DP Technology Corp. says ESPRIT 2008, the new version of its CAM software, includes new productivity enhancing technology for CNC programmers of mills, lathes and wire EDM machines.

Esprit 2002 directly reads native Catia files and creates toolpaths for milling, turning, and wire-EDM directly from Catia solids, surfaces, or wireframe geometry.

Advancements include turning stock automation for lathes, EDM machine specific machining technology, improved 3D machining performance, open pocket milling, expanded CAD to CAM feature exchange, ...