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ENCY - CAD/CAM for 2.5D and 3D milling

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Time efficiency - priority #1

3-axis milling is central to any CAD/CAM system, and ENCY elevates it with smart, automated strategies that speed up programming and improve productivity.

Roughing is automated, recognizing part features to optimize material removal and reduce cycle times. ENCY’s flexible 2D contouring tool allows precise control, while hole machining and drilling are simplified with Feature-Based Machining (FBM).

Finishing strategies are fully supported, including advanced options for surface quality. With machine-aware toolpaths, ENCY optimizes every movement based on the specific machine, ensuring maximum efficiency.

The platform manages multi-part workflows seamlessly, automatically reordering tasks to save machine time. It also includes G-code verification, a vast postprocessor library, and full digital twin simulation for accurate machining validation.

Roughing Waterline

Effective material removal

Roughing Waterline in ENCY offers adaptive and equidistant roughing strategies to ensure optimal material removal for complex parts, automatically selecting the best approach based on the geometry.

Adaptive and Equidistant Strategies:
The system intelligently applies adaptive or equidistant roughing strategies, depending on the specific features of the part, ensuring efficient material removal and constant tool engagement.

Automated Strategy Selection for Diverse Geometries:
Automatically selects the optimal approach for various part features such as closed and open pockets, wells, grooves, bosses, ribs, and slots, covering all key elements typically encountered in roughing operations.

Stock-Aware Toolpath Calculation:
Continuously updates the state of the stock material, generating efficient toolpaths that minimize air cutting and maximize material removal.

Super-Fast Toolpath Calculation:
ENCY’s advanced algorithms provide ultra-fast toolpath generation, significantly reducing the time needed to prepare roughing operations and accelerating overall production.

Adaptive Feedrate:
Dynamically adjusts the feed rate based on cutting conditions, ensuring optimal tool load. It enhances efficiency by accelerating in lighter material zones and slowing down in tougher areas, improving both machining time and tool lifespan​​.

More roughing features

More roughing features

Advanced Simulation and Collision Avoidance:
Full simulation ensures the avoidance of gouging, collisions, over-engagement, and checks for spindle and tool holder clearance to ensure smooth and safe operation.

Machine-Aware Toolpath Calculation:
Toolpaths are generated with full awareness of the machine’s kinematics and fixtures within the work zone, ensuring safe and collision-free machining that is customized to the specific machine setup.

Interactive Interface:
The intuitive, interactive interface allows users to quickly adjust settings, simulate, and optimize toolpaths, making the roughing process more efficient and user-friendly.

Time Savings with Step-Up Feature:
The step-up feature streamlines semi-finishing of sloped walls, saving time while maintaining high-quality machining.

Clear Flats for Precise Flat Surface Machining:
The clear flats feature ensures additional passes are created for flat surfaces, achieving precise machining and reducing cycle times on these areas.

With Roughing Waterline in ENCY, users can expect a fast, flexible, and safe roughing process that adapts to the specific needs of their parts and machines, while saving time and improving overall efficiency.

Hole Machining

Fast and Error-Free NC Programming:
Interactive Interface: ENCY simplifies the creation of hole machining programs with its intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Automatic Hole Recognition: Automatically detects and categorizes holes in 3D models, ensuring precise and efficient programming.

Safety Features
Current Stock Monitoring: ENCY ensures the safety of operations by accounting for the current state of the workpiece, automatically identifying the top level of the hole for accurate drilling depth.

Safe Transitions: When drilling at different levels, ENCY provides safe transitions between operations, avoiding collisions and ensuring smooth tool movement across varying depths.

Drilling Cycles
The following cycles are supported within the hole machining operations: Simple Drilling, Drilling with Dwell, Chip Removing, Chip Breaking, Tapping ,Bore, Thread Milling, Hole Pocketing, Tapping with Chip Removing, Tapping with Chip Breaking, Groove Boring

Flexible Output
Canned Cycles or Longhand: Export NC programs in either simplified canned cycles or detailed longhand for customized control.

Interactive Hole Pattern Creation
Pattern Creation in Interface: Quickly design hole patterns directly within the interface, ensuring accurate placement across complex geometries.

FBM hole machining

FBM Drilling: Processing Hundreds of Holes in a Few Clicks

Automatic Hole Recognition and Grouping: ENCY’s Feature-Based Machining (FBM) technology instantly detects and groups hundreds of holes within the model, allowing for efficient and streamlined programming.

Automated Multi-Step Process Creation: With just a few clicks, ENCY automatically generates the complete machining process for multi-stage hole operations, handling tasks like drilling, reaming, tapping, and more, ensuring optimal toolpath efficiency and accuracy.

This automation allows for rapid setup and execution of complex hole machining operations, saving significant time and effort.

Countouring

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2D and 2.5D Contours

A versatile, multi-purpose operation designed for handling both simple and complex toolpaths. This operation also supports 2.5D contouring, enabling machining across multiple Z-levels in a single operation. Interactive toolpath editing within the 3D view allows real-time adjustments for precise control.

Key features include:

  • Z-cleanup for smooth vertical surfaces,
  • Helical machining for efficient material removal,
  • Roughing and finishing passes for optimized machining,
  • Smart contour sorting to streamline toolpaths,
  • Corner smoothing for sharp edges,
  • Tabs functionality for secure part handling,
  • A specialized T-slot feature for undercuts,
  • Optional output with or without CRC (Cutter Radius Compensation) commands.

This operation provides maximum flexibility and precision, making it perfect for both basic and advanced contour machining tasks.

Rest material, chamfers, deburring

Rest material, chamfers, deburring

Rest material operations in ENCY provide precise control over leftover material after roughing, improving both efficiency and accuracy. Rest material toolpaths target areas where previous operations couldn’t reach, ensuring no material is left unmachined.

  • Rest material: Targets unmachined areas left by previous roughing passes, ensuring all material is removed for a complete and precise finish.
  • Pencil machining: Refines sharp corners and tight spaces, delivering detailed precision on complex geometries.
  • Chamfering: Adds beveled edges to improve part finish, enhance assembly compatibility, and reduce sharp edges for safety.

Surface finishing

Finishing operations

Finishing operations

Waterline Finishing: Creates smooth, parallel toolpaths that follow the contour of the surface. Ideal for parts with steep walls, ensuring consistent surface quality.

Plane Finishing: Used for flat surfaces, this method generates toolpaths that move in a linear direction, providing a polished finish across level areas.

Scallop Finishing: A more advanced technique that follows the surface’s curvature, maintaining a constant step height between tool passes. This is perfect for creating smooth, detailed surfaces on complex 3D geometries.

3D Helical Finishing: A continuous, spiraling toolpath that moves along the 3D geometry, ideal for cylindrical or rounded shapes. It provides smooth surface finishes and reduces the risk of visible tool marks​​​.

Morph Finishing: Designed for intricate shapes, this method blends toolpaths between different curves or surfaces, ensuring a seamless transition and a high-quality finish on complex parts.

Finishing undercuts

Undercuts machining

The undercut waterline operation is designed for machining parts with complex undercut features, delivering precise toolpaths and high-quality surface finishes. It supports a variety of specialized tools:

Supported Tools: Dove mill, Slot mill, Lollipop mill, Two-angle mill, Round groove mill, Sharp chamfer mill, Rounded chamfer mill, Indexable chamfer mill, Barrel mill, Lens barrel mill, Taper barrel mill.

Key Features:

  • Roughing Passes: Utilize equidistant and adaptive strategies for efficient material removal,
  • Adaptive Step for Constant Scallop Height: Ensures uniform surface quality, reducing manual finishing work,
  • Precision on Complex Geometries: Achieves detailed machining in hard-to-reach areas, such as undercuts, with minimized cycle times.

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ENCY is a CAD/CAM ecosystem that streamlines the path from design to finished parts. Precision, speed, and efficiency—all in one solution.

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  • Machine-aware toolpaths
  • State-of-the art simulation
  • NC-code verification
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Safe machine-aware toolpath calculation

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ENCY, as a machine-aware CAD/CAM solution, calculates actual machine movements rather than just the tool movement around the part. This approach ensures safe and precise machining by accounting for the specific behavior and limitations of the machine.

Here’s how ENCY optimizes safety and efficiency:

  • Considers machine axes travel limits.
  • Detects the shape and orientation of the tool holder.
  • Tracks the current state of the workpiece during machining.
  • Accounts for fixture positions to avoid interference.
  • Prevents collisions by simulating and verifying movements in real time.
  • Enhances machine safety throughout the process.

Result: Achieve worry-free machining with optimal efficiency, reducing risks and ensuring precision at every step.

Ultra precise material removal simulation

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ENCY delivers precise and seamless simulation for all machining processes, including milling. The software provides accurate visualization of material removal, while fully simulating the machine’s kinematics through its digital twin. This includes advanced detection features such as:

  • Collision detection,
  • Axis travel over-limit detection,
  • Part gauge control,
  • Tool contact with the workpiece during rapid movements,
  • Excessive plunge angle detection.

ENCY is featuring two simulation engines:

Voxel Simulation (default): Ultra-fast, highly accurate, and ideal for most machining cases, offering real-time material removal previews.
Solid Simulation: Ultra-precise and slower, designed for high-quality surface modeling with visualization of scallop height as small as 0.01mm.

By offering a comprehensive and highly accurate simulation environment, ENCY empowers users to optimize workflows, reduce downtime, and prevent costly mistakes before production begins. This ensures smoother, error-free manufacturing with confidence in the final output.

Multi-part projects

Sequential machining with WIP (Workpiece in Progress): ENCY allows sequential machining where the workpiece is transferred between operations, retaining its intermediate state (WIP). This simplifies the process for handling complex parts.

Part Copies: Easily create multiple copies of the same part in a project, automating the production of identical parts and reducing programming time.
Simultaneous production of different parts: ENCY supports the machining of several different parts within a single project, improving production flexibility and optimizing machine usage.

Tombstone machining: The system enables setting up multiple workpieces on a tombstone fixture for simultaneous machining, greatly reducing production time and increasing machine efficiency​​​.

Sorting features to optimize multi-part machining:

By operation type: Sorts machining operations based on the type, such as roughing, finishing, or drilling, to streamline workflow and tool changes.

By tool: Groups operations that use the same tool to minimize tool changes, reducing machine downtime.

By part or fixture: Organizes machining by specific parts or fixtures, ensuring an efficient sequence when working with multiple workpieces.

By WIP state: Allows sorting operations based on the state of the workpiece in progress, ensuring smooth transitions between sequential operations​​​.

Modern workflow for 2.5D Machining

With ENCY, users working with DXF drawings can seamlessly transition from 2D designs to precise 3D parts. By importing DXF files into ENCY’s CAD module, you can quickly build a 3D model using intuitive extrude and fillet tools.

This approach enables you to leverage the full potential of model-based toolpath calculation, ensuring superior accuracy, efficiency, and speed in the machining process.

Benefits:

  • Fast Transition: Convert 2D DXF designs into 3D models in a few simple steps.
  • Enhanced Accuracy: Utilize 3D model-based toolpath calculation for precise machining results.
  • Optimized Workflow: Streamlined operations reduce setup time and improve productivity.

This workflow empowers users to unlock the advantages of 3D machining, even when starting with simple 2D designs.

Independent and proprietary CAD/CAM

Independent

ENCY Software Ltd. is a 100% privately owned, independent CAD/CAM software developer. We are not tied to any large corporations, so we operate without the frustrating rules and rigid policies of big enterprises. This independence allows us to communicate directly with our users, offering personalized support and solutions. Our agility ensures we respond quickly to your needs while maintaining the highest standards of service.

Proprietary

We build all our products on proprietary software code, giving us complete freedom to innovate and adapt. This means we can implement changes rapidly and effectively, ensuring our solutions meet your exact needs. By not relying on third-party code, we stay commercially efficient, offering flexible pricing while maintaining complete control over product quality and development​​​.

G-code-based simulation

G-code-based simulation

The G-code-based simulation serves as the final verification step in the CNC programming workflow. It ensures that the postprocessed NC-code accurately represents the intended machining operations before being transferred to the physical machine. This simulation replicates the actual behavior of the CNC machine, offering a reliable and detailed analysis of the NC-code.

Key features include:

  • Collision and error detection: Preventing costly mistakes during actual machining.
  • Material removal simulation: Visualizing the process for accuracy.
  • Full machine simulation: Including tools, fixtures, and workpieces for a comprehensive check.

This step is indispensable for minimizing risks, reducing setup times, and ensuring a seamless transition from programming to production.

CAD capabilities and integration

Simple and intuitive CAD onboard

ENCY’s CAD module is a user-friendly assistant designed for straightforward and efficient part creation. It excels in building simple geometries, workpieces, and fixtures, making it ideal for users who need a quick and effective tool without complexity.

With its intuitive interface and essential features, ENCY CAD simplifies the design process, allowing you to focus on precision and speed, whether you’re creating basic components or setting up fixtures for machining.

3rd party CAD Integration

3rd party CAD Integration

ENCY integrates directly with leading CAD platforms through file compatibility and dedicated tools.

Supported platforms and formats include:

  • SolidWorks™ (.sldasm, .sldprt)
  • SolidEdge™ (.asm, .par, .psm, .pwd)
  • Rhinoceros™ (.3dm)
  • Onshape™
  • IronCAD™
  • STEP (.step, .stp)
  • Parasolid™ (.x_t, .x_b)
  • DXF (Autodesk™ Drawing Exchange Format)
  • STL (Stereo Lithography)
  • Other formats including IGES (.igs, .iges) and VRML (.vrl)

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ENCY is a CAD/CAM ecosystem that streamlines the path from design to finished parts. Precision, speed, and efficiency—all in one solution.

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  • Machine-aware toolpaths
  • State-of-the art simulation
  • NC-code verification
  • Cloud collaboration

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