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Design your own 3D-printable RC car with TopSolid!

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:21:00 +0200

Building a remote control truggy using a 3D printer, this is the big challenge the Swedish Daniel Norée recently took on and succeeded. For information, a truggy is a cross between a monster truck and a buggy and is specifically designed for off-road racing. As an experienced user of TopSolid 7, Daniel Norée used the new generation of CAD/CAM solution to design from scratch all of the parts that make up the truggy. Once designed, parts have been subsequently printed out on a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer (of course, it is possible to use a similar 3D printer) to go from virtual reality to physical reality, and finally assembled one by one. The RC truggy design is open source so that anyone who wants to try the experience can download the project files, 3D print and assemble at home. All of the CAD files are available here. To make it easy for anyone to make modifications if necessary, the design of the vehicle has been kept as basic as possible. To find out more about the OpenRC truggy and see the project history, visit the Google+ page here. For more in-depth technical discussions, join the OpenRC Google Group. Check out the video of this experimental 3D-printable RC car in action:

TopSolid at the WFL Technology Meeting 2013

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:44:00 +0200

Missler Software recently participated in the WFL Technology Meeting 2013, held in Linz, Austria from 13 to 16 May. This meeting provided a great opportunity for the machine-tool manufacturer WFL Millturn Technologies to bring together its partners and distributors from around the world, its sales network as well as its major prospects and clients, to show them the latest developments of its product range. No less than 10 machines were presented in live operation, from the smallest Millturn (M35), which was equipped this year with a loading robot, to the biggest machine, the M150 Millturn, as well as the brand new M80-G Millturn (G for counter spindle). These are well suited to numerous fields of activity: aeronautics, oil, gas & drilling industries, large engine sector (liners, etc.)… For the past 15 years, the in-depth work carried out by Missler Software and its local TopSolid reseller Comdata (for post-processor development) for WFL Millturn Technologies has led the machine builder to provide its clients with a combined machine + TopSolid’Cam offering; the service is provided by local distributors. The use of TopSolid’Cam by the WFL machining-programming department for creating machine acceptance tool-paths reflects the full confidence of the world's leading machine-tool builder in the integrated CAD/CAM solution. The four-day event also gave Missler Software an excellent opportunity to collect client requests in terms of development, meet users of the two products and discuss again with other leading WFL suppliers (CNC, tools, measurement systems…). The visit to the assembly workshop made it possible to gain a better overview of the wide variety and quality of the accessories offered (and therefore, how they are driven in TopSolid’Cam), the complexity and precision of the parts produced for acceptance tests, as well as the professionalism and quality expectations of such a partner. Missler Software is proud to be among the long-standing partners of the most prominent player in the MILLTURN market.

TopSolid’Wood 2013 at Ligna

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:37:00 +0200

Missler Software recently presented the new features of TopSolid’Wood 2013 at Ligna, the international trade fair for the forestry and wood industries, which was held in Hanover from 06 to 10 May. TopSolid'Wood is an integrated design, manufacturing and management (CAD/CAM/PDM) software specialized for wood processing. It is made up of comprehensive standard components and processes specific to the wood industry. It offers powerful modeling functions, optimized assembly management and facilitated communication with customers and manufacturing. The integrated CAD/CAM TopSolid’Wood 2013 solution is already available worldwide and offers many new functions and improvements with time and productivity gains being the main benefits for the TopSolid user.

Modeling: TopSolid’Wood 2013 offers a new version of the constraint block that allows non parallel faces, leaving the user free to create quadrilateral or triangular parts without sketch.
Standard Components: For greater efficiency in the assembly, new options have been added to the driver block (multi-inclusion, double wrap…). In addition, a new function for component distribution is now available and can be very useful for interior design projects.
Ergonomics: A new function for project presentation allows users to save appearances of Design, Draft and CAM documents, with the possibility to generate a realistic rendering for each presentation.
Machining: The rails and pods positioning of TopSolid’WoodCam has been improved and provides to users new features in order to fully satisfy their needs. Multi-machining, crucial link of the integration between TopSolid’Wood and TopSolid’WoodCam, also allows them to automatically create setup sheets for each part. Finally, the Ardis interface has been enhanced to allow users to export machining operations for simple parts, in addition to the cutting list.
TopSolid’Planner: A new panel brush is now available to ensure that matters and edges are managed in the best possible way. Additionally, it is now possible to manage detailed quotes by showing the subcomponents of an element on several quote lines.

A successful 2012 for Missler Software

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:39:00 +0100

2012 was a strong year for Missler Software and its network of resellers around the world. Despite a somewhat uncertain global economic environment, the company achieved excellent 2012 end of year results with an increase in its sales turnover of 10% compared to 2011. The French and international markets experienced approximately the same growth rate (10%), which is a great achievement for France, given the industrial context. The main champion of this growth was TopSolid’Cam 7, the new-generation of CAM solution, which has been one of the best-selling products since its launch. The French software developer also announced a continued strong sales performance in its two leading international markets outside France, Germany and Japan, followed by Brazil which performed very well throughout the year. These good results clearly reflect the consistent execution of the company’s strategy, as well as the continuing efforts of all the Missler Software’s staff to deliver the highest product quality and performance to customers. The progressive conversion to a new generation of integrated CAD/CAM solutions increasingly tailored to industrial needs underscores the company’s objective to be recognized as the world leader in the CAD/CAM/ERP market. Expanding export operations has always been a key point in Missler Software’s strategy, and will be again this year a major focus for the company which intends to strengthen its international presence by entering new emerging markets.

Annual International Resellers Meeting in Dublin

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:42:00 +0100

Missler Software recently held its 12th International TopSolid seminar which ended on 20 January and gathered international key resellers and French internal teams. The capital city of Dublin, Ireland, was chosen as the destination for this year's event, both for its economic dynamism, especially in the new technologies sector, and the legendary hospitality of its people. The plenary session was the occasion to present the company’s strategic plan and the 2012 results following on from a very successful year (+10% organic growth), despite a relatively uncertain economic context. Christian Arber, CEO of Missler Software, also stressed the increased internationalization of the company and the progressive conversion to a new generation of increasingly innovative and integrated products to meet the production needs. Finally, some Missler Software’s partners were invited to take part in a round table discussion in order to exchange their experiences in new customer acquisition and TopSolid products. Then, it was time for workshops where both internal and international sales teams had the opportunity to learn about the latest innovations and features of a software line or version. The busy agenda also included some time for relaxation and recreational activities: a dinner at the Guinness Storehouse to taste the local flavors, or a visit to Dublin city where participants braved the rainy weather called "liquid sunshine" by most locals! The seminar concluded with a gala award ceremony where the most successful French and international Sales Teams were rewarded. It was time to thank both of them for their active participation and contribution in making 2012 a great success. This is a positive sign that 2013 looks promising for Missler Software!

Celeritive Technologies Signs VoluMill™ License Agreement with Missler Software for TopSolid Integration

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:57:00 +0100

On 12 November, Celeritive Technologies, Inc., developers of VoluMill™ announced that it has signed a license agreement with Missler Software, the developers of TopSolid headquartered in Evry, France. Under terms of the agreement, Missler Software will integrate Celeritive’s ultra high-performance toolpath engine VoluMill™ into Missler’s award-winning TopSolid® CAD/CAM product and offer VoluMill 3-axis applications as an option upgrade, which is expected to provide users with dramatically improved rough milling productivity. VoluMill’s patent-pending technology generates toolpaths that produce a consistent material removal rate. Their smooth, flowing motion establishes and maintains ideal milling conditions in any part shape. Reduced forces on the spindle and cutting tool enable machining hardware to be safely utilized to its full capabilities. Uniform chip formation and excellent heat dissipation result in the previously unachievable combination of dramatically reduced cycle times and significantly extended cutting-tool life. This software investment was essential: “Although TopSolid'Cam has a long list of features for metal removal (trochoidal, cutter overlap bigger than tool radius), we needed a technology that provided deep depths of cut in difficult to machine materials such as Inconel or titanium. The integration of VoluMill allows us to satisfy all our customers currently subject to these types of constraints.” says Jean-Pierre Lugarini, Technical Director of CAM Technologies at Missler Software. “We are pleased to add Missler to our list of partnerships around the world. TopSolid has proven to be a critical solution for many of the world’s leading manufacturers” says Terry Sorensen, CEO for Celeritive.

About Missler Software

Missler Software, a leading global supplier of CAD, CAM and ERP solutions, is ranked the number 2 CAD/CAM supplier in France and in the Top 10 worldwide. The company provides an integrated software solution for product design, manufacturing and data management. The company’s product lines include TopSolid, TopSolid'Erp and GOelan. Missler Software offers a uniquely integrated solution for the mechanical engineering industry (general mechanical design, special machinery, tooling, boilerwork …) and for sheet metal and wood industries.
For additional information, visit www.topsolid.com.

About Celeritive Technologies

Celeritive Technologies, developers of VoluMill, is one of the world’s leading CAD/CAM technology innovators specializing in ultra high-performance toolpath solutions for the manufacturing industry. The guiding philosophy at Celeritive is to develop and supply economical and simple to implement toolpath generation solutions that allow CNC machine tools and cutting tools to operate at peak performance. Through dramatically reduced cycle times, manufacturing operations become more profitable, flexible, competitive, and maximize return on their capital investments. Located in Cave Creek, Arizona, Celeritive Technologies was founded by industry leading experts highly proficient in machining, programming and software development. For additional information, visit www.volumill.com.

TopSolid at EMAF 2012

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:17:00 +0100

CadSolid, the leading TopSolid Value Added Reseller (VAR) in Portugal, recently participated at EMAF 2012, the International Fair of Machinery, Equipment and Services for Industry, which took place in Porto, Portugal from 21 - 24 November. This biennial exhibition, held at the Exponor Conference Centre, is the most important trade show for the metalworking industry in Portugal. Showcase of industrial innovations, the event closed with more than 35.478 professional visitors. Once again, the EMAF trade fair gave CadSolid the opportunity to promote and strengthen the TopSolid brand in Portugal by exhibiting the latest developments of the integrated CAD/CAM product line, and notably TopSolid’Mold. The company indeed enjoys a strong position in the mold market (around 90% of its customers belong to the mold industry), thanks to its favorable geographic location next to the leading mold industry hub in Portugal. CadSolid enhanced its trade show presence compared to 2010 with a renewed booth, which attracted a good turnout of visitors throughout the four-day event, and for the first time with a team of six people. This appointment has been recognized as a success by exhibitors, organizers and visitors, as well as a real business opportunity which enabled CadSolid to expand its portfolio of customers and prospects and boost the company’s image. Very satisfied with its participation in this year's event, CadSolid looks forward to repeating the experience at the next edition of the show in 2014.

TopSolid’Cam 7 – the next generation of GOelan

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:27:00 +0100

Missler Software has been working for several years on progressively converging its CAM solutions to a single platform with a view to offering its clients a complete CAM solution perfectly adapted to their needs. Missler Software’s aim since a number of years back has been to merge its TopSolid’Cam v6 and GOelan v5 qualities in a single product line. GOelan and TopSolid’Cam users want a single product line for shop floor and Method Departments, one list of post-processors to be installed, managed and maintained, have operating tool libraries, etc.
After many years of development the objective has become reality: TopSolid’Cam 7 is the new combined version of TopSolid’Cam V6 and GOelan V5. It is easy-to-use with a nice user-interface and powerful and extremely complete like TopSolid’Cam. Operators will have immediate and multiple benefits from using TopSolid’Cam 7: Shop floor operators and Methods Department staff become interchangeable, higher-quality, faster and more adaptable post-processors ... while maintaining all of the benefits of separately using GOelan and TopSolid’Cam v6.

TopSolid’Cam 7

This new CAD/CAM software generation called TopSolid’Cam 7 is now available for GOelan users through their maintenance contracts. TopSolid’Cam 7 is thought to be an evolution and not a new product for GOelan users.
Marc Choquin, Sales Director for Missler Software explains the main advantages for GOelan users: "TopSolid’Cam 7 offers a perfect solution for the needs of our GOelan clients in terms of functions, price and training. TopSolid’Cam 7 is a new generation of software that is very powerful and easy to use. It is above all a solution that companies can evolve with thanks to its TopSolid’Cam Entry, TopSolid’Cam Standard and TopSolid’Cam Pro scalable packages."

Significant productivity gains for GOelan users

Missler Software and its resellers have recently organized a series of presentations of TopSolid’Cam 7 to its GOelan users to show the main advantages and productivity gains to be achieved by GOelan users that migrate to TopSolid’Cam 7: Performance

All the advantages of having a fully integrated CAD solution included
Complete machining tolerance management
New and more efficient machining cycles
Company know-how and strategy preservation

Interface

Intelligent, powerful and intuitive interface
"Drag and drop" of tool paths and associated parameters

Security

Total stock management during all programming stages
Machining simulation in the real machine environment of your client
G-code view synchronized with tool paths

About TopSolid’Cam 7

TopSolid’Cam 7 was launched in France in 2011. Completely based on new software development technology, TopSolid’Cam 7 responds to increasingly complex industry needs. TopSolid’Cam 7 is in fact the result of 6 years of intense development which has permitted the integration of such technological advances as MultiCore, PDM, web compatibility, software components and computer-generated images. The first TopSolid 7 clients in the mechanical engineering field have experienced time gains in the region of 20 to 30%. Missler Software wishes to keep an excellent compatibility and between the TopSolid versions 6 and 7. In this way its customers benefit from a whole new technology while keeping all know-how they have built up with version 6.

About Missler Software

Missler Software, whose headquarters is located just outside Paris, France is the software developer of the TopSolid CAD/CAM/ERP software range dedicated to the mechanical manufacturing, toolmaking, wood and sheetmetal industries. In 2011 company turnover was €25M for 200 employees. Every year Missler Software invests in the region of 30% of its annual turnover in Research and Development for its integrated software range. The company was founded in 1984 and has been present on the international market since 1997. Missler Software exports approximately 60% of its software licenses via a network of 80 value added resellers throughout the world. For further information visit www.topsolid.com.

Missler Software introduces TopSolid’Split 7.7

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:10:00 +0100

Missler Software has a solid experience in catering to the specific needs of toolmaking. TopSolid’Split is an extension of the latest version of TopSolid’Design which allows tool makers, especially those specializing in plastic injection, to significantly increase their productivity by giving them the means to easily define and design core cavity blocks from an imported 3D plastic part, or directly designed in TopSolid’Design. Once the model has been imported in TopSolid’Design, TopSolid’Split enables the user to prepare the part to be injected by quickly analyzing the draft angles of the model (detection of vertical faces and undercut faces) and by globally or differentially controlling the shrinkage factor related to the material used. TopSolid’Split also automatically determines the best parting lines, while leaving the user free to redefine them locally, when passing over a face, for example. Furthermore, this new module provides intelligent wizards to automatically generate shut off surfaces and external parting surfaces. In addition to efﬁciently creating your molding blocks, the biggest benefit of TopSolid’Split 7.7 is certainly its ability to define all inserts needed to take the production constraints into account, at the core & cavity block split stage. TopSolid’Split 7.7 adds significant value to TopSolid’Design in terms of tooling and features all the functions needed to create complete molds in the coming years. This extension will be officially available in the software in January 2013.

About TopSolid’Design

TopSolid’Design is a fully integrated and associative CAD software enabling the operator to draft and design products more efficiently. Kinematics, structural calculation, sheet metal processing and mechanical components form an integral part of the software and improve efficiency in the design process.

About Missler Software

Missler Software and Okuma collaborate closely together

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:52:00 +0100

Missler Software is happy to announce the close collaboration with Okuma on a worldwide basis to guarantee the delivery of a machine tool and CAM software that work together. Proven global base post-processors, excellent machine simulation possibilities and customer support are provided to their respective customers.

Powerful TopSolid’Cam functions to drive complex Okuma machines

Okuma is a “total” machine tool maker, developing its own machines and controls (OSP). To support customers creating new machining value, Okuma’s integrated machine & control manufacturing provides a wide lineup of advanced, “Only-One” products. In order to run these high-end machines worldwide, Okuma collaborates closely with Missler Software for the development of base post-processors.

TopSolid’Cam is perfectly adapted to driving complex multitasking Okuma machines. Machine simulation, collision check, spindle synchronization, raw part updating and visualization of material removal are important elements of TopSolid’Cam for the tool path programming of Okuma machines. In addition TopSolid’Cam offers a unique CAM solution in that it is capable of piloting turning, 2-axis milling, 3-axis milling, 4-and 5-axis continued milling (simultaneous), as well as a combination of these machining methods (multitasking), synchronization and complex simulation.

A win-win situation

Dominique Laffret, Vice-President of Strategic Relationships at Missler Software explains: “Many of our customers are equipped with Okuma machines. By closely collaborating with Okuma, we can better respond to the needs of companies equipped with such high-performance Okuma multitasking machines. These customers are concerned with high-end precision machining and need a top class CAM solution to drive these machines.”

About Missler Software

Missler Software is one of the leading global suppliers of CAD, CAM and ERP solutions with its product line TopSolid. Missler Software offers a uniquely integrated solution for the mechanical engineering industry (general mechanical design, special machinery, tooling, boilerwork …) and for sheet metal and wood industries.

Thanks to its advanced technology and its fully integrated solution, Missler Software is experiencing rapid growth in the global CAD/CAM market. For further information, contact info@topsolid.com or visit www.topsolid.com.

About Okuma

Okuma is a "total" machine tool maker, developing its own machines and controls (OSP). To support customers creating new machining value, Okuma's integrated machine & control manufacturing provides a wide line-up of advanced, "Only-One" products. In order to run these high-end machines worldwide, Okuma is in collaboration with Missler Software for the development of the base posts.

For further information, please visit www.okuma.de.