Project: SolidCAM
MODRA Technology designs and manufactures product development machinery for carpet designers and manufacturers all over the world.
Modra Technology wanted to significantly expand its product range in the coming year and so needed to look at increasing the efficiency of its product development cycle.
As a SolidWorks user, the company turned to Intercad to find a solution. Intercad visited Modra’s office and demonstrated its CAM solution, SolidCAM, by programming a part that Modra had been finding difficult to manufacture using its previous CAM system.
This demonstration proved to Modra that SolidCAM was the right solution for the company and it was implemented in 2008.
Modra chose SolidCAM because of its ability to easily integrate with SolidWorks and as a result has decreased the time taken for SolidWorks models to be ready for CNC machining by 30 per cent.
When design changes are made the increased integration means Modra has also reduced the time to modify and update parts by 70 per cent.
These increased efficiencies are achieved through tight integration between Modra’s design tool, SolidWorks, and SolidCAM. The integration between these programs ensures errors are reduced in the design stage of product development and then caught before the manufacturing process begins.
If errors are found, the integration between these programs ensures those errors can be quickly and easily fixed and any corresponding toolpaths are automatically updated.
Another important factor in the decision making process was the fact that both packages are locally supported by Intercad.