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Vintech RCAM History

Development stages

Start1-icon.png2011: Vintech RCAM v6

  • New true shape nesting solver for all systems from the family.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Advanced range of business processes for true shape nesting. New libraries
    • library Vintech rSLAES,
    • * library Vintech rJOBS.
  • Change the plate's dimensions at any time.
  • Advanced functions for work with plate's remnants and scrap.

Start1-icon.png2010-2011: Vintech RCAM v5.5

  • Added work with imperial units.
  • Advanced functions for work with paths.
  • Changing technology and Dr (kerf) at any time.
  • Advanced functions for work with usable remnants and scrap.
  • Advanced functions for work with bevels and beveled paths.
  • Extending product family:
  • Vintech RCAM-Pipe v5.5,
  • Vintech NC-TCV v2.0,
  • Library Vintech rJET - Water-jet cutting technology,
  • Library Vintech rPIPE - Unfolds of cylindrical parts of pipe fittings for Vintech RCAM and Vintech RCAM-Pipe,
  • Library Vintech rDRILL - Drill boring processing technology,
  • Module Vintech rAMT - Variable parallel head count and spacing,

Start1-icon.png 2009: Vintech RCAM v5

  • Advanced methods for nesting and programming the processing of complex and complicated geometric parts.

  • Improved general functionality for working with path elements: snapping points and dragging of path elements. Managing automatically lead-ins/lead-outs at path angle, multi-segment loops and angle operations.

  • Block-paths for accelerated matrix nesting with common cuts of identical rectangular parts: z-shaped and part by part.

  • Automatic common nesting of any set of parts.

  • Automatic and interactive creating of common cuts for any set of parts.

  • Import of multi-parts. Breaking a multi-part into parts.

  • Import and Export of a Job for nesting.

  • Improved document creating of the project. Reports with estimating machine time part by part.

  • Extending product family:

  • rDUCT - Library for constructing flat patterns of zinc-coated air fittings,
  • Vintech RCAM-Pipe – CAD/CAM system for constructing parts from pipe fittings, true shape nesting and NC programming of round pipes processing.

Start1-icon.png 2008: Vintech RCAM v4

  • Advanced import of parts. Selecting the processing type by color or contour layer in the input file.

  • User-defined coordinate systems.

  • Managing limit, multiplicity and variants of plate.

  • Programming preliminary processing: marking, centering, overcasting, dimensional punching.

  • Frames for processing parts and plates, longer than the working area of the machine. Geometry of risky zones.

  • Blocks of paths and route. Dynamic blocks.

  • New realization of a rapid moves route. Working with partial and complete route. Optimizations of routes. Route verification.

  • Automatic common nesting and creating common cuts by pairs.

  • Managing raster marking heads.

  • NC programs with (overlays) machine tables for programming laser complexes.

  • Automatically creating bridges of type “part-plate” (gaps) on outer contours of parts. Automatically and interactively cutting bridges in a separate move at the end of processing.

  • Extended UNDO for paths and route.

  • Extending product family: Vintech RCAM-Lite, Vintech RCAM-Xpress.

Start1-icon.png 2007: Vintech RCAM v3

  • New graphic environment.

  • New geometric primitives in the input geometry of parts: points, ellipses and NURBS splines.

  • Technological knowledge base (TKB) describing the technological environment and the processing technologies.

  • Continuous cutting with chain-cuts.

  • Advanced managing of bevels and bevel paths: elongation, shortening and reversing paths' direction.

  • Manual common nesting by sliding. Creating paths for common cuts interactively.

  • Summary reports for estimating material expenses in a project. Reports for materials in a project by product/order.

  • New trade mark and extending product family: Vintech RCAM, Vintech RCAM-Pro, Vintech NC-TC Verifier.

Start1-icon.png 2005-2006: Vintech RASKROY 2006 Plus

  • New nesting algorithms with no shape or size restrictions of plates and parts on plates with length up to 30 m.

  • New management of Job and nesting Queue.

  • Advanced user interface and new design of the system.

  • Interactive creating of bridges “part-part”.

  • New type opened paths - Slots.

  • Universal PP configured by the user.

  • Managing usable plate remnants for tracking the “run-out” history of a plate.

  • Extending product family: Vintech RASKROY BC 2006 Plus for bevel cutting.

  • Single or three-torch programmed bevels.

  • Bevel paths and path elements with interactive managing of bevels – lead-ins/lead-outs, loops, pseudo-bridges for multi torch cutting.

Start1-icon.png 2000-2005: Vintech RASKROY WL

(Intech RASKROY WL v2.5)

  • Imports parts' geometry from DXF files. Primitives: line, arc, circle.

  • Model of part, composed by closed contours. Analysis of defects in the model.

  • Catalogs for plates, parts, blocks. Nesting on rectangular or any shape plates. Multi-plate nesting.

  • Automatic and interactive nesting controlled by Job and nesting Queue.

  • Single and parallel zones for multi-torch processing.

  • Nesting with on-line control against overlapping on plates with maximum over-all dimensions - 8 m.

  • Static blocks of groups of nested parts.

  • Macro-parts.

  • Unlimited UNDO for nesting.

  • Automatic and interactive paths with on-line check for overlapping. Path elements: Lead-in – Lead-out along the path normal, Gap, Loop.

  • Automatic and interactive route of rapid moves with optimization.

  • Generation of NC programs via external postprocessors. Reports.

Start1-icon.png 1997-2000: Development