VX CAD/CAM v12 Enhancements for Mold and Industrial Designers

By DE Editors

VX Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) has released VX CAD/CAM Version 12 with enhancements primarily targeted at mold and industrial designers. These include improvements in light-source rendering, raster-to-vector conversion, surface analysis, assembly modeling, and drawing layout.
 
For mold designers, Version 12 now has a design-centric parametric mold library with an interface designed by mold designers. Also included is a new electrode design wizard for 3D definition and 2D layout, parting line gap checking with auto-zoom, and wire frame-supported parting line entities.

For industrial designers, a Visualize toolbar has been added that allows designers to map external image files as textures on 2D or 3D surfaces. A new raster-to-vector translator allows designers to import pictures and convert them to sketch geometry. For engraving on solids and surfaces, a new Inlay command applies a face inlay based on any wireframe geometry.
 
In addition, a command has been added to trim and divide point clouds to planes or surfaces as well as the ability to slice or trim multiple point clouds simultaneously. VX can also subdivide large STL files to make the data easier to manipulate for reverse engineering or machining.

Enhancements to the 2-5 axis manufacturing product referred to as VX CAM include a new 5-axis isocut tool path and additional side cut depth for the current 5-axis swarfcut operation. 3-axis CAM enhancements include new Link/LeadIn/LeadOut for Mill3, spiral and wave support for VX QuickMilling, dynamic shoulder and shank collision checking with automatic tool path correction, and more options for controlling 3-axis engraving.

Rest milling and direct 3D curve machining were added to the 2-axis suite of tool paths. Other CAM enhancements include individual CAM output files, Fixture Offset Registers, Inter Path Move operations, Profile and Containment preview options, Solid Verify CL data or CNC code, and support for open surface boundaries and silhouettes in CAM profiles.

For more information, please visit vx.com.

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