FIKUS
Visual CAM
GENERAL
FEATURES
Ø GENERAL
FUNCTIONS
- 32
Bit Windows native application.
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Graphics based on OpenGL with shaded surfaces.
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Interface based on menus, icons and dialogue boxes.
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Toolpath printing with preview.
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Calculator incorporated in all data inputs.
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Dynamic 3D Zoom, Pan and Rotation.
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Multiwindow graphic environment.
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Dynamic, wireframe or shaded simulation in 3D of the wirepath with possibility
of moving or rotating the view.
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Post-processors optimized for all major wireEDM machines.
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Post-processing using machine cycles, and with the possibility of making types
of cycles which are not implemented in the CNC.
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CNC editor for Windows 98 / NT / 2000 with direct connection to CNC.
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CNC program listings by printer.
Ø GEOMETRY
FUNCTION DEFINITION
- All the necessary functions
for the 3D geometry creation and modification.
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IGES and DXF interfaces.
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Read PLT format.
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Direct interface with CIMATRON.
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Automatic regular polygon, rectangle and ellipse generation.
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Automatic generation of inner or outer gears.
- 3D
Bounding box calculation for selected geometries.
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Graphical layers.
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Multi UCS.
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3D scale factor.
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Generation and transformation of NURBScurves.
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Rectangular and polar arrays.
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Intelligent curve trimming.
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Special functions for geometry analysis and modification, either generated
from Fikus or imported from other CAD systems.
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Hide/Show entities.
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Color and thickness attributes.
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Unlimited Undo/Redo geometry.
Ø MACHINING
FUNCTIONS FOR WIRE EDM
- Wirepath
manager.
- Customized
technologies for the different machines on the market, allowing for the best
CNC performance.
- Definition
of geometries by 2D or 3D contours.
- 2
axis part generation with constant draft angle.
- 4
axis part generation with multiple draft angles.
- 4
axis part generation by two contours. Automatic or Manual synchronization
of the contours.
- Dynamic
Stop point insertion.
- Dynamic
technological point insertion (allowing the change of the machining conditions).
- On-Screen
definition of the entry and exit movements. Possibility of modification at
any time.
- Direct
geometry cycle translation into CNC language.
- Roughing
and multiple skimming passes in 2 and 4 axis.
- Remnant
cut definition by distance.
- No-core-cut
cycle (material destruction) spiral or linear.
- Multiprocesses
(templates) saving and using. Allowing saving well known machining strategies
and reusing them later on different parts.
- Machining
by phases. Allowing machining processes by type (roughing, skimming, remnant
cut).
- Use
of Windows standard keys in combination with the mouse right button: drag/drop,
cut, copy, paste, move, create, rearrange, erase trajectories, geometries
and processes.
- 3D
wireframe or shaded scene.
- 3D
dynamic wirefrane or shaded simulation of the wirepath with possibility of
moving or rotating the scene.
- Post-processors
optimized for all major CNC's
- Great
number of optional post-processors already made and verified.
- CNC
editor for Windows 98 / NT /2000 with direct connection to CNC.
- CNC
program listings by printer.