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.

Use the Contact US form to get more information.

Process recognition – ‘The Wizard’

Process recognition is … Read the rest

*** NEW ***

ONG Solutions Inc. has adopted the RustDesk remote support platform.  This platform is similar to TeamViewer and AnyDesk but is completely self-hosted.  This means there is no reliance on any outside services or servers for communication.  We believe that this will enhance the security of the service we offer our clients.

Remote Support with the ONGAA CAM SUPPORT Client

Please click on the link below to download the Support Client. You will be asked the the password provided to you by your support representative.

Once downloaded, run the program.

–ONG Support Client – Full installation

–ONG Support Client – Quick Support, No installation

Support via TeamViewer will be discontinued Dec 31, 2025

Please use the RuskDesk option above.

Remote Support Session with TEAMVIEWER

Please click on the image or the link below to download the Support … Read the rest

ONGAA CAM – Basic for Biesse and the Nesting Option have been releases!

With ONGAA CAM basic for Biesse you can now program your Biesse CNC machine directly from SOLIDWORKS in a single/simple 3D environment.  Supported functions are Drilling (vertical and horizontal), Routing (vertical and horizontal), Pockets (rectangular and polygons) and Sawing.

ONGAA CAM offers many time saving features such as ‘All hole on face’ drill selections which automatically expands a single ONGAA CAM process into individual drill processes in BiesseWorks.

Using the power of SOLIDWORKS for modelling provides additional business solutions because this also effective makes all programs parametric.  This is because the programming steps are stored with knowledge of the model.  As the model changes the programming steps are generated with all new geometry.

With ONGAA CAM and SOLIDWORKS you really can ‘Design it once’ and ‘manufacture it in 1000 different sizes’.

ONGAA CAM is both … Read the rest

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

Automatic Nesting

Several automatic nesting strategies are available in ONGAA CAM which provide a quick and easy way to nest rectangular parts across many sheets of material (directly from SOLIDWORKS).   ONGAA CAM optimizes the nest to both maximize material usage as well as minimize tool changes.

But not all part are created equally.  Automated nesting assumes the required material is as defined in the work piece definition of WoodWOP.   Odd shapes would waste both material and time.

Manual Nesting – ‘Nudging’

With the latest version on ONGAA CAM, manual nesting or ‘Nudging’ is now available.

Parts can now be selected, moved between sheets, moved on a sheet as well as rotated using intuitive button controls or keystrokes.

Unlike some other nesting solutions, ONGAA CAM goes not produce one continuous toolpath / process.

The resulting ‘Nested MPR’ shown here in WoopWOP 5 still produces … Read the rest

Whether you routinely make ‘left hand’ and ‘right hand’ parts or you use all ‘origins’ to make the same part, programming for a mirrored position in WoodWOP requires extra time (and care).  ONGAA CAM allows programming for any mirror position with only one selection.

To achieve ‘handed’ manufacturing, the program, designed for the #1 position, will generate a ‘Normal program’ and a ‘Mirror in X program’.  Although contour geometry is ‘mirrored’, routing strategies will be altered from climb routing to conventional.  ONGAA CAM provides a special features to overcome to need to think is reverse.  “Mirror Copy” will copy the process, with all the options and definitions, but reverse both the contour direction and the tool compensation.  Combined with the mirroring WoodWOP variables, each routing process can be turned on of off, by WoodWOP, depending on the position it is NC-GEN’ed for.

One program for any positions is more difficult … Read the rest

Update #2:  ONGAA CAM Nesting for Biesseworks – has been released.

Nesting is performed efficiently directly from Solidworks.  Nest up to 99 sheets with optimization and automatic separation of parts based on material and thickness.

Update :  ONGAA CAM Basic for Biesseworks – has been released and is available today.

ONGAA CAM Basic includes Drilling (Vert+Horiz), Routing (Vert + Horiz), Pockets (Rect. and polygon) and saw processes.

Contact us to arrange a demonstration today.

See how ONGAA CAM for Biessworks can make your programming easy directly from the SolidWork Model without DXF imports .  Watch our Video preview

Work on creating an ONGAA CAM version for BiesseWorks is underway.  The target release date in mid 2014 after the Beta testing has been completed.

This version will integrate as smoothly with BiesseWorks as it does with Homag’s WoodWOP.

Just imagine a world with  ‘no more DXF … Read the rest

Listed below are all the pages and posts relating to ONGAA CAM.

Find all the details of what it is and how it works with WoodWOP, Biesseworks, bSolid, Campus/NC-Hops and SOLIDWORKS.

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Optimizing Processes and Optimizing MPRs

Nesting – or combining multiple parts onto one sheet is a vital function for ‘Flat Table’ operators.

Until now, ONGAA CAM‘s ability to nest ‘complete assemblies’ has been received with both enthusiasm and a little reservation.

Users have ‘enthusiastically’ created all kinds of assemblies in SOLIDWORKS, combining nested assemblies, parts with multiple configurations and ONGAA CAM has created multiple sheet MPRs without a hitch.

Then came the next requests for improvements …

• How do I optimize the the processes? — the generated nested MPR made one part at a time — I want the number of tool changes to be reduced.
• I have a big assembly, how do I do more than 4 sheets.
• How do I tell ‘what part is what’ when looking at the nesting preview.
• How do I print the nest layout (with parts listed) so the ‘guys on the floor’