The SOLIDWORKS 2025 Manufacturing Shop Floor Programmer Role enables users to program advanced 2.5-axis milling machines, 3- axis milling machines, and 2- / 4- axes wire EDM machines to create 3D parts.
Shop Floor Programmer offers a virtual twin of your shop floor machines, matching their kinematics for accurate simulation. Users can also access the Manufacturability Checker app to verify and repair part geometry before quoting.
Nesting parts from SOLIDWORKS is simple, with toolpaths for various machines like lasers and routers. Wire EDM programming is now supported, allowing advanced profile cuts and full control over machining sequences, ensuring precise machining before live runs.
Reduce NC programming time
Simplified new user interface with more intuitive graphic dialog boxes focus on the most important parameters & strategies. When NC programs are authored or edited, NC Shop Floor Programmer takes into account the machine tools kinematic definition. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the machining operation definition panel.
Maximize machine tool utilization
NC Shop Floor Programmer’s wide range of operations and strategies helps programmers create toolpath programs that minimize non-value-added motion. NC Shop Floor Programmer considers in-process parts to generate collision-free toolpaths.
Mitigate risk to production
A 3D environment creates optimized NC programs in the manufacturing context: NC machine, cutter, tool assemblies, NC accessories and other elements. This provides a better understanding of the machining cell and ensures that the toolpath and machining strategy consider the tool’s physical environment. It also reduces the risk of unexpected issues and production delays.
A single design-to-machining solution
Based on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, NC Shop Floor Programmer provides an unrivaled level of associativity between product engineering, manufacturing processes, and resources. Companies can manage concurrent engineering and manufacturing flows better and shorten the design-to-manufacturing cycle. NC Shop Floor Programmer offers the best available support of design changes or design variants and the rapid creation of programs for families of parts. Native implementation links connect machining programs to engineering and manufacturing data. Which can be used to determine which machining programs are impacted by engineering or manufacturing changes. Example: when there is a new cutter, and whether machining data is up to date with respect to engineering changes.
Advanced simulation capability
Powerful simulation capabilities for toolpath validation bring one of the most advanced machine simulation modules to the market to identify potential issues early in the process. NC Shop Floor Programmer has the capability to compute gouge volume in the workpiece, making it easier for users to prioritize and process gouges in machining programs. Near misses at user-defined safety distances are also identified, and multiple tool change locations are supported for a more accurate simulation of the machine motions. The simulation context, saved in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, allows the user to organize his review in the most convenient way and helps to ensure traceability of the validation task. It allows users to program, optimize and validate machining in the most efficient way. It lets NC Programmers identify toolpath errors early in the process and shortens programming time.
A Setup Wizard and an immersive, context-based user interface
A toolpath creation wizard and context-based menus are available for a quick 3D setup and creation of the NC toolpath. If a user clicks on a help icon while editing a parameter, an image describing the parameter pops up in the panel. Users can quickly organize programs in the activity process tree using copy-and-paste functions. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the activity process tree.
Automatic association of prismatic machining features with part design
Automatically recognizes the prismatic machining features of the product design, significantly reducing toolpath programming time. A manufacturing view of the design part is generated with all the drilling and milling features that are to be machined. Through this embedded feature-recognition technology, NC Shop Floor Programmer allows geometrical-machined, feature-creation design parts—even on those with no design feature specifications.
Creation and optimization of 2.5-axis milling, drilling and probing operations
Offers a broad range of machining operations for toolpath definition, including pocketing, contouring, roughing & sweeping operations. These operations can be defined as multi-level and multi-pass. At the user’s request, the tool path can be optimized for high-speed machining. Point-to-point machining is available, as well as a full set of axial operations from standard drilling to complex boring and chamfering. NC Shop Floor Programmer offers unique functionalities for creating and verifying milling, drilling, and probing operations. Probing operations are very flexible and can be customized with associated user parameters.
High-end strategies from roughing to finishing for 3-axis geometry
Offers a full set of 3-axis high-end strategies from roughing to finishing, such as sweeping, Z-Level, advanced finishing and deburring. It automatically generates toolpaths for the entire part. Users can also author operations needed to machine specific features. Users can select a roughing strategy—such as back-and-forth, helical or part-offset—based on the material and the shape of the part. NC Shop Floor Programmer analyzes tool assemblies during computation to generate a collision-free toolpath. As roughing operations are defined, the in-process part is computed and used as the starting point for the next set of operations. Users can then create a new roughing operation with a smaller diameter tool. This toolpath is automatically generated based on material that remains from any previous operation, including
Wire EDM Machining
Simulate, validate, and program wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) processes. Users have the ability to compute the wire EDM path and program the synchronization of each end of the wire to the part contours. Users can implement 2- and 4-axes programming capabilities with dedicated wire EDM strategies, visualize and validate their program strategy, then produce the machine code. As with all DELMIA Machining applications, users can save and re-use best practices by creating the wire EDM paths, storing these in a template, and then re-using the same strategy on other parts.
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