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News Release from: Camtek | Subject: PEPS Solidcut
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2002
Machining software gains solid electrode
design
Camtek has enhanced its PEPS Solidcut 3D mould, die and component machining system with a semi-automated electrode geometry design option.
Camtek has enhanced its PEPS Solidcut 3D mould, die and component machining system with a semi-automated electrode geometry design option Fully solids-based - built using the Parasolid modelling kernel - PEPS Solidcut Electrode Design provides toolmaking companies with support for user-defined electrode holders, standard and free-form electrode blanks and automated solid creation of the electrode form after positioning the electrode form on the component model in x, y, z and c, and selecting erosion depth
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Electrode blanks can be derived from cubic, cylindrical model primitives as well as extrusions of boundaries and faces on the solid model.
Tool designers and CNC programmers can then modify any of the faces of the electrode form to 'pull back' faces that are not required for during sinking and to provide spark-gap allowances.
PEPS Solidcut delivers powerful roughing, semi-finishing, rest- and finish-machining, equally applicable to electrode forms as mould, die and production 3D machining.
PEPS Systems include powerful 2D geometry and 3D integrated solid-modelling tools, and can also integrate flat-drawing, wire-frame, NURB surface and solid model designs from any of the leading CAD systems in use today, in most cases using direct transfer of data from model files without the need for interim translations.
PEPS SolidCut is available either as a stand-alone product or as part of the PEPS Suite of integrated products.
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