Additional Features in Alphacam for Metal Modules

Additional features available with Advanced modules and above:

Constrained Parametric Sketching (CPS)

Alphamachinist Pro modules incorporate an updated D-Cubed Design Constraint Manager, which allows full control of sketching to be exercised when elements within the sketch are modified. Element lengths and distances can be driven by parameters and the sketch re-solved instantly. This is an excellent, high productivity tool for manufacturers producing families of parts with small dimensional changes.

‘Apply Constraints’ Functionality

An extended range of constraints now offers the following benefits:

Simpler creation of families of parts
Increased productivity
Increased flexibility
Reduced design time
Machining Styles

Machining Styles

Machining Styles is a methodology that enables company-specific or regularly employed machining strategies to be stored independently of a drawing. The required machining style is easily retrieved from the user library and applied to geometries in any drawing. In Alphacam, different machining options can be stored within a style and then assigned to work only on geometry in a specific user layer name, if required.

Feature Recognition & Solid Model Support

Alphamachinist’s support of Solid Machining provides a major step forward, by delivering close compatibility between the original model and the machined part. This is achieved by machining directly on to the component model.

Alphamachinist incorporates advanced routines that extract precise geometry data, then assign information to those geometries in the form of attributes. These can be applied in any planar direction to support multi-axis setup machining. Accuracy is assured by the use of machining data generated at source.