LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Jun 17, 2020 – Chaos Group launches V-Ray Collection, a new offering designed to help artists connect their entire creative pipeline through a single floating license. Users can now move freely between 3D applications, applying their own mix of photorealistic rendering, fluid simulation and real-time scene exploration to any project.

V-Ray Collection offers instant access to 15 products and services for $699/year, including the latest versions of V-Ray, Phoenix FD, Project Lavina, and the high-res material library, VRscans, on the same machine. Users will receive free upgrades for the life of their license, as well as 20 Chaos Cloud credits every year.

A standard in architecture, design and visual effects, V-Ray is the most widely used rendering solution in the world. Whether used to showcase products at IKEA or bring the Game of Thrones dragons to life, V-Ray has helped artists and designers visualize their best work for over 20 years, pushing the boundaries of imagery, animation and real-time. In 2017, V-Ray was honored with an Academy Award for helping to facilitate the “widespread adoption of fully ray-traced rendering [in] motion pictures.”

V-Ray Collection Includes:

Photorealistic Rendering:

1. V-Ray for 3ds Max
2. V-Ray for Maya
3. V-Ray for SketchUp
4. V-Ray for Rhino
5. V-Ray for Revit
6. V-Ray for Modo
7. V-Ray for Unreal
8. V-Ray for Houdini
9. V-Ray for Nuke
10. V-Ray for Cinema 4D
11. V-Ray for Blender

All-In-One Fluid Simulation:

1. Phoenix FD for 3ds Max
2. Phoenix FD for Maya​​​​​​​

1000+ Scanned Materials:

1. VRscans

Real-Time Scene Exploration:

1. Project Lavina

Availability and Pricing

V-Ray Collection is available now for $699/year. Licenses can be purchased directly on the product page. Unlike past licenses, V-Ray Collection will not require a separate render node for each product. Individual product licenses are still available. For students, schools and educators, the V-Ray Education Collection is also available.

About Chaos Group

Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company’s research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com.

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Jun 17, 2020 – Chaos Group released V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max, connecting its award-winning renderer to more parts of the visualization process. Artists and designers can now composite renders, enhance materials and interactively relight images without leaving the program, extending V-Ray’s capabilities into new realms.

“The future is all-in-one,” said Phillip Miller, Vice President of Product Management at Chaos Group. “An artist doesn’t want to jump into extra applications – they want tools that excel at every part of the process. V-Ray 5 is a big step in that direction.”

Beyond Rendering

Two of V-Ray 5’s most exciting additions – Layer Compositing and Light Mix – can be found in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB), which was also redesigned for efficiency and a cleaner look.

With Light Mix, artists can interactively explore different lighting scenarios without having to re-render an image. Users can now adjust the color and intensity of any light source right away, ensuring faster iterations when designing looks and moods.

The Layer Compositor offers a faster path to final images, helping users post-process shots in the new VFB without outside applications. Using this non-destructive workflow, artists can adjust different render elements and perform color corrections with ease.

Materials Made Easy

V-Ray 5 adds seven features and improvements tailored to materials, including a new management system and over 500 readymade materials designed to cover most objects and spaces. New built-in presets can help dial-in everyday options like metal, glass and plastic, as well as common hair colors, helping artists achieve photorealism much faster.

With V-Ray 5’s new randomization tools, artists can add slight variations to their materials, increasing believability across a scene. VRayMultiSubTex colors can now be shifted by hue, saturation and gamma, while a new VRayUVWRandomizer map will adjust the offset, rotation and scale of both textures and procedural materials. For repeating texture maps, artists now have Stochastic Texture Tiling, which automatically removes tiling artifacts.

Other New Features in V-Ray 5 Include: 

1. Coat Layer – Gain extra reflections on surfaces without using blend materials.
2. Sheen Layer – Easily simulate fabrics like velvet, satin and silk.
3. Photoreal Material Previews – New view incorporates global illumination to provide an exact representation of a rendered material.
4. Dirt with Streaks – New controls for aging materials with procedural streaks have been added to the VRayDirtMtl.
5. New Car Paint Material – Provides highly realistic flakes with less memory.
6. New Sun and Sky System – Improves accuracy when the sun is at the horizon, including the magic hours right before sunrise and after sunset.
7. Camera EV Control – Adjust the exposure value of the V-Ray Physical Camera without affecting motion blur or depth of field.
8. V-Ray GPU Updates – Initial support for out-of-core geometry allows users to break through memory constraints when necessary. Resumable progressive rendering ensures artists never have to restart from square one.
9. Blue Noise Sampling – New algorithm update can make images (and noise) look cleaner through fewer samples.
10. V-Ray Scene Updates – Export selected objects, including pivot points, for transforms in Project Lavina.
11. ACEScg Color Workflows – Artists can now render in the emerging CG colorspace standard, accessing a wider gamut of colors.
12. Light Path Expressions – The behavior of light in a scene can now be used for custom render elements.
13. Filmic Tonemapping – HDR images can now mimic the properties of film to give images a cinematic look.

For a full feature tour, please visit the V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max product page. Chaos Group will also be hosting a webinar and live Q&A on June 23. The webinar is completely free and begins at 9 a.m. PST / 7 p.m. EEST. Register now.

Availability and Pricing

V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max is available now for Windows. A full Workstation license is priced at $1,180, with upgrades available for $590. Term licensing is available at $470 (annually) and $80 (monthly). V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max is also included in V-Ray Collection, an annual plan that gives users full access to 15 Chaos Group products and services for $699/year.

About Chaos Group

Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company’s research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com.

TROY, MI, USA, Jun 17, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, announced the latest launch of Altair Monarch, a major new release of its powerful and intuitive data preparation solution. Marking the 30th anniversary of Monarch’s original launch, the new version strengthens the ability of users to extract and convert data automatically from sources including Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, and text-based files, and prepare it quickly and precisely for efficient data analysis and machine learning predictions.

Altair Monarch is easy-to-use with no coding required to clean, join, append, and transform difficult and messy data into data ready for analytics and machine learning.

By converting data from any source into rows and columns without any need for coding, Monarch quickly generates clean and accessible reports. More than 80 pre-built functions are available, enabling laborious and error-prone manual data preparation tasks to be fully automated. Reports that previously took hours or even days to create are now completed in minutes. As a result, users are free to focus on value added data analysis that supports better decision making.

Key features new to Monarch include:

1. Excel trapping – This unique feature enables users to deal with complex Excel inputs. Rules can now be utilized to extract and add structure to data and metadata from workbooks that are either designed for reporting or incorporate multiple worksheets.
2. Improved PDF extraction – By identifying graphical elements such as rectangles and lines on rendered PDF page images, Monarch accommodates the diverse range of report styles employed in this format. Any combination of font and background colors can be extracted successfully.
3. Support for Altair Units – Altair’s flexible licensing model allows customers to pay only for what they need; when they need it.

New feature in Altair Monarch: Excel trapping, designed to trap data from complex Excel spreadsheets that have merged cells, multiple tabs, conditional formatted cells and rows, and may have complicated cell functions.

“With a global user community in the tens of thousands, Monarch encompasses our long experience of helping customers overcome complex data preparation challenges,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technical officer, Altair. “Thirty years to the day since the original launch, it is entirely appropriate that we now offer even greater freedom to transform data from multiple sources into a powerful business asset.”

A free trial of Monarch is available at altair.com/monarch-free-trial and more information can be found at altair.com/monarch.

For more insight into Altair’s data analytics offerings, join us at the virtual Altair Data Analytics Summit on June 23-25 to be immersed in the technologies and ideas that drive smarter decision-making: altair.com/das2020.

About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

LEVIS, QC, Canada, Jun 16, 2020 – Creaform Engineering, division of Creaform and Québec leaders in end-to-end engineering services, is proud to appoint Philippe Cusson as its Business Leader. Given his extensive expertise in many industries, Mr. Cusson will ensure the promotion and stimulation of business development, all while increasing the focus on customer experience.

Philippe Cusson

Philippe Cusson’s previous experience as Vice President at WAJAX brought him to implement business plans for the power systems market segment. It will be a game changer for Creaform Engineering with his acute knowledge of the industrial, automotive, power generation, marine and mining sectors—to name a few. Mr. Cusson’s strategic vendor management and development of engineered solutions have proven successful with major OEMs such as Rolls Royce Power Systems / MTU, Allison Transmission, Daimler Trucks, Kubota Engines and Volvo Penta.

Before WAJAX, Philippe Cusson formerly managed the advanced engineering and design team for the industrial division of IPL Inc., a leader in injection-molded plastic products. During that assignment, he developed innovative solutions for various industries such as automotive, transportation, food and beverage and telecommunications.

His position being instrumental in creating value for customers, Philippe Cusson will strengthen the measures put in place to ensure the satisfaction of Creaform Engineering’s clients and employees. This means focusing on maintaining and attracting talented experts in order to deliver unrivaled engineering capabilities.

Mr. Cusson puts it quite simply: “I make it a personal goal to foster team synergy, to reduce time-to-market and to make sure the team members commit to the achievement of our customers’ objectives. In regard to customer experience as a whole, the improvement of the product design, quality, reliability and cost will be the very foundation, all in alignment with Creaform’s core values of innovation, passion and determination.”

Philippe Cusson holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Université Laval and an MBA from UQAM. He also took part in an engineering exchange program at the University of Rhode Island. Much to his credit, he also initiated a fundraising activity and summited Kilimanjaro in favor of the Canadian Multiple Sclerosis Society.

About Creaform

Creaform develops, manufactures, and sells 3D portable and automated measurement technologies and specializes in engineering services. The company offers innovative solutions for applications such as 3D scanning, reverse engineering, quality control, non-destructive testing, product development, and numerical simulation (FEA/CFD). Its products and services cater to a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, consumer products, heavy industries, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, power generation, research and education.

With headquarters and manufacturing operations in Lévis, Québec, Creaform operates innovation centers in Lévis as well as Grenoble, France, with direct sales operations in Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Singapore. Creaform is part of AMETEK Ultra Precision Technologies, a division of AMETEK Inc., which a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, with annual sales of approximately $5 billion. For more information about Creaform Engineering, visit creaform-engineering.com.

FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany, Jun 16, 2020 – Maxon, the developers of professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software solutions is pleased to announce its trade shows, road shows and special events for the remainder of 2020 will be free virtual events hosted on 3DMotionShow.com (formerly C4DLive.com – Maxon is rebranding their streaming events to reflect the full product line after the acquisition of Redshift and the merger with Red Giant).

Following the success of Maxon’s NAB digital experience, the company will host a robust calendar of online streaming events to coincide with the timing of Siggraph, IBC, NAB Show NY, HOW and Adobe Max — shows that are now cancelled as in-person events. Each virtual trade show or event will be modeled after Maxon’s NAB Show online event, which featured four full days of exciting presentations that streamed live the same week the major industry conference would have taken place prior to its cancellation amid the Coronavirus pandemic.

Maxon will be hosting this series of events as “The 3D and Motion Design Show.” It will feature the world’s top motion graphics and VFX artists showcasing professional 3D techniques and real-world production workflows using Cinema 4D, Redshift and the Red Giant suite of products. Presentations from each event will be streamed live and available online shortly after airing on 3DMotionShow.com as well as the Maxon YouTube channel.

“The 3D and Motion Design Show” kicks-off on June 18th, at 8:00 a.m. (PDT). Interested viewers can sign up now to receive updates and for early access on 3DMotionShow.com.

Presenter highlights include:

1. Anthony Abbott, Senior Creative of San Francisco-based motion design studio Swordfish, will discuss the creation of the company’s short film, Talos, which was produced during studio down-time and completed while the creative team was sheltering in place during Covid-19. Anthony will share techniques used in Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Red Giant Looks to create the film’s mesmerizing 3D visual effects.
2. Alan Towndrow, Rigger and Animator for Bomper Studio, a leading creative production studio in Wales, will share how they relied on the character animation toolset in Cinema 4D to create its recent hilarious animated short, Coffee Run. Alan will also share the details of their contest for aspiring animators called #MovingColin, with prizes that include a Cinema 4D subscription and a Bomper Studio internship.
3. Ryan Talbot, a Dallas-based freelance 3D animation and VFX artist for broadcast, commercials, mixed reality and more will be sharing an exciting new personal project created with Cinema 4D and Redshift.

Maxon Event Calendar 2020

The Maxon virtual event calendar for June through December 2020 includes:

1. The 3D and Motion Design Show: June 18
2. The 3D and Motion Design Show for Siggraph: July 21-23
3. The 3D and Motion Design Show: August 12
4. The 3D and Motion Design Show: August 26
5. The 3D and Motion Design Show for IBC: September 11-14
6. The 3D and Motion Design Show for Adobe Max/NAB NY/HOW: Oct 26-28
7. The 3D and Motion Design Show: November 18
8. The 3D and Motion Design Show: December 9

All events will be streamed live on 3DMotionShow.com (formerly C4DLive.com).

About Maxon

Maxon is a developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions. In January, Maxon and Red Giant closed a merger of the two companies. The combined company’s award-winning Cinema 4D, Redshift 3D and Red Giant products have been used extensively to help create and render everything from stunning visual effects in top feature films, TV shows and commercials, cutting-edge game cinematics for AAA games, as well as for medical illustration, architectural and industrial design applications. Maxon products are available directly from the website and its worldwide distribution network. Maxon is part of the Nemetschek Group.

SUNNYVALE, CA, USA, Jun 16, 2020 – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced that its Trimble Connect cloud-based collaboration platform has surpassed 10 million users. In response to COVID-19, distributed working has intensified the need for teams to share information and collaborate remotely, leading 1.2 million users to join Trimble Connect in March and April alone. To date, Trimble Connect has hosted more than 80,000 design and construction projects, making it possible for people to collaborate and work together from anywhere in the world.

Trimble Connect is an open collaboration platform for design and construction that connects project stakeholders with the data they need to inform decisions and improve team efficiency. Project stakeholders can share, review, coordinate and comment on data-rich constructible models, schedules and critical project information in real time—reducing costly miscommunication and improving coordination to keep projects on time and on budget.

In addition to adding new users, the activity on Trimble Connect has shown a considerable increase in collaboration for businesses in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The number of invitations to collaborate on projects increased 58 percent in April over the previous month, indicating that users are adjusting to new remote and distributed working dynamics and enabling teams to stay resilient, despite interruptions to their traditional daily routines.

“This is an exciting milestone for Trimble Connect,” said Ray Bagley, business area director for Trimble Connect. “Businesses in the AEC industry need an open, common data environment that allows project stakeholders to unlock the real value of building information modeling (BIM), civil construction and geospatial data. The increased adoption of Trimble Connect in recent months shows us that businesses need reliable, open collaboration more than ever before.”

Trimble Connect’s open API enables data-flow to and from a variety of applications and allows users to customize workflows by integrating with existing enterprise solutions. Users can access project files stored on Trimble Connect directly through a wide range of solutions, including Tekla Structures software, Trimble Access field software, Trimble FieldLink layout software, SketchUp 3D modeling software and ProjectSight construction management software as well as third-party applications.

Availability

Trimble Connect is available online in a range of flexible plans including the Personal (free), Business and Business Premium for enterprise deployments. For more information, visit:  connect.trimble.com.

About Trimble Construction

Trimble is developing technology, software, and services that drive the digital transformation of construction with solutions that span the entire AEC industry. Empowering teams across the construction lifecycle, Trimble’s innovative approach improves coordination and collaboration between stakeholders, teams, phases, and processes. Trimble’s Connected Construction strategy gives users control of their operations with best-in-class solutions and a common data environment. By automating work and transforming workflows, Trimble is enabling construction professionals to improve productivity, quality, transparency, safety, sustainability, and deliver each project with confidence.

About Trimble

Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware, and services are transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit www.trimble.com.

SOUTH FLORIDA, FL, USA, Jun 16, 2020 – Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq: NNDM), a leading Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME)/PE (Printed Electronics) provider, announced that it has successfully achieved the RoHS 3 certification.

The certification confirms that the dielectric and conductive inks used by the DragonFly LDM System for additive manufacturing of electronics are recyclable as well as non-hazardous and non-polluting. In addition, it assures that the waste created in the printing process may be recycled or disposed without any restrictions.

Yoav Stern, President & CEO commented, “This certification is in addition to our other previously announced certifications, including UL, CSA, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 14001:2015. It is an important additional reinforcement of our vision to be the natural non-polluting solution to the post-Corona and trade-wars eras concerns of large corporations that ended up totally dependent on electronic low-cost production in the far east. Those supply chains proved to be addictive in a normal course of business, and disastrous upon crisis. The ecological proposition of Nano Dimension’s DragonFly machines and materials for proof of concept will enable companies to shorten supply chains, including for sophisticated PCBs, by building clean environmentally-friendly fabrication facilities “on the ground” at all eco-sensitive locations.”

About Nano Dimension

Nano Dimension (Nasdaq: NNDM) is a provider of intelligent machines for the fabrication of Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME). High fidelity active electronic and electromechanical subassemblies are integral enablers of autonomous intelligent drones, cars, satellites, smartphones, and in vivo medical devices. They necessitate iterative development, IP safety, fast time-to-market and device performance gains, thereby mandating AME for in-house, rapid prototyping and production. Nano Dimension machines serve cross-industry needs by depositing proprietary consumable conductive and dielectric materials simultaneously, while concurrently integrating in-situ capacitors, antennas, coils, transformers and electromechanical components, to function at unprecedented performance. Nano Dimension bridges the gap between PCB and semiconductor integrated circuits. A revolution at the click of a button: From CAD to a functional high-performance AME device in hours, solely at the cost of the consumable materials. For more information, please visit www.nano-di.com.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Jun 16, 2020 – To help commemorate its 50th anniversary, Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) is celebrating the achievements of its customers and student community with the inaugural Art of Simulation image competition. The contest will spotlight striking, eye-catching simulation designs and provide a glimpse into how Ansys users leverage simulation as a virtual superpower to create the next generation of innovative products.

Ansys users are invited to submit designs created with Ansys simulation solutions in 16 categories spanning critical areas of physics, including fluids, electromagnetics, optical, systems, 3D design, structures, semiconductors, embedded, multiphysics and more. A panel of Ansys judges will choose the top 10 entries in each category to compete in the semifinals. Those submissions will advance to a dynamic second round of voting — a public-facing online voting site — where global Ansys users will evaluate entries based on the uniqueness and usefulness of the simulation’s application and its visual impact.

The winning images will be showcased on the Ansys website, News Center and social channels. They may also be featured in upcoming Ansys digital campaigns and in Ansys publications. Winners will receive a distinguished trophy that honors their accomplishment and a digital badge.

“For five decades, engineers have relied on Ansys simulations as their go-to superpower for tackling highly-complex design challenges,” said Lynn Ledwith, vice president of marketing, Ansys. “This contest provides users with a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate that their work is not only a cutting-edge technical achievement, but also artistic, imaginative and beautiful.”

Simulations captured in high-resolution images may be submitted between June 10, 2020 and October 2, 2020 at 5 p.m. EDT. Public voting begins at 8 a.m. EDT on October 19, 2020 and closes at 5 p.m. EST on November 13, 2020. Winners will be notified in early December 2020.

Full entry and eligibility information can be found on the contest website.

About Ansys

If you’ve ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you’ve used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

WESSLING, Germany, Jun 16, 2020 – OPEN MIND Technologies AG drives forward automation and the integration of additive manufacturing with the latest 2020.2 release of its hyperMILL CAD/CAM suite. The developers at OPEN MIND have also implemented numerous functions to further simplify everyday machining tasks. hyperMILL 2020.2 highlights include new strategies for the machining of cutting edges, upgrades for mill/turning, parametric design in hyperCAD-S and the ‘hyperMILL AUTOMATION Center Advanced’.

“Plunge-milling cycles have been added to the 3D and 5-axis strategies for the machining of cutting edges. The material can be removed by plunging with 3-axis or 5-axis movements. The plunge-milling process reduces vibration for surface edges with steep walls, thus improving the surface finish. Any rest material machining using a smaller tool is easily calculated automatically from the previous job. With 5-axis machining, you can also reach undercut areas, such as for cutting edges. The tilted tool is specified by the lateral inclination and in order to optimally adapt the retract movement from the component, you can specify both a distance, circular or linear movement profile (video).

The proven – made even easier

hyperMILL already offers strong mirror functions where the toolpaths for symmetrical components are recalculated on the basis of mirrored geometry data. Now with version hyperMILL 2020.2 OPEN MIND enhanced the functionality. The ‘Mirror Path’ function enables simple mirroring of the previously calculated toolpaths. Here, the machining direction is also mirrored and climb milling therefore becomes conventional milling. Users benefit now from shorter calculation time and improved process reliability. Both methods are available to provide the ideal solution for all situations (video).

Shorter calculation thanks to mirroring on the basis of previously calculated toolpaths

The user-friendliness of hyperMILL has been improved even further. For a faster search in the tool database, the filter properties are now integrated into the top level of the user interface, meaning they are always visible. The filter properties are pre-loaded with the material from the job list and the spindle holder from the machine properties. Other tool parameters and custom fields can also be used with the tool database filter (video). Feature management has also been improved to save time during programming. Now you can quickly locate special feature types such as holes or pockets even faster due to a new text search. These filter functions allow nimble access through a large customized tool database.

Mill/turning

Round inserts, as well as rhombic, T, and W inserts can now be used with 3-axis simultaneous mill/turning. There is now a function to control the approach and retract movements by applying user-defined curves for all turning strategies. This option unlocks the potential for productivity and programming optimization on workpieces with areas that are particularly difficult to reach – all movements are still collision checked, despite the manual operations (video).

New insert types are available for 3-axis simultaneous turning jobs

hyperMILL AUTOMATION Center

The ‘hyperMILL AUTOMATION Center’ has been upgraded in hyperMILL 2020.2 and OPEN MIND now offers an optional advanced version that boasts numerous additional functions and extensive templates. These templates allow the user to define and standardize complex processes independent of the specific geometry from any one CAD model. All the individual steps for data preparation and programming, right up to simulation and NC program generation are defined. Once you have defined a manufacturing process, you can apply it to a new model and have it automatically executed. If there are any decisions that cannot be made with confidence within the automated process, the user can be prompted to make the relevant choices during the automation sequence. The user is interactively guided through the individual process steps, making it possible to program the component in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

‘hyperMILL AUTOMATION Center Advanced’ offers comprehensive template functions

Parametric designing with hyperCAD-S

Components can now also be modeled directly in hyperCAD-S parametrically. This function is of particular interest for fast, production-related designs. For example, you can design a fixture plate parametrically and change dimensions to define different variants to the base model very quickly. It can be simultaneously used in parametric mode in hyperCAD-S, while static models can also be placed inside the same dataset. Similarly, you can use a static solid model in parametric mode and add parametric features to it for a hybrid approach. Parametric geometry data used in hyperMILL is associatively linked, and when there are any changes, it is updated automatically (video). hyperCAD-S also brings new interfaces in release 2020.2 for CATIA V6 3DXML and Rhino 3dm. PMI data is also available now for CATIA, Creo, JT, NX, SOLIDWORKS, and STEP files.

About OPEN MIND Technologies AG