Delcam adds Parasolid to Toolmaker design software

The addition of Parasolid to Toolmaker offers a range of benefits to toolmakers

According to the manufacturer, the short delay has been necessary to allow the conversion of the extensive range of standard components within Toolmaker into the Parasolid format. Toolmaker incorporates catalogues from all the leading mould components suppliers in Europe, Asia and America, totalling many thousand standard parts.

The integration of Parasolid, the industry’s leading 3D geometric modelling component from Siemens PLM software, reinforces the solid modelling and assembly modelling capabilities of Toolmaker, and so complements the surface modelling capabilities developed by Delcam over more than 30 years.

The combination of the two technologies provides a range of benefits for toolmakers, especially those that use imported product design data as the basis for their tooling designs.

In this first implementation, the key benefits are:

• import and export of Parasolid models in XT file format, without translation;

• comprehensive tools to create valid Parasolid models from data imported from systems that operate at lower precision than Parasolid;

• broad range of options to analyse product designs and high-speed editing tools to optimise models for manufacture;

• automated core and cavity creation;

• fast and robust assembly modelling to build up the mould stack;

• rapid, reliable creation of GA and other drawings.

The ability to work effectively with imported data is greatly enhanced by the addition of Parasolid. Models in the Parasolid native XT file format can be imported directly from CAD systems based on Parasolid such as SolidWorks, Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge software and NXT software and also from many other systems, including Autodesk’s Inventor and PTC’s Pro/Engineer, that have Parasolid XT import/export filters.

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