About Icam Post

Icam Post is a post-processor generator designed for end users with no software programming expertise. It can accommodate a wide variety of CNC machine types having up to six axes of continuous path control.

Icam Post allows you to create and update post-processors quickly and easily. Its built-in Wizard and menu-driven questionnaire make it easy for anyone to create usable post-processors.

Icam Post has a powerful, yet easy to use macro language that allows you to completely customize your NC post-processor to support unusual CNC control and machine tool features.

Types of Machines Supported

Icam Post’s Motion Processor is perhaps what most significantly differentiates it from previous generations of post-processors. To address the inconsistencies inherent in traditional NC post-processors, a state-of-the-art Inverse Kinematics motion processor was implemented. All machine tools, present and in the foreseeable future, are mechanical subsets of this tested and proven mathematical model.

  • Primary linear axes ( X Y Z )

  • Secondary co-linear axes ( U V W )

  • Head rotary axes to orient the tool ( A B C )

  • Table rotary axes to orient the workpiece ( A' B' C' )

  • Any Extending axis or quill ( E )

  • Any exchangeable head including nutating ( N N' )

In addition to the high level of consistency, Icam Post’s motion processor further presents the user with advanced capabilities to automatically support new and diverse types of machine tools:

  • Milling machines and machining centers (5 axes and up — all combinations of linear and rotary axes)

  • Lathes (2 and 4 axes) and merging lathes (4 axes), with optional sub-spindle

  • Mill-Turn centers (XZC), with additional Y axis, rotary heads and/or tables, merging turrets, and optional sub-spindle

  • Lasers, flame cutters and profilers

  • Wire EDM (2 to 6 axes) and punch presses (2 and 3 axes)

  • Robots (6 revolute axes)

  • Composite or Hybrid machining centers, which can combine the capabilities of multiple machining technologies and are supported by combining the capabilities of multiple post-processors

Furthermore, since Icam Post is based on a machine model that is aware of the state of the machine tool at every moment, intelligent decisions can be made to ensure that Machinable Data Output is produced, rather than just controller-correct data.