Product category:
3D CAD software
News Release from: Delcam
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 August 2006
CAD software is free for
exhibition-goers
Delcam will offer free copies of its 3D design software PowerShape-e to all visitors to its stand at the Plastics Design and Moulding exhibition in Telford.
Delcam will offer free copies of its 3D design software PowerShape-e to all visitors to its stand (C43) at the Plastics Design and Moulding exhibition to be held in Telford from 26th to 29th September 2006 PowerShape-e is a special version of Delcam's PowerShape CAD software that is believed to be the world's first pay-to-manufacture design software
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Users of the software, which can also be downloaded free of charge, can develop unlimited numbers of new concepts with the program and only need to make any payment when the design is taken into production.
PowerShape-e includes all the surface and solid modelling tools from the latest PowerShape release but, unlike most other free software, can save part-completed models.
This enables longer projects to be undertaken in a series of sessions and also allows the saving of an unlimited number of subsequent changes to the design.
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The software includes a set of tutorials showing how to use the software for product design and decoration.
PowerShape-e also includes a selection of 3D clip art so that users can experiment with Delcam's patented total modelling approach to design.
Total modelling allows textures, logos and other decorations to be added to CAD models more quickly and more flexibly than any other design technique.
It provides the fastest method for the early "what if?" stage of concept design, allowing a far greater number of alternative proposals to be created and compared in a much shorter time.
"PowerShape-e is aimed at anyone trying to enter the design business that cannot afford to invest in a full seat of CAD software", explained Delcam's CAD Development Director Stuart Watson.
"The free-to-design/pay-to-manufacture approach allows users to develop as many new concepts as they can imagine at no cost".
"They can then circulate them to potential clients that they believe might want to manufacture their designs".
PowerShape-e saves all designs in an encrypted format so data can only be transferred into other software, including Delcam's programs for tooling design and manufacture, on payment of a GBP 200 fee for each model.
However, models can be circulated, marked up and modified indefinitely until the move into manufacturing is made.
"We believe that the new interface in PowerShape 7 and unique tools like Smart Surfacing make it the easiest to use surface modeller on the market", claimed Watson.
"We hope that introducing a pay-to-manufacture version will encourage as many new designers as possible to try the software". Request free introductory details about products from Delcam ...
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