ONGAA CAM is a program specifically designed for woodworking that allows you to create ‘MPR’ / ‘WoodWOP machining procedures’ (for Homag/Weeke CNC machines),  ‘BPP or CIX’ / Biesseworks/bSolid programming files, ‘HOP’ files for ‘Holzher’, ‘TCN’ files for TPA Albatros or G-Code for other machines, from within SOLIDWORKS.  While working in SOLIDWORKS, you design and apply toolpaths without conversions or DXF files.  The files created by ONGAA CAM are 100% compliant Weeke/Homag / Biesse / Hops / TPA files and require no additional manual edits (but can edited at the machine if needed).  MPR / BPP / CIX / HOP / TCN files generated by ONGAA CAM are processed by the respective software you already have so there is no additional software costs.  This means you keep all the safety features built into approach modes and the operator can adjust the files at the console.  G-Code is generated by the internal … Read the rest

New User Features

Since ONGAA CAM was first introduced the design team have been working hard to incorporate new features requested by our users.  Here we try to highlight what’s new in ONGAA CAM’s recent releases.

ONGAA CAM for TPA Albatros

For those with TPA Albatros equipped CNCs, the wait is over.  Program your Format4, Biesse Brema Vector or Busellato  machines directly from Solidworks. Same intuitive interface, same simplicity and same speed as the rest of the ONGAA CAM family.  No more switching from bSolid to TpaCAD and looking for features and functions that you just can’t remembers…

The Wizard (see below) is also available for TPA making programming effortless, … no really, ONGAA CAM does all the work. Most parts programmed in 30 seconds or under.  Oriented, Drilled, Pocketed, outside trimmed.

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Process recognition – ‘The Wizard’

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Making ONGAA CAM easier to use and save even more of your valuable time has been the focus of the design team over the past few months and it has paid off. ONGAA CAM now provides an even easier and faster way to add machining to models.

• Drill all vertical holes on a FACE with a single ONGAA CAM process.
• Create all vertical pockets on a FACE or SKETCH with a single ONGAA CAM process.
• Create all polygon pockets on a SKETCH with a single ONGAA CAM process.

Vertical drills and Vertical pockets both provide Min/Max criteria to allow smart WoodWOP process creation when using faces as the source of the geometry. Simply select the FACE, click All Holes and ONGAA CAM generates a vertical drill process in WoodWOP for each hole that meets the min/max criteria. As with all ONGAA CAM processes, the ‘instructions’ to expand a face

It is not often that a customer is so pleased with a product that they take extra time to say ‘thank you’.

In this case the thank you came as ‘The First Part’ the customer produced with ONGAA CAM.

The part was modeled in SOLIDWORKS 2011 and used ONGAA CAM V1.140 for the HOMAG series CNC machines.

Once processing was applied,ONGAA CAM produced the MPR file  (compatible with WoodWOP 5 and 6) used to NC Gen the final instructions.

The only issues we ran into was getting the part drawn accurately.  The beauty was as we corrected the drawing,all our processing moved with it.  ’No recalculations required!’.

This view of WoodWOP provides a glimpse into how it could have been created manually with each calculation done by hand. (and drawing changes need to be recalculated)

The part required machining on all 6 sides.  With the … Read the rest

Automating manufacturing comes with a long list of questions.  The question that follows ‘Which CNC machine to buy?’is usually followed by ‘How do get from my drawing to the CNC making parts ?’.

Each CNC vendor has a basic solution for that.  Type in all the numbers by hand …. or at least try to type them in (correctly).

If the ‘program’will never change and will make several million units,then this simple process is cost effective enough.  But what about the smaller manufacturer?  2-10 Units a year (of that size and shape).  Manually typing in each number for every size is just not practical.

If you use a 3D modeling program like SOLIDWORKS then adjusting the size of a ‘Model’is relatively simple.  If there was only a way to attach the processing information to the Solidworks Model.  That way the processing stretches as my model does.  Even better …why not … Read the rest