Delcam Crispin announces 2013 software versions
29/01/2013
ShoeMaker combines upper and sole design and modelling within the same 3D environment. The software helps users to produce realistic 3D footwear models for design and marketing reviews, while reducing the number of samples produced, improving communications between the design and manufacturing teams, and reducing overall product time to market.
New functionality for the application in 2013 includes user-defined flattening for offset concept lasts (OCL), improvements to the last import with automatic detection of the centre lines, and better control for the positioning of image stencils, including a three-point alignment tool. A special tool has been added to change the appearance of the design model to display a ‘relaxed look’ as if the last has been physically removed from the shoe. Finally, a new pattern assessment tool for pre-costing of the pattern pieces has been added.
Engineer Pro helps users to produce patterns for manufacturing in the fastest possible time, while assisting in the management of tooling costs. New functionality includes single click boundary, a new way to create boundaries where a left-click in a closed area creates a boundary from the enclosing lines.
An option has been added to the radius-chamfer function allowing a radius to be quickly added to any intersection of a part. There are also improvements to the speed with which the boundary, chain and join functions are used and an easier way to convert corner points to curve points. In addition, there is a new option to adjust the icon size of the main tool bars and tool-trays to the smaller size of 24x24. This option increases the size of the working area, which has been requested by several customers.
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