CAD

The basis for any NC-programming is the workpiece geometry. The workpiece geometry can be a 2D contour or a 3D model.
 
Workpiece geometries are either imported into vectorcam by using interfaces or they are in the CAD field constructed.

2D/3D wire-/edgemodeling

Powerful drawing tools enable an extremely rapid creation of 2D contours.

• Points, lines, circles
• Rectangle, ellipse, etc.
• Curves (Splines)
• Trim, arcs, Chamfer
• mirror, copy
• Offset, parallel contour
• Dimension
• Analysis

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3D Surface modeling

With a lot of surface features designs the user any workpiece shape.

• normed surfaces
• rotation-surfaces
• freeform surfaces
• Swept-, Swung surfaces
• Sweep surfaces
• surface-cut contour
• surfaces trim
• tangential surface (blend)
• Point clouds to surface
• surface triangulate
• Shaded representation

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3D Solid modeling

In the solid modeling the whole body of the model is cunstructed.

The construction is parametric. That means: Each defined demension can be changed back later to normal.All depending datas are automatically recalculated and the model is updated.

• Fully Parametric
• Drawing deduction
• Assemblies
• Boolsche operations
• sheetmodule
• Variant constructions
• Photo renderer

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Interfaces / CAD-Data Import

Data from other CAD systems can be imported into vectorcam via integrated interfaces or converters. By that any format of CAD-data can be read:

• Autocad DXF / DWG
• IGES
• STEP
• Stereolithografie STL
• Rhino 3D 3dm
• SolidWorks
• programmable PLC
• Bitmap BMP / JPG / TIFF
• Point coordinates XYZ

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