This presentation provides an overview of Metalcam, a European company that develops CAD/CAM solutions. It has been developing these solutions since 1991 and has customers in over 20 countries. The presentation describes Metalcam's mission to develop powerful and easy to use CAM systems that help customers gain a competitive advantage. It also outlines Metalcam's experience, partnerships, locations, and its flagship product Fikus Visualcam, a mature and reliable CAM system used by over 10,000 customers worldwide for programming CNC machines.

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An European company developing CAD/CAM solutions for NC
market since 1991, contributing to increase profitability to
companies in more than 20 countries all around the World.

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Who is Metalcam?
•Developing CAD/CAM solutions
for the NC Market since 1991
•Oriented to efficient and
profitable CAD/CAM solutions
• Headquarters located in
Barcelona (one important
industrial pole in Europe)
•Customers in more than 20
countries in the World
• Own offices in Beijing (China)
and Bangalore (India)

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Metalcam’s mission
“To develop Computer
Assisted Manufacturing
Systems (CAM), that are
powerful, easy to use,
productive, reliable and
advanced in order to help
our customers to get a
competitive advantage”

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Experience
• For 20 years, giving solutions to
the mechanical CAD/CAM market
• Developing CAD/CAM products
• OEM agreements with other
CAD/CAM vendors like Cimatron
• SolidWorks Certified Partner
• Spaceclaim OEM Partner
• OEM agreements with machine
builders like GF Machining, ONA
• More than 3000 customers in the
world
• More than 10000 seats installed

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Where?
Distributed in more than 20
developed countries all around
the World.
America and Africa:
USA
Mexico
Brazil
Chile
South-Africa

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Where?
Asia-Pacific:
Australia Malaysia
South Korea New Zeeland
Hong Kong Singapore
India Thailand
Israel Taiwan
Japan Turkey

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Where?
Europe:
Austria Portugal
Benelux Romania
Belarus Russia Fed.
Denmark Spain
Germany Switzerland
Italy Ukraine
Poland United Kingdom

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Custom
Exclusive luxury products (Austria)
Metal machined products (Germany)
Car maker –VW Group (Spain)
Sportive wheels (Italy)
Bicycle training and tools (Benelux)
CAD/CAM and machined services (USA)
Decorative flooring and furniture (Spain)

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Motor engineering brand of Mercedes Benz (UK)
Car maker (USA)
Car components supplier ( Canada )
World’s largest titanium manufacturer ( Russian federation )

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Partners
Complementing their solutions.
Helping to improve their products’ performances.

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Partners
• AC GEO
– Integrated into the AGIEVISION machines
• Fikus FastWire
– Integrated into the machines FW series machines
• AC Cam Easy
– Integrated into the CUT20P / CUT30P and optional in the CUTX00
machines
• AC Drill
– Integrated into the AC Drill 20 machine
for

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• We have overviewed METALCAM, a reputed and large
experienced company in CAD/CAM solutions.
• Customers in most of the developed countries in the
World
• Fikus, our product, is a proved system used by more
than 10,000 users
• Fikus visualcam is a mature, flexible and reliable CAM
system for the programming of CNC machines
• Fikus visualcam solution includes CAD and technologies
for WireEDM, Milling, Lathe, Millturn and NC Cutting &
Routing.
Summary

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A reliable, versatile and efficient CAD/CAM solution for
industry, with more than 20 years helping to increase industry
profitability all around the World.

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Now completely integrated with

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 SolidWorks 3D CAD
 Design Reuse and Automation
 Interference Check
 Part and assembly modelling
 Design Analysis
 Product Collaboration
 Design Manufacturability

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Coming up in 2015: Full integration with

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Description
• The CAD/CAM product
developed by
Metalcam
• Specifically developed
for the Shop-floor
programming
• Speeds and optimizes
the 2D & 2.5D Milling,
Lathe and Wire-EDM
jobs

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Technologies
• CAD / 3dCAD
• Wire-EDM 2X – 4X
• Lathe 2D
• Milling 2D / 2.5D / 4X POS / 4X CONT / 5X POS
• Millturn
• NC Cutting & Routing
– Laser
– Waterjet
– Plasma
– Oxyfuel
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CAD key points
• Standard
• Easy to learn
• Fast edit function
• Interactive / Real time drawing
• Unlimited Undo / Redo
• Dimensioning / Text
• Analysis / Fix geometry functions
• Customizable user interface
• Read / Write data interfaces: DXF, IGES, SW, ISO G-Code
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CAD
CAD:
Environment
Geometry creation
and modification
tools
Fast-Edit Bar
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CAD
3D Environment
Surfaces
Standard Data
translators
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CAD
Dimensioning
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• Pull, Move, Fill, and Combine tools enable hands-on 3D design
• Quickly create and iterate design concepts
• Create multi-discipline concept models for engineering consensus prior to
detailed design
• Perform what-if studies by editing designs, regardless of how they were created
• Powerful capabilities that clean up imported geometry and simplify models for
analysis
• Opens: ACIS, Acrobat*, DXF, DWG, IDF, IGES, Rhino, SkecthUp, STEP, STL,
Bitmaps, Videos.
• Saves: ACIS, Acrobat*, DXF, DWG, IGES, Keyshot, Powerpoint, Rhino, SkecthUp,
STEP, STL, VRML, OBJ, XAML, XPS, Bitmaps, Videos.
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3dCAD Key points

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3dCAD Key points
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Create solid
models without
the complexity of
traditional
feature-based
CAD

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WireEDM key points
• 4X from 2 contour synchronization,
surfaces or construction
• 2D or 3D contours
• Technological points
• Wizards for automatic machining
• Templates
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WireEDM
WireEDM:
CAM Environment
Machine specific
technology
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WireEDM
4 Axis
pocketing and
AgieCharmilles
technology
Wizard
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WireEDM
Technology
Wizard for
Mitsubishi
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Lathe key points
• Wizard for automatic machining
• Keep track of existing stock
• Tool library
• Machining time report
• Channel synchronization (Multiturret)
• Possibility to use the CNC cycles or
calculate the motions
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Lathe
Lathe:
CAM Environment
Wizard to
recognize part
Machining
Simulation
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2D milling
2.5D milling
3D milling
3X Machine
4X & 5X POS Machine
4X CONT Machine
Drilling
Pocketing
Profiling
Walls with a shape
Curve on a surface
Milling
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• Wizard for automatic drilling
• Possibility to use the fixed cycles or calculate the motions
in drillings
• CNC or Fikus compensation for profiling
• 2.5D Processes: Shaped walls, curve on a surface, ruled
surface
• 3D Processes: Complex Surface roughing, re-roughing,
finishing, re-finishing, rest-material removal, penciling
• 2D remaining material milling
• Multiprocesses (machining templates)
• Fixing elements 2D gouge checking
Milling key points
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Milling
Drill Wizard to
recognize drills
and generate
cycles
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Milling
3D Advanced
surface
machining: Finish
by Z-Levels
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Milling
4th axis milling and
simulation
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Milling
2D Milling
machining
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2.5D milling
procedures
Millturn
machine
2D lathe
procedures
Millturn
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• Possibility to use all the lathe and 2.5D
procedures
• Front and side milling using the C axes
• Front and side milling positioning in C and
using the Y axes
• Toolpath Transformations (procedure
copy in different angles or positions)
Millturn key points
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Millturn
A millturn part:
lathe & milling
simulation
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• 2D cutting with different machines:
– Laser
– Waterjet
– Oxyfuel
– Plasma
– Plotters ...
• Machine technology customization
• Multiprocesses
• Nesting (Option)
NC cutting & routing key points
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NC cutting & routing
Nesting a diamond
plate and simulation
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Post generator with
debugging capabilities
Post Generator
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CNC Editor
CNC Editor with syntax
highlight
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• Fikus visualcam is a mature, flexible and reliable
CAM system for the programming of CNC
machines
• Fikus visualcam solution includes CAD and
technologies for WireEDM, Milling, Lathe,
Millturn and NC Cutting & Routing.
• Fikus visualcam is found in most of the
developed countries in the world
• Fikus is a proved system and is used by more
than 10,000 users
Summary

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Thank you for
your attention