AUTOFORM.MASTER.V4.1

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AutoForm 4.1 was then introduced, in its most significant elements, by AutoForm-USA’s Engineering Manager, Kidambi Kannan through presentations and short software demos.

AutoForm 4.1 is a major release featuring numerous new functions, enhancements, as well as brand new modules, e.g., solver improvements, springback, compensation, coatings, CAD integration, data management and much more. This heightened participants’ anticipation for the hands-on AutoForm 4.1 workshop planned for the next day … in particular, for a demonstration of AutoForm’s vision for intelligent compensation based on formability and springback.

Following this, the management team – Waldemar Kubli, Volker Steininger and Vallury Prabhakar – answered a wide variety of questions from the audience.

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Tracepro v4.04 (c)Lambdares Research Corporation

TracePro® is a general raytracing program for illumination analysis, optical analysis, radiometry analysis, and photometry analysis. It is the first optics software to be based on the industry-standard ACIS solid modeling kernel from Spatial, Inc. It is also the first software to combine true solid modeling, powerful optical analysis features, strong data exchange capabilities, and an enjoyable graphical interface.

FeaturesTracePro has a full set of features for solving your illumination design and optical analysis problems. TracePro Expert, our flagship edition includes many advanced features as well. The following is a brief summary of TracePro features.
CAD graphical interface including interactive zoom, pan, and rotate, render, wireframe.
Object-oriented Windows code for unlimited capability.
Comprehensive geometry modeling - any CAD solid model can be imported into TracePro and ray-traced.
CAD data exchange - import any SAT file (included with all TracePro editions), or IGES or STEP file (option).
Healing module lets you repair faulty geometry imported from other CAD programs (option).
Lens design file import (option) from OSLO, CODE V®, ZEMAX®, ACCOS V™, or Sigma™.
Silhouette, wireframe, and rendered viewing modes with graphical editing capability.
Complete solid modeling capability including Boolean operations (intersect, subtract, and unite).
Solid Object editing features: Move, Rotate, Scale, Cut, Copy, Paste, Insert.
Surface editing features: Sweep and Revolve.
Comprehensive macro language (Scheme) allows complete automation of TracePro including optimization loops.
Monte Carlo ray tracing with variance reduction techniques (ray splitting and importance sampling).
Properties database including many standard properties, plus user-defined properties.
Material Properties including optical glasses, infrared materials, plastics, and more. Materials can vary versus wavelength and temperature.
Bulk Scatter Properties including models for biological tissue.
User-defined Bulk Scatter Properties (Expert edition) let you program your own models in a DLL.
Surface Properties including versatile scattering model for BRDF and BTDF. Surface properties can vary versus wavelength, angle of incidence, and temperature.
Gradient Index Properties, with all popular models and dependence on wavelength and temperature.
Thin Film Stack Properties for modeling multi-layer optical coatings. Variation versus temperature.
RepTile™ Properties (Expert edition) for modeling repetitive micro-structures for display applications and Fresnel lenses.
Aperture diffraction model for stray light predictions.
Diffraction gratings with unlimited user-defined diffraction efficiencies, varying versus angle of incidence, wavelength, and temperature.
Two ray-tracing modes for all your analysis needs.
Polarization modeling using Stokes vectors and Mueller matrices.
Powerful and extensive source modeling.
Grid sources for regular or random grids of rays. Model virtual sources (sun), lasers, or point sources.
Surface sources can be applied to any surface, even those imported from CAD programs.
Sources specified by flux (lumens or watts) or illuminance/irradiance (lux or watts/m2).
Powerful and flexible Blackbody/Graybody/Thermal source modeling.
Import Radiant Imaging ProSource® source files.
Define your own source using TracePro's source file format or create one using TracePro results.
Bitmap Source (optional) module lets you use an image file (bmp, gif, jpg, or tif) as a source.
Graphical and tabular output.
Illuminance/Irradiance distribution for any surface in your model.
Candela/Intensity distributions in four different formats. Export IESNA file or eulumdat file.
Polarization state plot for any surface in your model.
Flux report gives detailed tabulation of flux by surface and object.
Incident Ray table shows all ray data for any surface in your model.
Ray History Table shows the history of all rays reaching any surface in your model.
Ray Path Table summarizes flux reaching any surface, sorted by ray path.

CAM-POST V17 (C) ICAM

CAM-POST is an advanced independent single source NC post-processing development, management and deployment technology supporting all major CAD / CAM / PLM systems, CNC controllers and machine tools. CAM-POST incorporates over 35 years of industry leading NC expertise to deliver the most advanced, intuitive and flexible system architecture available.

CAM-POST Benefit Highlights
Ease of use takes the front seat for a quick & efficient implementation… CAM-POST includes over 200 NC controller quick-start defaults, which can be selected to simplify and speed post-processor creation. Also, as a standards feature, CAM-POST includes a unique comprehensive "point and click" Wizard that allows even the most novice users to generate advanced NC post-processors quickly and effectively.
The Wizard easily guides users through all the various steps involved when creating NC post-processors by using illustrated sets of instructions, which provide an intuitive graphical interface for effortless definition of machine kinematics, axis sign conventions, travel limitations and rotary pivot distance offsets.
Virtual Machine® for Integrated machine tool simulation during post-processing… Implementing Virtual Machine as an integrated option to CAM-POST, delivers a powerful graphical machine tool simulation solution that enables NC programmers to graphically simulate and test programs against collisions easily and automatically during post-processing.
The machine tool and controller data for both Virtual Machine and CAM-POST are stored and managed in the same database. This eliminates the error-prone and time consuming alternative of entering the same machine and control data twice when using a non-integrated solution .

An instinctive, knowledge-based methodology… CAM-POST provides a "Navigator" that organizes post development into broad categories and more specialized subcategories. A "Modification Wizard" provides access to a subset of the complete development environment, exposing only those post-processor specifications most likely to require review. CAM-POST’s extended depth enables customers to handle complex situations by providing simple responses, rather than having to design and develop logic using macros.
Increased NC Programmer productivity and manufacturing process efficiency… The CAM-POST "Visual Debugger" traces and synchronizes the CL file input, NC code output, macro code and diagnostic messages produced during post-processing. The user can view or change any post-processor variable on the fly, in a single integrated workbench. Breakpoints can be set and cleared with the mouse pointer on CL records, macro source, when variables change or when certain blocks are output.
CAM-POST management capabilities include: full do/undo to support for multiple revisions of the post-processor to compare different post versions with "links" to directly jump to differing post specifications; full-time on-line help and a "quick test" button to immediately see the NC code effect on changes for easy experimentation.