VX CAD/CAM - Accelerate Modeling and Machining Success

VX Background: A History of Applied Innovation

Founded in 1985 by Mark Vorwaller and Forrest Blair, VX provides design-through-manufacturing solutions to help companies speed time-to-market, increase profitability and gain a sustainable, competitive advantage. Originally known as Control Automation Inc (CAI), the company vision was to develop highly functional, productive and accurate software tools to serve the needs of both design engineers and manufacturers. Early products were software controls for robotic manufacturing and ModelMATE, a pioneering solid modeler for the PC sold in seven languages worldwide though several OEM relationships.

In 1989, the company entered into a four-year joint development agreement with NKK Corp. of Japan and introduced the industry’s first hybrid solid/surface/wireframe CAD/CAM system in 1991. In 1994, the company became known as Varimetrix, deriving its name from "variational geometry" and "parametric technology" to reflect the two key components of VX’s core technology. Also that year, a long-term partnership was formed with South Korean-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to develop and produce an advanced CAD/CAM system for Samsung’s internal product development.

VX: A History of Applied Innovation

"CAD/CAM systems will continue to become more intelligent and intuitive as new generations of software are developed and leveraged from current applications. The number of designers and engineers using 3D modeling will continue to rise, and their feedback will enhance and spur new development. With a global economy, rapidly-changing market conditions and real deadlines, manufacturers need advanced CAD/CAM designs that can meet the demands of compressed product cycles. This is a great time to be in the forefront of CAD/CAM technology and a great time for VX."

— Mark Vorwaller, co-founder, President & CEO, VX Corporation

The result was VX CAD/CAM™, an advanced, integrated CAD/CAM solution that delivered powerful and affordable, three-dimensional hybrid modeling capabilities to the desktop. In March 1999, VX CAD/CAM was released and made available commercially, featuring assembly-centric hybrid surface and solid modeling with drafting, mold design, reverse engineering and manufacturing built in. In April 2000, Shin Nippon Koki (SNK) of Osaka, Japan, partnered with VX to sell, market and distribute its products globally. In 2001, Varimetrix was shortened to VX, with a new logo and brand, to further drive the sales and marketing of its enterprise-level products.

VX technology is built on an exclusive, high-performance engine, the VX kernel, that delivers sophisticated 3D hybrid modeling capabilities and provides interoperability with emerging process management and engineering tools. Some of the world’s leading manufacturers already rely on VX CAD/CAM software to drive the design, engineering and manufacturing of their innovative products.

With the introduction of VX CAD/CAM, VX extends enterprise-level mechanical design and engineering capabilities to the desktop-at a fraction of the cost of comparable systems. VX’s fully-integrated CAD/CAM environment provides an intuitive user interface, advanced 3D modeling and the open, powerful VX kernel, needed to rapidly develop high-quality products.

VX is privately held. VX’s investor partner is Shin Nippon Koki (SNK, Osaka, Japan), a privately held, major machining systems supplier affiliated with Daiwa Can Co., Nissin Machine Co., Ltd.

With global headquarters in Melbourne, Fla., VX maintains sales and marketing offices worldwide and can be accessed on the Web at www.vx.com.