CATIA V5 Offline Programming solution for 3D Trimming Applications

FASTRIM is a modular built application for different trimming technologies, such as laser cutting, water-jet cutting, routing, ultrasonic cutting and others, which easily can be customized and made available as a tailored solution.

Product features

As a Catia V5 CAA development Fastrim has all the benefits of the look and feel of Catia V5 together with the benefits of fully associative geometry, delivering rapid savings in programming time and expense.

• CAD functions and automatic clean-up for any type of geometry
• 3D solid and surface based modelling
• Powerful sketcher function to create 2D contours
• Automatic elimination of gaps and overlaps
• Automatic approximation to optimized circles and spline entities, independent of the input geometry
• Automatic creation of stanchions, base plates, tabs and interlockings according to predefined standards
• Automatic labelling, weight relief patterns and pinhole support
• Automatic unfolding and nesting of base plate and stanchions into a given sheet of sheet size and automatic programming
• Full associativity between fixture and nested geometry
• Fast and easy alignment of the part on the machine table using various calibration functions
• Powerful algorithms to generate a smooth and collision-free tool path
• Integrated simulation including the machine tool
• Various teach- and optimize functions
• Macro geometry editor for editing holes, rectangles, hexagons, keyholes,...
• Upload of existing tool paths

Benefits

Being fully integrated within Catia V5 FasTrim gives full associativity with core geometry and gives significant savings in the time taken to create tool paths, offline from production machines.

• Closed process through direct access to native V5 data
• Time saving through automatic fixture creation
• Time saving through obsolete time consuming prototypes
• Increased availability of machine tools through obsolete teaching activities and shifting programming activities to FasTRIM
• Machine tool simulation and collision-checking before execution
• Flexible adoption to boundary conditions through macro editor
• Reuse of existing or old NC programs with the option to adapt to different machine tool