Smart Molding International 3-2021

newsfeed www.smart-molding.com At Fakuma (12-16 Octo - ber 2021) in Friedrichshafen, Germany, SIGMA Engineering GmbH will present advance - ment of SIGMASOFT ®. The new and bigger exhibition space will allow visitors to collect all details of the new Version 5.3.1 beside new ap - plication example and simu - lation approaches. “We look forward to finally meeting our network of partners and customers in person again. The bigger space is a great support to showcase the benefits of our SIGMASOFT ® Virtual Molding Technology and Autonomous Optimiza - tion. And we are happy to present the updates of the newest version in detail”, says SIGMA CTO Timo Gebauer. The update not only con - tains the new possibility to simulate compression mold - ing processes of elastomers; it also offers many enhance - ments and improvements in the area of thermoplastics. The prediction of warpage was again improved. “Since shrinkage and distortion are essential for the correct de - sign of plastic parts, we con - tinuously strive to compute them even more precisely”, Gebauer explains, “for ex - ample we are working with DUFNER.MDT GmbH since 3 years, to further improve our material datasets especially for warpage prediction.” Be - sides the improved material data SIGMASOFT ® v5.3.1 also contains new criteria, to make the evaluation more precise and user-friendly. Another important up - date is introduced for the calculation of multicompo - nent projects. It is now pos - sible to run virtual Design of Experiments (DoE) and opti - mizations for all components at the same time in order to adjust them precisely to each other. The process of developing multicompo - nent parts with the help of Virtual Molding and virtual DoE will also be demon - strated at the SIGMA booth. The showcased example is the cell-phone-holder “Butterfly” by Elmet, shown in full production on K show 2019. SIGMA www.sigmasoft.de Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division decided to make a debut of REcreate, a new reverse engineering software solution at RAPID + TCT 2021 ( Sept. 13-15, Chicago). “We are excited to debut REcreate at RAPID + TCT this year. With decades of ex - pertise in 3D scanning and data capture, our goal was to build a new reverse en - gineering software applica - tion focused on ease of use to handle dense point clouds from scanning devices, along with the ability to verify and design models in a single, robust CAD environment,” states Ken Woodbine, Senior Portfolio Manager – Metrol - ogy Software. “Interoper - ability was also at the top of our list. REcreate works with a wide range of third-party systems and data capture de - vices. The software program can be used as an end-to-end reverse engineering solu - tion, or as a complement to existing technology. It is the modern answer to the ever evolving need to design and manufacture parts quickly and accurately.” REcreate was built from the ground up to remove the complexity involved in build - ing airtight models for addi - tive or subtractive manufac - turing. Original equipment manufacturers and design engineers can reconstruct legacy parts and develop new innovative products from ex - isting parts or hand- built prototypes. REcreate is also a critical tool for en - suring a precision fit in a design enve - lope for new or af - termarket compo - nents. In essence, the software can import scan data to create CAD models for parts that had no affiliated CAD model. REcreate users can also easily update CAD mod - els to reflect changes that oc - curred in the manufacturing or prototyping process. Hexagon www.hexagonmi.com Hexagon’s REcreate takes center stage at RAPID + TCT 2021 17 Enhanced options in simulation at Fakuma 2021