Video: Delcam enhances CAD/CAM solutions

The Korean plastics industry has sustained demand for Delcam’s range of products and at KOPLAS 2017, the company has been highly visible and eager to demonstrate how its latest solutions can enhance production efficiency.

As Derek Kim, Senior Specialist of the Marketing Division at Delcam, puts it, the Korean market remains robust that the company has strengthened its CAD/CAM solutions to meet the needs of plastics manufacturers. The company has also opened offices in more Asian countries recently, specifically in Malaysia, Vietnam and China.”Delcam has been exploring more markets in Asia and this is one of the biggest developments undertaken by the company recently aside from the enhancements in our product features.”

While Delcam software is still imported from the United Kingdom, the Korean office has been developing some APIs as it works on improving the solutions offered to customers. “”Delcam launched smart manufacturing solutions three years ago, and at that time, the first step was just for distribution. However, the solutions have been developed for smart factories. The monitoring system has been further enhanced in line with the Industry 4.0 trends. So if you have 10 machines now, you can easily monitor and check your mobile phone if the machines are working even if you are outside the factory,” Mr. Kim explained.

Delcam offers PowerSHAPE Pro geared toward faster modeling and reverse engineering. A series of enhancements to its PowerSHAPE Pro software for modeling and reverse engineering helps users complete complex designs more quickly and more easily.  In addition, a combination of new, more efficient, code and the extension of multi-threaded calculations to many commonly-used tasks make the software significantly faster than any previous version.

Mr. Derek Kim

By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines any modelling-for-manufacture projects that require both reverse-engineering and CAD functionality. 

The first enhancement in the 2016 release allows groups of features to be copied between two solids in a single operation.  While the features do not need to be of the same type, the most common application is expected to be in copying patterns of holes with a single click from one solid to another, for example from one mould plate to any other plate in the mould stack.

Delcam’s PowerINSPECT makes complex inspections faster and easier. The latest version includes more options for automation of inspection sequences, including automated probe changes, automatic feature extraction for point cloud batch inspection, and greater control over collision checking.