Feature Article

Feature Recognition—The Missing Link To Automated CAM
Software that analyzes design geometry and identifies what is a pocket, a hole, a slot or another machinable shape promises to have a major impact on the productivity of CNC programmers.

 

Geometric Software Solutions, (Nashua, New Hampshire) a leading developer of core technology for feature recognition, defines a feature as areas of part geometry that have a special interest. For CNC machining applications, features represent what a specific set of machining routines can produce.