TopSolid'Electrode was specifically developed for designing EDM electrodes.  Whether you're designing complex spherical orbiting electrodes or simple blade electrodes, using a simple 2D orbit, TopSolid'Electrode offers the tools that you'll need to finish the design quickly and accurately.

Easy to Learn and Use

TopSolid'Electrode is extremely easy to learn and use becuase it includes tools to automate everyday electrode design processes. TopSolid'Electrode makes designing even the most complex electrodes easy.

Automated Burn Selection

Do you struggle to isolate the burn detail in your mold design?  Are you forever making manual copies of faces to work with?  Are you pulling your hair out every time there's a mold design change and you have to start over with your electrode designs?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need TopSolid'Electrode.  With TopSolid'Electrode you can easily isolate the areas that you want to create an electrode for in a few seconds.

If your mold designers are using TopSolid'Mold, then design changes to the mold will automatically update your electrode designs.

Automatic extension of the molding face

Are you spending hours manually extending the molding faces of your electrodes? 

If you answered yes to this question, then you need TopSolid'Electrode.

TopSolid'Electrode automatically extends the molding faces for you.  What used to take you hours, takes only a few seconds for TopSolid'Electrode to accomplish.

Removal of burn detail

How much time are you spending creating surfaces to plug details on the steel part for machining?  Or is this something that you would like to be doing but can't based on how much time it would take you to do?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need to buy TopSolid'Electrode. 

 TopSolid'Electrode automatically removes the burn details from the solid model where applicable.  This can make it far simpler for your CNC programmer, (who should be using TopSolid'CAM), to program the core and cavity blocks of your mold.  In this case, the programmer does not need to worry about the tool dipping into a detail that will be burned!

Manage Spark Gaps and more...

Do you wish you had a tool that made it easy to create a specific type of electrode?

Then you need to buy TopSolid'Electrode.  The first thing that you do in TopSolid'Electrode is choose the type of electrode that you want to design. From there TopSolid'Electrode offers specific options, like auto extensions to make designing the electrode quick and efficient.

Apply Spark Gaps to Model

Do you spend time manually offsetting faces on your 3D electrode design so that your model contains the spark gap that you want to use?

If you said yes to this, you should buy TopSolid'Electrode.  With TopSolid'Electrode, this task can be automatically handled for you.  You can specify the over-burn that you want the electrode to have and TopSolid'Electrode will automatically apply it to the model for you.

Orbiting Electrodes

Does your company use 2D orbiting electrodes?  Do you spend hours designing these types of electrodes?

If you answered yes to these questions, then you need TopSolid'Electrode.  All you need to do is tell TopSolid'Electrode what orbit you want to use.  From there, fillets are automatically removed from the model, XY faces are shifted the amount of the over-burn, Z values stay nominal, and then the fillets are reapplied automatically.

With functionality like this, you will be surprised by the amount of time you can save in engineering alone!

Automatic Burn Sheets

Does your company create and use Electrode setup sheets?  Do you struggle to create these setup sheets today?

If you answered yes to these questions, then you definitely need TopSolid'Electrode.  With a single click of the mouse, TopSolid'Electrode can automatically create setup sheets for you that include, electrode pickup information, part/customer information, and much more!

Integrated Manufacturing

Are your engineers working with one CAD system and your programmers working with a different CAM system? How much valuable time are you losing because of data translation issues between these systems? What happens when there is an engineering change? Do your programmers have to start over?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you NEED to look at TopSolid. TopSolid offers 100% integration, 100% of the time.  This means that your engineers and programmers can work in the same application seamlessly.  Your engineers' changes update what your programmers are working on automatically. Be sure to check out the complete line of integrated products.

Supports 32&64 Bit OS's

Whether you're working on small projects or big ones, TopSolid has a solution that will meet your needs. As of 2007, TopSolid works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows®.