What's new at CamSoft...

Have your machine call your Cell Phone or send you E-mail.

The SMS Machine Tool to Cell Phone Text Messaging Service is now Free

CamSoft has acquired rights to a method in which your machine tool could call your Cell phone with a Text Message and/or send detailed longer messages regarding the status of your machine to your E-mail account.

The text messages and timing of the calls or e-mails are fully user programmable.

This feature did exist in the original CNC Professional as an option. It is no longer an option and your Cell Phone Service Carrier Or Pager Service does not need to be informed nor be pre-setup with us.

Our feature name is still called SMS (Short Message Service) and is available with all current versions of CNC Professional.

Low Cost Opto Isolated Built on 24 I/O Relays

24 I/O Terminals

Built on Optical Isolated Inputs

Eliminates the need for a relay rack with relays

12, 24 or 32 Volts

50 pin header cable

Interchangeable with our relay racks for the 24, 48 & 96 I/O cards

New line of AC Brushless Servo Motors

CamSoft is promoting a new line of brushless motors with a wider variety of torque, gear box choices and brake options.

The new amp drives will have their own built in power supplies and free set up software.

The motors come with an extended 2 year warranty (power supply parts and cables 1 year)

Shafts made for standard compression couplings (sold separately based on mating shaft size)

IP65 rating with sealed shaft

Square motor face mounting flange included

Pre-mounted 2,500 ppr / 10,000 count quad digital encoders included

220V single phase power input. Large motors are 3 phase 220v 50/60 hz

20 foot motor and encoder cables included

Sizes are:

2.8 lb/in continuous 8.4 lb/in peak torque, 3000/5000rpm- $1,378

5.7 lb/in continuous 16.9 lb/in peak torque, 3000/5000rpm- $1,428

11.2 lb/in continuous 33.8 lb/in peak torque, 3000/5000rpm- $1,528

21.2 lb/in continuous 63 lb/in peak torque, 3000/5000rpm- $1,566

29.2 lb/in continuous 87 lb/in peak torque, 3000/5000rpm- $1,903

42.5 lb/in continuous 138 lb/in peak torque, 2000/3000rpm- $2,103

83.2 lb/in continuous 208 lb/in peak torque, 2000/3000rpm-$2,691

125 lb/in continuous 316 lb/in peak torque, 2000/3000rpm-$3,191

Increase in Website Activity

CamSoft has been enjoying a steady increase in Website Activity

Thanks to you, CamSoft is steadily increasing traffic flow on its 4 web-sites over the last several months.

Last month alone the combined traffic hits reached

314,237

CamSoft thanks customers and dealers alike for their continued word of mouth and individual advertising and marketing efforts in making CamSoft one of the most popular PC based CNC controller systems on the market.

Dual Hand Wheel Mode

This feature allows you to run the machine in a mode similar to a manual machine. For example a Lathe running the Z and X axes from 2 separate hand wheels.

You can also use this feature to alter or offset a tool path on a Lathe, Mill, Laser, Router, Flame, WaterJet, EDM or Grinder while cutting. The hand wheels will shift or offset the entire path live in real time for the remainder of the tool path.

Ideal for live real-time correction or compensation via dual hand wheels while cutting

Updated Vista Compatible Hardware Control Drivers

Released July 18,2008

CNC Professional V16.6

CNC Lite/Plus/The Graphical Operator Interface V6.4

Updated hardware drivers for a range of Motion and I/O boards.

Please contact your dealer to request an update

New Servo Control for $99 an Axis

CNC or General Automation

Supported in Graphical OI, CNC Lite, Plus

CNC Professional (pending)

CS-16600 6 Axes, Closed Loop Servo Motor Motion Control Board

32-bit PCI bus, plug & play card

(Qty 6) +/- 10 Vdc Analog Outputs for Closed Loop Servos, Spindle or Voltage output.

(Qty 6) PENDING - Step/Direction up to 500 kHz for Stepper Motors or Pulse Trains

(Qty 6) High Speed Differential Pulse Counters for Encoders or Hand Wheels

(Qty 6) Analog Inputs for reading Voltages or Speed and Feed Override pots

(Qty 19) Opto-Isolated Digital Inputs

(Qty 7) Opto-Isolated Digital Outputs

All Digital I/Os are Opto-Isolated

Also provided at no extra cost are:

Full Break Out Board Terminal Strip

1.5 Meter Shielded Cable

Power Cord

24 VDC Power Supply

OPTO22 Relay up to 60V , 5A output

32,000 Position Move Buffer/Unlimited Program Size

Automatic Servo Tuning Software Included

Provided Terminal Strip Breaks Out

Servo Motors, Encoders, HandWheels, Spindle Control

General Purpose +/- 10V Analog Inputs & Analog Outputs

Amp Enables, E-Stop

Feed & Speed Pot Overrides

5V, +/- 10V, 12V or 24V Access

Inquire on Dealer and OEM quantity discounts

Hand Held Bar Code Reader for your PC

Supported in Graphical OI, CNC Lite, Plus and Professional

Easy to use interface

Built in Bar Code reader into CNC

Height: 6.5 Width: 2.8 Length: 4.2 Weight 6.0 oz.

Operating: 32 to 122 F / 0 to 50 C

Storage: -40 to 158 F / -40 to 70 C

Humidity 5 to 95% NC

Shock Withstands multiple 5' / 1.5m drops onto

concrete

Water & Dust Resistant, IEC529 rating IP53DW

Study Guide Released

This Study Guide provides a self-guided tour of the Concepts and Theory, Programming Techniques and overall capabilities of CamSoft's PC Based Machine Tool Control Software. Reading through this Study Guide will enable to work more efficiently and accurately. CamSoft's Study Guide is geared more toward CNC Professional; however, CNC Plus, CNC Lite and Graphical OI users will still benefit from this guide.

Version 16.5 CNC Professional and Version 6.3 CNC Lite/Plus/OI

Were both officially released Feb 22th, 2008

E-mail us or contact us through the home page to

get on our NewsLetter list to keep informed of

the latest CamSoft news via e-mail.

Register on this web-site to be informed on when and what new features will be released

(Contact your dealer if your eligible for a free update)

CamSoft's Flat Mount CNC Controller $1,995

The CamSoft's Flat Mount CNC control offers a ready-to-go operator station with a large clear Hi Res color screen that has everything you need to replace that old control. The flat panel is large enough to fit over and flush mount over the opening of almost all other existing American, Asian or European brands. It is secured down with 8 counter sunk flat head screws.

The back is open and exposed to be 100% accessible inside a pre-existing electrical cabinet. Cables for the monitor, speaker, keypad, buttons, light bulbs and power are provided.

The face plate is an attractive black silk screen powder coated face which can be easily replaced with your logo.

All the buttons and hand wheel are user programmable. CamSoft supplies various logic files for all of the standard CNC machine types so you can get started with right away with a generic operator interface that includes all the typical features and functions you would expect.

Add a 17" Touch Screen for $395

Add a Enclosed VESA Arm Mountable Pendant Cabinet for $495

Add a finger touch pad and on-screen pup-up keyboard access $45

CamSoft's Industrial Analog Jogstick

The industrial jog stick is based on a rugged design for digitizing and teaching robots and roll forming application.

The jog stick is highly responsive to small changes in speed and direction. There are between 360 and 3600 directions that are achievable. Accuracy, Direction, Accel, Decel and Velocity are user definable.

The harder you press the joy stick the faster it travels. Direct hand to eye motion with fine motion control allows for manual machining operations and teaching files to be produced to play back later within named job files which are editable.

2 thru 10 buttons are provided for such task as teach and record or start and stop . One to record a single position and the other to stream in data to continuous recording.

New digital CNC movie videos and photos of CamSoft retrofits

Existing Movies available to download are:

Mazak Mill

5 Axis WaterJet

BridgePort Mill

Laser

Multiple Head Router

Cincinnati Big Blue Mill

Knee Mill

Thermwood Router

Hardinge Lathe

Lathe cuting Crank Shafts

3D Mold Cutting

3D Carver in Wood and Stone

Bed Mill

CNN Commercial

Sign Cutting Router

Flame Cutter with 4th axis Rotary

Hendricks/Shinx multihead router

Thermwood cutter MDF board

6 axis Tool Grinder

Large Cincinnatii Lathe with Dual Turrets

Warner & Swasey VTL

6 axis Robot Arm

Teaching Robot

Cincinnati Milacron Horizontal

High Speed Small 5 Axes Mill

CHNC Hardinge Lathe

The latest movie was added was of a

5 axis with Tool Change

Visit our DOWNLOAD page to view

CamSoft Announces New Automatic Torch Height Control Unit for Plasma/Flame Cutting using CamSoft CNC Lite, Plus or Professional. Plus routines and sensors for Inter-Logic unit.

Complete with Control Panel, Sensor Interface box, logic routines, plasma operator interface, power transformer and both high and low voltage cables for $800

Ready to use on your own plasma table. (CNC Lite, Plus or Professional software, Motion card and Computer sold separately)

Announcing the fastest CNC motion board we have ever seen, anywhere at any price.

The CS-18060

1-8 axes versions for Mills, Lathes, Routers, Flame cutters, WaterJets, Lasers, Punch Presses, Grinders and EDMs

If you want the highest performance CNC in the world, this is the one to use.

The new motion board is 10 times than our best board we use now and meets or exceeds ALL spec's from the world's most expensive CNC controllers at a fraction of the cost.

Executes motion commands 10 times faster than the CS18000

Theatrical cutting speeds up to 6,000 IPM

24 micro second servo update rate per axis

Reads position feedback 22,000,000 times per second

The new CS-14000 is now released.

This new 4 Axis CNC Controller version has servo speeds using stepper drives.

For Mills, Lathes, Routers, Flame cutters, WaterJets, EDM, Grinders and Lasers.

The Stepper board is now capable of 100,000 pps at no extra cost and has more digital I/O than the original box.

Step/direction drive amps are availible to control servo motors up to 20 amps.

Still only $395

Congratulations to Soff Seal you won the Advanced System 3000 Level-1 CAD/CAM system drawing from CamSoft Corp that you entered via our website at www.cnccontrols.com.

Hello,

I want to thank CamSoft for their generosity of awarding me this great prize! I look forward to using the software to increase our production.

Thank you,

Low-cost, high-speed Laser probe digitizing with automatic height control sensing for increased scanning range and speed.

Automatically probe a user-defined area of a part with a laser analog feedback device to create a 3D point cloud file to be used by a variety of CAD/CAM systems to create a solid modeled or surfaced CAD file and tool path to reproduce the part.

New standalone TTF Standard Windows True Type Font to DXF, Vectors or G Code. Use with any CAD/CAM system. Low cost $199.

Notice for CNC Professional customers with V14 or prior and Lite, Plus and OI with V4 or prior.

If you currently have CNC Professional version V14.9 or older or V4.9 of CNC Lite/Plus/OI or older and wish to renew or subscribe to support and maintenance than contact your dealer or if you purchased CNC Professional before 12-26-2001 or have version 13 or prior and have declined to renew or subscribe your support and maintenance subscription then we will not be offering an option to rejoin maintenance.

Do a Visual mid-program start with a mouse or touch screen, Graphical!

Visually restart mid-program through your part using a mouse or touch screen, Graphically! This feature reads through the G code program to pick up offsets, tools, fixture positions, speeds, feeds, kerf, tool size and more all the way up to the position you pointed to then prompts you to press cycle start when you are ready. This is the easiest and smartest program resume feature we have ever seen. You can even click midway through a cut on a 3D line or arc.

A Revised Price List is Now Downloadable For June 17th 2008

Low Cost Opto Isolated Built on 24 I/O Relays

Graphics to Motion, Picture to Part

We have recently been asked to submit a press release on one of our most advanced features that identify CamSoft.

The Graphics to Motion, Picture to Part feature as it relates to a Family of Parts.

(1) Think of any part your shop makes. Now think how easy it would be to walk up to the machine itself, turn on the power and up on the operator screen you would see photos of parts in your shop. Then as quick as you can answer a group of questions unique to your part while being walked & talked through prompts, viewing images, watching movies and listening to verbal instructions out of the speakers you would then see a graphics simulation of your part being cut into a solid model. Imagine a user definable operator screen made from bitmapped control objects such as cycle start, feed hold, single step, readouts, ect... plus part images taken with a digital camera from your own parts on your shop floor that are displayed in bitmaps along the bottom or sides of the operator screen.

(2) The operator would see these images of the parts you made and use his finger on a touch screen or point using a mouse to the part family image they want to make.

(3) Standard commands in the software would be organized in a sequential list to walk and talk the machine operator through various user defined questions and prompts about the part dimensions, quantities and options. Text to Speech commands would verbalize spoken instructions out of the speakers. Commands to show bitmaps and/or movies can be present with zoomed in areas of the part that focus on the specific hole, part length, cut depth, spacing ect... such as asking the user to enter in a hole diameter in a question box. Then be presented with a zoomed in 16 million color photograph taken with a digital camera of that particular hole that was laying on the shop floor. The photo can be taken into PhotoShop or Windows Paint Brush program to have white arrows added to the image to point out or dimension that particular question being asked. Answers can be checked on-the-spot for a range of size limits or invalid dimensions. Then buzzers, lights and voice spoken error messages can tell the operator what he entered incorrectly and give him another chance. Depending on how these questions were answered, hundreds of variations of parts could be produced from a single part family routine.

(4) Once the answers are gathered from the operator then commands that allow elaborate math calculations, formulas , tool selection and tool path driving will build the rest of the geometry and cutter path. This would display a graphic images in either Solid Modeled animation or 3D wireframe mode. The user would then Accept or Reject the part simulation.

(5) Since CamSoft is the author of the CAD software and CNC Controller the animation is done on the shop floor directly on the CNC Controller screen at the machine. This can also be done off-line in an office then retrieved later via PC network, Memory Stick or Floppy disk. The same database for part geometry, tool path and motor motion is shared in the computers memory so once the animation is accepted by the user you have Graphics to Motion or Picture to Part. Seamless integration. No Post Processors to deal with, machine specific of G code or downloading steps to perform. The animation is like a video game chewing away at the solid material on the screen in high resolution machine tool simulation. If you like the animation you say Share with Controller. In effect make me one of those. Fewer steps, fewer mistakes and lower skilled operators that can produce parts merely by entering in dimensioned read from work orders in the hands. No CAD/CAM skills or G code to use. If set up properly these files can be archived so the questions don't have to be re-answered. On top on that, the files are not machine specific. You could now pass around picture files of parts rather than machine specific G code or each make and model of CNC.

Adjustable Mounting Arm

Heavy Swinging Mounting Arms for all CamSoft Hanging Pendants

Arm reaches up to 22" horizontally.

Wall/Pole/Bolt Thru Mountable

Standard VESA mount for Hanging Pendant

Effortlessly Pivoting Swing up to 46 pounds.

More than 14" vertical travel when wall mounted.

Features screen rotation from landscape to portrait.

Tilt the display back past 90 or downward 44

Platinum Gray or Black

Spindle Marker Pulse Encoder for Threading and RPM control

Captures Spindle Encoder Marker Pulse

Input Less Than 1 ma Triggering Signal

Output Signal 24 VDC Up To 300 m

Connect Direct To Opto22 DC Input

Power Requirements 24 VDC

Tested to 4000 RPM

Technicians Helper

Hand Held or Belt Clipped Box

For Testing Servo Drive Amps

Allows in Field Service

To Test Motors & Drives for motion

Variable Speed Motion Knob

Direction of Travel Switch

On/Off Power Switch

2 Alligator Clips to Flexible Hand Free Connection

Output Signal +/- 10 VDC analog

Battery Powered

CamSoft and Robot Wars on TV

Lawrence Feir the team leader and designer of several combat robots frequently seen on TV has joined up with CamSoft to go to London England to compete in Robot Wars, a televised robot combat show viewed all over Europe, Australia and here in the States on the TNN network.

His Robot was viewed by hundreds of thousands on the Learning Channel and it's affiliates around the world and has competed on the Learning Channel's ROBOTICA show where 200lb + robots navigate a course and then fight each other to the finish a top a fiery platform. We did very well at Robotica winning our episode by killing three other robots and going on to take second in the championship.

CamSoft is proud to provide software to the team of:
Lawrence Feir Team Leader/Fabricator
Jack Feir Chief Engineer
Chris Hannold Technical advisor/ Telemetry
John Keitz Meteorologist
The teams space glider which was designed and built to meet the unique challenges of space and high speed controlled unmanned flight. Construction will be an all-composite airframe incorporating such exotic materials as Kevlar® and Rohacell® . The craft must function both at the extreme high temperatures of the Nevada desert as well as the temperatures below minus 90 degrees it will encounter at altitude.

The Mission: A weather balloon carrying an intelligent space glider will lift the craft to 100,000 ft. As the balloon reaches apogee and the glider is released, taking a two hundred-mile glide to land back at the launch site. The mission will take place in the absence of government funding and it is to be done on a shoestring budget. The vision of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of amateur unmanned space flight.

The team is currently talking with the Smithsonian's Air&Space publication about a full length feature for the magazine as well as television coverage on the Tech TV network.

They will be documenting the mission throughout the building and testing process. There will be several proving runs and test flights. The craft will be donated to a museum once the mission has been completed.

Look for the CamSoft Certified Dealer Program logo on resellers web-site and e-mails.