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VISI Analysis provides a suite of dedicated tools for the validation and preparation of model geometry. When working with imported data, the quality of the model is an important consideration. Finding potential problems at an early stage within the project will greatly simplify the task of the designer and generate huge time savings further along the design process.
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Bihler Softw@re bNX – The next generation – Technology Software for 3D design
Developing high quality products fast and economically is an essential challenge in today’s globalized world economy. In order to maintain their competitiveness, companies have to continuously improve their core process – the development of their products. Bihler Software bNX offers leading technical functions facilitating complex tasks required in various areas for development, analysis, manufacture, marketing and maintenance. Development of successful products cannot be left to chance. In the past it was very hard giving concrete information on the products’ performance, quality and appearance during the development process. Almost always expensive protoypes had to be manufactured. Thanks to the Technology Software bNX, processes can be analyzed, configured, designed and simulated when developing and designing punching and forming tools. Due to the virtual product development, which allows for verification in the run-up phase, development risks as well as development times can be reduced considerably.
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Design for the entire product lifecycle
Manufacturing companies are driven by increasing pressure to develop innovative products in shorter time frames, while maintaining high levels of quality. Even with mature, capable 3D CAD technology, many companies have failed to significantly improve their design processes, and the benefits of lower costs and shorter cycle times remain elusive.
Transformation of product development begins with the design process, which fuels the entire product lifecycle – from simulation and analysis through tooling design, manufacturing, assembly, service and support.
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CoCreate Mold Base
Industry-proven solution for designing plastic injection molds
CoCreate Mold Base, an integrated module inside CoCreate Modeling, helps with the tedious task of creating mold plates and components. CoCreate Mold Base reduces the effort of designing plastic injection molds with its highly interactive and intelligent tooling. When mold designers use this productivity add-on, they have access to leading-edge Computer Aided Mold Design software based on industry-proven technology.
Benefits
* Leads mold designers through a logical and systematic approach to designing plastic injection molds
* Provides highly interactive preview menus that dynamically update when you modify parametrically driven components
* Starts the mold design process with standard and non-standard mold bases and 14 standard component catalogs
* Provides design advice by validating its parameters with your mold base assembly geometry
* Automates your tasks such as cutting plates and inserting new components and recalculating parameters
* Exports machining feature information directly to target Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems
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Edgecam provides a complete Mold and Die solution for generating high quality toolpaths that meet the demands of manufacturers of complex parts and free form shapes. Mold and die makers, patternmakers, prototypers and press tool makers alike will all benefit from Edgecam's breadth of advanced machining capability.
With Edgecam you get best in class prismatic machining combined with powerful 3D solid and surface machining strategies, all in one solution.
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Moldmakers were the first to use 3D CAD products, so their level of experience and knowledge of these products is unparalleled. Anyone working in the plastic injection mold sector is well aware of the benefits of using think3's design suite, which is well known in this environment thanks to its great potential and flexibility. Our long experience in this sector has borne fruit today with the development of a vertical solution which includes the tools needed to deal with a high level of productivity with the considerable work needed to design a plastic injection mold. MoldDesign is based on the ThinkDesign suite, which boasts well-known features such as hybrid modeling capable of managing solids and surfaces with absolute transparency, GSM³, a powerful creation/modification engine which allows work on the geometry in any of the product definition phases, and Interactive Solid Modeling (ISM), which allows modifications to be made to both native and imported solid models moving away from the necessarily parametric logic. MoldDesign's specific functions rely on this very powerful base.
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PowerSHAPE provides a complete solution for both product design and toolmakers. Whereas designers are primarily concerned with the design of a finished product, often ignoring the features required for manufacturing, mold and toolmakers require a complete model. For instance, some designers rarely fillet the sharp edges of a model or produce the necessary draft and split surfaces. These time consuming and expensive operations are often left to the toolmaker to produce. With PowerSHAPE all these are made easy, while PowerSHAPE's powerful geometry creation tools ensure that the initial design can be completed quickly and efficiently.
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CoCreate Advanced Design
More 3D power with five-in-one capability
CoCreate Advanced Design is a comprehensive set of five integrated CoCreate Modeling modules that work together to digitally resolve potential manufacturing issues and extend the use of 3D CAD data beyond product design. An essential module for any size design team, you can establish physical and mechanical relationships within assemblies, add parametric features to parts, design plastic parts faster, protect intellectual property, and communicate with coordinate measuring systems.
Benefits
* Generate and drive part and assembly design variants with relationships and constraints
* Define positional relationships and dynamically push, pull, and rotate assembly mechanisms to simulate physical behavior
* Create animations on-the-fly or with physical simulation relationships
* Speed up the design of plastic parts by using streamlined parameter-driven features and core and cavity commands
* Suppress and simplify product details to protect intellectual property when sharing design data with external teams
* Prepare and export dimensional measurement plans for Quality Control departments by providing accurate metrology measurement points for a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
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FUTUREX 02 is efficient and versatile measuring software for all 3D coordinate measuring machines, irrespective of the type or brand, manual or CNC-controlled. FUTUREX 02 enables you to use the same software for horizontal-arm measuring machines, Bridge machines, 6-axis articulated measuring arms and laser trackers.
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HiCAD next has been setting new standards in the field of development and design engineering for many years now, due to innovative working techniques, comprehensive industry solutions and integrated PDM software.
HiCAD next is the only CAD system in the world offering true 2-D/3-D associativity. State-of-the-art working techniques and automatisms help you minimise routine tasks, simulation and analysis tools enable you to detect and prevent collisions in your product models. By this means, product quality can be improved and product development costs will be reduced.
As a universal CAD system, HiCAD next is not only optimally suited for mechanical engineering, but can also be used in almost all branches of industry - from steel and metal engineering to sheet metal processing and plant engineering. Even hybrid projects involving several industries can be realised effortlessly.
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Alibre Design is the easiest to use and most accessible mechanical 3D CAD software on the market.
Alibre Design 3D CAD software delivers parametric modeling, associative 2D drafting and detailing, and real-time Team Design for a fraction of the cost of other mid-range solid modeling software.
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Alibre Design Expert
Engineers' Answer to Advanced Prototyping and CAM
In today’s market, eliminating costly rework and getting your product to market quickly is integral to success. Alibre Design Expert delivers a full range of add-ons designed to do just that. With dynamic motion simulation, FEA analysis, integrated CAM, and many other tools, the most demanding designers will choose Alibre Design Expert.
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Edgecam is an industry leading solution for all your production machining needs. Applications include prismatic and 3D milling, complex multi-axis turning, mill/turn, rotary and multi-plane milling and family of parts machining. Innovative solutions for a more productive and profitable machine shop are supplied. These include excellent toolpath simulation, a unique wizard approach to post processing, a comprehensive tooling database, intuitive and flexible machine tool communications and a web-enabled job management system.
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SINGULA Features:
- Physical Optics hybridized into MoM to solve problems such as large antenna dishes that plain MoM or FEM cannot handle
- Sources include: Incident plane wave, delta voltage, line voltage, waveguide, and magnetic frill
- A wide range of graphs & plots (near field, far field, rectangular, Smith Charts, radiation patterns) can be created based on parameters such as H, B, E, D, J, Z, S, Y
- Display rectangular plots of current, fields and input impedance. Display polar plots of power gain, contours of currents and fields. Display 3D surface plots of radiation patterns and display Smith charts of s-parameters
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What could you do with radically more powerful ID tools?
Create freely. Revise faster. And forget the math.
Industrial design is critical to the success of nearly every product. Designers now find themselves under more pressure than ever to:
Deliver designs that perfectly balance innovation, function, and aesthetics,
Reduce time to market without sacrificing design intent or quality, and
Improve design efficiency.
Focused on the creative design process, think3 gives you the power to bring your most attention-grabbing ideas to life. Explore more directions and unleash more possibilities. Envision, revise, share, and reuse information more easily. And see your products quickly reach showrooms and consumers around the world.
thinkiD DesignXpressions Series™: unlimited power in your hands
For the first time, designers are truly free to focus on creative design — not software. think3 technology does the interpretation and the math, automatically, to create the shape you've envisioned. Evolving from think3's 2001 introduction of Global Shape Modeling (GSM) technology, designers can create anything by mixing and matching surface and solids modeling to best reach their design goals. thinkiD DesignXpressions, powered by GSM³, lets you modify quickly, on the fly, while retaining design intent. From concept through manufacturing, you can enjoy creative freedom and dynamic, real-time control.
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Freeform Shape Modeling
NX Shape Studio is a tailored styling and industrial design package that offers the freedom and accuracy designers need to explore shapes and what-if styling in the conceptual modeling phase. By seamlessly integrating curve- and surface-based modeling, NX Shape Studio puts cutting-edge CAD tools into the hands of industrial designers. At the same time, the easy-to-use toolbox fosters innovation. These flexible tools, from drag-and-drop templates to dynamic construction, enable fast, easy creation and evaluation of design alternatives while providing real-time visual feedback. And there's no worry about changes or iterations, as associativity takes care of downstream data integrity.
With Shape Studio, designers can use practically any approach or modeling technique. For example, the designer might begin modeling by using standard parametric design techniques that employ curve-driven geometry. Then, when creating contours and integrating ergonomics, the designer might use freeform techniques. Or the designer could begin modeling without precise definitions, adding geometric constraints later. Construction geometry and style details can be rapidly generated by the dynamic mapping of 3D curves onto freeform shapes. Or surfaces can be constructed using pre-set combinations of section and guide curves, with the designer monitoring impact as it occurs.
All model data transfers directly downstream. And the fully associative database ensures that any changes are automatically updated in related applications such as engineering design, assembly, drafting, simulation, and manufacturing.
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Exchange is Delcam's CAD translation solution. Exchange is a powerful stand alone CAD translator program capable of translating from many popular CAD input formats to many output formats. Downloading Exchange and opening and viewing files from all compatible systems is free and without obligation - and everything is confidential as you don't have to send any of your CAD data files over the internet. You only pay when you chose to save the files you have translated on a pay-per-translation basis by credit card.
- Open and view CAD files from any supported input format for free before paying for the translation, you only pay if you save a file out in the desired format
- All translations are carried out on your PC - there are no file transfers
- Unique voucher payment system offers pay-per-translation and account payments with discounts
- Buy a full licence - rather than paying-per-translation you can purchase translators outright to eliminate the need for vouchers
- To study components in more detail you can also download Delcam's PowerSHAPE viewer for FREE - measuring, dimensioning and dynamic shading are just some of the tools available by downloading both PowerSHAPE and Exchange
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The easy-to-learn, easy-to-use toolpath feature set in KeyCreator lets you quickly read or create CAD drawings and output NC programs and process sheets. Key capabilities include:
- Comprehensive Drilling
- Spiral Pocketing
-Profile Milling
KeyCreator toolpath functionality for 3-aAxis multi-surface milling includes:
3-Axis Multi-surface Toolpaths
Contour Roughing
Zigzag Roughing
Unidirectional Roughing
Follow Surface Roughing
Planar Finishing
Radial Finishing
Plateau Finishing
Tool containment and avoidance using 2D and 3D curves
Helix and ramping entry styles
Check surface control
Plane view machining (4-axis indexing)
Re-machining steep and shallow walls
Machining flat regions
Point milling (plunge)
Pencil trace machining
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WinVector workshop near CAM
Vector CAM
They work very practice-orientedly and are annoyed at complicated software?
WinVector is nevertheless very simple a high performance CAD/CAM program system and in the operation. Already after few hours you are with the software trust and provide in shorten first time NCs-Programm. Step by step you develop these. With the used function and cut to your machinery. No reorientation and no pre-defined operational sequence are required. The result is "it" NC-Programm, as provides by hand. However importantly faster, more simply and more comfortably!
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Within Edgecam, the integrity of your design is maintained because the solid model is impor ted without translation. Edgecam Solid Machinist uses automatic feature recognition to interrogate the solid model and quickly identify machineable features. Edgecam then offers the user the most appropriate tooling and machining strategy to generate accurate toolpaths.
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HI-MILL is the Fidia CAM 3D software for the manufacturing of moulds, dies, models and prototypes.
It enables tool paths to be generated, from roughing out to super finishing, offering a wide choice of machining strategies starting from geometrically defined surfaces using CAD, ISO finishing programs or digitized surfaces.
The system operates in real time; machining is started in parallel with the calculation of the tool path.
The technological parameters can be defined by the operator on the basis of the actual availability of equipment and tooling. The system operates in real time: machining is started in parallel with the calculation of the tool path.
HI-MILL is able to:
Read CAD surfaces in VDA-FS, IGES, STL and CATIA formats, as well as digitized programs.
Calculate roughing out, semi-finishing, finishing and re-machining tool paths, as well as male/female inversion.
Manage tool axis orientation in space (indexed bi-rotary heads).
Display the dynamic rough part obtained from the simulation of individual tool paths, highlighting the machining stock.
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Kubotek USA delivers today’s most cost-effective CAD/CAM solutions for companies and professionals who need freedom to design and adaptability for manufacture. Our customers claim that Kubotek technology provides a competitive edge to help win new business and bring innovative products to market faster in today’s rapidly changing global market.
In addition, the NC functionality in KeyCreator provides easy-to-learn, easy-to-use production-oriented programming to help you quickly output NC programs and process sheets.
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Design Without Barriers
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 offers numerous enhancements that enable users to overcome the key barriers to design productivity.
* Make design changes faster and easier!
Real-time, dynamic editing and disruption-free design will help users overcome the traditional barriers to flexible and easy design modification.
o Enhanced direct surface editing is also up to 70% faster!
* Accelerate time to productivity by up to 10X.
User Experience enhancements such as graphical browsing, intuitive UI enhancements, streamlined tasks and faster performance improve design efficiency and reduce time-to-market.
o Create simplified sub-assemblies (envelope definitions) 78% faster
o Create sheetmetal parts 30% faster, place forms 82% faster
o New trajectory rib feature helps create parts up to 80% faster!
o Analysis of weldment models is up to 10X faster
o Create facing toolpaths 5X faster
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The Alibre CAM family of machining products is built on technology that is in production at thousands of locations worldwide. From simple 2 ½-axis to full 5-axis indexed milling, Alibre CAM will help you make parts, fast.
Fully integrated with our Alibre Design family of 3D design products, you get a fully associative parametric CAD/CAM system for 1/5 the price of competing systems, making Alibre CAM far and away the best value in the CAD/CAM industry.
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CADDS 5 Manufacturing Option
A must for any MCAD suite is the ability to manufacture a design with ease. PTC offers powerful manufacturing capabilities to complement the CADDS 5 Modeling Foundation. CADDS 5 Manufacturing Option provides a single, associative manufacturing solution for all 2-axis through to 5-axis milling and turning operations. You can optimize your toolpaths to machine products faster and more accurately. CADDS 5 Manufacturing Option helps you save time and optimize your manufacturing tooling design and machining processes.
Benefits
- Ensure high levels of accuracy and adherence to design specifications with integrated design and manufacturing capabilities. You can easily transform design data into high quality tools, parts, and assemblies in less time
- Provides fast, accurate machining of complex part geometry typical of aerospace, automotive, and turbo-machinery applications
- Save substantial NC programming time by reusing proven manufacturing methods which optimize toolpaths and reduce machine set-ups
- Machine different parts from the same assembly simultaneously with multiple manufacturing engineers
- Leverage the integration with GPOST for a complete post-processing environment
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ESPRIT SolidMill Production adds 5-axis machining capability to ESPRIT's milling cycles. Programmers can use multiple fixture offset with local or global work coordinates to machine any part face, using any ESPRIT machining cycle. ESPRIT's 5-axis indexing supports any combination of rotary tables and tilting heads to orient the part, then machines with 2 1/2 and 3-axis operations using one or more ESPRIT cycles.
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SURFCAM CAD/CAM for Aerospace Manufacturing
The Aerospace Industry is poised for unprecedented growth in virtually every segment: Commercial, General Aviation, Military, and Space. The known impediment, however, is the industry’s struggle to improve quality, reduce costs and speed time to market at the same time.
It is common wisdom that any improvement to one area seem to come at the expense of the other. SURFCAM Powered by TrueMill® overcomes this maxim -- the effect of using SURFCAM Powered by TrueMill actually improves quality, reduces costs and dramatically increases time to market by enabling striking gains in productivity – simultaneously!
The milling toolpaths created by SURFCAM Powered by TrueMill are highly effective on the harder metals most frequently used in Aerospace and Defense – titanium, Inconel and aluminum among others. In many cases, machining speed doubles or even triples with the patented TrueMill technology. At the same time, quality increases and costs are lowered.
SURFCAM Powered by TrueMill can be a significant factor in empowering Aerospace industry companies to meet the compressed time schedules, reduced costs and increased product complexity required in today’s challenging global market.
Among other features, SURFCAM Velocity offers: TrueMill® High Speed Roughing, 5-Axis Swarf, 4-Axis Spiral, 5-Axis Functionality, and Control for all scenarios.
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SURFCAM CAD/CAM for Automotive Manufacturing
The automotive industry is in a state of flux and has been greatly affected by globalization, economic factors and ever-changing lifestyle choices. Consumers worldwide have more vehicle choices than ever, putting pressure on vehicle manufacturers to deliver quality automobiles as efficiently as possible.
While Cad/Cam software may not affect a consumer’s choice between a sedan or a SUV, the effect of a highly cost-efficient Cad/Cam solution can greatly increase production productivity, quality and speed to market. Surfware’s SURFCAM Cad/Cam software Powered by TrueMill® is the indisputable leader in providing cost-effective automotive industry solutions that increase quality, and double or in some cases triple production productivity.
SURFCAM Powered by TrueMill is ideal for “lean” manufacturing solutions, allowing automotive industry manufacturers to improve the accuracy and efficiency of production and assembly line processes and optimize the use of parts and labor. The innovation and efficiency required by the automotive industry is achieved by the innovation, time-savings and cost-savings made possible by SURFCAM.
Among other features, SURFCAM Velocity offers: 5-Axis Porting, TrueMill® High Speed Milling, and Advanced Finishing.
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Machine Complex Free-Form Shapes with Ease
ESPRIT's NURBS-based machining engine handles fabricating difficult free-form shapes with ease. Specifically designed to address the 3D challenges in the mold, die, and toolmaking markets, ESPRIT provides you with a powerful set of tools and machining cycles for free-form roughing, Z-level machining, finishing, and re-machining in 3-axis or 5-axis.
5-axis Free-Form Machining
Machining complex 3D parts in a single setup is easy with the powerful ESPRIT CAM system. ESPRIT streamlines programming and provides dynamic onscreen program verification, eliminating the need for expensive machine-tool dry runs. For 5-axis finishing, ESPRIT gives you a full range of options, including planar, normal, transitional, parametric, and offset styles. Program your 3D 5-axis machine cycles with ESPRIT and benefit from the superior surface quality, part accuracy, and material removal rates provided by today's multi-axis machine tools.
High-Speed Machining
ESPRIT's high-speed machining (HSM) functionality is built into all its machining cycles allowing you to cut hardened materials in minimal time while maintaining constant loads on cutting tools utilizing the smooth, continuous movements so critical in 3D HSM. Your choices include sharp corner smoothing, loop-style bridge movements, ramp and helical entry into material, spiral-style cutting with constant overlaps, tangency entry, and constant Z-level cutting. HSM optimization for NURBS, spline-curve and arc-optimized G-code output is built into ESPRIT's universal post processor.
Z-Level Machining
ESPRIT's Z-level machining cycle automatically maintains constant loads on cutting tools for smooth, continuous high-speed toolpaths. When creating a Z-level finishing operation you have the option to machine the entire part or selectively machine only vertical or horizontal areas. When machining the entire part you can choose to cut the vertical and horizontal areas with different tools and use both roughing and finishing options.
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SURFCAM Velocity 3-Axis, Powered by TrueMill®
SURFCAM’S 3-Axis CAM system delivers efficient, reliable toolpaths on the most complex surface geometry with the highest quality surface finishes. 3-Axis high-speed machining strategies feature fast processing, minimal rapid motions, tapered tool support and excellent surface finish.
Product highlights include:
* High-speed optimized finish strategies feature smooth, fluid toolpaths that eliminates abrupt changes in direction.
* 3D Offset finishing provides superior surface finish regardless of the part shape.
* Fast processing using new algorithms and multiple processors provide very short calculation times even for the most complex parts.
* Rest Machining automatically detects uncut areas left by previous tools, so that they can be machined by using the optimal strategy.
* Associative toolpath to model geometry that tracks changes to the model and adjusts the toolpath.
* Steep/Shallow intelligently adjusts the toolpath style based upon the slope of the part.
* Full gouge protection against check surfaces along with the powerful toolpath containment provides precise control over what needs to be machined and what must be avoided.
* Unbeatable surface finishes increase productivity by reducing secondary processes and makes hard-die milling more efficient.
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