Delcam introduces Toolmaker 2010 with Parasolid

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.