SpaceClaim Engineer now integrated with SigmaNEST, avoiding neutral format issues

This integration, which is embedded in SigmaNEST, ensures that SpaceClaim manufacturing customers have seamless transition from 3D CAD to NC programming for virtually all cutting machines. SigmaNEST ensures superior material utilisation, machine motion optimisation, and maximum part quality, balanced against cutting speed, work flow integration, material handling, accurate estimates, and information management. "This partnership further solidifies SpaceClaim and 3D Direct Modelling as a quickly emerging player and technology in the industry," said James Lindsey, SigmaTEK systems product manager. "Direct model to shopfloor production eliminates the need to export models into often unreliable neutral file formats slashing downstream rework, accelerating productivity, and ensuring that design integrity is maintained." Said Rich Moore, SpaceClaim vice president of business development "This integration allows our customers to easily nest parts for manufacturing once prepared, optimised, and flattened in SpaceClaim, without having to know complex and expensive traditional feature-based CAD systems. SpaceClaim can dramatically lower CAD expenses for SigmaNEST customers by removing their need to maintain several disparate, expensive CAD applications."