Planit Systems / Planit Metalworking: EdgeCAM

Planit is one of the largest suppliers of CAD/CAM solutions in the global manufacturing arena, ranked by CIMdata as the world’s fastest growing CAM vendor, with most industrial users. Planit provides products and services that enable businesses to improve the productivity of their machine tools, shorten design and manufacturing time, optimize material usage and deliver high quality goods and services to their customers. Leading Planit brands are Edgecam, Alphacam, Cabinet Vision, Cabnetware, Jobshop and Radan.

GET YOUR SOLIDWORKS PARTS INTO PRODUCTION QUICKLY AND EASILY

Edgecam Solid Machinist loads your SolidWorks design exactly as it was created with no data stripping translation. Using innovative features like Automatic Feature Recognition, Technology Assistant, Strategy Manager and Code Wizard, a comprehensive machining strategy and NC code can be generated right the first time.

When a SolidWorks part is opened in Edgecam Solid Machinist, it is maintained as a solid model, exactly as it was created. At a single click, Edgecam Solid Machinist uses Automatic Feature Recognition to interrogate the solid model to find machineable features.

Edgecam Solid Machinist incorporates true "toolpath to model associativity" meaning that late changes to the model will not effect the manufacturing lead-time. The toolpath is associative to the native CAD model, so Edgecam Solid Machinist will detect and notify the user when a SolidWorks model or part has been changed. It will give the user the option to update to the modified version, including any amended features. Edgecam Solid Machinist will recognize all dimensional and topological modifications, and recalculate the machining code and NC code accordingly.

Edgecam Strategy Manager is an interactive, flow chart method used to define and capture the way in which parts are to be cut. The strategies can be easily applied to the part, automating the part programming process!