TopSolid’Wood

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Exhibitor Profile

A complete wood CAD/CAM solution. TopSolid’Wood is an integrated design, manufacturing and management software specialised for wood processing. It is a uniquely integrated CAD/CAM wood solution that meets the needs of designers, manufacturers and subcontractors in the wood working sector.

TopSolid’Wood is completed by TopSolid’WoodCam, an integrated CAM solution which automatically produces the ISO code, via a post processor, to manufacture parts on CNC machinery. A real data flow exists between the design office and the manufacturing facility. This prevents numerous potential communication and technical errors and thereby generates considerable time gains.

At a glance

Powerful and parametric solid modeller
Wood specific functionalities
Complete CAD/CAM integration
High level of customisation
Powerful interfaces
Generation of commercial and marketing information

3D Modelling
Modelling showing material removal with TopSolid’Wood’s job-specific functions like turning, sawing, dadoing, rabbiting, dowelling, edge profiling, rail and stile profiling.

Assembly processes by using components selected from the menu such as dowels, cams, dados, blind dados, screws, dovetails, as well as custom joinery techniques.
Positioning assistant for edges and layering

Component libraries including their maching processes

Hardware (assembly, rotation, sliding, etc.)
Accessories (handles, rails, wedges, etc.)
Tools (shaping, saws, drilling, etc.)
Edges (thin or thick edgebanding, T-mould etc.)
Shapes (cornices, skirting, ramps, etc.)
Blum and LMC libraries

An optimised assembly management

TopSolid’Wood manages the assembling of several thousands of parts and components

In place design: a piece of furniture can be entirely designed in one file
Bottom-up design: assembly of various subassemblies and parts using positioning constraints
Kinematics: simulation of normal kinematic links (runners, grooves, pivots, etc.) and collision avoidance

Data exchange with partners

TopSolid’Wood also interfaces with standard import and export software:

2D Designs: DXF, DWG
3D Models: IGES, STEP
Image formats like BMP, JPEG, TIFF
3D PDF: Adobe Reader

Communicate with ease

Multi-draft generation with automatic dimensioning
Assembly and other shop sheets with personalised views and title blocks
Filtered BOMs with cutting lists

Direct link with manufacturing

TopSolid’Wood offers a direct interface to the most common software programmes:

Export to cutting optimisation software (Ardis, CadCode etc.)
2D export to numerically controlled production centres (WoodWop, Xilog, BiesseWorks, CadCode, etc.)

The integration of TopSolid’WoodCam with TopSolid’Wood can be seen in the following cases:

Operations carried out in the design stage are recognised by TopSolid’WoodCam (rough milling, grooving, surfacing, drilling, profiling, routing, doweling, etc.)
An automatic creation of tools in the CAM database taking into account their CAD definition
A correlation between materials defined in the CAD and the CAM database, for an automatic regulation and precision of cutting conditions
Complete associativity between the models defined in the CAD and the CAM preparation
All modifications carried out on the design are automatically recovered by the CAM software up until the generation of the ISO code.