Surfware & FARO Provide 'Design-to-Reality' Solutions
November 16 2004 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Surfware & FARO Provide 'Design-to-Reality' Solutions WESTLAKE
VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Surfware, Inc., developer
of SURFCAM CAD/CAM Systems, has collaborated with FARO Technologies
to provide cutting edge solutions for Computer-Aided-Manufacturing
(CAM). One of many new features in its latest service pack, SURFCAM
now supports USB FaroARM products. Surfware actively pursued
developing this specific enhancement to further augment SURFCAM's
design-to-reality solutions. "The SURFCAM and FARO alliance
provides a seamless part digitizing to machining solution," said
Shaun Mymudes, Director of Product Management at FARO Technologies.
"Using SURFCAM to capture dimensional data, FARO portable
measurement arms provide our customers with a direct interface to a
very high-end CAM program." The FaroARM interface for SURFCAM
allows use of any FARO 6-Axis or 7-Axis portable digitizer as an
auxiliary pointing device to input 3D coordinate data into an
active SURFCAM session. It also allows SURFCAM users to freely
intermix digitized input with all other input modes. This
facilitates model creation, tool path generation, and material
removal simulation in a single environment, continuously displaying
the FaroARM probe tip for graphical verification. "Users can
create, edit, generate and simulate toolpaths, then machine complex
surface models all in a single setup without any file transfers,"
said Don McKillop, President of CAM/CAD Technologies. "The SURFCAM
FaroARM interface is uniquely suited for reverse engineering of
complex 3D objects," continued McKillop, the author of the FaroARM
USB interface and a Surfware Sales Partner. This interface now
supports both serial and USB connectivity, enabling the system to
work with legacy and current FARO equipment. It includes a variety
of convenient coordinate alignment techniques, probe calibration,
probe changing within a session, system diagnostics, and a series
of convenient digitizing modes. Digitizing modes include discrete
point input, lock-plane input, streaming-coordinate mode input, and
project-onto-plane input. "We are proud to work with FARO
Technologies to provide state of the art 'design-to-reality'
solutions," commented Joe McChesney, Product Manager at Surfware.
"We will strive to continue offering enhancements to SURFCAM that
deliver the latest cutting edge technologies to our customers."
About FARO Technologies With more than 7,500 installations and
approximately 3,500 customers globally, FARO Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:FARO) and its international subsidiaries design, develop,
and market software and portable, computerized measurement devices.
The Company's products allow manufacturers to perform 3-D
inspections of parts and assemblies on the shop floor. This helps
eliminate manufacturing errors, and thereby increases productivity
and profitability for a variety of industries in FARO's worldwide
customer base. Principal products include the FARO Laser ScanArm;
FARO Gage and Gage-PLUS; Platinum, Titanium and Advantage FaroArms;
the FARO Laser Tracker X and Si; and the CAM2 family of advanced
CAD-based measurement and reporting software. FARO Technologies is
ISO 9001 certified and ISO-17025 laboratory registered. Learn more
at http://www.faro.com/. About Surfware, Inc. Surfware, Inc. is the
developer of SURFCAM(R) CAD/CAM software for PC computers. SURFCAM
is designed for CNC programming of 2-, 3-, 4, and 5-axis mills,
lathes, wire EDM, laser, plasma, and water-jet machines. Machine
shops worldwide use SURFCAM for 2D and 3D mechanical design,
surface modeling, reverse engineering, prototyping, mold-making,
pattern-making and production machining. For additional
information, visit Surfware's web site at http://www.surfware.com/.
DATASOURCE: Surfware, Inc. CONTACT: Alison Richmond of Surfware,
Inc., +1-818-991-1960, Web site: http://www.faro.com/
http://www.surfware.com/
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