DELMIA – TriMech https://trimech.com Your complete engineering resource, we specialize in delivering and supporting SOLIDWORKS, 3DEXPERIENCE, 3D Printing, FEA tools and more. Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:53:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://trimech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-trimech-icon-32x32.webp DELMIA – TriMech https://trimech.com 32 32 Introduction to DELMIA Manufacturing https://trimech.com/introduction-to-delmia-manufacturing/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:06:56 +0000 https://trimech.com/?p=66802 Our digital manufacturing tools fall under the DELMIA Manufacturing domain on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and can interact with all the other data we are already saving to the cloud! We’ll discuss how you can utilize the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to program and simulate your manufacturing environment.

Included in the DELMIA Manufacturing on-demand webinar

With the inclusion of Cloud Services with every new seat of SOLIDWORKS purchased you are closer than ever to get your hands on the powerful, integrated 3DEXPERIENCE Manufacturing roles to streamline your processes.

Watch as TriMech’s Elite Applications Engineer, Sawyer Gara, outlines the DELMIA manufacturing roles and apps available on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. The primary focus will be on the 3DEXPERIENCE CAM Roles where we can write CNC programs while utilizing a full digital twin of the machining cell we have on the shop floor.

However, we’ll also take a look into some of the Robotics and Virtual Factory simulation capabilities at our disposal. Keep in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the incredible smart manufacturing tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Topics include:

  • The DELMIA Manufacturing Domain
  • The Basic Functionality of Every Machining Role
  • The full CNC Programming Capabilities
  • The Digital Twin Manufacturing Environment
]]> Introducing the Robot Programmer Role available with 3DEXPERIENCE Works https://trimech.com/robot-programmer-role-3dexperience-works/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:22:22 +0000 https://trimech.com/?p=61924 Dassault Systèmes recently announced the addition of the Robot Programmer Role to 3DEXPERIENCE Works Manufacturing.

Watch the on-demand webinar as TriMech Technical Manager Matt Kokoski covers robot programming and how the role works with SOLIDWORKS.

Covered in this Robot Programmer Role demo

You will learn how the Role can help with programming industry standard robots to assist with plant layout. This Role will help assist in a true design to manufacture solution:

  • How to save SOLIDWORKS designs to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
  • How to add robots from a library
  • How to layout a manufacturing cell
  • How to program a robot
  • How to run a robot simulation
]]> Robot Programmer https://trimech.com/robot-programmer/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:29:15 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=61913

Robot Programmer

Build, Simulate, Validate and Program Industrial Robot workcells

Robot Programmer Role Overview

The DELMIA 3DEXPERIENCE Robot Programmer Role can deliver high-quality, collision-free programs in the native robot language with minimal intervention on the shop floor.

In the virtual world, programmers and designers work in concert to create the most productive tooling operations and robot cycle times. Programming can move ahead independently without interrupting production, and robot programs perform predictably the first time. Costs of programming and production are significantly reduced, and products move to market more quickly.

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Virtual Environment for Programming

Moving programming off the shop floor to a virtual environment immediately results in significant cost and productivity benefits:

  • Programmers do not need to wait until the tools are built to create and validate programs.
  • Production on the shop floor can move ahead uninterrupted while new programs are being authored and validated.
  • Programs work safely and predictably. Designs have already been validated. Programmers have a working knowledge of tool operation. Collision damage and delays are greatly reduced. There is no penalty for crashing a robot in the preproduction virtual world, where fixes are easier and quicker.
  • Offline programmers are freed from the necessity of making shop floor fixes. They can use their time to make workcells operational within the project timeline and deliver consistent production quality

Robot Programmer Capabilities

Moving programming off the shop floor to a virtual environment

  • Extensive libraries of robots and controllers

    Robot Programmer integrates programming and visualization. Working from extensive libraries of robots and controllers, programmers position resources, program individual robots, debug robot motion trajectories, and orchestrate workcell sequences between robots and other resources.

  • Store and re-use their specific programming practices

    Programmers can use templates to store and re-use their specific programming practices as corporate IP. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform lets multiple programmers work on different robots within the same workcell at the same time, reducing project people hours.

  • Reduced programming lead time

    Robot programmers can create, verify and validate programs in a virtual world that is separated from real-world production and download programs in native robot languages. They spend less time on the shop floor implementing fixes and workarounds while production waits. Production keeps rolling and time-to-market shrinks.

  • Collision free Trajectories

    Robot Programmer provides comprehensive simulations of the workcell process, programmers can visualize tasks and ensure that robots move from source to target on collision free trajectories.

  • Load balancing and reduced cycle times

    Programmers can simulate robots singly or in parallel to analyze reachability and task assignments. The workload can be equalized among robots to meet cycle time requirements. Fasteners can be analyzed for the most optimum assignment across multiple robots in a line.

  • Faster response to requests for quotation

    Cross-discipline collaboration on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables the concurrent validation of tooling and process plans—which means that companies can respond faster and more accurately to RFQs.

  • Offline programmers are freed from the necessity of making shop floor fixes

    They can use their time to make workcells operational within the project timeline and deliver consistent production quality.

  • Collaborative workflow

    Perform seamless collaboration workflows with 3DEXPERIENCE platform

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Robot Programmer Features

Apply simulation directly to your design geometry

Robot Programmer

Load balancing and reduced cycle times

Programmers can simulate robots singly or in parallel to analyze reachability and task assignments.

  • The workload can be equalized among robots to meet cycle time requirements.
  • Fasteners can be analyzed for the most optimum assignment across multiple robots in a line.

Transform your process

Robot Programmer integrates programming and visualization.

  • Working from extensive libraries of robots
  • Controllers, programmers position resources, program individual robots, debug robot
    motion trajectories, and orchestrate workcell sequences between robots and other resources

 

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Assembly robot programmer

Collaboration

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables your organization to efficiently manage all facets of your product development process while reducing infrastructure costs, IT overhead, software maintenance and complexity. Your teams can take advantage of the following platform capabilities:

  • Securely view, share, annotate, discuss and manage designs and simulation data from anywhere, at any time and on any device with a web browser
  • Collaborate with all internal and external team members through cloud-based dashboards, messaging, activity streams, communities and drag-and-drop task management

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

]]> 3DEXPERIENCE Tech Tip: Collaborating on 3DSwym nonadult 3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner https://trimech.com/3dexperience-works-learner/ Wed, 31 May 2023 10:09:16 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=61532

3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner

Best-in class training for adoption of 3DEXPERIENCE Works roles

3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner Role Overview

From short videos to comprehensive learning experiences in specific domains of expertise, learning has never been so easy, and enjoyable!

Based on 3DEXPERIENCE EDU Space the 3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner Role can give you and your team the skills needed for the 3DEXPERIENCE Works roles you have been assigned.

Learn anytime, anywhere, at your own pace

3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner is a learning portal inside the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to help you master Dassault Systèmes products and solutions. To help you stay ahead of the curve, you gain the latest industry and 3DEXPERIENCE know-how directly from your browser. In each learning path, discover the value of 3DEXPERIENCE roles with “Explore” learning modules, become proficient with “Practice” deep-dive courses.

Validate your newly acquired knowledge through completion course certificates, allowing you to showcase your skills. The certification program also offers valuable feedback on training programs by providing a quantitative before-and-after measurement of trainees' acquired skills. Dassault Systèmes certification is in continuously increasing demand as a skill differentiator required by the industry.

OVERVIEW DEMO

Learn more about 3DEXPERIENCE EDU

3DEXPERIENCE Works Learner Highlights and Benefits

Gain new skills and get started with 3DEXPERIENCE Works Roles

Access learning paths based on role, industry, discipline, process, and many more

Video based on-demand training content available in English & multiple languages

Access courses 24/7, anytime, from anywhere

Keep up-to-date on the latest learning content

Select 3DEXPERIENCE version and create favorites for training

Industry focused case studies and methodologies based on real scenarios validated by industry experts

Designed by Industry leaders and Dassault Systèmes experts, widely used by all 3DEXPERIENCE platform audiences

Get certified by taking exams in Governance, Design, Simulation or Manufacturing

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

]]> 3DEXPERIENCE Tech Tip: Collaborating on 3DSwym nonadult Manufacturing Items Engineer https://trimech.com/manufacturing-items-engineer/ Sun, 21 May 2023 14:28:52 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=61053

Manufacturing Items Engineer

Define, compare, manage and update the Manufacturing Bill of Materials with the DELMIA Manufacturing Items Engineer

Manufacturing Items Engineer Role Overview

Define, compare, manage and update the Manufacturing Bill of Material (MBOM) from the Engineering Bill of Material (EBOM)

Leveraging the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, and Manufacturing Items Management allows a production engineer to build a manufacturing bill of materials from the engineering bill of materials. In doing so, the engineer can define manufacture intent such that as the engineering bill of materials changes, so does the manufacturing bill of materials.

Discover Features

Manage your SOLIDWORKS BOM

DELMIA Manufactured Items Engineer allows the Manufacturing Bill of Material or MBOM (also known as the Manufacturing Items Structure) to be defined, managed, and updated directly from the 3D design data. Manufactured Items Engineer is a web based solution that uses the 3D Product Structure as input for authoring the Manufacturing Items Structure, allowing it to be leveraged across Manufacturing and Production.

When creating the MBOM, users can choose to display the Engineering Structure, the Manufacturing Structure, or both. Users can easily create a structure of the new MBOM. They can simply drag and drop the design data to begin from scratch, create it from the existing product structure, or from a template they have previously created. Users can review the status of items as they create the new structure and as it is updated from the Product Structure.

  • Easily creates the Manufactured Items Structure directly from the 3D Design data
  • Allows users to update the whole manufacturing BOM for all impacted Manufacturing Items
  • Reduces deployment time via an easy-to-use web client with 3D visualization, which provides users with a more accurate representation of the MBOM
  • User defined templates save time by reducing re-works

Manufacturing Items Engineer Capabilities

Uses the 3D Product Structure as input for authoring the Manufacturing Items Structure

  • Easy creation of the Manufactured Items Structure

    Manufactured Items Manager allows users to create the MBOM from scratch, or create it from the existing product structure, or from a template. The user defined templates save time and reduce re-work by allowing the user to create and then apply the templates to new products or variants.

  • Quick and efficient updates of the MBOM

    When updates are made to the Engineering Product Structure, tools in Manufactured Items Manager along with common change and configuration tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, allow the user to easily manage and reconcile the updates in the MBOM. Manufactured Items Manager makes it easy for users to easily understand how engineering changes impact the Manufactured Items Structure at any stage of the engineering process.

  • Export MBOM

    Once the user has completed the Manufacturing BOM structure, it can be exported in CSV format. The output can then be used for downstream processes, such as procurement by the ERP system.

  • Strucuture based on Business Rules

    Users can create a custom Manufactured Items Structure based on their own business rules; for example, they can consume only specific items from the Product Structure based on attribute values. Users can choose to display the Engineering Product Structure, the Manufactured Items Structure, or both. While authoring, the 3D widget helps users gain a better understanding by providing a 3D view of the Product data.

  • Define alternate parts or assemblies

    When parts and assemblies are defined, there may be different design configurations or suppliers for the parts. Users of Manufactured Items Manager can create alternate parts and assemblies for production planning. They can also manage manufacturing alternatives, plant responsibilities and make/buy decisions for Parts and Assemblies.

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Manufacturing Items Engineer Features

Manufacturing Items Engineer easily creates the structure directly from the 3D design data

Manufacturing item structure
Manage the Manufactured Items Structure

As updates occur in the Product Structure, Manufactured Items Manager allows the user to view the status of the items assigned in the MBOM.

During creation or update of the MBOM, users can easily reconcile the objects. Since users have a view of objects that have been used in the MBOM and their status (new, removed, etc.), they gain a clearer understanding of how engineering changes affect the MBOM.

Leverage the MBOM across DELMIA applications

When the MBOM structure has been authored using Manufactured Items Engineer, it can then be leveraged across the DELMIA applications in Process Planning, Robotics, Ergonomics and Fabrication.

The seamless integration between the DELMIA applications promotes digital continuity across the enterprise.

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Manufacturing items engineer

Simple to use interface

This light and easy authoring tool is convenient to use and deploy, providing ease of access for creating the Manufactured Item Structure (MBOM).

The widget can be used in a customized dashboard in combination with other widgets to fit the user’s needs, like 3D Play or Change Management, for example. Drags and drops between widgets provide easy and efficient user interaction.

Connect to SOLIDWORKS Desktop

Connect your traditional desktop experience with SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

  • Integrated directly into SOLIDWORKS, the 3DEXPERIENCE Desktop Add-in allows you to access all of your information from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform right from within SOLIDWORKS.
  • This workflow allows you to combine the power of SOLIDWORKS to quickly create and edit your engineering designs, with the collaborative features of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
SOLIDWORKS Cloud Collaboration

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

]]> 3DEXPERIENCE Tech Tip: Collaborating on 3DSwym nonadult DELMIA Lean Team Player https://trimech.com/delmia-lean-team-player/ Fri, 19 May 2023 12:10:45 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=60933

DELMIA Lean Team Player

A widget-based web app that builds better lean team relationships and performance despite physical or organizational barriers

DELMIA Lean Team Player Role Overview

Virtual models of product, process and resources

The DELMIA Lean Team Player role, on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, helps put Lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability and efficiency by engaging the next generation workforce regardless of where or how they work.

See Problems Solved

Realistic Virtual Workplace

Built on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, DELMIA Lean Team Player is a widget-based web app that builds better team relationships and performance despite physical or organizational barriers. Using touchscreens on the shop floor or collaborating virtually with remote workers, it drives constructive team behaviors by leveraging rich content and Lean principles to help teams make better decisions and manage actions. Regardless of role, DELMIA Lean Team Player supports different team challenges and goals to continuously improve operational efficiency.

The Lean Team Player role leverages a modern interactive environment accessible to everyone on the cloud. It empowers teams to find new ways to innovate by bringing people together in a structure that guides discovery, analysis and collaboration. Leveraging virtual models of product, process and resources, teams can understand the art of the possible and plan for improvement.

DELMIA Lean Team Player Capabilities

Flexible machining and toolpath workflows with real-time collaboration

  • Easy to use

    Simple and easy to use environment accessible to everyone (on the cloud or in person)

  • Process Integration

    Helps you to integrate lean methodologies into your team processes

  • Visualize 3D Content

    Seamlessly work with rich 3D content and visual data to explore operational issues and areas for improvement and innovation

  • Graphical Data

    Incorporates operational data and graphical information to guide collaboration and analysis

  • Real time actions

    Enable decisions and actions to be accomplished in real time

  • Follow up

    Captures actions and assignments to ensure follow up and issue resolution

  • Continous improvements

    Anyone can go back to the virtual meeting board before or after the meeting and continue to contribute effectively to drive continuous improvement

  • Digital Notes & Charts

    Manage actions and drive accountability using familiar methods updated for the digital age

  • Problem Solving

    Leverage Lean methodologies and principles as guides and aids towards common activities such as problem solving and root-cause analysis

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Today's Meeting Problems

Nonproductive meetings with no action items

No Structure

Operation team meetings typically lack structure and context. The majority of meetings waste time because they lack focus and structure to drive specific outcomes and actions.

Overly Complex

Teams do not like complexity. Today’s workers have enough challenges already – they will not adopt software or processes that are not simple to use and tailored to their needs.

Too Much Data

Decisions need to be made using information that is not easy to visualize. Teams need to understand ever-changing product and process data, KPIs (key performance indicators) and a myriad of reference information.

Disconnected

Many teams work separately and lack good working relationships. Whether within or between teams the impact on business continuity is high (especially in today’s disruptive environment).

Top Down

Organizations enforce “top down” processes. Management dictates operations processes that disempower teams and stifle innovation that could otherwise be adding values to the organization.

Wrong Behavior

Driving lean operations improvements requires a change in team behaviors. Traditional team interactions are not truly collaborative and often result in missed opportunities and follow up.

The Lean Team Player solves meeting issues:

Team collaboration and meetings needs are addressed:
  1. Allows teams to collaborate effectively within/between teams.
  2. Allows teams to drive adoption of Lean principles across manufacturing and operations.
  3. Allows teams to reinforce problem-solving behaviors and manage corrective actions.
  4. Allows teams to engage workers and make them more productive.
  5. Allows teams to make rapid decisions using information that often changes and isn't easy to visualize.
Lean Team Player benefits:
  • Make the most of every team meeting
  • Rapidly increase team performance and efficiency
  • Easily deploy and adopt Lean principles
  • Empower teams to solve problems autonomously
  • Increase worker engagement and understanding of their roles and contributions

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

]]> 3DEXPERIENCE Tech Tip: Collaborating on 3DSwym nonadult NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer https://trimech.com/nc-prismatic-mill-turn-machine-programmer/ Thu, 18 May 2023 15:45:57 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=60919

NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer

The DELMIA NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer Role is for producing 3D parts that require advanced 2.5-axis milling and turning operations

NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer Role Overview

With NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer, users can program milling and turning machines to produce 3D parts that require advanced 2.5-axis milling and turning operations.

Machinists can program complex multi-tasking mill-turn machines with synchronization and part-transfer capabilities.

Discover Features

Realistic Virtual Workplace

The 3D environment immerses NC programmers in a realistic virtual workplace as they create, optimize and validate NC programs for 2.5-axis milling and turning processes. Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer provides a full set of features for workpiece setup, cutter tool assembly and toolpath simulation that include material removal, machine-tool simulation and NC code generation.

NC programmers can capture and leverage Enterprise IP and collaborate with other stakeholders as they develop, validate and optimize NC programs. Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer makes it easy to access current information about machining resources, programs and machine tool setups.

NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer Capabilities

Flexible machining and toolpath workflows with real-time collaboration

  • Accelerate NC programming

    Quickly author and edit NC programs. Intuitive graphic dialog boxes, traffic light indicators for undefined machining parameters and help icons for each parameter make the process highly efficient. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the machining operation definition panel. Copy-and-paste functions help organize programs in the specification tree.

  • Maximize machine tool utilization

    Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer offers a wide range of operations and strategies that help programmers create toolpath programs that minimize non-value-added motion. Optimized NC programs, including high-speed machining features, reduce overall machining cycle time. Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer considers in-process parts when generating
    collision-free toolpaths.

  • Mitigate risk to production

    A 3D environment creates optimized NC programs in the manufacturing context: NC machine, cutter, tool assemblies, NC accessories and other elements. This provides a better understanding of the machining cell and ensures that the toolpath and machining strategy consider the tool’s physical environment. It also reduces the risk of unexpected issues and production delays.

  • Leverage intellectual property

    Improve automation and standardization of NC toolpath programs. Users can define and store machining processes as dedicated templates, then store them in catalogs for reuse. Company intellectual property is capitalized and re-used to make programming more efficient. The gains in productivity and machining work standardization are significant.

  • A single design-to-machining solution to understand engineering changes

    Based on 3DEXPERIENCE® Works, Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer provides an unrivaled level of associativity between product engineering, manufacturing processes and resources. Companies can better manage concurrent engineering and manufacturing flows and shorten the design-to-manufacturing cycle.

    Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer offers the best available support of design changes or design variants and the rapid creation of programs for families of parts. Native implementation links connect machining programs to engineering and manufacturing data.

    These links can be used to see which machining programs are impacted by engineering or manufacturing changes like a new cutter, for example, and to see whether machining data is up to date with respect to engineering changes.

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NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer Features

NC Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer is fully on the cloud—all you need to start designing is an internet connection.

DELMIA NC Mill-Turn Programmer

Manage and program machining resources with powerful multi-tasking mill-turn capabilities

Manage Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines, accessories, tools and tool assemblies in 3D. These resources can be retrieved through standard search capabilities using relevant machining attributes and instantiated in a machining cell.

Users can clearly see the impact of changes on the definition of objects such as parts or cutting tools across all NC processes and programs.

Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer supports default or customized representations of the cutter and tool assemblies that are used for verification, simulation with material removal and collision checking. Programmers can author NC programs for complex mill-turn machines with multiple spindles and turrets using synchronization features, balance turning and part-transfer capabilities. Through an immersive, intuitive interface, users can synchronize operations and passes within an operation and define part-transfer activities.

Automatic association of prismatic machining features with part design

Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer automatically recognizes the prismatic machining features of the product design, significantly reducing toolpath programming time.

A manufacturing view of the design part is generated, with all the drilling and milling features that are to be machined. Through this embedded feature-recognition technology, Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer enables toolpath programming for geometrical-machined, feature-creation design parts—even those with no design feature specifications.

DELMIA NC Programmer
DELMIA NC Machine Validation

Creation and optimization of 2.5-Axis milling, drilling and probing operations

Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer offers a broad range of machining operations for toolpath definition, including pocketing, facing and contouring.

These operations can be defined as multi-level and multi-pass. At the user’s request, the toolpath can be optimized for high-speed machining. Point-to-point machining is available, as well as a full set of axial operations from standard drilling to complex boring and chamfering.

Several dedicated strategies for hard material are included such as trochoidal milling, concentric milling and spiral morphing. This concentric strategy controls the radial engagement to maximize the efficiency on the machine while protecting the cutter.

Prismatic & Mill-Turn Machine Programmer offers unique functionalities for creating and verifying milling, drilling and probing operations.

Connect to SOLIDWORKS Desktop

Connect your traditional desktop experience with SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

  • Integrated directly into SOLIDWORKS, the 3DEXPERIENCE Desktop Add-in allows you to access all of your information from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform right from within SOLIDWORKS.
  • This workflow allows you to combine the power of SOLIDWORKS to quickly create and edit your engineering designs, with the collaborative features of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
SOLIDWORKS Cloud Collaboration

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

]]> 3DEXPERIENCE Tech Tip: Collaborating on 3DSwym nonadult NC Shop Floor Programmer https://trimech.com/nc-shop-floor-programmer/ Wed, 10 May 2023 22:37:16 +0000 https://trimech.com/?page_id=60565

NC Shop Floor Programmer

Program 2.5-Axis and 3-Axis Machines to create 3D parts using the DELMIA NC Shop Floor Programmer Role with the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

NC Shop Floor Programmer Role Overview

The DELMIA NC Shop Floor Programmer (NSR) Role enables users to program advanced 2.5-axis milling machines, 3- axis milling machines, and 2- / 4- axes wire EDM machines to create 3D parts.

Discover Features

All-in-one NC Programming environment

3DEXPERIENCE Works® immerses NC programmers in a realistic virtual workplace as they create, enhance and validate milling and EDM programs. It provides easy access to up-to-date information for machining resources, NC programs and part set-up. The 3D environment immerses NC Programmers in a realistic virtual workplace as they create, optimize, and validate milling programs. It provides easy access to up-to-date information for machining resources, NC programs, and part set-up.

NC Shop Floor Programmer provides a full set of features for workpiece setup, cutter tool assembly, and toolpath simulation that include material removal, machine-tool simulation, and NC code generation. NC programmers can capture and leverage enterprise intellectual property and collaborate with other stakeholders as they develop, validate, and optimize NC programs.

NC Shop Floor Programmer Capabilities

Flexible machining and toolpath workflows with real-time collaboration

  • Reduce NC programming time

    Simplified new user interface with more intuitive graphic dialog boxes focus on the most important parameters & strategies. When NC programs are authored or edited, NC Shop Floor Programmer takes into account the machine tools kinematic definition. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the machining operation definition panel.

  • Maximize machine tool utilization

    NC Shop Floor Programmer’s wide range of operations and strategies helps programmers create toolpath programs that minimize non-value-added motion. NC Shop Floor Programmer considers in-process parts to generate collision-free toolpaths.

  • Mitigate risk to production

    A 3D environment creates optimized NC programs in the manufacturing context: NC machine, cutter, tool assemblies, NC accessories and other elements. This provides a better understanding of the machining cell and ensures that the toolpath and machining strategy consider the tool’s physical environment. It also reduces the risk of unexpected issues and production delays.

  • A single design-to-machining solution to understand engineering changes

    Based on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, NC Shop Floor Programmer provides an unrivaled level of associativity between product engineering, manufacturing processes, and resources. Companies can manage concurrent engineering and manufacturing flows better and shorten the design-to-manufacturing cycle. NC Shop Floor Programmer offers the best available support of design changes or design variants and the rapid creation of programs for families of parts. Native implementation links connect machining programs to engineering and manufacturing data. Which can be used to determine which machining programs are impacted by engineering or manufacturing changes. Example: when there is a new cutter, and whether machining data is up to date with respect to engineering changes.

  • Seamless NC data generation

    NC Shop Floor Programmer offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format through the integrated post-processor execution engine, the library of standard post-processor syntax mapping tables, and Post Processor samples. The output formats can be easily customized. Additional files generated by the post-processor are also automatically saved in the same container in the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform. Thus ensuring that all relevant outputs for a given part are available at the same location and are up to date. The manufacturing program’s key information can be exported as documentation for reference on the shop floor.

  • Advanced simulation capability

    Powerful simulation capabilities for toolpath validation bring one of the most advanced machine simulation modules to the market to identify potential issues early in the process. NC Shop Floor Programmer has the capability to compute gouge volume in the workpiece, making it easier for users to prioritize and process gouges in machining programs. Near misses at user-defined safety distances are also identified, and multiple tool change locations are supported for a more accurate simulation of the machine motions. The simulation context, saved in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, allows the user to organize his review in the most convenient way and helps to ensure traceability of the validation task. It allows users to program, optimize and validate machining in the most efficient way. It lets NC Programmers identify toolpath errors early in the process and shortens programming time.

  • A Setup Wizard and an immersive, context-based user interface

    A toolpath creation wizard and context-based menus are available for a quick 3D setup and creation of the NC toolpath. If a user clicks on a help icon while editing a parameter, an image describing the parameter pops up in the panel. Users can quickly organize programs in the activity process tree using copy-and-paste functions. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the activity process tree.

  • Automatic association of prismatic machining features with part design

    Automatically recognizes the prismatic machining features of the product design, significantly reducing toolpath programming time. A manufacturing view of the design part is generated with all the drilling and milling features that are to be machined. Through this embedded feature-recognition technology, NC Shop Floor Programmer allows geometrical-machined, feature-creation design parts—even on those with no design feature specifications.

  • Creation and optimization of 2.5-axis milling, drilling and probing operations

    Offers a broad range of machining operations for toolpath definition, including pocketing, contouring, roughing & sweeping operations. These operations can be defined as multi-level and multi-pass. At the user’s request, the tool path can be optimized for high-speed machining. Point-to-point machining is available, as well as a full set of axial operations from standard drilling to complex boring and chamfering. NC Shop Floor Programmer offers unique functionalities for creating and verifying milling, drilling, and probing operations. Probing operations are very flexible and can be customized with associated user parameters.

  • High-end strategies from roughing to finishing for 3-axis geometry

    Offers a full set of 3-axis high-end strategies from roughing to finishing, such as sweeping, Z-Level, advanced finishing and deburring. It automatically generates toolpaths for the entire part. Users can also author operations needed to machine specific features. Users can select a roughing strategy—such as back-and-forth, helical or part-offset—based on the material and the shape of the part. NC Shop Floor Programmer analyzes tool assemblies during computation to generate a collision-free toolpath. As roughing operations are defined, the in-process part is computed and used as the starting point for the next set of operations. Users can then create a new roughing operation with a smaller diameter tool. This toolpath is automatically generated based on material that remains from any previous operation, including roughing.

  • Wire EDM Machining

    Simulate, validate, and program wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) processes. Users have the ability to compute the wire EDM path and program the synchronization of each end of the wire to the part contours. Users can implement 2- and 4-axes programming capabilities with dedicated wire EDM strategies, visualize and validate their program strategy, then produce the machine code. As with all DELMIA Machining applications, users can save and re-use best practices by creating the wire EDM paths, storing these in a template, and then re-using the same strategy on other parts.

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NC Shop Floor Programmer Features

NC Shop Floor Programmer is fully on the cloud—all you need to start designing is an internet connection.

Time saving NC tools

Time Saving Tools

NC Shop Floor Programmer delivers powerful 3D machine programming capabilities, including:

  • Surface Machining for generating faster and higher-quality toolpaths on the CAD model geometry vs. mesh data
  • Intermediate Stock so you can see how the machining operation will impact the manufacturing process
  • Advanced Surface Finishing optimizes toolpaths for specific geometry, saving you time adjusting settings while you program
  • Automatic Feature recognition automatically identifies machinable features and operations from previous programming

Simplified Workflow

NC Shop Floor Programmer is packed with capabilities that let you program the way you want while simplifying the process. Features include:

  • Auto-generation of NC code, reducing programming time through automation and toolpath re-use
  • Real-time Toolpath Verification accurately calculates the toolpath, ensuring it performs as designed
  • Automated Hole recognition automatically generates the drilled holes on the part and can be adjusted per company standards
  • Activities Process View shows the step-by-step operations you programmed and can be changed at any time
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Collaborative Tools

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform capabilities included with this role streamline communication between departments, improving manufacturability. Benefits include:

  • Store your company’s know-how to quickly create new programs based on proven previously used sequences of operations
  • Access to NC programming, data management and collaboration tools all in a single environment
  • Reduce time, save money, and improve the quality of the g-code generated during post processing
  • Works seamlessly with other 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio roles, such as 3D Creator and 3D Mold Creator

Connect to SOLIDWORKS Desktop

Connect your traditional desktop experience with SOLIDWORKS to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

  • Integrated directly into SOLIDWORKS, the 3DEXPERIENCE Desktop Add-in allows you to access all of your information from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform right from within SOLIDWORKS.
  • This workflow allows you to combine the power of SOLIDWORKS to quickly create and edit your engineering designs, with the collaborative features of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
SOLIDWORKS Cloud Collaboration

3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.

Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.

Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.

Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.

Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.

Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.

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