If you need to produce high quality drawings, efficient CNC programs with quick and easy machine tool communications, the best software to use is Dolphin Cadcam.

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New !! Solidcam 2000 is now available. Click here to get more information about it.

 CAD
  - Automatic dimension * polygons
- Area - shift, copy, query, delete, modify
- Intersection, Fillet & Chamfer
- Trim, split & extend
- 255 layers - 11 line styles
- Automatic hatching with 18 patterns
- Curve fitting - DXF in/out
- Output to all popular plotters
- Digitiser tablet support

  Milling
- Automatic area clearance with islands
- Complex contouring with lead in/out
- Tooling database * Tool offsetting
- Pocket milling cycles - View XY, XZ, YZ & XYZ
- Canned cycles for drilling, boring, tapping
- Animated tool graphics * Gouge free machining
- Z axis profiling * Z axis contouring
- Shape merging for ruled surfaces
- Cycle times * Job sheets * Stock removal
- Engraving * Finished allowance

 

 Turning

 
- Full tool graphics with holders
- Stock removal from billet and castings
- Part surface programming
- Input simple profiles 'on the fly'
- Canned cycles for drilling, tapping etc.
- Cycles for grooving, threading, area clearance
- Tooling database * Turn & Face cycles
- Gounge free machining * Tool offsetting
- Cycle times * Job sheets
- Constant surface speed control

 Wire Edm
- 2 axis profiles * cycle time estimates
- Taper cutting * 3D wire frame graphics
- 4 Axis cutting for shapes with
- Independant top and bottom contours
- Involute gear design for spur and rack gears