From files to the floor — watch it happen.
Six real screens, one part: open the site, sign in, drop the STEP and the drawing (or the drawing alone), read the plan, watch it machined, and send the job package to the floor.
- 1Open meklyra.com
- 2Sign in
- 3Drop the part's files
- 4Plan ready — under a minute
- 5Watch it machined
- 6Job package to the floor
From files to a job package.
Four steps, nothing hidden in between.
Load the part
Drop the part's files on one door: the STEP model with its drawing. The engine reads true B-Rep geometry — holes, pockets, steps in a bore, datums — and checks the model against the drawing's callouts. No model? Drop the drawing alone: MEKLYRA builds the model from it — milled, turned or mill-turn — and lists what the drawing does not give, for your confirm. A drawing it cannot truly read is refused, with the reason. Already programmed in SolidCAM? Its tool file with the part makes it a production package.
The playbook plans it
Setup order, workholding, work offsets, tools and cutting data — each decided by a written rule with its provenance shown, from your crib first and the manufacturers' catalogues second.
Review and hand off
Watch the simulation strip the stock operation by operation, read the why behind every choice, and print a production instruction the shop floor can actually set up from — and hand your CAM its own files: the tool library and ready operations (SolidCAM first).
The floor closes the loop
Release the job to the tablet at the machine — drawing, tools, inspection sheet. What actually ran comes back signed, and becomes the verified record the next part plans from.
Every requirement of the drawing, followed to the part that meets it.
A plan is half the job. The other half is proving that what the drawing asks was made — and fixing it when it was not. MEKLYRA carries each requirement of the drawing through the whole chain: read, ballooned, placed on the model, made by a named operation and tool, measured, reported, corrected. Rules, not guesses: where the system is not sure, it says so and a person decides. These are the working screens, on MEK-DEMO-18 — a demo part we drew for this page.
Green is read. What it did not read, it marks red.
The PDF opens with every reading marked on it: tolerances, fits, threads, depths, geometric frames with their symbols and datums. Anything that looks like a requirement and was not read is marked for a person to answer once — the answer becomes part of the reading. On the shop's own real drawings the reader gets 95 % of the requirements right by itself; the check is where the rest is closed.
Tap a requirement — see where it is and what makes it.
Every requirement is a numbered balloon. Tap one and the model shows the feature it belongs to, in the colour of the operation that finishes it, with an arrow where the tool comes in — and under it every operation and tool that works on it, in order. The Ø25 H7 bore: helical-milled, then reamed; the reamer decides it.
One balloon at a time, the limits in big type, one box.
The inspector types what she measured and presses Enter. The verdict is immediate, and what is out says by how much and on which operation to correct it. A gauge answers pass or fail. The CMM report loads on the same screen and its readings land on the same balloons.
Out of tolerance becomes the next part in tolerance.
One tap applies the move to the plan: the operation that makes the size aims so the next part lands mid-band, and the toolpath follows. Where a program cannot move a size — a drill, a reamer, a tap makes it with its own diameter — it says to change the tool instead. Every correction names the reading it came from, who applied it, and can be taken back. The same tool drifting the same way on two parts is flagged for a person to make it a shop rule.
The AS9102 forms, filled from what was measured.
Form 1 from the part and the drawing, Form 2 from the material and processes the drawing names, Form 3 one balloon per row — the requirement as drawn, the result as measured, the gauge where a gauge decides, and "NCR required" on every result out of its band. It is a draft: a quality person reviews and signs it, and MEKLYRA makes no claim of compliance. What it saves is the half day of typing.
The thinking done — and the CAM's own files ready.
MEKLYRA does not cut toolpaths; your CAM does. What it hands the CAM is everything that comes before the toolpath: which tools, which operations in which order, the depths, the feeds and speeds, where zero is and what the stock is — decided from the drawing by written rules, and written in the CAM's own files. The programmer loads them and picks the geometry. SolidCAM first: every ✓ below was loaded in SolidCAM on 27 September 2026 and showed exactly what the plan said. These are MEKLYRA's working screens, on MEK-DEMO-19 — a demo plate we drew for this page. Try it yourself on the manifold block: plan MEK-DEMO-18 in your browser — no account — and open its SolidCAM sheet.
Geometry, Tool, Levels, Technology — as the CAM asks for them.
Every operation of the plan is laid out the way the CAM's operation dialog is: the coordinate system, the tool, the feeds and speeds, the levels from zero, the step down, the offsets. What the programmer changes is kept with the reason, and the plan follows. Zero is the model's — X0 Y0 at the part's centre, Z0 on its top — and from the second clamping the drawing's datum, because every size of that setup hangs on it.
The tool library and the operations, ready to load.
One button gives one folder: the tool library (a SolidCAM .tlm), an operation template (.tmpl) for every operation it can already write, the sheet, and a README in the CAM's own words — where to put the coordinate system, the stock box, and each operation in order: its template, or by hand and why. In SolidCAM a template brings the tool, the levels, the depths, the feeds and speeds and the cycle; the programmer picks the holes or the chain.
What the plan said — what SolidCAM showed
A drilling template written by MEKLYRA, loaded into a new operation:
| the plan | SolidCAM | |
|---|---|---|
| Drill depth | 18 | 18 ✓ |
| Feed Z | 480 | 480 ✓ |
| Spin | 4000 | 4000 ✓ |
| Tool | Ø9.8 drill | Ø9.8 drill ✓ |
| Upper level (a hole in a pocket floor) | −13 | −13 ✓ |
What travels today — and what is next
| The tool library — drills, end mills, face mills, spot drills | ✓ |
| Drilling — G81 and G83 with its peck, from the hole's own start | ✓ |
| Profile — end mill, levels, step down, wall offset, feeds, speed | ✓ |
| Zero and stock — in the CAM's own words | ✓ |
| Face, pocket, chamfer and spot, deburr, bull-nose and ball-nose tools, reamers, taps | next |
| Picking the geometry — the holes, the chain | the programmer |
Nothing is claimed that was not loaded and seen. Other CAMs follow the same way — their own files, read from files they saved.
SolidCAM is a trademark of SolidCAM Ltd. MEKLYRA is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by SolidCAM Ltd.; it writes files in the formats SolidCAM reads.
Watch it work on a real part — in the open.
MEK-DEMO-07 is a demo part we made for exactly this page: an 80 × 50 × 30 mm aluminium block with a pocket, four through holes, two Ø2 holes drilled into its side face — the kind of feature that costs a 3-axis shop a third setup — and the letter M engraved 0.3 mm deep in its top face, a job for a Ø2 cutter at a speed the machine's own spindle cannot give. With Colibri Spindles' TJM90-21, a coolant-driven 90° micro jet head, the plan drills the side holes from the top; with their GJET jet spindle it engraves the M at the shop’s own fixed 35,000 rpm (CD-01 c), from the 40-bar pump Colibri Spindles requires. Customers' parts stay private, so we published our own — and every number below is what the system actually reported on this build, not marketing. Download the STEP and the drawing and run them yourself — on your own machines, tools and cutting data the numbers will be yours, the reasoning the same.
Every line above opens into its reasoning. This is what the system answered, word for word, when asked why setup 1 is done this way:
Long dimension (84 mm) along machine X, 54 mm across the jaws. The jaws close on the blank's two 84 × 35 mm sides. Sit it on 25 mm parallels so 31 mm stands proud of the jaws. 4 mm of stock inside the jaws. Profile down to 31 mm from the top — the part's full height and a step into the grip stock SET-53. Side holes f4 Ø2, f5 Ø2 drilled in the main setup with the 90° coolant-driven head Colibri Spindles TJM90-21 — one setup fewer SET-54; the head's body (Ø27) must clear the part and the vise — verify on the setup. Zero (G54): X0 Y0 at the front-left top corner of the stock, Z0 on the top face SET-51.
Recommendation → written rule → reasoning. Not a black box — a rulebook you can read, question, and overrule.
It tells you what will not machine — and shows you exactly where.
The model is checked against your shop's limits the moment it lands: wall thickness, hole depth, how many directions the tools must come from, clearance and tapping diameters. A critical finding is not a footnote — it opens a section through the part with the spot marked in red, what it means, and what to do about it.
- Thin walla wall under your shop's minimum — where, and by how much
- Deep holedepth over diameter past the drill's limit — peck or a long-series drill
- Many setupsmore tool directions than the machine can give in one clamping
- Clearance holea diameter that matches a standard clearance size — named, not guessed
- Tapping drilla hole that matches a tap's drill size — the thread the drawing must confirm
- Reachevery face reachable by a tool from the setups planned
- Thinnest wallthe thinnest section on the part, measured, against the typical
Not a mockup. These are the working screens.
Every number on them was decided by a rule you can read — the blue chips are the rule ids. Sign in and drive it yourself.
Two setups, not three — because the plan knows your tools.
MEK-DEMO-07 has two Ø2 holes in a side face. On a plain 3-axis machine that is a third setup — or a job for a 5-axis machine. The plan found the coolant-driven 90° head in the shop's own tool list, drilled the side holes from the top, and closed the job in two setups in the vise, 11 machining operations, 8:52 of cutting. The letter M is engraved in a jet spindle at the shop’s own fixed 35,000 rpm on a machine whose own spindle stops at 8,000. And every open question is said out loud: a drill is not on the shelf, and the plan says so.
The setter gets a sheet, not a screenshot.
The drawing, the process sheet, the tool list and the inspection sheet — on a tablet by the machine. The operator types a measured value and sees green or red against limits computed from the drawing (ISO 286), signed with name and time. In Hebrew for a setter who does not read English.
One card per machine. Who, what, how far.
Who is signed in, which job and setup is running, tools confirmed, the last measurements, the last events across the shop — refreshed every ten seconds. Every line is a signed entry from a tablet.
A solution for the shop that has no 5-axis machine — and for the one that does.
You run 3-axis
A side hole, a cross-hole, an undercut — the features that used to mean a third setup or "we can't take this job". MEKLYRA plans them with the devices already in your list: a coolant-driven 90° head drills from the top; a jet spindle gives a Ø2 cutter 35,000 rpm on an 8,000 rpm machine. Fewer setups, no new machine.
You run 5-axis
The same rules plan the fewest setups your machine can reach, and the same devices still cut a setup or a re-clamp where the part allows it — the plan says which, with its reason. Nothing is planned by the file's axes; the part's own faces decide.
The tools that make it possible
Coolant-driven heads and jet spindles run off the machine's own high-pressure pump — no drive, no wiring. The ones on this page are Colibri Spindles' TJM90-21 Micro-90 head and TJS-GJET-BT40 jet spindle, drawn in the walkthrough from the models the maker publishes for exactly this. Another maker's device in your list is planned the same way.
See what they change on this part — the Setup Saver: the same part planned with and without them →