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Validation Software Enables Efficient Translation of CAD/CAM Data

Verisurf CAD/CAM, now providing access to Kubotek Kosmos Validate software, is designed to ensure data integrity and enable users to perform metrology workflows in a seamless CAD environment.

Software Technology to Meet Moldmaking Challenges

Featured in this technology roundup are software solutions that can provide and improve design and manufacturing operations or data management practices during the manufacture of a mold.

Enhanced Utility Programs Streamline CAD Data Transfer

The 5.0 versions of Kubotek Kosmos’ interoperability products have been rebranded and enhanced with updated CAD file support and improved review/reporting capabilities.

Metalworking Commodities for Your Next-Gen Molds

Featured in this month's technology roundup are products, processes and services that revolve around metalworking. Also highlighted is software, automation and more.

Products and Services for Multiple Moldmaking Needs

New year, new technology roundup! Featured here is a collection of product offerings, from profile milling cutters to industry-specific CAD/CAM software to innovative hot work tool steels.

Most-Viewed Content of 2022

The most popular MoldMaking Technology content according to analytics reports over the past 12 months.

With this still being the month of IMTS, I thought I’d highlight some of the technology mold builders have expressed growing interest in and are actively investigating, and what was on the show floor.

IMTS 2022: From Precision Products & Professionals to Podcasts & Parties

Four years since the last IMTS and this 2022 event served up plenty of product line expansions, technology enhancements, candid conversations about business challenges and deep discussions about using technology and training to stay competitive.

Kubotek3D Changes Name to Kubotek Kosmos

Name change aims to align the division closer to the core geometric technology it produces.

Rebranding Around New Technology; Serving the Needs on the Edge of the Software Market

IMTS22: Kubotek, the developer of KeyCreator CAD, debuts its new look and logo at IMTS.

CAD Software Improves User Functionality

Kubotek Kosmos software enhanced with updated CAD file readers, added support for mesh objects and improved large assembly visualization capabilities.

The Role of Model-Based Definition in Precise Mold Design

Model-based definition replaces technical drawings to communicate precise product definitions between designers and manufacturers.

Viewer Software Assesses Moldability of Parts in 16 CAD File Formats

Kubotek3D’s K-Display View is a multi-CAD visualization software offering mold-specific features such as colored shading based on draft angle and 3D bounding envelope size and measurements.

Kubotek Updates Kosmos 3D Framework

Building engineering software has been made more streamlined with version 3.0 of Kubotek’s Kosmos 3D Framework, a set of advanced, multi-platform software components.

3D CAD Software Release Ensures Manufacturing Agility and Efficiency

Enhanced model-based definition capabilities including improved color tools, expanded proprietary readers for STEP files and more round out Kubotek3D’s KeyCreator MfgCAD software.

Software Product Line Update Includes File Translators, Measurement and Visualization Features

Kubotek3D announced the 2.0 release of the K‑Compare CAD file discrepancy reporting and K-Display MCAD visualization software products.

Tech Trends: Software Selections

Take a glance at latest software releases and product updates from MoldMaking Technology suppliers, such as SURFCAM from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s Production Software, Siemens Digital Industries Software and Kubotek3D.

IMTS 2018: First Impressions

Do you remember your first IMTS? This year’s was mine. Here, I outline a few of my first impressions of the show.

2018 Technology Review and Sourcing Guide: Software

MoldMaking Technology’s annual Technology Review and Sourcing Guide is an accurate, comprehensive, easy-to-read and easy-to-use use guide for researching today’s technology, equipment, products and services. The year’s latest moldmaking product developments within mold engineering/design, build and maintenance/repair are broken down into 10 sections, including software.

Throwback Thursday: Software Advances Push Limits of Speed and Quality

This throwback article provides interesting perspectives on software for moldmaking while also illustrating how fast software technology moves today.

Throwback Thursday: Reusing CAD Data

This Throwback Thursday blog is focused on CAD data and how designers can better work with customers’ CAD designs without “reinventing the wheel,” so to speak.

Reusing CAD Data

A true direct modeler can help mold builders work more easily with customer design data.

Save Time and Money with CAD Animation

Using CAD animation can save potential, and often unnecessary, mold design costs.

Conquering the Quoting Challenge

Adding the right multi-CAD viewer to your quoting process helps improve customer communication, secure new business, and save time and money.

Software Advances Push Limits of Speed and Quality

Software for moldmaking continues to evolve as sophisticated features and capabilities are introduced, enabling mold manufacturers to produce the highest quality work in the most compressed leadtimes to date.

Design Change Communication Modernized

A look at how CAD comparison and direct modeling technology have improved design change communication processes.

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Design Modeling Package Integrates Tools to Organize Projects

Xcentric Mold & Design (Chesterfield, MI) prides itself on being a low-volume, short-run, complex custom mold specialist and a prototype mold provider with leadtimes as little as one to15 days.

Software Facilitates Art-to-Part Capabilities

Design/manufacturing software allows moldmaker to produce prototype parts in less than seven weeks—something few moldmakers can accomplish.

CAD Interoperability: Its Costs to Mold Design and Mfg

An industry survey reveals some real data on how CAD interoperability is affecting mold shops.

The Value of Direct Data Manipulation Capabilities

How modern manufacturing pressures are driving moldmakers to look for new ways to easily access and manipulate product data.

Conquering CAD/CAM Challenges

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.

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