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Modelling for Manufacture

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 wasnt 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.

Commercial CAD Formats

Neutral Formats

Read

Write

Read

Write

AutoCAD (DWG & DXF)

ACIS

CATIA

IGES

CATIA 5

Parasolid Export

Cimatron

STEP

Elite

VDA

IDEAS

Inventor

Read

Write

Pro-Engineer

Rhino

Solidedge

SolidWorks

SpaceClaim

TopSolid

Unigraphics NX

Delcam Formats

DDX

DGK

DMT

Compare
Make sure you are fully up-to-date with your customers 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.

Import CAD Data

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w w w.powershape.com
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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.

Check Draft Angles


Repair
PowerSHAPEs 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 Taper

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
Find Small Radii

Split
PowerSHAPEs 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.
Fill Holes

Machine
PowerSHAPE seamlessly integrates with PowerMILL, FeatureCAM and PartMaker, Delcams
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.
Check Wall Thickness

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