Fikus ST 25

Launching of Fikus ST 25

Barcelona, October 2025

Metalcam S.L is pleased to announce the release of Fikus ST 25, an updated version of their renowned CAM solution designed to optimize shop-floor manufacturing processes. Fikus ST 25 represents a significant leap forward in design and machining software, delivering substantial improvements in performance, efficiency, and usability, making it an ideal choice for professionals seeking excellence and productivity.

This new version has been developed to provide a more powerful, faster, reliable, and efficient solution. The application’s infrastructure has been modernized with updated libraries and code migrated to a 64-bit architecture, enhancing security, ensuring compatibility with modern operating systems, and increasing overall performance and stability. Users will experience greater agility, with calculations up to 60% faster in certain processes and smoother, quicker stock simulations, offering more fluid tool-path visualization

Maximizing productivity

Fikus ST 25 introduces key technological innovations to maximize productivity:

• Twin-wire Technology: Now supports UNIQUA’s Twin-wire technology on the AgieCharmilles Cut X machine, using two wires to increase precision, reduce machining time, cut thicker materials, and handle complex shapes with greater stability.
• Trochoidal Roughing for Milling: A new trochoidal roughing strategy removes more material in less time, significantly reducing machining time and extending tool life.

Improved user-experience

The version also integrates major user-experience enhancements:

• Enhanced Feature Recognition: Improved to handle parts combining open and closed contours in Wire technology, and with smarter milling operations.
• New Selection Wizard: Simplifies the filtering of wire geometries by type.
• Automatic Template Generation: Automatically creates templates based on the user’s typical jobs—up to 50 different templates—with a new wizard to streamline creation and loading.
• Redesigned User Interface: A fresh, clean, and modern design that enables work with fewer clicks, including a new start screen, updated icons, and adaptive ribbons. A “red dot” highlights new or updated functions.
• Automatic Scrap Management (ASM) for UNIQUA: A system that, once the part is fully cut, uses a vacuum-equipped movable arm to collect it and place it in a dedicated container, allowing machining to continue without interruption.
• User Registration Process: A new security step for license acceptance and registration, privacy policy, and EULA—even if the computer is offline.
• 3DConnexion SpaceMouse Support: Now available as an optional input device.
• Improved Reports: UV coordinates of conical threading points are now included.