Gibbs and Associates and MachineWorks, Ltd. announce that a licensing agreement has been established between them, allowing MachineWorks process simulation and visualization technology to be integrated into GibbsCAM. Work is underway on the integration, which is expected to be released in a version of GibbsCAM later this year.

GibbsCAM's new MachineWorks-enabled capabilities include dynamic rotation and zooming, cut part/finished part comparisons, transparent cut part viewing, moving part simulation and cut part material as initial stock conditions.

MachineWorks will also be used as key component technology for a new machine simulation option for GibbsCAM. The company says that using this option, machine tools can be accurately modeled and then the motions of a CNC program can be simulated to check for collisions prior to running it on the machine tool.