Seeking Applications Engineering Specialist
Cimquest is hiring and is looking for an Applications Engineering Specialist. Job description below. If you are interested in applying, please provide your resume and salary expectations to careers@cimquest-inc.com. OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION: This position is for an Application Engineering Specialist for our growing line of 3D Printer solutions including HP and Desktop Metal as well as several other technologies. The specialist will be based out of our 25,000 sq ft Branchburg, NJ headquarters. Approximately 30% travel will be required; however, most of that would be within a 4-hour drive radius of our NJ facility. Full training will be provided for the technician both internally and by our vendors. Provide application consulting with clients and Cimquest sales reps Help manage the usage of our own 3D Printers for printing demo and print service parts Manage certain product/vendor relationships from a technical aspect Provide 3D Printer installation and training services at customer sites Service 3D Printers Provide professional and customer service oriented telephone support for customers Help manage the usage of our own 3D Printers for printing demo and print service parts Provide demonstrations of the 3D Printers at our facility and trade shows Post-process parts as well as package and ship parts to customers COMPENSATION [...]
Moldplus Saves Mastercam Users Lots of Time
When manufacturers are looking for a powerful suite of time- and money-saving solutions, they can turn to Moldplus SA for help in reducing the time required to prepare parts, molds, or tools. Founded in 1993, it was the first company to develop integrated add-on products uniquely designed to complement the CAD tools provided by Mastercam. The initiative to develop the successful Mastercam C-Hook SDK allowed Moldplus to create advanced CAD tools for mold creation and surface manipulation. Later, their advanced CAD and 5-axis path generation tools were developed due to market demand in Europe, Asia, and North America. Headquartered in Switzerland, the company’s offerings function exclusively with Mastercam Design, Mill, Lathe, Wire, and Router products. Used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, racing, medical, and more, Moldplus strives to get its customers’ designs completed and manufactured faster using their software solutions. These solutions include tools for preparing parts for manufacturing. “Moldplus provides the user with numerous surface extension functions and surface manipulation tools such as trimming and un-trimming. Our powerful mold preparation tool (core/cavity separation) that is still unique more than 25 years after its initial development, drove many Mastercam sales in the 90s,” said Anbu Lingappan, Business Development Manager, Moldplus. Another product [...]
New Mastercam Bounding Box Options
Let’s take a look at new options added to Bounding Box in Mastercam 2021. Bounding Box now allows you to create stock limits using an auto option. This will allow you to take parts that have odd shapes and quickly create rectangular or circular stock that will fit the selected parts as tightly as possible. In practice, you can use this Rectangular or Circular boundary to quickly align the part for milling or lathe operations. To use these new features, you need to launch Bounding Box from the Wireframe tab. Then you can select the items you want to apply our bounding box to. In previous versions of Mastercam, you were only able to produce the box using the construction plane for alignment. You now have an Auto option. When using rectangle, this will create a minimum material box to the part. In cylindrical, you will also get a minimum material condition, but you may need to adjust the axis to get the alignment you desire. The bounding box created can be used with Dynamic Transform or any other manipulation tools, to help in aligning parts to the machining orientation desired. Additionally, you also have a new option for Wrap. Wrap will allow [...]
Geomagic Wrap for Point Cloud Editing
Let’s take a look at Geomagic Wrap, a powerful software for point cloud or mesh editing. Wrap has a collection of tools used for cleaning and finalizing polygonal files to make them suitable for part inspection, reverse engineering, 3D Printing, and more. The files can come from a traditional CAD system, a laser or structural light scanner, or even a CT scanner. While standard tools for patching of holes is very robust, other tools for making mesh files less dense (aka Decimation) or increasing a scan’s polygons (aka Refining a Mesh) offer excellent control over mesh file resolution. The Closed Manifold Tool checks to see if mesh files form full volumes and would therefore be 3D printable or could be made into a solid model. The quick smoothing of edges and rough spots on a part are quick to execute, using the enhanced Smoothing set of tools. The Defeature tool functions as a magic eraser. Anyone who has dealt with mesh files is familiar with trying to adjust certain areas of a part where the mesh didn’t necessarily come out smooth due to either dirt or grease on the part or simply a bad scan. Isolating and exporting of individual analytic part features [...]
How Innovative Plastics Is Using Desktop Metal 3D Printing
Using the Studio System by Desktop Metal, Innovative Plastics created mold cavities and cores in far less time - and at significantly less cost - than traditional methods. In addition, the company was able to incorporate features like internal channels into the molds, reducing molding cycle time and increasing their productivity. The most common manufacturing method for plastic parts, injection molding works by forcing melted plastic into a mold under pressure. Within seconds, the plastic cools, allowing the mold to open and eject the solidified part, and the cycle starts again. Today, the injection molding process is used to produce a huge variety of parts and products, everything from children’s toys to automotive parts to surgical tools. For companies, like Innovative Plastics, that specialize in the process, many of the challenges they face come down to one key issue - speed. With constant iteration in product design and the demand for tens of millions of plastic parts per year, injection molding companies must be able to create new molds and retool manufacturing lines quickly to minimize downtime. In addition to quickly creating molds for new products, molding companies also seek to shorten the cycle time - the time it takes to inject plastic, [...]
Mastercam Streamlines the Manufacturing Process from Job Setup to Job Completion
Mastercam 2021 increases machining productivity and reduces overall production costs with faster and more flexible multiaxis improvements, improvements in turning and turning-related applications, advances in speed, safety, and much more. According to Mastercam President and CEO Meghan West, these advancements have been made in direct response to the needs of the global manufacturing community. “Mastercam is developed by listening to our users and creating solutions for their problems. We adapt to changing needs to ensure that the customer experience is the best it can be as we continue to innovate for improved automation, efficiency, connectivity, and precision. From job setup through job completion, you can depend on our technology to empower productivity.” Faster, more flexible multiaxis programming. As more shops continue to rely on streamlined multiaxis cutting for single-setup precision, Mastercam 2021 adds new techniques and strategies. Expanded Multiaxis Pocketing combines efficient pocket cutting with a focus on finishing with Accelerated Finish tools, automatically maintaining the correct tool contact within defined parameters. Mastercam now gives you the ability to analyze and modify the UV direction on surface models, expanding the power and flexibility of multiaxis flowline milling toolpaths. The new 3+2 Automatic Roughing toolpath automatically makes multiplane 3-axis roughing toolpaths by evaluating the [...]