MAGICS MEETS THE DEMANDS OF TRADITIONAL TOOL MAKING: FULL INTEGRATION OF STANDARD TOOLING COMPONENTS IN TOOL DESIGN SOFTWARE

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MAGICS MEETS THE DEMANDS OF TRADITIONAL TOOL MAKING: FULL INTEGRATION OF STANDARD TOOLING COMPONENTS IN TOOL DESIGN SOFTWARE
15 January 2002 - Materialise NV

In its latest release of Magics Tooling, Materialise introduces electronic libraries enabling injection mold designers to produce complex tooling assemblies more efficiently. With this module, Materialise meets the needs of the traditional tool making industry.

'Previous versions of Magics Tooling turned out to be a real success for Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling companies. According to traditional toolmakers however something was missing. Several requests concerning the implementation of electronic libraries in our tooling software reached us. The new Assembly module is our answer to those cries. Magics Tooling now covers the whole tool design process from tool quotation to cavity and electrode design, to slide creation and complete assembly design,' said Wilfried Vancraen, Managing Director of Materialise.

'We have teamed up with Cadenas, the world's leading supplier of tool component libraries, to ensure that you will always have up-to-date components available for your tool design. This enables designers to quickly build mold assemblies from commercially available components. As a tool designer you can benefit a lot from the integration of the Cadenas 'PARTsolutions' software in Magics. All necessary components can be readily added to an existing mold design, resulting in a significant reduction in the product development cycle and a marked increase in productivity!'

The standard tooling components are fully integrated into Magics in an intuitive, advanced and highly automated way, significantly accelerating design of a complete tool assembly. One push of the button and standard mold assembly components are readily available. The results: significant timesaving compared to drawing the components.

Make complex assemblies in an efficient and timely manner

Composing assemblies normally takes a great deal of time. Now this job can be completed quickly and easily. It takes only a single mouse click to switch from the tool designed in Magics Tooling to PARTassembly. With its extensive number of choices and numerous possibilities in tool assemblies, PARTassembly makes clear organization of the assembly easy. The range of possible components is intelligently filtered, providing you with an initial quality control check since impossible combinations are not allowed. With the fast link between the two systems, it is very easy to export the chosen assembly to Magics.
Import a single component in only a few mouse clicks

In case you wish to add a single component to your tool design, PARTviewer takes you rapidly to the desired 3D standard component. Thanks to excellent search functions and well-organized structure, it is extremely simple to find the right component in the enormous amount of data that is in the library. Once you have found the component you need, it only takes a single mouse click to export the component to Magics.
About Cadenas

The German company Cadenas was founded in 1992 with its core business being the development of electronic libraries of standard tooling components. Among their partners you will find the main players of the current CAD industry: Catia, AutoCad, Pro-Engineer, SolidWorks … and also Magics Tooling!

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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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