The new Tebis Release wins out with user-friendly automation

Frankfurt, Germany, July 10, 2025 This fall, Tebis is launching its next high-performance release with many new features and extensions. The centerpiece is the revolutionary Tebis SmartOps Technology, enabling comprehensive automation of CAD/CAM processes: Many tasks users have to master in design and manufacturing planning are significantly accelerated and simplified and can also be reproduced at any time.

The Tebis milling functions have also seen many improvements. For example, machine movements can now be controlled even more efficiently. Overall, this ensures shorter machine run times and longer tool life.

Various design and reverse engineering functions are now also even easier to automate.

Your shortcut to success – Tebis SmartOps Technology

Tebis SmartOps are intelligently linked CAD/CAM operations that can be automatically performed based on templates. Whether simple or complex, tasks that are repeated for every workpiece are good examples of CAD/CAM processes that can be fully automated: Part import, blank measurement, positioning clamping devices, defining the material and machine, assigning any necessary features and placing measuring points, selecting the machining strategy, generating toolpaths, checking the machining operation and NC data output.

Overall, the complete Tebis function modules can be used for SmartOps Technology. This enables individual, targeted automation and standardization of CAD/CAM processes. The SmartOps are precisely matched to the specific range of tasks and the manufacturing company’s entire expertise is stored in appropriate libraries.

The new technology has already been used by several project partners. Automation Product Manager Torsten Fiedler says: “Our pilot customers are especially excited that Tebis SmartOps can be created entirely within the familiar CAD/CAM environment without the need for special scripting or programming knowledge. This is where Tebis SmartOps Technology clearly differs from our competitors’ products. The pilot users are also enthusiastic about the ability to flexibly adapt the CAD/CAM process flow at any time: The user is guided through the individual process steps by a wizard and can intervene as necessary. Parametric design enables quick and easy updating of the entire process.”

3D design

Quickly and easily extend surfaces tangentially

To obtain optimum milling results, for example, free-form surfaces often have to be extended tangentially, avoiding residual material at the edges and protecting cutting edges. This can now be achieved quickly and automatically in Tebis. This again shows how close the Tebis parametric solution is to the actual manufacturing world: The CAD/CAM user can adjust the result interactively and can update it globally with a click of the mouse.

Milling

Easier CAM programming and optimized retract movements in 5-axis simultaneous milling

Toolpath programming for 5-axis simultaneous machining has again been significantly simplified: The user can now select a curve to calculate the normal tool orientation. An angle can also be defined to further improve cutting conditions.

The machine retract movements can now also be specifically controlled in Tebis for all 5-axis simultaneous milling functions: Retracts can be processed at rapid traverse or normal feed rate, optimally matching the retract movements to the machine type and control.

20 percent faster roughing

The possibilities for roughing have been further improved: Thanks to optimized infeed movements, high feed-rate cutters that enable very high metal removal rates, especially for large parts, can now be used even more efficiently and with less tool wear.

New options for combined roughing operations also ensure longer tool life and up to 20 percent faster processing on the machine: If specific areas are excluded from machining in roughing with area reduction, subsequent machining can be influenced even more specifically with additional filtering options.

Optimized connecting paths for 3-axis machining centers

Tebis also enables full control of machine control systems in which the linear axes are not synchronized at rapid feed. The connecting path is automatically generated at a safe height in the event of potential collisions. The full potential of older 3-axis machining centers can thus be exploited and the machine is at maximum speed.

CAD/CAM automation

More fully automated use of free-form features

Tebis customers now also benefit from even more automation when machining free-form features. As when machining ruled features, you can now specify if the tool search should automatically select a longer tool in the event of possible collisions. The user can also control the collision check manually as before.

Free-form features can now be prepared even more easily for automated CAM programming: They can be interactively disconnected, linked or broken.

Tebis

Tebis is a global market and technology leader in the CAD/CAM and MES sector. Customers use Tebis to efficiently and safely design, plan and manufacture models, molding dies and components at the highest quality. Teams of consulting and implementation specialists with practical experience develop strategies for safe and efficient CAD/CAM processes, implement them in the customer’s infrastructure and ensure a viable technological and competitive advantage.

Tebis software has an intuitive user interface that guarantees a high level of quality and safety in manufacturing, even of highly complex parts. Thanks to the Tebis service offerings, customers can easily introduce new technologies and fully leverage the power of the Tebis process solutions.

The company is headquartered in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, and has nine branch offices around the world as well as distributors in eight other countries. 350 employees worldwide support Tebis’s customers, most of whom are in the automotive, aerospace and machine manufacturing sectors.

Automation has been a key factor in the Tebis formula for success for 40 years. Tebis sees itself as an innovator for customers on their path toward Industry 4.0.

www.tebis.com

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