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CENIT’s specialized CAM Team offers comprehensive CATIA and manufacturing know-how, covering a wide range of application fields including toolmaking, parts manufacture, mechanical engineering, yacht-building and aerospace.

As a standard tool for the automotive and auto supplier industry, CATIA offers proven, high-yield CAD functions for geometric preparation of components, as well as tools for defining and documenting entire clamping setups. On this basis, the system provides high-yield CAM algorithms for NC programming of milling and grinding processes.

Advanced requirements:

Requirements beyond the capacity of the standard CATIA modules can be addressed by deploying the highly acclaimed CENIT add-ons. For example, these tools enable:

With our core competencies in the fields of post-processors and NC simulation, we offer optimal support for all types of manufacturing technology. Learn more about our standard solutions:

  • CENIT FASTPOST software: post-processors for CATIA
  • Integrated NC simulation and/or machine simulation for CATIA FASTCONTROL

In addition to these standard solutions, we have developed supplementary NC tools that enable even more comfortable and shop floor-compatible programming with CATIA NC.

  • Project data and NC program header with optimal BLK form:

    Interactive input of program headers and transfer of the dimensions of blanks as BLK forms (TNC). During input of header data for the later NC program, the TNC controls can be used to derive the BLK form directly from the blank and make it available for NC output.

  • Management of NC startup processes:

    Comfortable management of NC startup processes via CATMEN. Immediate access to pre-defined startup processes and tool catalogs directly from CATIA, without time-consuming Explorer navigation.

  • Tool catalog management:

    Improved management of tool catalogs thanks to direct access to .xls/.csv files as well as selection options for conversion to the CATIA tool catalog, both within and outside CATIA (CATMEN).

  • CreateNCAxis:

    CreateNCAxis generates a color-coded NC axis system that can also be made visible in technical drawings. Optionally, the tool can also generate axis designations.

  • NC label output (for Heidenhain controls):

    This prepares CATProcess files for label output of drill cycles, pockets and contour routes (TNC). Within the NC program, CATProcess processing patterns in are output as labels.

  • SL cycles (for Heidenhain controls):

    Supports the SL cycles of the TNC controls (pockets and open contours). Pockets with optional island contours and open contours can be output as labeled SL cycles.

  • PatternCreator:

    Automated generation of processing patterns based on the color properties of boreholes (incl. pattern processing). The processing patterns are defined by way of color tables.

    • Optional selection of bore types from a pre-configured list and/or via entry of RGB values in an input screen
    • Generation of processing patterns incl. name of bore type and bore diameter

Machine manufacturers:

In developing and integrating post-processors and NC simulations, but also in developing our programming methods, we cooperate closely with application engineers from the relevant machine manufacturers.

This allows us to offer standardized and machine-specific post-processors and machine integrations. Many of these have even been certified by the respective manufacturers.

Below, a small sample of available standard packages:

  • DMG
  • Focke
  • Handtmann
  • Hermle
  • Makino
  • Mazak
  • OPS Ingersoll
  • Roeders
  • Starrag
  • Zimmermann

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