Solid Carbide Tools
Hello everyone,
We are a company that manufactures all types of solid carbide tools – including milling cutters, drills, reamers, countersinks, and more.
We are currently still working with CATIA V5, but we’re in the process of transitioning to CATIA V6. During this transition, we’ve noticed that the design process is taking quite a long time. In some cases, we spend an entire workday creating a single tool model – just to then derive the customer drawing from it.
So I’d like to ask:
• How do you handle this in your company?
• Do you use additional tools like Numroto, ToolRoom, ISBE, or others?
• How long does it take you to design a simple end mill, for example?
I’m really looking forward to your feedback and hearing about your experiences!
Best regards,
Frank
1 Answer
We are still on V5, with no plans to transition, as far as I know. Within the past year, we did add a PDM database which is an upgrade to our previous file-based system.
There was a learning curve at first, but the extra PDM steps no longer seem to slow us down. As a designer, I'm not sure what benefits we gained by adding the PDM.
Our product line is totally different from yours.
What do you think is causing your longer times? Is it V6 or the PLM? Have you done any actual time comparisons, or is this just anecdotal? Are you using 3D Experience?
