SW/CNC for woodworking

Does anyone know of software for using SW or Gold Partner to program a CNC
router or mill for woodworking? Several years back there was a company in
France doing this. They sent many posts regarding this at that time.

Regarfs,

Dennis Deacon

 

Check with these guys. www.cadcam.net

They know Solidworks and CAM really well. They offer a couple different
CAM programs and might be able to help you out.

 

Routers are (or can be a bit) specialized.
These folks specialize in exactly that:
http://www.licom.com/PlanitSolutions.asp?Flash=1

I don't know about interfacing with SW ... look about
or ask them.
They seem to be a SW "partner" though:
http://www.planitsolutions.eu.com/licom/Misc/Partners.cfm
They also have at least one US office IIRC.

 

I got a call from someone at www.type3.com a couple of years ago. At
the time she said they had a plug-in for SolidWorks.

 

Dennis, we have a CNC router we use to cut out the wood pieces for our wood
carts. We use SigmaNEST to program our parts. It has a Solidworks module to
import Solidworks parts directly without converting them into a different
format. You can also have custom properties in your part files populate the
dialog box in SigmaNEST when you set up a part. It will even differentiate
between configurations of a part. To make it even nicer, You can import an
assembly file and have it look at all the parts, one after another, without
having to go and find each part individually.

Once I got all this funtionality set up the way we wanted it, an assembly of
parts that used to take me anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour to setup the
old way, now only takes me about 10 minutes.

It works really well for us.

Richard