VX 2009 CAD/CAM Software from VX Corporation Includes 3D Learning System

By DE Editors

VX Corporation has unveiled VX 2009, its expandable CAD/CAM product with a built-in 3D learning system,  Show-n-Tell. These integrated 3D Books allow users to learn CAD/CAM at their own pace, on their own schedule. This expandable approach allows users to grow the software as their needs change while having access to learning tools.

Show-n-Tell, launched in September 2008, now includes an additional 10 new 3D tutorial books for healing, mold & die design, and 2-3 axis machining. In addition to reducing training costs, Show-n-Tell tutorials make it easier to adapt to VX applications. Online chat and web meeting help is available in conjunction with Show-n-Tell.

VX 2009’s authoring tools have been enhanced to make it easier for users to create design review and assembly instruction documents directly in VX. New 3D ballooning and text tools allow users to choose font,  color, and border style and lock balloons to screen locations or directly to their model. These new text tools enhance the on-screen instructions in the 3D tutorials, improving the overall learning experience.

Design enhancements include:

• New interface enhancements and improved reliability. Users can now enjoy better predictability, the ability to constrain lines and arc/circles tangent to splines, VX 2009and new options for 2D linkages with the newly added D-Cubed 2D constraint manager in VX sketcher.
• Patterning in VX 2009 has been upgraded with a dynamic preview option that now shows the result, so changes can be made more quickly.
• The VX Overdrive engine has been revved up to handle more extreme geometry conditions. For example, the draft command supports changes in draft angle that can cause complete faces to be removed. The simplify command now supports more complex cases and can now clean up shape intersections. Filleting continues to be improved, handling even more fillet cases than the previous releases.
• All VX 2009 products include a direct interface to the TraceParts and CADRegister libraries with complete bill-of-material support.
• VX 2009 speeds 2D drawing creation with improved editing of section and detail views. Users have control over formatting of BOM, hole,  and electrode tables and their associative balloon layouts.
 

CAM enhancements include:

• New thumbnail images for each CAM parameter help explain settings so that changes to machining operations are more easily understood.
• The VX QuickMill high-speed milling engine found in 3D Machinist and the End-to-End products has been refined for better performance and reliability. QuickMill users will appreciate a 20-30% improvement in overall calculation times, particularly noticeable when machining huge complex parts.
 

For more information, visit VX Corporation.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.