Construction

FastCAM in Construction

FastCAM can help with costing and expert fabrication systems

Our FastCAM® customers are made up of steel service centers and fabricators who make a wide range of heavy industrial plate and structural tube/pipe products. FastCAM® is ideal for fabricators offering this type of engineering diversity because we supply a diverse variety of software that can handle many types of machines, materials and jobs - from the simplest design to the most complex structure. Importantly, our software solutions are designed to be operated by tradespeople and require only minimum training.
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FastFRAME® saved hundreds of hours in the design stage of this complex space frame development. Of equal value, the extraction of fabrication data needed for processing was simple!

This fully automated NC cutting machine took data from the FastFRAME program and automatically cut each end of the connecting spa's in each frame. The automatic feed system pushes the tube stock through a custom-designed clamping system that spins the tube under the plasma machine torch. Highly accurate components are produced by the system with each end correct for length, angle and relative twist. The high quality of the end cuts has a marked improvement in weld quality and consistency

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AUTOMATE STRUCTURAL TAKE-OFF

One problem for the metals industry is the lack of any 'standard' in how request for quotations (RFQs) and Material Take-Offs (MTOs) are managed. In an attempt to address this need, FastCAM have created the .MTO file for storage and information specific to structural steel and related industry. FastCAM® MTO produces fast and simple sortable lists for estimating and factory production. Create lists in seconds...sort on material, section, type.. export the data, create reports, BOM's, lists, production sheets etc.

FastCAM® products used in steel construction include:

FastCAM® MTO for fast Material Take-Off (FREEWARE).
FastCAM® QE, an optimized quote database with both linear and plate based nesting (including the nesting of mitres). The system also reads FastCAM.MTO files, providing a completely automatic and consistent quote database for profiles and long products.
The FastCAM® System, is designed to draw, nest and cut metal as simply and efficiently as possible. Note: FastCAM® can process DSTV data for plate. This is a German standard that defines the way steel is fabricated by a CNC machine. FastCAM® will read the DSTV files and export them in DXF format for processing.
bballz1.gif - 1024 Bytes FastFRAME is a powerful production tool for the construction industry which is ideally suited to tubular spaceframe construction (multiple tube or pipe intersections).
FastSHAPES®, a suite of 20+ individual programs for the fabrication of heavy plate shapes from large structures to sprockets and gears. Transitions can be developed and sent to the burning machine in minutes, include compensation for material thickness, forming allowances (green) and even marking of weld preparation. Specific Shapes that apply to construction include; PBRANCH :Pipe Branches both Set In and Set On and PRBANCH S : for Structural connections and RECTIRCLE; for large forming radii. Transition variations are endless and even Elliptical cross-sections are also provided for. It's even possible to define a `half-shape' at one end, most useful in applications like Bulk Materials Handling (hoppers and chutes) Fluids Conveying (ducts, transitions, transformers, hoods, shrouds) and other industrial shape structures.
FastBEAM has proven to be the simplest and fastest way to program Beam-lines, Angle-lines, and Flat Bar Processors. (Ficep, Peddinghaus and Wagner beam line machines.) Easy operation/programming and optimization of drilling order etc. Bulk Import function from DSTV, StruCAD, XSteel.

The FastCAM® System is ideal for Metal Fabricators.

FastCAM 3 Editions FastSHAPES Programs

We attribute much of our productivity increase to FastCAM ..Phil Ryan, JCA Fabrication. I'd never done a drawing before in my life. After 10 days with FastCAM, I built the first tank truck. Now it's our livelihood....Ray Castleberry, Castlebrook Welding. By far, the quickest and easiest programs I have used......Rick Presseau, INCO Ltd.