The product automates the design, documentation and production (NC-machining) of electrodes to be used in EDM sinking processes. FASTElectrode supports the entire process, from preparing the electrode definition to the automated design of the electrodes and their NC machining.
Due to seamless integrationa significant gap in the mold and tooling design process has been closed. Clear and simple user guidance, reduction of user entries to the most important ones, full control of all the powerful CATIA functions for optimal 3D contour creation, and complete parameterisation of electrodes for efficient change management are some of the advantages of this CAA product.
Description :
• Setup of project and electrode product structure
• Profile selection and easy extraction of electrode faces
• Geometrical functions to complete the electrode
• Adding reference frame, holder and technological information
• Create electrode 2D documentation (MS-Excel, CATDrawing, XML and ASCII)
• Automated NC programming of electrodes
• Download of documentation and process data to shop floor (Zwicker XML, …)
Customer benefits :
• Dedicated solution for electrode design and documentation
• Uniform design process
• Evident time savings for electrode documentation
• Integration of company standards
• Associative and update compatible
DS prerequisite products :
• For electrode design: Any P2 or PLM Express configuration including Part Design 2 (PDG)
• For integrated electrode manufacturing: NCG and SMG (or AMG)