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The main purpose of Router-CIM Automation Suite is to provide a complete CAD/CAM solution for both single part machining and nested based manufacturing. Router-CIM Automation Suite allows you to automatically produce NC Code for parts that are produced or imported into the AutoCAD environment, as well as any other single part that can be parametrically defined, or produced as a drawing or DXF file.
For new users of Router-CIM Automation Suite, there are a few concepts which need to be understood in order to use the product efficiently. These are:
•A basic understanding of the Microsoft Windows environment, and file handling with programs such as My Computer, or Windows Explorer.
•A working knowledge of the AutoCAD environment. How to create and name layers, and assign geometry to those layers.
•Some knowledge of the types of tools, cutting conditions, and materials you are likely to use on your parts.
•Knowing the difference between the file types Router-CIM Automation Suite uses such as DWG, DXF, and SCN.
•Understanding the Layer to Knowledge association feature in Router-CIM Automation Suite.
If you will be primarily using macros for your part definitions, then a complete understanding of Router-CIM's Parametric Macro Builder and how to create a macro is truly necessary. This takes practice and is best done on paper first! Also you will need to understand the different variable types: Global, Dynamic, Tagged, and Local, and how to use them.
The Router-CIM Automation Suite is a comprehensive suite of tools that allows you to process any number of parts without user intervention. The capabilities include (but are not limited to):
•Cutting any number of parts with a maximum of 999 unique parts
•Nesting
•Sorting
•Automated NC Code Creation
•Common Line Cutting (Advanced Nesting Module)
•Tool Stay Down Cutting (Advanced Nesting Module)
•Labeling
•Reporting
The basic premise for the entire Router-CIM Automation Suite is Layer to Knowledge processing using the DOIT cycle. This provides for tool paths to be created in a standardized, regulated, and sortable manner for any type of part.
The following sections are broken up into the different areas of the Router-CIM Automation Suite program and are designed to give you as much information about the tools available as possible.
This section is meant to be a reference to the Router-CIM Automation Suite, and not a tutorial. Tutorials will be provided in other areas as they are created.
