ADDITIONAL PRODUCT NEWS

Reduce Die Design and Production Cycles 

CimatronE DieDesign is a fully integrated solution from progressive die quoting and strip design to final production. CimatronE DieDesign works the way you work. With an intimate understanding of diemaking, the application was created to fully support a natural diemaking workflow. CimatronE DieDesign gives you all the tools that you need, while maintaining the flexibility to leverage your experience and judgment. 

Key benefits include: 

• One integrated solution replaces multiple CAD and analysis tools

• Save hours generating accurate quotes – even for complex jobs

• Integral Finite Element Analysis and blank calculation for more accurate quoting, lower costs and faster time to production

• Powerful blanking capabilities enable you to reach accurate results faster than ever for any part

• Unique intelligent toolbox approach provides the right tools to complement your expertise

• The ideal combination of automation and hands-on control for optimal productivity

• Powerful 2D/3D hybrid modeling and surfacing for maximum accuracy and end- product quality

• Easy to learn and use - Die Design implements the common working methods of the industry and enable you to easily operate the application

Kubotek USA Forms Partnership with PARTsolutions  

Kubotek^® USA announced that it has entered into a partnership with PARTsolutions^® LLC, a leading provider of 3D digital catalog publishing and enterprise parts management solutions. As result of the partnership, users of Kubotek USA’s KeyCreator^® software are now able to select and configure industry standard and supplier-specific parts from PARTsolutions’ extensive library, and place those parts directly into KeyCreator designs. 

A seamless interface has been built between KeyCreator3D CAD design software and PARTsolutions’ industry standard and digital parts system. The companies worked closely to ensure the KeyCreator software was able to present a highly accurate and detailed rendering of the PARTsolutions components, indistinguishable from manually created components. Direct support of PARTsolutions digital parts catalogs will save Kubotek USA’s mechanical CAD customers time and ensure design accuracy when standard parts are being integrated into a design.  

Use of part referenced assemblies, especially for parts recurring throughout a design, lowers the memory footprint of the design, thereby speeding modeling operations. Taking advantage of part references also allows users to save time and reduce errors when design modifications require a change to parts used repeatedly throughout the design.  

Access to PARTsolutions for KeyCreator parts libraries is currently available in Kubotek USA’s recently released KeyCreator Version 6.3. 

Mastercam’s MR1 Enhances Toolpath Control  

Mastercam X2’s Maintenance Release (MR1), the latest CAD/CAM software from CNC Software Inc.,  introduces significant new capabilities, including improved toolpaths for high speed machining, multiaxis enhancements, and more.  

·       Pencil Rest Material Optimization – The high speed machining Pencil toolpath has been enhanced to provide much smoother motion with fewer retracts when used with rest material. Also, Mastercam can now calculate the appropriate number of offset passes needed, based on tool diameter.  

·       Core Roughing Trochoidal Controls –In MR1, Mastercam gives you the ability to control when and how the trochoidal motion occurs in a toolpath when machining harder materials.  

·       Multiaxis Enhancements – Mastercam’s 5-Axis Flowline toolpath has been enhanced to support undercuts. The Advanced Multiaxis toolpaths have also been enhanced to support solid geometry.  

·       Viewsheets – New to Mastercam, viewsheets will save time when working with multiple views or working with different levels at the same time. Viewsheets let you create different user-defined sheets consisting of the view orientation, zoom scale, and visible levels of the part. Bookmarks allow you to save a specific state inside the viewsheet and recall it later.