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April 2018
Visit Cimquest at NPE 2018
To maintain a competitive advantage, you need to keep up with the latest game-changing technologies and breakthrough innovations—and every three years, the world’s most influential plastics trade event brings it all together for you.
NPE2018: The Plastics Show provides exclusive access to the people, processes, science and ideas that are shaping the future of plastics. Build connections, exchange ideas and explore the largest concentration of machinery, tools, […]
Mastercam 2018 Mill-Turn Improvements
Mastercam Mill-Turn makes machining on today’s high-powered turning centers and full-function machining centers simpler and easier than ever before. These machines eliminate multiple setups, manual part handling, redundant fixturing, and reduce idle time—boosting production and maximizing fitability.
Center Support and Tailstock Operations
With the support for center tools, you can now create a Center Point toolpath, which is used when you need to mount a center tool in […]
Onshape Cloud-Based CAD
Today we are going to introduce Onshape, the first full cloud-based professional 3D CAD system. Onshape has built a 3D professional CAD system and placed it on the cloud instead of tying it to a PC. Why is this so revolutionary, and what are the advantages to this?
First, and probably the biggest, you don’t have […]
Mastercam Tech Exchange
The Tech Exchange page on the Mastercam website is a valuable resource available to all registered Mastercam customers. It has links to dozens of files you can download and use in your projects. Here are some examples of how it works.
When you log in at mastercam.com and go to the Support button and select Tech Exchange from […]
A New Era of Functional Color 3D Prototyping and Production
Get a sneak preview of HPs latest 3D printer – powered by HP Multi Jet Fusion technology – designed to overcome existing color 3D printing challenges and open up innovation for small to medium-sized product development teams, as well as design businesses, universities and research institutions. Learn about how this 3D printing system allows the production of functional parts in full color – with voxel control […]
Desktop Metal Reduces Product Development Time by 25%
Desktop Metal Case Study: Virginia-based startup Lumenium finds opportunity to reduce product development timeline by 25%.
Lumenium (a Desktop Metal customer of Cimquest) develops an innovative family of internal combustion engines. Their Inverse Displacement Asymmetrical Rotational (IDAR) engine is a novel and totally singular design for producing powerful, efficient, internal combustion.
For Lumenium, the ability to quickly iterate on part features and designs is critical for time to […]