Alphacam is a leading CAD/CAM software solution for the Woodworking industry. Alphacam is used in the manufacture of many types of components, from simple routed parts to complex, 5-axis furniture components. The emphasis behind the development of Alphacam is to provide our customers with productivity, reliability, and flexibility. Improving these attributes in any company will help increase profitability.

Much improved Parallel and Flat Area 3D machining strategies for cutting solid models and surfaces provide reduced cutting time, improved surface finish and improved tool life.

Automatic exclusion of flat areas on parts allowing for flat rather than ball ended cutters to be used.

Steep and shallow areas of parts detected allowing for different strategies to be adopted, such as a smaller tool step-over in a steeper gradient to that used in a shallow area.

Options to always down or up mill, and loop or round sharp external corner

The Geometry Query Manager allows for a set of rules to be defined and applied to the current Alphacam drawing. Based on these rules, geometries are moved onto specifically named user layers. Machining Styles can then be applied to these layers automating the generation of tool paths.

AutoStyles and CAD to CAM (add-in) have also been updated to take advantage of this new functionality, proving further automation improvements.