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Scribing Technology Realised in the UK - Another First with StruCad
31st July 2007
With the power of StruCad, Billington Structures are the first UK Structural Steel Fabricator to incorporate scribing technology into routine production.
Billington Structures Ltd has been designing fabricating and erecting structural steelwork for the construction industry since 1947. Kevin Campbell, Production Director for Billington Structures Ltd. states ’the business has always been an innovator and was an early adopter of CNC machinery and 3D modelling technology via StruCad, which enables CAM data for our machines’. When Billington Structures first learned of scribing technology at the end of 2005, the Company was immediately interested in the technology. ’We believe that we may be able to accomplish the same kind of production efficiency gains as was achieved a decade ago in the automation of our cutting and drilling processes via CAM data from the StruCad 3D model’ said Mr Campbell.
AceCad Software is the leading developer of software solutions for the international structural steelwork industry with a range of products that have been developed through specialist knowledge acquired as a result of over twenty years of focus on exceeding industry expectations. ’The involvement of AceCad Software - our 3D steel detailing vendor was critical from an early stage’, insists Mr Campbell. He continues ’whilst the approach of the machine manufacturer was to focus on a specific link with a modelling system, to facilitate the scribing process, we were amongst the first to consult with AceCad to explore the possibility of an enhanced DSTV standard format’.
Billington Structure’s detailing function uses StruCad detailing stations and accordingly their CNC machinery has been run successfully along DSTV standards for some time. Mr Campbell comments ’the output from StruCad has always been fundamental to this automation and the experience of our Drawing Office and AceCad Software’s development team resulted in the provision of a quick solution through the DSTV organisation’. StruCad V12 is the latest advanced version of AceCad’s world leading 3D structural steel detailing system and includes all the very latest DSTV updates including DSTV support for scribing.
Billington Structures now routinely scribes projects. Mr Campbell states ’early signs point to substantial production benefits with the automated scribing process and it is envisaged that productivity can be significantly improved.’ He concludes, ’the scribing technology facilitated by this machinery and the output from StruCad means that we have at last begun to automate the fabrication process’.
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