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SOFTWARE FOR DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS Are you using the web to win more work? 1 Meadow Street, Marsh, Huddersfield HD1 4QB Tel: 0870 760 9194 Fax: 01484 422605 Mobile: 07709 13149 email: gareth@n-m-o.com www.n-m-o.com New Steton S630/S Thicknesser Maggi Junior 640 CE Radial Arm Cross Cut Saw Maggi 2034 Power Feed Unit Used Mayer PS7Z 3.8 m Beamsaw CE 1998 Centauro R800 Power Band Resaw CE 2004 Wadkin GC220 5 Head Planer Moulder DMC Castelli C/LCL95 Roller, Pad & Brush Sander Saomad UT4S Single End Tenoner Wilson FX Spindle Moulder with power feed & DC brake Wadkin LS Pin Router with compound table Wadkin BSW 20” Rip Saw with DC brake APL 2500D 3 Bag Dust Extractor Wilson FX Spindle Moulder with table extensions & DC brake Wadkin BAO/S 12 in x 7 in Planer Thicknesser Wadkin EQ H/D Spindle Moulder with PFU & DC brake Inventair MK4 Bag Dust Extractor Wadkin LS High Speed Pin Router with DC brake Ortza S320F 3·2 m Panel Scoring Saw Wadkin JY Bobbin Sander Wadkin BZB 30” Bandsaw Rye M1 Twin Spindle Borer Interwood FSO 8 ft x 4 ft 3 Screw Press Over 70 new and used machines in stock For our full list, please check out our web site www.n-m-o.com SomCom develops websites for joiners THE internet revolution has left many feeling confused and left behind. Traditionally, joiners have developed their business by reputation of time honoured skills and craftsmanship, with work coming from repeat work or referrals. The credit crunch means that few joiners will have the luxury of waiting for enquiries to just come to them. Joiners need to adopt new strategies to help attract new customers and the internet offers the ideal way to access a much larger market. Enfield Speciality Doors recently commissioned SomCom to update its website with remarkable results. The design criteria was to present a professional and corporate image with a modern feel. “Our aim was to use the website as a brochure, allowing customers to understand what we do and the different products and services that we offer, but ultimately to contact us. That objective has been successfully achieved, resulting in new calls and requests daily,” says Simon Bliss on behalf of Enfield Doors. He adds, “Our SomCom designed website has opened new doors for us.” SomCom, the sister company to Joinerysoft, who produce the JMS software, has been providing website services since 2001. The company’s close association with Joinerysoft provides a unique insight that allows Som- Com to cater for the specific needs of the joinery industry. Simon Bliss confirms, “The overall feel and professionalism of SomCom design was reflected in providing a finished website that exactly meets our needs.” A SomCom website will enable you to reach more customers, thereby increasing customer enquiries and showcase your work with an online image gallery or catalogue, helping you to present a professional image and giving you greater credibility. SomCom provides professional, effective websites for a wide range of clients. David Pottinger from SomCom adds, “We specialise in making websites that work for you and can provide links to order processing, customer databases and also joinery software such as JMS.” SomCom Tel 01608 643302 Email sales@somcom.co.uk www.somcom.com Enfield Speciality Doors Tel 020 8805 6662 Email sales@enfielddoors.co.uk www.enfielddoors.co.uk Page 18 Panel, Wood & Solid Surface June/July 2009
SOFTWARE FOR DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS Textured surfaces: the latest trend in furniture design Delcam, a CAD/CAM software development specialist, discusses the alternative methods of creating tactile surfaces. TEXTURED doors and panels are becoming increasingly popular in today’s furniture industry. However, these are relatively simple things to create using any one of the CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design & Manu facture) software packages in Delcam’s ArtCAM range. One simplistic, yet effective, method using any one of the ArtCAM products: Express, Insignia or Pro, is to use the shapes and sizes of CNC router tools, such as Conical or Ball Nose tools, to create the texture as they carve away the material. This can be done by designing line drawings (also known as vectors) and repeating or mixing them with other designs which will then be used for the router tools to follow (the toolpath). An alternative method to create extremely eye-catching results is for the designer to choose from a variety of textures available in the ArtCAM Relief Clipart Library, or by importing a photo or image of a texture into the software. ArtCAM is compatible with a wide variety of bitmap file formats. ArtCAM attributes differing heights to the lights and darks within an image to create a greyscale image, which is then converted into a 3D image/relief. In ArtCAM Express and Insignia, this can then be saved and imported into any ArtCAM model file on which the designer is working. With ArtCAM Pro, the advanced product in the range, the user has even greater design freedom, as they can then manipulate and work with the 3D texture relief to create their complete 3D model using its patent pending relief layer management system. Additionally, the user can create a multitude of organic textures with its sophisticated modelling and sculpting tools. For example, using ArtCAM Pro’s ‘Texture Relief’ tool, the user can select from an assortment of shapes that they would like to apply to their relief, such as conical, spherical or weave effects. With the ‘Clone’ tool, the user’s 3D texture relief can be used as a sculpting brush of any size, and then ‘stamped’ on the relief layer wherever the user clicks their mouse or taps their pen on the Wacom tablet. Other sculpting tools can then be used to smudge and smooth the design. Unique shapes that spin, twist and turn can also be easily made with ArtCAM’s intuitive relief tools. All ArtCAM products offer the user the opportunity to see their design prior to machining. In ArtCAM Pro, the user can view their textured panels with their other models, or furniture components, so that they can see how the textured piece will look in context. These are just a handful of methods that can be used to create tactile surfaces. However, if you want to find out more about using CAD/CAM and CNC technology to create furniture, please visit the company’s website or email Sandra (details below). Delcam Plc Tel 0121 683 1000 ● Email Sandra@delcam.com ● www.artcam.com Panel, Wood & Solid Surface June/July 2009 Page 19
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Page 5 and 6: NEWS Routing support THE CNC ROUTER
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Page 11 and 12: TOOLING Hydrowedge from Colton COLT
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Page 29 and 30: HEALTH & SAFETY Cutting power bills
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