TopSolid

TopSolid, a complete integrated solution

Rapid and efficient design
In order to be competitive in today's international market, you have to draft, design and manufacture products quickly - without making any compromises in terms of quality.
Manufacturers must be familiar with a variety of CAD and CAM programs because their use is frequently required in the complex processes of manufacturing. However, the potential for development in this field is by no means exhausted.

The reasons for this are clear:

• There are very few complete software solutions (from a single vendor) that can be used effectively to meet all design, production and company specific production control requirements.
• When product data is transferred between various software structures, the external structure of an object may be transferred correctly, however, essential information (such as background data for design, general technical data, tolerance values, etc.) is lost. This must be re-entered a number of times during the various sub-processes until the product is complete.

An overall solution: TopSolid, integrated software for all industry purposes.

• Precise surface and solid modeling based on the Parasolid kernel
• Windows user interface
• Data translators: XMT, IGES, DXF, DWG, JAMA, STL, STEP, SAT, VRML, TIFF, JPEG, AVI, etc.
• Bi-directional associativity between the model and drawing
• Design of large assemblies
• Library with integrated standard elements
• Management of technical data
• Kinematics, dynamics
• Job-specific software solutions: sheet-metal unfolding, mold making, milling, turning, elec-troerosion, punching, nibbling, laser cutting, monitoring, tool adjustment
• Operating system: Windows NT, 2000, XP

Sheet-Metal Processing

A sheet-metal part consists of several adjacent surfaces with different overlaps that are shaped and folded in different thicknesses. TopSolid offers a highly efficient CAD tool, TopSolid/Fold, for the design and un-folding of sheet-metal parts.

TopSolid/Fold main features:

• A basic set of tools (openings, cutting tools, burring tools, etc.), to which others can be added
• Various types of bend
• "Intelligent" components: punched rivet nuts
• Miter cuts for welded steel parts
• Folding of unfolded parts in order to redesign the 3D model
• Individual bending parameters for each bend
• Individually adjustable settings for re-verse bending
• Number of bending edges freely adjustable for unfolding operations
  

Mold design

TopSolid/Mold was developed for mold making and optimizes the various design phases involved in toolmaking. With its powerful features and "intelligent" components, TopSolid/Mold offers users outstanding support and relieves them of laborious and time-consuming activities by providing:

• Automatic creation of mold inserts
• Support in the creation of separation surfaces
• Automatic control of injection and ejectors
• Simulation of the mold opening
• Support in the creation of coolant circuits and the course they take
• Automatic monitoring of the coolant circuit
• Standard part libraries from leading manufacturers
• Recall of stored mold designs
• Automatic part positioning
• Support in the creation of molds and positioning of sliders
• Automatic calculation of drawing views
• Automatic identification of production elements in TopSolid/Cam
  

For the manufacture of machined parts in mechanical engineering

Design can only be effective when production is clearly organized and cost-efficient. TopSolid therefore integrates software solutions for computer-aided manufacturing, which have been developed by Missler based on many years of experience. Based on the automatic recognition of topological properties, TopSolid/Cam identifies individual shapes and it can thus suggest the best processing method to the user. The ability to automatically update a workpiece during the entire process, and automatic collision monitoring and identification of features set in TopSolid are important advantages that ensure rapid and reliable production.

TopSolid/CAM Milling

• Creation and control of multi-tool processes
• Collision monitoring between part and tool
• Multi-axis control
• Production of several parts in a single tool setup
• Simulation of the tool and tool path
• Management of tools both inside and outside the store
• Links to tool adjustment equipment
  

TopSolid/CAM Turning

• Turning module integrated into the milling module
• Control and monitoring of revolving tools
• Simultaneous display of the tools
• Simultaneous changes to fabrication processes
• Automatic identification of standard company molds
  

TopSolid/CAM Electro-erosion

• 2 and 4 axis
  

Sheet-metal manufacturing parts

This CAM tool, for computer-aided sheet-metal processing, was developed for punching and laser processes. It is based on various concepts for automating machining processes and associativity, and is notable for its user friendliness and ease of use.

TopSolid/PunchCut is integrated into TopSolid/Fold, the sheet-metal unfolding module, and therefore takes into account all the changes made to the model. The tools are automatically reassigned. TopSolid/PunchCut automatically controls the movement of the various grippers and the repositioning and turning of the parts. "Realistic" simulation ensures error and loss-free programming.

Punching and Nibbling

• Support for all punching and combination machines
• Automatic shape identification
• Automatic tool selection
• Control of tool changers
• Control of grippers, and turning the sheet metal
• Control of the loading and unloading processes
• Optimization of the tool and travel paths

Laser cutting

• Automatic grouping of similar parts
• Nesting of complex parts
• Automatic calculation of the cutting path
• Optimization of material chamfers
• Control of combined punching/laser machines