Cam Designer SE™
Cams are one of the most useful and efficient devices for high speed machines. They are also one of the most difficult machine components to design because of their mathematical complexity. That's where CAM DESIGNER SE™ comes in.
CamDesigner was written by an engineer for engineers to take the complexity of designing cams away and provide a design in minutes and not hours or days.
Design Cams
complete design and fabricationbased on vector calculus
only one of its kind
Import / Export
supports most cams and followersexport to CAD or spreadsheet
2D and 3D cams
Fabricate Cams
available as an optionproduces exact cam surfaces
produces ASCII G code
Kinematic Profiles
- Cycloidal
- Harmonic
- Constant acceleration
- Constant velocity
- Modified sine (with variable C factor)
- Modified sine X% Constant Velocity (50% CV shown)
- Modified trapezoid (with modified C factor)
- Modified trapezoid X% Constant Velocity (50% CV shown)
- Polynomial (up to 20th order) (Pause in mid stroke)
- Polynomial 3-4-5
- Polynomial 4-5-6-7
- Rise-return (matching acceleration or jerk)
Features Table
| Geometry | translating roller | oscillating roller | indexing | inside face | outside face | groove | rib |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plate (Disc) Cams | |||||||
| Linear Cams | |||||||
| Barrel (Cylinderical) Cams | |||||||
| Globoidal Cam | |||||||
| Tanslation | * | * | - | - | - | - | - |
| Output of cam curves | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| Direct Output to Modeling Programs | |||||||
| under development | |||||||
* DXF and IGES are available for the cam curves for all of the cams and followers.
** The cam curves of the surfaces can be transferred to any CAD system that will accept 3D position points, such as SolidWorks and SolidEdge. The CAD system will turn these into NURBS curves that can then be made into surfaces. Both text file and Excel output are available. There are videos to show how this is done.
Basic Followers
Available in all versions.
Plate Translating Roller
- Offset follower
- Radial Inside face
- Outside face
- Groove
- Rib
Plate Oscillating Roller
- Inside face
- Outside face
- Groove
- Rib
