In 2008 a customer invested a lot of time and money to equip their company entirely for the design of 3D solids.

Unfortunately, the data generated there could not be used to supply the 3-axis machining centre with the necessary information.

The programmer continued to create the programs based on 2D drawings, which first must be generated from the 3D solid in an additional step. This effort was not justified; the parts were actually only simply machined from above. .

The step2ncw converter was developed for such uses: Automatic recognition of parameterised or generated machining processes and the direct conversion into a machine readable format. The application is not suitable to recognise machining processes that are a combination of several machining steps.

Would you like to try it out? Send an email with a Step file to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will attempt to send back the recognized preps as .ncw.