Knowledge-Based Machining Comes to G-Wizard!

Knowledge-based machining comes to the G-Wizard Calculator with the latest release 1.026. The Cut Knowledge Base is now live. It’s a special purpose database where you can record your experience with various cutting parameters as an aid to tuning up your feeds and speeds.

“Knowledge-Based Machining” is a popular buzzword in the high-end CAM market today because it involves capturing a shop or machinist’s best practices and making it easy to reuse the best practices on all jobs. Every time we make a cut, we have the chance to try something new and perhaps learn from it. If you record the data, it’ll be there for you when you need to know what worked and what didn’t.

Most of the time, you can go faster than the manufacturer’s recommended feeds and speeds, the trick is knowing under what circumstances. The role of the Cut Knowledge Base is to help you determine how much faster, record the circumstances, and be able to reuse that knowledge every time you sit down to create a new g-code program, or perhaps to help tune up your existing programs for better peformance. Until now, you had to buy one of the higher-end CAM packages (Siemens and Esprit each have a Cut KB) to get this capability, or you had to manage it yourself via Excel or custom Access programming. Let G-Wizard take over gathering and sifting through that information.

Check out the doc page on the Cut KB for more information: http://www.cnccookbook.com/GWCalcCutKB.html There you’ll find out how the Cut KB works as well as a list of links to help you learn more about Knowledge-Based Machining. As always, let me know if there are questions or suggestions.

Related posts:

1. A Peek at the Upcoming G-Wizard Cut Knowledge Base
2. 10 Questions You Could Answer If You Had a Cut Knowledge Base
3. G-Wizard High Speed Machining Feeds and Speeds
4. Machining an AR-15 Lower Receiver with G-Wizard
5. Why Do I Have to Know a Range of SFM’s and Chiploads?

2 Comments

• Why Do I Have to Know a Range of SFM’s and Chiploads? « CNCCookbook 2011/02/17 at 11:19 pm

  [...] back off slightly.  BTW, the right software can help there too using a technology called “Knowledge Based Machining.”  This is a feature usually reserved for high-end CAM programs like Esprit, but many shops [...]

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• Why Do I Have to Know a Range of SFM’s and Chiploads? « CNCCookbook 2011/02/17 at 11:19 pm

  [...] back off slightly.  BTW, the right software can help there too using a technology called “Knowledge Based Machining.”  This is a feature usually reserved for high-end CAM programs like Esprit, but many shops [...]

  Reply