Delcam to demonstrate design and manufacturing for toolmakers in Indonesia

Delcam will promote the latest releases in its range of design and manufacturing software for toolmakers at the Manufacturing Indonesia exhibition to be held in Jakarta from the 5th to 8th December.  The 2016 versions will be on show of the PowerSHAPE CAD system for tooling design and the PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining.

The 2016 release of PowerSHAPE Pro software will help users to complete complex tooling designs more quickly and more easily.  In addition, a combination of new, more efficient, code and the extension of multi-threaded calculations to many commonly-used tasks will make the software significantly faster than any previous version.

One key enhancement allows groups of features to be copied between two solids in a single operation.  While the features do not need to be of the same type, the most common application is expected to be in copying patterns of holes from one solid to another, for example from one mould plate to any other plate in the mould stack.

The main enhancement in PowerMILL 2016 is the ability to mirror complete machining projects in one operation and to maintain automatically the machining characteristics, for example to specify automatically whether climb or conventional milling should be used in each section of the toolpath.  Previously, only individual toolpaths could be mirrored.

Automatic mirroring saves considerable time whenever tooling is needed to produce right- and left-hand versions of a part, such as press tools for the nearside and offside of a car.  It will also be faster to program the machining of tooling for symmetrical objects since it will be possible to program one half of the core or cavity and then mirror the toolpaths to generate the complete program.

10 November 2015