• More automatic components
• Automated mold design validation

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1. Any plate, anywhere, any time.
2. 3D smart components in any plate.
3. Model plates your way.
4. Use KeyCreator pockets, fillets
5. Send your plates for FEA analysis.
6. Analyze the weight and strength properties of the mold.
7. Surface your slides in KeyCreator
8. No more fiddling with holes - XMD will do it right, automatically.
9. Editable holes - if you want it different, you can do it.
10. Smarter water
11. Dimension-driven editing
12. Sections automatically drawn to your 3D plates
13. see is what you get.
14. Send your solid plates directly to machining
15. large file support is improved
16. Slides as fully modeled 3D components
17. Lifters
18. Inserts
19. Compression molds
20. Automatic complete bill of materials
21. Reusable plate designs
22. Iterate quickly though design alternatives.
23. Easier 3D Design
24. 1-click 3D hole placement.
25. Dynamic 3D smart pattern placement

XMD-S 9.0 is available for beta testers now.  If you want to try it, call us today.

• When exporting a plate, return pins and sprue puller pins are now put on the ejection level.
• Leader pin holes no longer cleared in core block for prototype molds.
• Crash eliminated from angled section.
• Metric file bug fixes:
• Waterline connectors are now created at the proper location.
• Ejector pin and bubblers are now properly projecting to the surfaces.
• Ejector pin lines are drawn correctly in the section drawings.
• Ejector guide and bushings now have correct diameters.

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• Rapidly view and study complex models.
• Easy to learn, easy to use.
• Huge time savings
• May even make your experience more enjoyable too!

• Quick visualization of the part.
• Easy to use draft checking tools.
• Dynamic viewing
• 4 view layouts for printing or plotting.
• Create notes/dimensions, calculate mass properties, volume, surface area and projected area, even center of gravity

• Dynamic cutaways
• Draft analysis
• IGT allows you to verify the radius of a fillet or corner regardless if the part is a surface or a solid

• Fast and accurate. 100meg files in seconds!
• The best IGES viewer. IGEStoolbox reads in many IGES files that cannot be read in by other systems.
• Save portions of the files and giving you the ability to send only the data required.

• Read in two or more iterations of your data where you can visually compare what has changed in each model.
• IGT will change the colors of the models giving you a point of reference for the old vs. new comparison.

• Transform part from one position to another, add expansion factors.
• Save all of the information into a file.
• Execute the file of saved transformations on new data to automatically set the new data into its required positioning.

• Specify point on the data to create section cuts
• Automatically place X, Y and Z grid lines on the data and cut sections in all directions simultaneously.
• Multiple levels and colors for easier viewing

Click here to download the trial version.

Aluminum mold making is quickly becoming a buzzword in the industry.  All the things said about it are true,  but there are a few things to consider when moving into the aluminum realm. Hopefully the article below will help to shed more light on aluminum molds. Enjoy.

http://www.moldmakingtechnology.com/articles/120801.html

Micro-Molding. Expert Mold Designer excels at building molds for medium to large parts, from containers to toys to dashboards.  On the other end of the scale, micro-molding is a growing industry.  Check out how incredibly small they mold things now: 

http://www.accu-mold.com/

In this month’s little tidbit we are going to look at  some powerful direct model editing tools that KeyCreator provides us, as well as the ease of use of XMD’s Add A Pocket command.  We’ll work with them, side by side to show you the new flexibility of XMD-S.

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