
North Kingstown, Rhode Island - Developments in CAD and CAM functionality in the latest release of VISI software give users additional speed and quality throughout their design and machining processes. CAD updates in VISI 2017 R1 focus on the user experience and adding enhancements to allow customers to speed up their design process.
Examples of these include:
- Speed improvement to the picking process with support for dynamic drag & drop
- Dynamic zoom to and from an area on the screen by holding down the space bar
- Intelligent chaining for joining wireframe elements together
Single right-hand mouse click to confirm commands, instead of ticking a box with a keystroke
For CAM, an update to geometry management means individual pieces are no longer limited by a specific project.
CAD updates:
- Auto-ballooning enhancements within Assembly Manager – automatic positioning using multiple axes, removal of duplicated balloons – provide additional control when adding BOM ballooning within the plotview
- Manufacturing drawing data improved with “view property” settings – creation of cut-away views of complex geometry simplified, “outbreak section depths” can be automatically measured and edited by on-screen selection
- Model properties can be set during the Modelling process.
- New functionality added to the Mold Design module, allowing the user to validate the effect of a cooling channel circuit. Size and positioning can be effortlessly extracted from model geometry and inserted into the Cooling Validations step-by step workflow for a thermal analysis of a mold’s temperature conditioning system.
- VISI Flow modules warpage calculation precision enhanced by adjustments within the filling & holding algorithms, taking advantage of additional data within the material database, new material grades added to database
- VISI Progress Strip enhancements include the ability to manipulate a strip’s width, height, and component angle from the graphics area, which simplifies the strip layout process; calculated Shear / Bending / Flange stress data is provided for every individual step of a strip’s development.
- Progress function automatically creates wire points for tooling punches; diameter / position and multiple start points are all managed from the graphic area interface; wire data is automatically recognized within the CAM and Wire modules
- CLS License Manager updates allow creation of specific profiles and options for each user operating across a multi-seat network
CAM Updates:
- Waveform roughing technology included for VISI machining; cutting strategies increase material removal rates and productivity while prolonging tooling life; high-speed machining strategy maintains a constant tool cutting load by ensuring consistent tool engagement with the material
- Rest Roughing, instead of having to create separate dynamic incremental stock based on the previous operation, VISI 2017 R1 handles the process automatically
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