Computer Aided Practical Teaching of the Electro Discharge Machining Process

With the necessity to improve the teaching techniques of the processing technologies, in the present paper is showed the development and implantation of a application software that will serve to aid the student of the electro discharge machining process in the decision making process planning this non-conventional manufacture method. This application software manages the totality of the electro discharge machining process, in the die sinking case, by means of the creation or a data base with the necessary parameters of machining. To do these specific tasks, this application makes the data acquisition in analytical form of the machining values that the student tries to reach and has also a graphical environment form to define the geometry of the wished cavity. Finally it exposes the results in a didactic form expressed in a sheet of manufacture operations.