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PartMaker has changed the way we do business. I cannot imagine any other system that could possibly compete with what PartMaker has done for us today.

Clint Fredrickson, Production Manager,
High Tech Welding & Machine






PartMaker Applications

Click on the tabs below to find out why PartMaker is used for a variety of applications, including Turn-mill, Wire EDM and SwissCAM

  • PartMaker SwissCAM

    PartMaker SwissCAM

    PartMaker SwissCAM is the market leading system for automating the programming the multi-axis Swiss-type lathes. PartMaker employs a Patented, powerful, yet easy to learn and use visual approach for programming these complex machines, resulting in a significant savings of time and money.

    Benefits:

    • Reduce machine set-up time by upwards of 50%
    • Speed up programming time
    • Program all your machines in the same intuitive manner, no matter what machine brand, model or control
    • Avoid costly machine collisions and tool breakage with 3D simulation
    • Program more complex parts faster
    • Develop optimized cycle time studies quickly and easily
    • Create set-up documentation automatically
    • Interface with any CAD system including SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, Inventor, Unigraphics and many others

    PartMaker Machine Compatibility:

    Star Citizen Tsugami
    Tornos Hanwha Ganesh
    • Gildemeister Maier NexTurn
    Nomura Po Ly Gim Traub
    • Jinn Fa    
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

     
  • PartMaker Turn-Mill

    PartMaker Turn-Mill

    PartMaker Turn-Mill is the market leading system for automating the programming the multi-axis Turn-Mill Centers. PartMaker employs a Patented, powerful, yet easy to learn and use visual approach for programming these complex machines, resulting in a significant savings of time and money.

    Benefits:

    • Reduce machine set-up time by upwards of 50%
    • Speed up programming time
    • Program all your machines in the same intuitive manner, no matter what machine brand, model or control
    • Avoid costly machine collisions and tool breakage with 3D simulation
    • Program more complex parts faster
    • Develop optimized cycle time studies quickly and easily
    • Create set-up documentation automatically
    • Interface with any CAD system including SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, Inventor, Unigraphics and many others

    PartMaker Machine Compatibility:

    Mori-Seiki Mazak Okuma
    Miyano Doosan Nakamura-Tome
    Hardinge • Gildemeister • Biglia/Eurotech
    Haas Index Traub Citizen
    • Takisawa • Takamaz • Hyundai/Kia
    • WFL • Hwacheon • Emco Maier
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

  • PartMaker Mill

    PartMaker Mill

    PartMaker Mill gives you what you've been looking for from a CAM system, the power to tackle your toughest jobs with the ease of use to program them faster and easier than ever before. PartMaker Mill applies a unique Knowledge Based Machining Approach to capture your shop specific knowledge of feeds and speeds, tooling and repetitive process to speed up programming.

    Benefits:

    • Speed up programming time - typically 70% versus competing systems
    • Program all your milling applications from 2.5 axis, 3-axis, 4th Axis and 5th Axis
    • Avoid costly machine collisions and tool breakage with 3D simulation and clamp avoidance
    • Program more complex parts faster
    • Improve visualization for complex work holding and multi-fixture set-ups
    • Interface with any CAD system including SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, Inventor, Unigraphics and many others
    • Create set-up documentation automatically

    PartMaker Machine Compatibility:

    Mori-Seiki Mazak Okuma
    Haas Doosan Hardinge/Bridgeposrt
    DMG • Hurco • Fadal
    • Miltronics • Makino • Kitamura
    • OKK • Prototrack • Hyundai/Kia
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

  • PartMaker Turn

    PartMaker Turn

    PartMaker Turn is a cost effective and easy-to-use system to automate the programming of the range of range of machining operations for 2-axis CNC lathes. PartMaker Turn comes loaded with post processors for any 2-axis lathe on the market

    Benefits:

    • Speed up programming time - typically 70% versus competing systems
    • Program CNC lathes from any machine builder with any control
    • Avoid costly machine collisions and tool breakage with 3D simulation
    • Output in either long hand or canned cycle format
    • Create set-up documentation automatically
    • Interface with any CAD system including SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, Inventor, Unigraphics and many others

    Machine Compatibility:

    Mori-Seiki Mazak Okuma
    Haas Doosan Hardinge
    • Hyundai/Kia    
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

  • PartMaker Wire EDM

    PartMaker Wire EDM

    PartMaker Wire EDM is an intuitive solution for programming your Wire EDM. The software supports 2-axis, 2-axis with taper and full 4-axis Wire EDM cutting. PartMaker Wire EDM uses Knowledge Based Machining technology to store information about various wires, materials and cutting strategies for passes involving both rough and skim cuts.

    Benefits:

    • Speed up programming time
    • Avoid costly errors and reduce scrap with 3D simulation
    • Program 2-axis, Tapered and Full 4-axis cutting with ease
    • Program Wire EDMs from any builder
    • Create set-up documentation automatically

    PartMaker Machine Compatibility:

    • Mitsubishi • Sodick • Agie
    • Charmilles • Fanuc • Makino
    • Brother    
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

  • PartMaker Bar-Fed Milling

    PartMaker Bar-Fed Milling

    Bar Fed Mills are unique machines that require an equally unique programming solution. PartMaker is the market leading system for automating the programming of Bar-Fed Mills. PartMaker employs a Patented, powerful, yet easy to learn and use visual approach for programming these unique machines, resulting in a significant savings of time and money.

    Benefits:

    • Fully utilize the unique capability of your Bar-Fed Mill
    • Speed up programming time
    • Simulate the unique kinematics of your Bar-Fed Mill to avoid costly machine collisions and tool breakage
    • Program more complex parts faster
    • Interface with any CAD system including SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, Inventor, Unigraphics and many others
    • Create set-up documentation automatically

    PartMaker Machine Compatibility:

    • Willimen-Macodel Bumotec • Chiron
    Mazak Star Tornos/Almac
    • Stama    
    ...and others

    Typical Applications:

    Medical Device
    Aerospace
    • Defense
    Fluid Power
    Telecommunications
    Guns/Armaments
    Job Shop

     
  • PartMaker Modeling

    PartMaker Modeling

    PartMaker provides you with some of the easiest, most powerful design for manufacture tools and CAD tools of any CAM system on the market today. PartMaker lets you create 2D drawings from prints quickly and easily. You can also import an array of 2D and 3D solid model formats, assuring seamless integration with any CAD system on the market today including those such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Unigraphics Pro/E, Inventor and others. For users with more advanced needs, we also offer the PartMaker Modeling application to allow you to create 3D solid models and assemblies. PartMaker Modeling features the unique "Solid Doctor" feature to quickly repair poor or low quality 3D data. PartMaker Modeling features a unique “direct modeling” capability to allow you to quickly and easily add, remove and change features to “dumb” models, i.e. 3D models with no design or feature history included in them, without having to rebuild their entire history tree.

    Benefits:

    • Quickly create solid models from hard copy prints and drawings
    • Produce clear, easy to read, well dimensioned and toleranced part drawings
    • Import 2D or 3D geometry from any engineering system on the market
    • Create 3D solid models, assemblies and fixture designs
    • Repair poor quality 3D data
    • Quickly convert surface models to solid models
    • Add and edit solid features to "dumb solids" including adding, removing or changing part features

     
  • PartMaker Multi-Axis Machining

    PartMaker Multi-Axis Machining

    PartMaker provides solutions to your most sophisticated multi-axis machining challenges for parts requiring 3D surface machining. PartMaker's solids-based surface machining strategies support 3, 4 and 5-axis surfacing strategies. The strategies offered in PartMaker's Surface Machining Wizard (SMW) module are plentiful, easy to use and very powerful, employing very smart defaults to assure your complex parts are programmed quickly with superior surface finishes. For users programming ultra-complicated parts requiring a wide variety of 5-axis simultaneous machining strategies as well as highly sophisticated 3 and 4-axis milling strategies, PartMaker can be integrated with PowerMILL, Delcam's market leading system for the programming of complex shapes. The PowerMILL Companion to PartMaker is the solution to programming the most sophisiticated multi-axis parts such as blades and blisks, melding the unique power of PowerMILL with ease of use and flexibility of PartMaker for multi-axis turning and Swiss applications.

    Benefits:

    • Program complex, surfacing parts quickly and easily while achieving outstanding surface finishes
    • Generate safe, gouge-free toolpaths in minutes
    • Use a wide variety of powerful yet intuitive surfacing strategies with intelligent defaults for faster programming
    • Utilize specially developed rotary milling strategies to optimize 3D surfacing on multi-axis Turn-Mill Centers and Swiss-type lathes
    • Harness the sophistication of PowerMILL for the programming of ultra-complex parts like turbine blades via the PowerMILL Companion for PartMaker

     
  • PartMaker Post Processing

    PartMaker Post Processing

    PartMaker's ConfigPost™ application allows PartMaker users to customize post processor output for any application including Mill, Turn, WireEDM, Turn-Mill and Swiss. ConfigPost™ applies an easy to use, point and click Windows user interface to make the process of post customization quick and easy. ConfigPost features PartMaker’s unique ‘Config-by-Click’™ Technology which allows users to quickly customize post processor output by just clicking on the line of NC code they would like to change. ConfigPost comes free of cost with any PartMaker CAM module, so you can be assured you will be able to tailor your post processor to your exact needs.

    PartMaker’s ConfigPost is a powerful and flexible post configuration tool that is also very easy to learn and use.

    Benefits:

    • Eliminate the need to ever manually edit NC code by customizing post processor output to your exact preference
    • Create tailored post processors for a variety of machine control combinations on the shop floor
    • Accommodate shop specific NC programming formats and styles
    • User PartMaker’s unique “Config-By-Click” technology to make post customization quickly and easily with almost no training

     
  • PartMaker Shop Floor Documentation

    PartMaker Shop  Floor Documentation

    The PartMaker Documentation Wizard (PDW) is the solution for automating the creation of highly graphic and descriptive shop floor documentation. With PDW you can create fully dimensioned, fully tolerance manufacturing drawings as well as highly graphical set-up sheets automatically, purely as a by-product of programming a part in PartMaker. PDW harnesses the work you’ve already done in PartMaker to automatically output attractive, user configurable documentation that clearly illustrates what you are trying to achieve on a given part. This professional looking documentation can be used for shop floor documentation or to present to customer or potential clients in the form a time study. PDW allows you to output your set-up sheets in either HTML format or directly into Microsoft Excel.

    Benefits:

    • Automatically create easy to follow shop floor documentation
    • Comply more easily with certifications like ISO
    • Reduce machine set-up time with clear instructors for machine operators
    • Quickly produce professional time studies and proposals for customers and prospective clients

     
 
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