Executive Overview
DELMIA has acquired SGPOST, a leading post-processing technology for CNC machining. SGPOST will become DELMIA SGPOST and will be available across every core DELMIA Machining role.
Program → Simulate → Post-process → Machine
Machine shops now get one connected path from design to finished part, spanning CAM programming through CNC execution.
What Does DELMIA SGPOST Bring to DELMIA Machining?
DELMIA SGPOST gives every core DELMIA Machining role a built-in post-processing tool. Shops using DELMIA for CAM programming no longer need to source, license and maintain a separate post-processing tool. Instead, they get output translation built into the same environment where they build toolpaths and run simulations.
A few practical benefits stand out for machinists and programmers:
- Closer integration with the CAM environment: Post-processing logic can match the way DELMIA generates toolpaths. This reduces translation errors between programming and execution.
- Greater flexibility to adapt: As shops add machines, switch controllers or change how they approach a job, DELMIA can adjust the post-processing technology directly. Shops no longer need to route every change through an outside vendor.
- One place to troubleshoot: When something goes wrong between the program and the machine, one vendor stands accountable for both sides of that handoff.
For a shop owner watching the clock on every job, this reduced friction between programming and machining translates directly into fewer delays and less rework.
How Does This Benefit SOLIDWORKS Customers?
DELMIA SGPOST also reaches SOLIDWORKS customers, not just DELMIA’s own customer base. SOLIDWORKS resellers, known as value-added resellers or VARs, will support the technology directly.
These resellers will handle post-processor needs across a wide range of machine types. That range includes 3+2-axis, four-axis and five-axis equipment, mill-turn machines and Swiss-style machines. This variety matters because shops rarely run just one kind of equipment. A job shop with a five-axis mill, a Swiss lathe for small precision parts and a mill-turn cell for complex geometries needs a post-processing partner that can support all of them. Otherwise, the shop must piece together solutions from multiple vendors.
For SOLIDWORKS users who already rely on the platform for design, this acquisition shortens the path to a fully connected workflow. Instead of treating post-processing as an afterthought bolted on once programming ends, it becomes part of a planned, supported chain. Users get this chain from the same reseller relationship they already trust for their design software.
What Does a More Complete Digital Machining Chain Look Like?
The SGPOST acquisition points to a clear direction for DELMIA Machining: a single, connected chain that runs from program to simulate to post-process to machine. Each stage feeds directly into the next. As a result, the chain reduces the handoffs where errors and delays tend to creep in.
For machine shop owners, this connected chain means fewer vendors to manage and fewer surprises between what was programmed and what actually runs on the floor. For machinists and programmers, it means the tools they use to build a toolpath and the tools that translate it into machine code finally speak the same language. Because they come from the same source, they stay in sync.
As machining requirements continue to change, whether through new machine types, new controllers or new part complexity, having post-processing technology owned and developed alongside the CAM environment gives shops a partner built to keep pace rather than one step behind.
Frequently Asked Questions about DELMIA SGPOST
DELMIA SGPOST is post-processing technology that converts CAM machining instructions into machine-ready NC code for CNC machines. Formerly known as SGPOST, the technology was acquired by DELMIA and will be renamed DELMIA SGPOST.
A post processor translates machining instructions generated by CAM software into NC code that a specific CNC machine and controller can understand and execute. It provides the critical link between CAM programming and the machine tool.
DELMIA SGPOST adds post-processing technology directly to the DELMIA Machining portfolio, connecting CAM programming and simulation with the generation of machine-ready NC code. This creates a more complete digital machining chain from programming to machine execution
DELMIA SGPOST can address a wide range of machine configurations, including 3-axis, 4-axis and 5/6-axis machining, as well as complex multi-task machines with multiple turrets and spindles and combined milling and turning operations.
Yes. SGPOST will be added to the SOLIDWORKS Shop Floor Programmer role, enabling SOLIDWORKS Design with Cloud Services users to generate NC code using the SGPOST post processor without relying on a separate third-party post-processing solution.
DELMIA SGPOST can address a wide range of machine configurations, including 3-axis, 4-axis and 5/6-axis machining, as well as complex multi-task machines with multiple turrets and spindles and combined milling and turning operations. DELMIA SGPOST can also address laser, waterjet and wireEDM cutting machines as well as the additive material deposition technique.
DELMIA Machining is an advanced, CATIA/SOLIDWORKS-native CAM solution designed for complex multi-axis machining in aerospace & defense, automotive, industrial technology, combining AI-assisted programming with full process control to reduce NC programming time while maintaining production-grade reliability.
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