VX to Demonstrate Mold Design Automation and Machining at Eurostampi

Smart features automate mold design and manufacturing procedures

Melbourne, Florida – March 25, 2008 – VX Corporation, specializing in CAD/CAM for plastic products and molds, will be demonstrating one of the industry’s most comprehensive mold-making solutions at Eurostampi in Parma, Italy April 3-5, 2008.  

Innovative Mold & Machining Automation
The mantra for this year’s show —“Ideas” are at the root of every successful business — will be aptly fulfilled at the VX booth, with demonstrations of  innovative, time-saving mold design automation tools and new machining automation tools optimized for high-quality molds. 

In addition to demonstrating productivity tools for generating parting lines on complex surfaces, for automatically healing “dirty” geometry, fixing undercuts, and analyzing and fixing draft angles, VX’s mold automation design tools will be demonstrated. VX mold automation design combines VX’s advanced modeling tools with MoldExpert, a library of smart components for creating intelligent mold assemblies with parametric cooling channels, sliders and ejectors, all of which are accessed through an intuitive interface fashioned specifically for the mold design process. With MoldExpert smart components, users can select components for mold assemblies such as fasteners to a series of plates, and VX automatically calculates the required length, clearances and manufacturing methods.

For machining molds, VX’s new intelligent machining automation will be demonstrated.  VX’s QuickMill™ intelligent machining automation captures machining logic into a library that can be instantly applied to another part.  With QuickMill, users apply their own intelligence to machining.  This is possible because QuickMill takes a unique, whole part approach to machining.  Users establish “rules of engagement” to control and contain tool paths.  VX QuickMill even automates small changes to individual machining operations; for example, changing a tool size automatically adjusts the XY step over in a roughing operation.  This rules-based approach is extremely effective in rest milling operations, where the machinist simply wants VX to remove the material that the previous operation didn’t remove.  The automation comes from machinists storing their logic and intelligence in re-usable templates of operations.  QuickMill, available for both roughing and advanced finishing operations, provides optimum tool loading, extremely efficient material removal, and high quality finished molds to reduce machine wear and tear, improve machine tool utilization, and reduce polishing time.

“Eurostampi offers us a unique venue to communicate directly with mold-makers the benefits that VX mold design automation and QuickMill machining automation brings to their operations," said Bob Fischer, VX VP of Sales and Marketing. “Once they see a demonstration, they immediately see how VX CAD/CAM can benefit their bottom-line with increased productivity and higher quality molds.”

About Eurostampi
Eurostampi runs in parallel with five other shows that comprise MECSPE, the international trade fair for specialized manufacturing. Over 1,000 companies will be exhibiting involving 20 countries that represent an increasingly global market. “Ideas” are at the root of every successful business is the pillar on which MECSPE rests – a showcase for the latest tools and processes conceived to meet the needs of mpanies that require greater productivity and market competitiveness.

About VX Corporation

Michelle Gerber  + 001 321 309-1006
mmg@vx.com   
VX Corporation
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