame technology provides the highest surface quality with minimum work

The wire frame technology integrated into the RSC module (Rapid Surface Creation) makes the handling as easy as possible while ensuring low-segmentation surfaces with constant tangents and minimum gaps between the individual surfaces. Use the wire frame to comfortably create surfaces on predefined meshes. It also provides targeted quality optimization of surface models.