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TERRY WOHLERS TAKES MAGICS TOOLING TRAINING
24 September 2002 - Materialise NV
| Industry consultant, analyst, and author Terry Wohlers, president of Wohlers Associates, Inc., visited the Materialise HQ in Leuven, Belgium on September 23 - 24, 2002 to participate in a Magics Tooling training program. |
Over the past decade, Terry Wohlers has served as a voice in the rapid prototyping and manufacturing industry. He is a frequent speaker and the author of more than 250 books, articles, reports, and technical papers on engineering and manufacturing automation.
Impressed by the ongoing developments in tool design software and especially in those of Magics Tooling software, Terry Wohlers enrolled in a Magics Tooling training sessions, designed to learn how to use all of Magics Tooling's features to their maximum efficiency. Materialise was very pleased to welcome him. Magics Tooling is triangle-based, dedicated software optimised to do one thing and do it well: design and create tools in the fastest way possible. The user can save time by creating the tool directly from the STL design. With the Magics Tooling's automated functions, a tool for a part can be designed in a matter of minutes. This software puts the 'rapid' back in rapid tooling by reducing lead times. Magics Tooling is ideal for toolmakers looking to enhance design and accelerate the design process. Automatically generating the parting plane and easy addition of tooling elements and draft, are just two of the possibilities. Magics Tooling has crafted a total solution for tool design challenges, covering and automating the tooling process from the quotation step over cavity design to electrode and assembly design. The Magics Tooling Expert module helps toolmakers win more business as it provides them with a systematic and highly automated means to quote tools. All relevant info is generated into reliable, professional looking and well-documented tool printouts. Electrodes for spark erosion are created quickly, efficiently, and accurately with the EDM module. Using the Assembly module standard mould components - pins, plates, bushings, and total assemblies - can easily be added to the tool design.
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About: Materialise NV
Begun as a joint venture with the University of Leuven-Belgium, Materialise was one of the first European rapid prototyping service bureaus. It has since grown into a European supplier of plastic prototype solutions, and today is a worldwide leader in the rapid prototyping industry. Materialise offers a broad range of rapid prototyping, tooling and digital CAD software. In addition, Materialise prototypes and software have established a reputation in medicine and dentistry, with clinicians the world over using them in the most complex surgical cases. Its design products division concentrates on the development of rapid manufacturing. The company is privately owned with several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 300 people in its 4 divisions.* Materialise Industrial Services to "materialise" technical prototypes and small series through the most advanced prototyping and tooling techniques.
* Materialise Software to develop the technical software applications that allow a more efficient use of the rapid prototyping techniques.
* Materialise Medical to create medical models using these prototyping techniques and to develop medical software packages that are used by clinicians worldwide to assist them in the most complex cases of surgery.
* Materialise.MGX to manufacture design products for the end-user market. MGX is the youngest division and it draws on the knowledge and expertise of the prototyping division. |
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