Creating the Design Intent

You will be creating the profile as 2D geometry, so you must start in Design mode in the XY environment.

Once you have defined the initial profile geometry, you must decide on how you want to cut the profile. EdgeCAM provides three main cutting strategies to generate Wire profiles:

 
Linked Profile command icon Linked Profile (Geometry menu)

Tapered Profile command icon Tapered Profile (Geometry menu)

Transformed Profile command icon Transformed Profile (Geometry menu)

Wire Section command icon Wire Section (Geometry menu)

 
You select one of these commands to generate the manufacturing information (“Design Intent”) within Design mode. Wire Erosion is the only manufacturing discipline in EdgeCAM that works in this way - all other modules create all manufacturing information and toolpaths in Manufacture mode.