PEP vs Omni at Steel Warehouse

Developed by Measurement Masters, Inc.  1 Technology Drive, Suite D-401  Irvine, CA 92618 Corporate: (949) 753-7878 Fax: (949) 753-8585 E-mail: info@peptechnology.com PEP Technology vs OMNI BEVEL Interview with Steve Cain, Steel Warehouse Programmer. Steve Cain has been creating bevel programs at the South Bend facility of Steel Warehouse since 2007. The following are Steve Cain’s comments on PEP’s Beveling software and Omni Bevel. What are the biggest differences between the two products? With OMNI you don’t know what you will get until the part program is edited and cut multiple times. 1. OMNI requires 3 separate software products each with a different interfaces. One to clean up the CAD file, the OMNI software to create the bevel path and a nesting product and post. With Omni all of the tasks are manual including fixing CAD errors, where as PEP is automated! 2. The user wastes a lot of time working in the OMNI interface, double checking settings to make sure the tech table outputs the cutter path direction and the cut sequence correctly. There is no 3D view of the part with the beveled cuts to verify the torch path like PEP has! 3. Omni nests waste a lot of material because OMNI does not pass the torch path to the nesting software. The nesting software doesn’t know where the bottom of the torch is cutting which means parts have to be spaced further apart and they can not always be interlocked. PEP automatically nests the parts using the torch path rather than the part geometry! 4. Omni requires the user to make adjustments in the cutter path using the Omni software. This means one must know how to use the Omni software and that changes must be done off line. In a lot of cases the nest requires multiple test cuts. PEP outputs variables for editing the bevel cutter path at the machine by the machine operator. PEP Technology’s approach. The PEP software is the only software you need. The PEP CAD Converter converts complex 2D CAD files into a perfect 2D part automatically in seconds and the CAD errors are found and corrected automatically. Selecting “save and bevel” turns the 2D part into a 3D solid model in one click and advances to the beveling software. The user clicks on the geometry to be beveled and the PEP software adds the bevel settings, and displays the part and cutter path in a full 3D viewer.

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