Almacam Cut

Almacam Cut is Alma's CAD/CAM software for programming 2D cutting machines across laser, plasma, oxy-cutting and water jet technologies. Nesting is based on Alma's in-house algorithms. Alma notes that plasma cutting is particularly widespread in shipbuilding and was the starting point for several of its programming innovations.

Key features

• Programming of laser, plasma, oxy-fuel and water jet cutting machines from one environment
• Continuous cutting without lead-ins/lead-outs and bevel programming for plasma
• Multi-torch oxy-cutting programming with smart nesting, bevels and management of thermal requirements during cutting
• Automatic nesting with Alma's own algorithms

Applications

Plasma cutting is described as typically used for 10 to 30 mm sheets (0.5 mm to 160 mm possible) with roughly 0.2 mm precision; laser cutting handles thicknesses up to 25 mm. Typical users include shipyards, steel construction and sheet metal subcontractors.