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September 2020
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cimquest Partners with XACT Metal
Cimquest has teamed up with the State College, Pennsylvania-based Xact Metal to bring their low entry cost and small footprint, laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printer to budding enterprise shops and manufacturers without sacrificing quality or accuracy.
For a number of years, Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion technologies have been somewhat out of reach to small to mid-size machine shops due to cost, space, or inaccurate […]
How To Choose Your First 3D Scanner – Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 of our Metrology Minute series.
In parts one and two of this three-part series, we explained several key components in choosing your company’s first scanner; Field of View (FOV), Accuracy, and Resolution are the first considerations. For a quick review . . .
- Field-Of-View (FOV) is the volume envelope that your scanner can ‘see’. Ideally, the FOV is large enough to scan your largest parts yet still maintain the accuracy and resolution you […]