Delcam to Hold Free Technical Update Seminars Across North America
Delcam will summarize developments in its latest
software releases for its North American customers at a series of free
Technical Update Seminars to be held in September and October.
Demonstrations will cover the recent enhancements in PowerSHAPE,
PowerMILL, and FeatureCAM that can increase productivity, improve
quality and reduce lead times. Delcam employs the largest development
team in the CAM industry. By attending an update seminar, users will be
able to maximize their benefit from this investment in the latest
design and manufacturing techniques.
Delcam North America
President, Glenn McMinn said, "Holding free update technical seminars on
our advanced manufacturing software not only gives our customers the
opportunity to benefit from their investment but also gives new
companies a chance to see the advantage of what a CAM supplier like
Delcam with the largest development team in the industry can do for
their design and manufacturing techniques.”
Delegates to the meetings
will have their first opportunity to see the new release of Delcam’s
PowerSHAPE CAD software for product design, tooling design and reverse
engineering. The 2012 version incorporates the first direct modeling
capabilities, alongside many improvements to the existing combination of
solid, surface and triangle modeling capabilities. The new direct
modeling options are aimed principally at toolmakers that need quick and
easy methods to edit imported CAD data to make it suitable for tooling
design.
The most important new option
to be demonstrated in PowerMILL 2012 will be flowline machining. With
flowline machining, the toolpath is divided between a pair of drive
curves in a constant number of passes, rather than having a varying
number of passes with a constant stepover. This produces a better
surface finish on the part and minimizes wear on the cutter and the
machine tool. Other enhancements include
control of the angular point distribution during five-axis machining,
new thread milling options and improved workplane editing. It has also
been made easier to obtain measurements, including distances, angles and
directions, from the part model and enter these values into PowerMILL
forms automatically.
A number of the improvements
to be shown in FeatureCAM 2012 will make the software even easier to
use. A range of keyboard shortcuts have been added and toolpath editing
has been made much easier.
Other improvements include
further developments in the use of stock models to cover 2D features,
including bosses, sides and slots, extra options within the tooling
database, the ability to automatically counterbore holes before
drilling, fully-automated de-burring and chamfering, the possibility to
create a negative leave allowance (such as a fitting allowance) for
turning or wire EDM to produce undersized features without remodeling,
and much improved performance on the largest part files with hundreds of
thousands of entities.
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