TopSolid 2008 has been designed to specifically provide solutions for our customers needs. This new 2008 release offers new features for design and manufacturing in mechanical engineering, tool making and wood industry. Just watch them and enjoy!

Minimum requirements
To watch our demonstrations please use the lastest version of Windows Media Player available here. You can play all the demonstrations here.

General Improvements
Reproduction of the operations plan	Operations on “sketches”	Modifiers
That function allows the reproduction of the operations plan of a part A on a part B, which are morphologically (completely) different. In turning, the operation plans are often similar for totally different parts.	TopSolid’Design sketches can be used for the milling and turning operations.	The picking of points, to set modifiers, uses a multi-selection mode. (So, it is possible to set the same feed rate for a group of points).
Post-processor link
The PDB supplies parameters user defined in the Design document of the part. It allows the user to take out parameters in the ISO.
2D Machining Improvements
Mouse Facing	Cycles: edition of the geometry (1/2)	Cycles: edition of the geometry (2/2)
Possibility of creating tool paths leaning on one or several faces of a solid, even though these are circular, by using, or not, the tool compensation. It is also possible to follow lines and circles.	Addition of elements (points, circles or cylinders) and deletion of elements.	Possibility of manual edition of the order of drillings (and option of optimization of the tool path for each operation) and edition of operations linked to the same process.
Features & cylinders analysis	Features & cylinders drilling	Management of the staggered drills
In the cylinders analysis, as in drilling forms analysis, the operator can choose criteria which determine holes to be regrouped together (ex: to regroup or not by Z levels). The search for cylinders (button " Search for cylinders ") is configurable in the same way for each operation. The parameters of configuration are henceforth saved in the file.	An icon is shown in front of each drilling shape. This icon indicates if existing operations allow the possibility to machine all the elements of the drilling shape.	For drilling, axial drilling, radial drilling and drilling on the axis in turning operations realized with staggered drills by using the second diameter, an option allowing the possibility to move the origin of the drilling towards the driven point is henceforth present in the tab "Cutting conditions".
Contour milling	Contour milling by plunge
Possibility of making the approach and retract strategies identical. This avoids defining the same parameters twice. Possibility of changing the position of material side for contour milling realized on profiles, directly in the dialog box.	Possibility of machining by “going down and going up”! It assumes the use of special tools, of some finishing operations and the operation must to go through the part . The cutter compensation is allowed.
3D Machining Improvements
Z-Level	Undercut Z-Level
The machining of the flat faces in sweeping mode has a new option allowing the choice between zigzag or square cycles. Approaches of the machining of flat faces can also be made in helix. Possibility of creating arcs of circle for approaches and retracts to limit the number of points when the tolerance is "very small“ (G02 and G03 are used in the ISO code).	Possibility of defining points of plunge. The tool paths are optimized. For the same Z level when a pass ends, it is the closest following tool path which is machined.
5D Machining Improvements
Management of angular strokes in contouring and in Swarf machining	Tilted revolution Parallel plane machining
Management of angular strokes bigger than 1 revolution (for example: from -90° to 360°). The software creates a return movement to security area to rotate the head when stokes are reached.	Possibility of setting an angle of tilting. The machining becomes 5 axis machining. Attention, the non accessible areas stay non accessible !
Turning Improvements
Axial and radial drilling (1/2)	Axial and radial drilling (2/2)	Breaking angle
Automatic recognition of features and cylinders for axial and radial operations.	Addition of a function allowing execution of axial and radial drilling operations on 2 turrets so that these operations are realized simultaneously.	In the function “breaking angle”, addition of an option allowing the regroupment of chamfers which can be realized in a single plunge (ex: 2 chamfers being on top of a groove).
Miscellaneous
Simulation
In top view, a color circle indicates which circle is corresponding to the diameter of the tool.