Alphacam's New Part Modeller Provides High Capability Solid Modelling

1 August 2007: Alphacam will be underlining its new ‘three steps to manufacturing’ concept with the first showing of the company’s Part Modeller CAD software on stand L10 in Hall 6 at the EMO Exhibition in Hannover – which takes place between 17th & 22nd September.

Providing a low cost, protected upgrade route for companies looking to migrate from 2D to 3D solid modelling, Alphacam’s Part Modeller delivers around 80% of the functionality of premium design software packages at less than 20% of their cost.

With a launch price of just £1500, the new Windows XP and Vista-compliant software incorporates a wide range of advanced geometry creation tools, as well as direct data import from SolidWorks, Solid Edge and popular DWG, STEP and IGES formats. It also enables users to easily extract any required components from imported assemblies for subsequent modification, updating or manipulation.

Using intuitive CAD tools, the Part Modeller allows users to create and store libraries of company-standard component profiles, along with parametrically-driven products and assemblies. New members of product families can be generated in moments, simply by entering numerical values within a Microsoft Excel - or equivalent - spreadsheet. Full associativity is retained between components within the structure, ensuring that individual parts – and associated machining toolpaths – are updated as new parametric values are specified.