Friday, June 12, 2009

GibbsCAM to be Demonstrated at Haas Demo Days as Machinist Tools

GibbsCAM to be Demonstrated at Haas Demo Days as Machinist Tools

  
   
MOORPARK, California, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cimatron Limited

(NASDAQ: CIMT), a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for the

toolmaking and manufacturing industries, announced that GibbsCAM, its

software for programming CNC machine tools, will be demonstrated as part of

Haas Automation's upcoming annual Demo Days to be held June 17, from 10AM to

5PM, at various Haas Factory Outlets (HFO) throughout the United States and

Canada.

"Participation in the Haas Demo Days is a great opportunity to demonstrate

the extensive new features of GibbsCAM," states Bill Gibbs, Gibbs and

Associates company founder and president. "While a good percentage of our

customers use GibbsCAM to generate CNC programs to drive Haas machine tools,

Haas uses it in daily machine-tool production. Furthermore, Haas application

engineers use GibbsCAM to demonstrate the wide capabilities of their machine

tools."

The one-day Demo Days events will feature the latest affordable, super-high-

production CNC machines from Haas, with live demonstrations on every machine

in the HFO showrooms. Live demonstrations of the latest GibbsCAM, version

9.3, will show how easily it creates efficient CNC programs for Haas machine

tools. The GibbsCAM Advanced 3D High Speed Machining (HSM) and 5-Axis modules

will be featured, together with postprocessors that support every Haas

machine tool made. The other GibbsCAM modules will also be available for

demonstration, including GibbsCAM TMS (Tombstone Management System), which

was originally developed to support Haas' internal tombstone programming with

efficient layout and programming of tombstone-fixtured parts.

The Advanced 3D HSM module comprises multiple machining methods specifically

developed for multi-surface hard milling and high speed machining in

SolidSurfacer(R) to provide high quality surface finishes that reduce or

eliminate polishing. The various machining styles are useful for multiple

applications and offer smooth entries, exits and cutting motions, with steep

or shallow angle limits, rest passes, tool-holder collision checking, and

options to change cutting style. These styles are Contour, Constant Step Over

Cut, Flats Cut, Lace Cut, Intersections, Automatic Core Detection, and

Improved Pocketing.

The GibbsCAM 5-axis Module provides multi-surface 5-axis roughing and

finishing; multi-surface, 5-axis, flow-line machining; surface edge. 5-axis

swarf cutting (typically for trimming vacuum-formed parts); adaptable

interface, based upon part-type strategy, shows only what is needed; advanced

gouge checking to ensure safe cuts even in most complex operations; complete

control of entry, exit, cut-to-cut and between-cut motion; 5-axis depth cuts

machining; and integration with the GibbsCAM Machine Simulation module for

complete toolpath verification and simulation of all the machine's moving

components. Version 9.3, adds automatic tilting and various tilting options,

plus many new enhancements to provide greater flexibility and productivity

for using multi-axis machines.

For information about Haas Automation's Demo Days, visit the Haas Automation

Web site at http://www.HaasCNC.com, or call 800-331-6746, or contact your

local Haas Factory Outlet. For the cities where GibbsCAM will demonstrated,

or to find out more about GibbsCAM or Gibbs' participation at Haas

Automation's Demo Days, go to Gibbs' Web site at http://www.GibbsCAM.com.

About Gibbs and Associates and GibbsCAM

For over twenty five years, Gibbs and Associates has been a leader in

providing cutting edge CAD/CAM technology, while maintaining its signature

ease-of-use and productivity. Powerfully Simple, Simply Powerful is the

guiding philosophy at Gibbs. Gibbs believes in empowering the NC programmer,

machinist, and manufacturing engineer, not eliminating them. Gibbs' goal is

to introduce manufacturers to new technologies and new ways of working that

makes their machining easier and their businesses more profitable. To achieve

this goal, Gibbs creates tools that are naturally intuitive, graphically

interactive, extremely visual, associative, and just plain enjoyable to use.

Gibbs provides a total quality solution with the service and support

successful customers require.

The current GibbsCAM product line supports 2- through 5-axis milling,

turning, mill/turning, multi-task simultaneous machining and wire-EDM.

GibbsCAM also provides fully integrated manufacturing modeling capabilities

that include 2D, 2.5D, 3D wireframe, surface, and solid modeling. GibbsCAM is

certified for Microsoft's Windows Vista. GibbsCAM's data exchange

capabilities are able to access the broadest range of native and industry

standard CAD data formats. GibbsCAM is certified under the Autodesk Inventor

Certified Application Program, is a Solid Edge Certified Select Product, and

is a SolidWorks Certified CAM Product. GibbsCAM is either offered or endorsed

by a number of leading worldwide control and machine tool manufacturers,

including GE Fanuc, Infimatic, Siemens, Doosan Infracore, Haas, Index, MAG

Fadal, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Mori Seiki, and Tornos. Gibbs and Associates

distributes its products worldwide through a network of international

Resellers.

In January 2008, Gibbs and Associates merged with Cimatron Ltd, and is now

operating as a wholly owned subsidiary. For more information about Gibbs and

Associates and its CAM software packages, call 1-800-654-9399, or visit the

company on-line at http://www.GibbsCAM.com.

About Cimatron

With over 25 years of experience and more than 40,000 installations

worldwide, Cimatron is a leading provider of integrated, CAD/CAM solutions

for mold, tool and die makers as well as manufacturers of discrete parts.

Cimatron is committed to providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions

that streamline manufacturing cycles, enable collaboration with outside

vendors, and ultimately shorten product delivery time.

The Cimatron product line includes the CimatronE and GibbsCAM brands with

solutions for mold design, die design, electrodes design, 2.5 to 5 axes

milling, wire EDM, turn, Mill-turn, rotary milling, multi-task machining, and

tombstone machining. Cimatron's subsidiaries and extensive distribution

network serve and support customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical,

consumer plastics, electronics, and other industries in over 40 countries

worldwide.

Cimatron is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol CIMT. For

more information, please visit the company web site at

http://www.cimatron.com.

The Gibbs logo, GibbsCAM, GibbsCAM logo, Virtual Gibbs, Gibbs SFP,

SolidSurfacer, MTM and "Powerfully Simple. Simply Powerful." are either

trademark(s) or registered trademark(s) of Gibbs and Associates in the United

States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are

trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United

States and/or other countries. All other brand or product names are

trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release includes forward looking statements, within the meaning of

the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Of 1995, which are subject to

risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially

from those anticipated. Such statements may relate to the company's plans,

objectives and expected financial and operating results. The words "may,"

"could," "would," "will," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect,"

"intend," "plan," and similar expressions or variations thereof are intended

to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such

forward-looking statements are not guarantees of the future performance and

involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's

ability to control. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward

looking statements include, but are not limited to: currency fluctuations,

global economic and political conditions, marketing demand for Gibbs and

Associates or Cimatron products and services, long sales cycle, new product

development, assimilating future acquisitions, maintaining relationships with

customers and partners, and increased competition. For more details about the

risks and uncertainties of the business, refer to the Cimatron's filings with

the Securities and Exchanges Commission. The company cannot assess the impact

of or the extent to which any single factor or risk, or combination of them,

may cause. Gibbs and Associates and Cimatron undertake no obligation to

publicly update or revise any forward looking statements, whether as a result

of new information, future events or otherwise.
 

Comments:

   Precision Machining at it's best. gone are the old conventional ways.

welcome to the next evolution in Machining tools.


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