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TopSolid - for design TopCam - for manufacturing TopProgress - for cutting tool design TopMold - for mold design
TopSolid provides technical designers with a coherent set of specialized applications and methods.  
The reasons for this are clear: - There are very few complete software solutions (from a single vendor) that can be used effectively to meet all design, production and company specific production control requirements. - When product data is transferred between various software structures, the external structure of an object may be transferred correctly, however, essential information (such as background data for design, general technical data, tolerance values, etc.) is lost. This must be re-entered a number of times during the various sub-processes until the product is complete. An overall solution: Integrated software for all industry purposes The products in a software family should not only be 100% compatible for data transfer, they should also have: · Shared access to a database · A uniform user interface · Application-specific functions/options (plastic, sheet metal, metal, tool-making, calculation, production, etc.) · Standard libraries Direct advantages: · Problem-free data exchange between design and production · Software programs customized for a variety of work that meet users' requirements. 
Choose TopSolid! The focus of TopSolid is technology and integration. This offers a crucial added value to the customer. Data processing should not be a problem for companies, it is a means to an end. It is meant to enable a company to optimize its business processes and product quality. TopSolid Stands Out: · TopSolid uses all relevant software standards (Windows, Parasolid, OLE, etc.) · TopSolid provides a number of applications that access the same databases and offer a uniform user interface · Applications for structural calculation, kinematics, dynamics, drafting, design, technical drawings, sheet-metal processing, mold making, milling, turning, wire-EDM, punching and nibbling, laser cutting, quality control, tool administration, data management, etc. 
  Modern and user-friendly software    - Windows user interface: Multi-document interface, copy/paste functions, OLE link creation, icons and context menus, etc. - Parasolid kernel: Current CAD modeling standard - Application integration: The various applications for specific design areas are made available as documents in a single environment. - Associativity: The documents can be associated with each other. A design change to a document automatically leads to corresponding changes in the drawings and calculation tables. - Setting Parameters: TopSolid has a unique parametric function that makes it possible to view a part or assembly with different geometric properties or functional requirements. - · Macro language, TopAds software environment: : LIP, Visual Basic and the TopAds environment enable individual functions to be programmed in TopSolid on several levels.   Total modeling freedom: There are no limits to what you can do when you use TopSolid for modeling. TopSolid allows you to create the most complex surface and solid models. The design tree, and many other modeling options simplify the task of modeling parts and assemblies. Some of those options are: · Large selection of geometric forms: Contours, surfaces, a variety of solid models, and non-manifold geometry for structure calculation (combination of solids, shells and supports in a single environment) · High-quality surface design: Ruled surfaces, pipe surfaces, cupolas, filled surfaces, constant and variable chamfers, extension and trimming of surfaces, joining of different surfaces using the repair function, etc. The surfaces are designed using limiting curves. A model can be edited quickly by varying the limiting curves. The model can also be analyzed precisely by displaying its chamfers (edges, corners, circles) in color. · Design features: Constant and variable chamfers, beveling on surfaces and curves, holes, pockets, cams, grooves, channels, notches, profiles, etc. Draft phase Each design plan begins with rough lines and shapes that have to be dimensioned in advance, particularly in creative work. TopSolid provides many extremely useful tools for this purpose. These tools include: - Kinematic planning: A combination of all kinematics wire or surface models (fulcrums, guide rails, ball-and-socket joints, etc.), automatic collision monitoring, critical paths, etc.   - Structural planning: The integrated TopCastor module allows drafts to be analyzed by means of finite elements. Thanks to the associativity between geometry and dimensions, design changes are updated immediately. · Solid support and housing elements · Inclusion of non-manifold geometry for easier calculation · Volume calculation with TetMesh, associatively with the geometry · Easy and convenient definition of loads · Postprocessor for the analysis and definition of the various requirements specified · CETIM expertise Detailed design A mechanical assembly consisting of several thousand different parts is a very different from a sub-assembly consisting of less than a hundred parts. In the same way, a plastic part behaves differently from a sheet-metal part. TopSolid offers a suitable solution for every project, and the different processes and materials involved: · Team-based design Designing large assemblies inevitably involves teamwork. Multiple groups work separately on sub-projects and subsequently merge their sub-assemblies to form a virtual model. · Combined design: This method is ideal for creating a draft, or for processing sub-assemblies and enables a number of parts to be created in the same file. · Parametric design: In the case of a design that is clearly split up into different part families and variants (cylinders, pistons, pumps, etc.), it can be advantageous to use a design mode controlled by numeric or geometric parameters. These parameters can be kept in catalogs. · Free design: Free design is appropriate when the parameterization and associativity of the objects in the parts are not yet known. Thus, the parts can be freely moved in the design space. This method is recommended when the design requires several analyses and there are no empirical values available. · 2D design: The TopDraft module, a 2D design tool offered by TopSolid, is ideal for simple design work. Sheet-Metal Processing A sheet-metal part consists of several adjacent surfaces with different overlaps that are shaped and folded in different thicknesses. TopSolid offers a highly efficient CAD tool, TopFold, for the design and un-folding of sheet-metal parts.   http://www.topsolid.com/us/products/description/topfold.asp http://www.topsolid.com/us/products/description/topfold.asp TopFold main features: · A basic set of tools (openings, cutting tools, burring tools, etc.), to which others can be added · Various types of bend · "Intelligent" components: punched rivet nuts · Miter cuts for welded steel parts · Folding of unfolded parts in order to redesign the 3D model · Individual bending parameters for each bend · Individually adjustable settings for re-verse bending · Number of bending edges freely adjustable for unfolding operations Use of parts and standard elements 80% of the parts used in design are standard components used in the industry, or company-specific standard components. TopSolid offers considerable advantages when it comes to the creation and administration of parts and standard parts: · An extensive library of mechanical parts and standard elements · Structuring by families and individual variants with standard catalogs and/or company-specific catalogs · Appropriate assembly procedures: screws and drill holes, wedges and folds, profiles and miter cuts, etc.  · Multiple representation options for simplifying the models · Assistance for dimensioning and selecting the parts · Integrated project management and bills of materials ( TopSolid/PDM) · Compatible with the software solutions TopCam, TopWire, TopPunchCut Modeling After the preliminary design phase is completed, a prototype must be produced. This prototype can then be used for marketing purposes. · Computer graphics, visualization and animation: Various options are available for graphic design and effects such as, textures, light and shading. Many output formats are available, such as .bmp, .tif, .jpeg, .vrml and .avi.   · Rapid development of prototypes: The .stl format is available for the rapid development of prototypes (stereolithography, laser sintering, etc.). · Prototype machining: with TopCam Changes, adjustments and further development Thanks to the associativity and parameterization offered by TopSolid, a large number of adjustments and developments of a model can be taken into account when making a decision on industrial usage. A special memory function allows the various parts of a model design to be taken apart and put together again in order to check individual parts and sub-assemblies in a bottom-up process. Creating drawings All the different parts and sub-assemblies are transferred associatively to a TopDraft document, taking into account the individual views in different scales and the main guidelines. · Automatic creation of standard views · Control of paper area and model area · Scaled display · Sections, cross-sections, interrupted views and detailed views - with scales · Standard dimensions and tool-dependent dimensions · Automatic drawing frame check, formats and title block · Bill of materials management, linked directly to 3D (or 2D) models · Creation of exploded view drawings Data transfer To ensure rapid implementation, it must be possible to pass on numeric data and design plans quickly and easily, particularly over the Internet. · Standard interfaces: IGES, DXF, DWG, STEP, STL, Parasolid, VDA, Catia, etc. · Support of different international standards (AFNOR, ISO, ANSI, JIS, etc.) · Multilingual installation · Data and model transfer via the Internet 
   TopSolid and TopCam are fully integrated parametric solid's solution for design and manufacturing TopCam fully integrates your manufacturing style and production requirements, through dynamic libraries. It truly has the power to eliminate repetitive tasks, instead of the user creating multiple tasks it creates the tasks for you based on manufacturing knowledge obtained from the product design. The power of CAD increases the level of your productivity Powerful and gifted, TopCam will optimise and synthesis your parts. Through parametric technologies, It automatically chooses the fastest and most economic way to machine 2D and 3D parts. This power enables you to associate specific tools with a particular machining task so that when a design change is implemented, your machining process is changed including the optimisation of cutter sizes, feeds and speeds required to produce the new part based on the design change. TopCam, the software package for your company Intelligent and sparing, TopCam is equipped with an astonishing associative data base allowing it to adapt to your production methods and machinery allowing you to accomplish more in a shorter amount of time.    More open and parametrical than typical CAM software, TopCam allows you to optimise your parts programming. Technical description · Kernel: Parasolid™ with TopSolid™ modeler · Modeler: Exact Surface/Solid modeler with parametric and variational approach · Translators: XMT, IGES, DXF, DWG, CATIA™, JAMA, STL, VDA · Functionality: from 2 to 5 axes milling, from 2 to 7 axes lathe · Solid machining: automatic detection of volumes to be machined from solid raw stock · Surfaces machining: TopCam allows you also to work on pure surface data to generate your toolpath   · Tolerances between engineering and machining engineering tolerances management (i.e. : 5 inches + 0.002-0.005 TopCam automatically re-dimensions the part and the mean value of the dimension moves to 4.9985) · Core/cavity block automatic from the parting surface · Tools management: TopCam includes cutting conditions, material and parameters (feed, speeds, drilling cycles, tool geometry, …) · Cycle management: TopCam lets you easily reorder your cycles and automatically the cycles that have to be modified · Collision checking: Automatic collision verification between tool and part and between tool and fixture · Associativity: TopCam let you maintain full associativity among assemblies, parts, drawings and toolpaths · Post-processors: TopCam provides custom-made post processors or a generic to get the best out put for your machine controller · Operating system: Windows NT/2000/XP ™     Powerful CAD functionality for fast and easy cutting Main features of TopProgress · Retrieval and analysis of sheet metal parts · Powerful surface and volume modeler for design processes · Unfolding and taking bend allowances into account · Complete associativity of parts and strip image · Insertion, modification and/or suppression of stations on the strip · Rich library of frames and standard components · Design with open and closed tools · Calculation of punches and dies with tolerances and clearances · Simulation of tool kinematics · Creation of specialized tool design drawings · Integrated with CAM and electrode design Main features of TopProgress Data retrieval · IGES, DXF, Catia, STEP, SAT, Parasolid · Integrated surface and volume modeler Recognition of sheet metal parts · Cleaning of data · Reliable reconstruction of sheet metal part geometry · Identification of folds Part unfolding · Taking bend allowances into account Creation of strips · Associativity of strips and parts · Strips for multiple parts · Simple insertion and/or suppression of stations Standard and advanced parts library · Global supplier catalog (Europe, Japan, USA) Component and process library · Columns, springs, screws, punches, dies, etc. · Machining processes (quality, clearances, schedule, etc.) · Easily add customized components Design with open and closed tools Control via tool levels · Automatic classification of components and parts (mold plates, columns, screws, springs, etc.) · Immediate activation and deactivation of levels Creation of drawings · Dimensions for mold makers, via references Parts lists · Parts list references and classification for cutting tool makers CAD/CAM integration · CAD solution TopSolid with integrated kinematics · CAD solution TopElectrode for electrode design · CAM solutions TopCam (milling) and TopWire (EDM) · CAM solution GOélan Technical description · Kernel: Parasolid™ · Modeler: TopSolid™ · Translators: XMT, IGES, DXF, DWG, CATIA™, JAMA, STL, VDA, ACIS, STEP · Associativity: From model to drawing · Libraries: Integrated sellers libraries and custom created libraries · Other integrated solutions: TopMold, TopElectrode, TopCam™ · Operating System: Windows NT/2000/XP ™    TopMold was developed for mold making and optimizes the various design phases involved in toolmaking. With its powerful features and "intelligent" components, TopMold offers users outstanding support and relieves them of laborious and time-consuming activities by providing:  · Automatic creation of mold inserts · Support in the creation of separation surfaces · Automatic control of injection and ejectors · Simulation of the mold opening · Support in the creation of coolant circuits and the course they take · Automatic monitoring of the coolant circuit · Standard part libraries from leading manufacturers · Recall of stored mold designs · Automatic part positioning · Support in the creation of molds and positioning of sliders · Automatic calculation of drawing views · Automatic identification of production elements in TopCam |
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