Cimatron offers advanced design, machining, and simulation tools to effectively handle complex geometry and challenging materials, ensuring high-quality production with precision and efficiency.
Bridge the skills gap
Manufacturers face a widening skills gap as experienced toolmakers leave the workforce, making it more challenging to remain competitive.
To bridge the gap and help industry newcomers quickly become productive, Cimatron provides software solutions with easy-to-use interfaces and workflows, automation capabilities, embedded industry expertise, and advanced verification and simulation tools.
These technologies help increase efficiency despite workforce challenges, standardize best practices, and make it easier to train new hires.
Key Benefits
Automation
Templates, automated calculations, and intelligent defaults are examples of industry expertise embedded directly in the software to guide users.
Accuracy
Collision checks, simulations, and validation tools eliminate mistakes that less-experienced staff might overlook.
Standardization
Generate drawings, BOMs, setup sheets, and NC reports that ensure consistent communication with the shop floor.
Simplify mold design
Flexible modeling
Advanced modeling tools enhance engineering agility and allow designers to choose the approach that works best for them and the job without mastering every CAD technique.
Design validation
Design verification capabilities help catch errors early in the engineering process and give less experienced staff the tools they need to design with confidence.
Automated documentation
Automatically generate documentation, such as bills of materials (BOMs) and drawings, to reduce error-prone manual data entry and improve collaboration.
Transition to production
Dedicated mold design tools make it easy to add surfaces and contours, cap holes and slots, extend surfaces, and apply drafts and rounds for smooth transition to machining despite minimal expertise.
Accelerate die production
Quoting automation
Embedded knowledge and the automation of tedious and error-prone manual calculations empower less experienced staff to generate accurate quotes in minutes.
Design simulation
Strip design capabilities with real-time simulation and validation tools simplify the development of progressive die layouts and provide instant feedback.
Punch automation
Automation tools accelerate the creation of forming and bending punches and cutting objects, and the contours for trimming punches can be defined with a single click.
Catalog parts with automatic adaptation
Automation tools make it easy to adapt catalog parts or sub-assemblies to a main assembly’s dimensions and integrate catalog parts into assemblies.
Collision detection
Designs can be easily validated using built-in measurement, analysis, and collision detection and motion analysis capabilities.
Wire EDM templates
Programming templates for wire EDM operations help standardize processes and enable less experienced programmers to deliver reliable and repeatable results.
Streamline electrode production
Design automation
Cimatron simplifies the selection of burning surfaces and the generation of holder and blank geometry, as well as the creation and reuse of electrode design templates for greater efficiency.
Collision detection
The ability to check electrode and holder designs for collisions with parts and fixtures helps users design with increased confidence.
Burning verification
Automatically generated inspection drawings for electrodes enable staff to verify dimensions prior to burning.
Process automation
Process templates can be easily created and reused, enabling the automatic selection of milling strategies based on electrode geometry.
Program CNC machinery safely and efficiently
Integrated CAD tools
Easy-to-use CAD and CAM tools in a single interface allows users to repair and prepare models quickly for production, reducing the need for expert CAD intervention.
Automated drilling
Automated drill hole programming capabilities cut programming time by up to 90% and enable less-experienced programmers to produce results faster.
Specialized strategies
Specialized machining strategies for roughing, finishing, plate machining, micro milling, and electrode production embed best CNC programming practices directly into the workflow.
Simplified 5-axis
Proven post-processors and dedicated 5-axis machining strategies ensure the generation of safe and accurate CNC toolpath by programmers with varying skills.
Simulation and verification
Advanced simulation and verification capabilities, including collision and gouge detection, help newer CNC programmers machine with confidence and protect machinery.