Solid Electrode Design added to PEPS SolidCut CADCAM milling software

Camtek have enhanced their 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. 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, wireframe,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 withou the need for interim translations.

PEPS SolidCut is available either as a standalone product or as part of the PEPS Suite of integrated products, which include PEPS Mill, PEPS Turn, PEPS Wire, PEPS PentaCut (for 5-axis laser) and PEPS TubeCut for (multi-axis laser tube cutting applications).

For more information or digital screenshots contact Carol Hart, Marketing Manager of Camtek on +44 (0)1684 892290 or email carol@camtek.co.uk. Screenshots can also be downloaded from the Press Room at www.peps.com/press/