VX Corporation introduces new inlay wizard
VX Corporation , specialising in CAD/CAM for plastic products and moulds, has introduced Inlay wizard for producing inlaid shapes or raised bosses such as company logos or text on product surfaces.
Applying raised bosses or inlays:
VX CAD/CAM offers true hybrid modelling functionality and VX customers use this power to define highly complex product shapes with curvatures intended to lend good ergonomics and appearance.
However in today's quality conscious world, style without substance is meaningless. The devil is in the details and one of the detail problems that designers often hit is the need to apply a shape such as text or a logo as either a slightly raised boss or inlay.
It is necessary to produce the inlay geometry accurately in CAD models for the purposes of manufacturing and especially important for mould designers for producing injection moulded parts.
Even on flat surfaces, a lot of effort is required of the designer to ensure manufacturability. The same task on a multi-curvature surface is even more time consuming using traditional modelling tools and the little devils can be error prone.
Exactly what the customer wanted:
VX has introduced a wizard solution to the problem and a once tedious task is now easy.
Working in tandem with VX's extraordinary wrap command which can actually wrap a planar Sketch onto any face curvature, the new inlay wizard can accept any shape or 3D text to produce a subtle inlay or slightly raised boss in seconds, complete with user-specified draft relief and blend filleting, as one parametric feature.
The parameters of the feature can be edited via the history tree at any time.
According to VX, this is another exciting new tool it has developed in response to requests from VX’s product design customers, yet other designers have also found it invaluable, especially mould designers that receive files produced in other CAD systems by their customers.
These mould makers win contracts because they can use VX to modify anything to make a mould which often includes adding features that its customers were unable to model with their CAD programs.
27-Mar-2007