In the mold making business, time is a critical factor in any company’s success. That’s why you’re alert to opportunities to improve your efficiency. You’ve heard about the new Expert Mold Designer -S and its claims to reduce your design time through powerful automation, streamlined design tools, and direct model editing. But how does it [...]

The KeyCreator Expert Mold Designer Bundle promises mold makers dramatically shorter lead times, higher quality designs, and higher productivity. And now, you can get all of that for an outstanding price! How, you ask? Easy. The KeyCreator Expert Mold Designer Bundle is on sale now until December 30, 2011. Get both the benefits KeyCreator, plus [...]

XMD-S was featured in Kubotek’s customer newsletter they put out last month.  Click here to read the article. As part of the promotion, we produced a fast-paced overview video of XMD-S in action. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look!

XMD-S designs holes real-time  as the mold is built.  It also gives you option to either model them in the solid, or to only draw wireframe.  The default depends on your configuration. Experience has shown that not-modeling holes is the better choice: It is faster.  You are free to edit the solid, and XMD-S backs [...]

Solid mold blocks have become such a hit in XMD-S, users have started to ask us if there’s any reason to keep the part and parting line sheet bodies that XMD has traditionally relied on.  We’ve looked into it, and with release 4 of XMD-S, we’re proud to say that you’re free to kill your [...]

For the most part, 2D drawings in XMD-S work the way you’re used to.  However, there are some noticeable (and not so noticeable) differences, particularly in the area of plates.  This article is designed to shed some light on the changes we’ve made to the 2D plate drawings in XMD-S. The Solid Factor The most [...]

What is IGES Toolbox? Designed especially for mold makers, this lightning fast tool can open any IGES and STEP file instantly.  IGES Toolbox allows you to view, plot, create, transform, and even cut sections through geometry, but it doesn’t stop there.  It is also an ideal tool for: Feasibility Studies IGES Translation Data Comparison Part [...]

In the last year or so, we’ve been talking obsessively about all the new capabilities provided by the brand-new XMD-S.  We’d love to say more, but at the request of our therapists, we’ve decided to cool it for a bit and talk about some things XMD has been doing well for years.  There’s hundreds of [...]

With XMD-S, you can now work in the 3D model to make changes even as XMD-S automates updating related parts of the design. This post explains how to work with XMD-S in 3D. Understanding What’s What Before you rush in and start changing things, you need to know what you’re looking at, as the recommended [...]

The goal of this article is to help XMD-S users take advantage of the new technology for designing molds in 3D. As explained in our last article, you can still design the way you’re used to (from section), but today we focus on using XMD commands in 3D design work. Next time we’ll examine how [...]