I have read most all the previous topics that I could dig up in the archives, but am not sure I have found a real answer to our exact quandry. If this has been covered before, bear with me or point me in the correct direction.
We are a mold shop strictly in aluminum die casting industry. We have been successfully building on time, on budget, and no correction molds for 25 years now. The obstacle we face now is our ignorance in handling solid models. Our customers on an increasing basis are handing us solid models of the finished casting in various formats(igs,stp,etc). What would be the easiest software to use that can take the model, scale it up for shrinkage factor, estabilish parting lines, split the model along those lines and then use the "halves" to creat the surfaces in the mold? This would essentially be designing the mold inserts, this data would then be used to estabilish toolpaths with any number of CAM softwares available.
Our considerations for this type of software would be ease of use, ease of use, ease of use, then cost.
By now you pros are laughing and scratching your heads and "wondering how did this clown stay in business this long?" Well, when you're done laughing see if you can post a reply to give this poor helpless sap some direction.
We are a mold shop strictly in aluminum die casting industry. We have been successfully building on time, on budget, and no correction molds for 25 years now. The obstacle we face now is our ignorance in handling solid models. Our customers on an increasing basis are handing us solid models of the finished casting in various formats(igs,stp,etc). What would be the easiest software to use that can take the model, scale it up for shrinkage factor, estabilish parting lines, split the model along those lines and then use the "halves" to creat the surfaces in the mold? This would essentially be designing the mold inserts, this data would then be used to estabilish toolpaths with any number of CAM softwares available.
Our considerations for this type of software would be ease of use, ease of use, ease of use, then cost.
By now you pros are laughing and scratching your heads and "wondering how did this clown stay in business this long?" Well, when you're done laughing see if you can post a reply to give this poor helpless sap some direction.