The electrode design software application in NX streamlines electrode modeling and design for any tool project that requires electrical discharge machining (EDM).

NX electrode design software provides a time-saving, step-by-step solution that automates the entire EDM process from design through production. It can help you manage even the most complex and challenging electrodes.

Manufacturing Geometry Identification

With NX, you can automate the way you specify the manufacturing processes for surfaces on the core and cavity. You can also automatically search, recognize, group and color faces that you want to burn and rough through EDM, wire EDM, milling and grinding.

Design Electrode Sparking Areas and Blanks

Highly complex shapes are easily achieved and are associative. The design changes made to the core and cavity properly propagate to the electrode, drawing and machining.

Electrode Undersizing

You can use the Undersize Electrode function to create undersized electrode geometry.

NX enables you to compensate for spark gap and orbital motion. Out-of-the-box orbit types include circular, square and spherical. You can also easily define your own orbits.

Electrode Validation

The validation capability in NX enables you to check for interferences and calculate the sparking area. This is useful in defining downstream manufacturing operations and determining proper EDM machine settings.

Design Change Management

You can swap design versions of the manufacturing surfaces and efficiently update related electrodes, electrode drawings and toolpaths.

Electrode Machining

NX CAM provides a complete solution for NC programming. This integrated application offers a wide range of cutting strategies to machine electrodes of any complexity.

Feature-based machining (FBM) enables you to automatically recognize and program a wide range of machining features on electrodes.