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VISI PEPS-Wire incorporates the industry leading
PEPS Wire EDM CAM system, developed specifically
for the precision engineering, tool-making, mould &
die, press and extrusion tool industries, within the
VISI design environment. Fully feature based, VISI
PEPS-Wire provides automatic feature recognition of
wire features including tapered, variable taper and 4
axis directly from solid geometry. Features are easily
machined creating reliable Wire EDM toolpaths and
proven NC code for all Wire EDM machine tools
: visi peps-wire
Advanced 2 and 4 axis Wire EDM solutions
intuitive graphical user interface
extensive range of CAD
interfaces for both
import and export
comprehensive machine and
postprocessor database
automatic feature
recognition of EDM features
including 4 Axis, variable
taper, variable land,
constant taper & holes
roughing and finishing
cuts easily applied to
multiple punches or dies
multiple tagging options
with auto tag removal
reverse cutting on
roughing, finishing and
tag removal passes
no-core pocket destruction
of round , irregular and
tapered apertures
cutting technology change
points can be applied
to any cut
simple and intuitive tool
to add multiple tags and
corner relief
wire edm
Extensive range of CAD interfaces
VISI can work directly with Parasolid,
IGES, CATIA v4 & v5, Pro-E, UG,
STEP, Solid Works, Solid Edge, ACIS,
DXF, DWG, STL and VDA files. The
extensive range of translators ensures
that users can work with data from
almost any supplier. Companies
working with complex designs will
benefit from the simplicity with which
their customer’s CAD data can be
manipulated. VISI can work directly
with wireframe, solid, surface and
mesh data or a combination of all four,
providing the user with tools to work
with any CAD model or to quickly
construct the information from paper
drawings ready for wire machining.
Intuitive operation user interface
The 2 and 4 axis machining operations
give the user a choice of parameters
such as machining direction, auto
offsetting, lead on/off radius, tag
distance, lead off distance, lead on/off
technology to name just a few. Each
parameter is accompanied by a bitmap
giving the user additional information
on how it will affect the resultant
toolpath.
Automatic feature recognition
VISI PEPS-Wire offers powerful
automatic feature recognition
developed specifically for Wire EDM
technologies. Detection of ‘through’
features including holes, open and
closed pockets, constant taper
(including constant radius and conic
corner modes), variable taper, taper
and land, variable land and 4 axis is
effortlessly achieved at the click of
a button. The resulting features are
grouped appropriately so that they can
be machined quickly and reliably using
the preferred machining method and
technology.
Feature modification tools
Using native VISI graphical tools it is
very simple to edit advanced features
such as 4 axis or variable tapers. User
‘constraints’ or ‘synchronisation lines’
are easily added to 4 axis features
and the results dynamically update;
particularly useful when designing
extrusion dies. Variable tapered
features can be edited graphically
by dragging the angle on individual
faces of the feature; this is achieved
using interactive graphical sliders
found extensively throughout the VISI
environment.