CIMCO Edit ships with a solid backplotter and a GPU-accelerated solid simulation engine. For a lot of shops, that is enough for everyday verification. But there is a category of risk that backplot cannot touch. And if your shop runs complex multi-axis programs, expensive materials, or tight fixtures, you have probably run into this. Backplot operates in a geometric … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with DNC-Max
CIMCO Edit includes a built-in DNC module for sending and receiving NC programs over RS-232 serial and FTP connections. For a single machine or a small setup where one programmer handles transfers from one PC, that built-in capability handles the job well. Configure the port, name the machine, and sending a program is a dropdown selection and one click. As the shop grows, … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with NC-Base
CIMCO Edit opens, edits, simulates, and sends NC programs. What it does not do is manage them. There is no version history, no access control, no searchable database, no record of which revision went to the floor or when. Programs live wherever the programmer saved them last, usually a shared drive with a folder structure that made sense when the shop had twelve programs … [Read more...]
Extending CIMCO Edit with CNC-Calc
CIMCO Edit edits, simulates, and sends NC programs. What it does not do is generate them from geometry. If a programmer needs to hand-code a pocket, a contour, or a drilling pattern, they are typing coordinates, calculating offsets, and hoping the math is right. If the shop has a CAM seat, it is likely tied to a specific workstation, shared across more people than it has … [Read more...]
Tech Tip: How to Scale Feedrates in CIMCO Edit – Without CAM
This Tech Tip explains how to scale feedrates in CIMCO Edit without going back to CAM. Adjust Feedrate in CIMCO Edit handles rate changes in seconds. Find it under NC Functions / Transform. Set your percentage, apply minimum and maximum clamps to keep any value from going out of range, and optionally restrict the adjustment to feedrates within a specified range so you are … [Read more...]
A Deep Dive into CIMCO Edit File Compare
In CNC manufacturing, the difference between two versions of a program is rarely obvious from looking at the files side by side in a text editor. A modified feedrate buried on line 847. A depth value that changed by 0.005 inches. A canned cycle parameter that someone adjusted at the machine control and never documented. These are the kinds of changes that cause quality … [Read more...]