Design Software Offers Speedy Die Casting Analysis.The North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Die Casting die casting Forming metal objects by injecting molten metal under pressure into dies or molds. An early and important use of the technique was in the Linotype machine (1884), but the mass-production automobile assembly line gave die casting its real impetus. Assn.'s CastView program is a design visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all tool that presents diecasting-specific information in 3-D graphical form, The software provides a "quick and dirty" analysis of diecasting part designs without the need for extensive input data or significant experience with computer simulation or computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer . There are several major changes in version 2.0 of the program. Key new features and changes include: * a much more intuitive set of user controls provided for rotation of the part in both STL (STereoLithography) A 3D printing file format created by 3D Systems for its stereolithography system. Also supported by many numerical control, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing machines, STL provides the surface geometry of the item in triangles. views and voxel views; * the displayed image can be zoomed in voxel view; * thickness evaluations can be done using Euclidean (straight line) distance as well as the approximate methods of the previous version; * functions to test for bad STL files are now provided; * measurement units can be assigned to the part when an STL file is opened. If the units are not known, they can be left as unknown without any problem. If they are known, they are carried throughout the calculations; * information about the details STL files, voxel files and gate files are available through a pull-down window. Information such as number of triangles in the STL file, the directory path and voxel size is stored and can be viewed at any time via a pull-down dialog box A movable window that is displayed on screen in response to the user selecting a menu option. It provides the current status and available options for a particular feature in the program. ; * both print and save functions are provided so that the analysis results can be recorded as bitmaps for use in other programs and documents, such as MS Word or PowerPoint; * the animation function has been extended to include a slice mode animation so that you can automatically produce a sequence of slices through the part; * the fill pattern calculations have been improved; * the help system has been converted to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. using compiled help files; * context-specific help is provided for most dialogs and controls and can be called using the F1 key or by clicking the right mouse button. |
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