Almacam Tube, the CAD/CAM software for cutting tubes and beams

Improve efficiency with an automated solution to program your tube and profile cutting machines

Subcontractors and sheet metal companies can face significant challenges in optimizing tube (and pipe) and profile (and beam) cutting. Complex geometries, material waste, and inefficiencies of manual operations hinder productivity, increasing costs and complicating tight production schedules.

Almacam Tube addresses these challenges by automating the cutting process, optimizing material usage with advanced nesting algorithms, and ensuring precise machining of complex geometries.

Streamline production with CAD import of single parts or assemblies, including automatic retrieval of quantities.

Save time with tube unfolding and unbending as well as automatic recognition of the cross sections.

Enhance assembly manufacturing by adding connections (e.g., notches) between tubes or profiles.

Automate operations by generating cutting trajectories and programs for pipes and profiles effortlessly.

Manage all types of tube cutting machines with a single software: Almacam Tube supports all technologies, brands and possible kinematics, with no limit on the number of driven axes.

Optimize machine use by managing specific machine functions, such as mechanical operations (e.g: drilling, tapping, flow drilling) , axis redundancies or sensing (laser, touch probe).

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Powerful 3D CAD/CAM features for designing, nesting and cutting tubes and beams

Design of tubes and import of assemblies

3D design of tubes and profiles, supporting any section type, customizable shapes (sections, holes) and specific end cuts
Import of 3D parts and assemblies from Parasolid, STEP, IGES, SAT/ACIS formats, Catia V4/V5, PTC Creo/ProENGINEER, Inventor, Solid Edge, SOLIDWORKS, IFC, DSTV
Automatic recognition of pipe sections during CAD import
Capability to modify the geometry of imported CAD parts and add connections (e.g. notches) between parts of an assembly with Assembly2cam
Possibility to unfold or unbend an imported CAD part

Automated cutting preparation

Automated preparation with optimized cutting trajectories, sequences and most suited cutting conditions
Feature for automatic defining trajectories of complexx extremity cuts
Adaptation of trajectories based on the cutting machine capabilities
Support of machines combining laser cutting and mechanical processes (drilling, milling, tapping, etc.) with automatic tool allocation for mechanical operations

Optimized nesting of tubes & profiles

For over 45 years, Alma has been a leader in developing advanced nesting algorithms, ensuring customers get the most optimized sheet metal part layouts available on the market.

Automatic nesting of any tube and profiles sections
Nesting in offcuts
Management of common cuts

Real-world simulation of tube cutting machines

Automatic creation of the cutting program
Realistic simulation and control functions with visual anomaly indicators
Assessment of cutting feasibility according to machine characteristics (axis ranges, speeds and accelerations) with automatic detection of potential collisions
Simulations of multi-mandrel machines
Management of sensing operations (e.g., hole centering, tube twisting)
Generation of NC programs using a machine-specific postprocessor and generation of a workshop document.

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Support of all brands of tube cutting machines

Almacam Tube CAD/CAM software is able to interact with any kind of tubes and beam cutting system (3, 4 or 5 axis machines with one or more rotative axes, robotized cells for cutting tubes).