SolidWorks Corp.

Delcam will demonstrate the 2012 version of Delcam for SolidWorks, its integrated CAM system for SolidWorks, at SolidWorks World in San Diego from 12th to 15th February.

CGS North America Inc. is excited to announce, the release of CG CAM-TOOL for SolidWorks 2011 CAD Software. CG CAM-TOOL is developed in Japan by C & G Systems Inc.

MecSoft Corporation, a global leader in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software, and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks will be conducting a free webinar showing best practices of using CAM with SolidWorks.

MSI Mold Builders: Redefining Mold Manufacturing with Incremental Approval Approach.

Case Study / Software, Consumer.

Mold-Tech, Inc.: Technology-Driven, Detail-Oriented Precision Injection Mold Provider.

SolidWorks® 2011 3D CAD support

With an average leadtime of eight weeks, Mold Craft, Inc. (Willernie, MN)—this year’s Small Shop Leadtime Leader Award Winner—builds tight-tolerance, high-volume, multi-cavity and multi-mold projects that produce small, intricate, precision plastic parts.

Moldmakers who produce tooling for medical devices and many other high precision molded products have been under increasingly greater pressure to reduce the variability of tooling components manufactured on their CNC equipment. One way they attempt to do this is by carefully adjusting offsets in the CAM program to compensate for variations in their equipment’s volumetric accuracy. Sometimes this works, other times not. Either way, the toolmaker pays a heavy penalty.

Adding equipment to the shop floor not only accommodates existing customers, but also can serve as an investment in securing work from new customers.

Moldmaker switches to new programming software that auto-matically recognizes features and allows the programmer to define a process for the feature that can be repeated each time a similar feature is encountered; and, allows for more timesavings via its improved rest machining and trochoidal milling capabilities.

Moldmakers need design automation, modeling and surfacing tools to facilitate effective interaction with product designers.

Mold manufacturers can address time, cost, quality and global communication challenges by using 3-D CAD software in combination with an integrated product data management system.

Metal fabrication skills meet needs of composites manufacturing in a range of high-tech operations.

Heavily relying on lights-out manufacturing coupled with a niche market in complex mold manufacture, this moldmaker lands its fourth accolade as a Leadtime Leader—three times as a winner and this year’s Leadtime Leader: Small Shop Honorable Mention.

SolidWorks (Concord, MA) has announced that SolidWorks® 2007 software is the first 3D CAD product available and certified by Microsoft Corp. for the new Windows Vista operating system, which results in new enhancements.

Design and fabrication capabilities of advanced tool-cutting processes give toolmakers an edge in developing new business.

SolidWorks Corp. (Concord, MA) new version of its eDrawings® e-mail-based collaboration tool—with new support for users of Microsoft® Office, AutoCAD®, and Google SketchUp® software—allows users to generate accurate representations of 2D and 3D product designs that anyone in product development can view, mark up and measure, regardless of whether they have CAD software.

Advanced engineering and mold building techniques give North American toolmakers entrée to emerging electronics applications.

Implementing one tool that can handle part design, mold design, part structural analysis and mold filling analysis is becoming a necessity for today’s mold shops.

This moldmaker’s decision to venture into the rapid tooling market added up to rapid growth—and the winning of the 2006 Leadtime Leader Honorable Mention: Small Shop for the second year in a row.

Leading software manufacturers and suppliers reveal how moldmakers can maximize efficiencies using the latest CAD/CAM equipment so they can program and cut complex molds in less time than ever before.

SolidWorks and Cosmos software users can now import part material information from a growing collection of 47,000 material data sheets through a partnership with online information provider MatWeb.

Integrated analysis capabilities streamline mold design.

Today's moldmaking 3-D CAD software allows for faster speed-to-market, error reduction, cost savings, better designs and business success.

CAD tools help moldmakers import and save information that may be lost in data translation from job to job.

The time for moldmakers to migrate from 2-D to 3-D is now.

An off-the-shelf hot runner system helps toolmakers streak from order to shooting parts in 18 days.