CimatronE MoldDesign
|Product Overview
Cimatron’s
MoldDesign application is a set of tools – over and beyond CimatronE’s
basic CAD/CAM toolmaking solution – that is optimized especially for
making molds.
MoldDesign includes dedicated applicative tools for
creating, editing and re-use of mold sub-systems, so not only do you
reach better results more quickly, you get there even faster the next
time. CimatronE MoldDesign complements the knowledge and experience of
mold makers. It offers the right combination of automation and hands-on
decision-making power, with everything mold makers need to get the job
done right the first time.
| Product Highlights
- Rich set of CAD tools optimized for moldmaking.
- Dedicated applicative tools for creation, editing and re-use of molds and mold sub-systems such as runners, ejectors and cooling systems.
- Advanced catalog tools:
easy access to all common mold catalogs. All catalog parts can be
customized, simply and quickly. Entire sub-assemblies can be defined as
one catalog item, and re-used in other projects.
- Intuitive work environment: Cimatron’s user-friendly work environment is not only easy to use, it is effective. The ergonomic interface:
- Makes the right tools available at the right time and in the right place on the screen.
- Uses wizards and guides for key processes, and smart trees, sets, modeling views and sections for ongoing work.
- Full associativity – the mold design process seamlessly connects to every other toolmaking stage, such as Electrodes, NC and Drafting.
| Key Benefits
MoldDesign benefits can be summarized in three main areas:
- Productivity and timesaving: MoldDesign is
optimized for making molds, so you can work faster, reduce errors and
get shorter delivery
- Coverage: Integrative, fully associative
solution enables you to complete any type of job – of any complexity or
size – with no compromises.
- Quality and accuracy: Get the required results the first time, every time.
What enables these results?
- Functionality such as edit/re-use and catalog
tools streamlines mold creation. Time is saved on each and every mold,
and the results are more accurate and consistent.
- Associativity with other moldmaking
processes, such as Drawings, Electrodes, and NC, means that no
intermediate data translation is required – the same data is used in
the same environment. This reduces error and speeds processes.
- MoldDesign handles imported data flawlessly – correcting for gaps and geometry issues – system-wide, with true hybrid modeling.
- 3D and analytical & information tools
reduce errors and product more reliable results, assuring that the
original plans translates into a tool that works in the real-world
environment.
| Features
- Rapid preliminary design
- Powerful and time-saving catalog tools
- Ready-to-use mechanisms, including lifter & sliders design
- Easy to create and re-use user-defined mechanisms at any complexity level
- Dedicated tools for parting surfaces and split into core and cavity
- Effective handling of sub-systems, including mold-base manipulation, and ejection, cooling & runner design
- Powerful hybrid solid/surfacing CAD tools, optimized for mold design
- Automated drawing
- Decision-support environment consists of flexible visualization, analysis and measurement tools
- Robust solution to implement ECOs of any scope and complexity level and at any stage of the design process