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...]
CIMCO NC-Base vs CIMCO MDM: Choosing the Right Program Management System for Your Shop
At some point, almost every shop that has been running CIMCO Edit for a while runs into the same conversation. The shared drive is not working anymore. Programs are getting overwritten. Nobody can find the version that ran last month. An operator sent a program that someone had half-finished editing. It is time to get organized. CIMCO offers two products that solve this … [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...]
Understanding the Import Queue in CIMCO NC-Base and CIMCO MDM
If you have ever had a machinist edit a program at the machine control and send it back without anyone in the programming department knowing about it, you already understand why the Import Queue exists. It is the feature that closes the loop on one of the most common quality gaps in CNC shops: programs leaving the database approved, getting modified on the floor, and coming … [Read more...]
Introduction to CIMCO Machine Simulation
For CNC shops, a mistake discovered on the machine is a mistake which has already cost you something - whether that's a scrapped part, a damaged tool, a broken fixture, or worse. CIMCO Machine Simulation is designed to move that discovery to your PC, before any material is touched or any machine is at risk. This post provides an overview of what CIMCO Machine Simulation is, … [Read more...]