Additive & Process Technologies

ModuleWorks 2023.12 Release Now Available

ModuleWorks announces the 2023.12 release of its software components for digital manufacturing. This latest release of the ModuleWorks SDK contains a range of new automation features for efficient toolpath generation. It also comes with the new MDES compliant libraries for system interoperability. MDESLib – Equipment Manufacturing companies use different hardware and software systems that need […]

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ModuleWorks Releases 2023.08 Software Components

ModuleWorks announces the 2023.08 release of its digital manufacturing software components. This is the second major ModuleWorks release of 2023 with new features and enhancements across the entire product range, including 5-axis machining, laser aided manufacturing, PrimeTurning™ and CNC simulation as well as a new product for 3D points probing. User-Defined Tool Contact Point for

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ModuleWorks Software Release 2023.04
Offers New Control Options

ModuleWorks announces the 2023.04 release of its digital manufacturing software components. This first major ModuleWorks release of 2023 offers several new options for controlling the machining parameters across different subtractive and additive processes. Control Options for 5 Axis Machining A range of new options for the deburring, roughing and finishing cycles offer flexibility and control

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Integrated Additive Manufacturing with Topology Optimization

Numerical modelling experts for robust generative design, Rafinex, and digital manufacturing specialists, ModuleWorks, have combined workpiece topology optimization with intelligent toolpath planning in an efficient, sustainable solution for Powder-Bed-Fusion (PBF). Rafinex topology optimization anticipates real-life variability in material loads and properties to help engineers design resilient, reliable parts for stress-critical applications. The intelligent solution includes

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ModuleWorks Releases 2022.12 Digital Manufacturing Software

ModuleWorks announces the 2022.12 release of its digital manufacturing software components with new and enhanced features across the company’s entire CAD/CAM/CNC portfolio, including a new deburring preview, new cycles for rotary and turn milling, multi-regions for fused deposition modeling, and simulation and post processing for U-Axis turning operations. Deburring: Preview of Sharp Edges Preview of

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New Dimensions in Laser Cladding

Innovative coating and additive manufacturing processes thanks to collaboration between ponticon and ModuleWorks. Ponticon develops highly dynamic machines and processing concepts for the 3D EHLA process. ModuleWorks specializes in the development of software libraries for tool path generation and simulation for laser cladding processes. The two companies have collaborated to develop tool path planning software

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ModuleWorks Releases 2022.08 Digital Manufacturing Software

ModuleWorks announces the release of its 2022.08 CAD/CAM software components for digital manufacturing. This is the second major ModuleWorks release of 2022 and contains new and enhanced features across the entire product range, including new custom tool shapes for roughing, automatic tool axis control, and vector interpolation for the machine simulation. Custom tool shape for

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Simplifying On-Control Programming

ModuleWorks announces its Next Generation Shopfloor Programming (NGSP) software that enables machine tool builders and CNC manufacturers to offer highly automated touchscreen programming as part of their proprietary on-control solutions. “A lot of parts, especially prismatic parts, are programmed directly on the CNC and we aim to help machine tool builders and controller manufacturers simplify

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FitAM

Facing the Challenges of Wire-based Manufacturing and the Climate Crisis Funding agency: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Project Number: 41546361 The project FitAM is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under the project number 41546361. Details Wire-based additive manufacturing (WAM) is a key contributor to reaching sustainable manufacturing and combating climate change. To

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Multi-Axis Metal Additive Manufacturing Without Support Structures

A collaborative team from Promation, ModuleWorks, and Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Laboratory of the University of Waterloo has developed and successfully tested a new method for manufacturing overhang geometries without the need for support structures. The tests were conducted at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada using Laser Directed Energy Deposition (LDED). By eliminating

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