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Easy to use modelling tools to guarantee that parts can be machined efficiently. What use is a product design if it cannot be made? How often have you been given designs that needed significant changes before you could start work on any tooling? Have you ever been received incomplete, inaccurate or ambiguous design data and then been blamed when the deadline wasn’t met?

If the answer to any of these questions is ‘Yes’, PowerSHAPE can help.

“We like PowerSHAPE because it is geared toward the kind of work we do here. Rapid, accurate turnaround is essential in our business.”

Neil Rullman, Northbend Pattern Works

Import/Export

Whatever software your customers use, PowerSHAPE will read their data quickly and accurately. PowerSHAPE uses Parasolid™, providing seamless data exchange up and down the supply chain.

Delcam Formats Read WriteDDX • •

DGK • •

DMT • •

Neutral Formats Read WriteACIS • •

IGES • •

Parasolid Export • •

STEP • •

VDA • •

Commercial CAD Formats Read WriteAutoCAD (DWG & DXF) • •

CATIA •

CATIA 5 • •

Cimatron •

Elite •

IDEAS •

Inventor •

Pro-Engineer •

Rhino • •

Solidedge •

SolidWorks •

SpaceClaim •

TopSolid •

Unigraphics NX •

Compare

Make sure you are fully up-to-date with your customer’s data.

Visually check any two models to see the differences between them.•Rapidly isolate new or modified geometry.•Use simple cut-and-paste operations to update the changes.•

Modelling for Manufacture

Import CAD Data

Check

Interactive model analysis tools let you see potential moulding problems before production starts. Locate surfaces with bad or invalid trimming, find thin walls, regions with undercuts and areas •with inadequate draft or taper. Find optimum line-of-draw to ensure the finished tool is as efficient and cost effective as •possible. View the model as a colour-coded ‘map’ that highlights small radii that could be difficult to •machine in either cavity or core, or where electrodes may be required.

Repair

PowerSHAPE’s unique Solid Doctor lets you fix commonly found modelling or translation problems, and create a perfect Parasolid™ model.

Repair gaps and holes •Remove duplicated geometry for greater efficiency. •Interactively edit badly defined surfaces•

Modify

Powerful Direct Modelling tools allow you to make any changes necessary to mould the part quickly and simply.

Add, remove or change fillets (including variable radius fillets) to simplify machining.•Adjust taper angles for groups of faces.•Remove features that will be spark-eroded, and heal the resultant gaps.•Identify holes and replace them with true Hole Features •

Split

PowerSHAPE’s automated Die Wizard helps you divide the design into its mould pieces.

Split a single, closed solid into cavity and core halves ready for machining.•Add complex split-lines aligned with part geometry or mould lines to guarantee perfect •mould separation.Locate and extract areas for which complex sided cores are needed.•

Machine

PowerSHAPE seamlessly integrates with PowerMILL, FeatureCAM and PartMaker, Delcam’s market leading machining solutions.

Create machining boundaries direct from surface edges.•Construct reference surfaces for 5 axis machining.•Remove non-machinable features and replace them with tangent fill-in surfaces for •improved surface finish.

Modify Taper

Find Small Radii

Fill Holes

Check Wall Thickness

Check Draft Angles