Feb 20 - Alphacam to Launch Alphastone v7.5 for Machining Stone

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Alphacam to Launch Alphastone v7.5 for Machining Stone

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SOUTHFIELD, MI, Feb 20, 2008 - Leading CAD/CAM software developer Alphacam will be launching Alphastone V7.5, the latest release of its advanced machining software for stone working applications, and exhibiting its new Part Modeler design program for the first time in the UK on stand P26 at the Natural Stone Show taking place at Excel London, 11-13 March.

Enhancements to Alphastone V7.5's geometry creation and feature recognition functionality are backed by a series of productivity improvements that includes simple positioning of machine stops, enhanced clamping and additional support for 5-axis machining. The latest release also offers an oscillating toolpath option that ensures consistent wear along the face of the cutting tool. In addition, V7.5 incorporates Auto styles, an extension of Alphacam's existing machining styles capabilities, which permits sequences of styles to be grouped together and assigned to specific layers of the model.

Alphacam's new Part Modeler provides a low cost, protected upgrade route for companies looking to migrate from 2D to 3D solid modeling by delivering around 80% of the functionality of premium design software packages at less than 20% of their cost.

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 Modeler 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.

The new icon-driven modeler provides a seamless front end to Alphacam's programming software with the ability to import and manipulate product models and clamping configurations at will, before generating fully defined machining programs at the touch of a button. The new Part Modeler will also output data in SolidWorks, Solid Edge, STEP, IGES or DWG formats and supports STL output for rapid prototyping operations. Furthermore, it will create fully dimensioned, manufacturing diagrams and assembly drawings on demand.

"The complementary capabilities of Alphastone and Part Modeler dovetail to provide an unbeatable combination, enabling users to significantly cut their design to manufacturing lead-times," says Alphacam's sales director Martin Measures. "These benefits, along with the machining accuracy delivered by our programming software, are keys to success in today's ultra-competitive stone working sector."

About Alphacam

Alphacam is a principal brand of the Planit Group recently ranked by CIMdata as the world's fastest growing CAM vendor, with most industrial users. Alphacam's world-class CAD/CAM software for the engineering, woodworking and stone sectors provides rapid return on investment for manufacturing operations ranging from simple 2D profiling to complex 5-axis machining.

For more than three decades, Alphacam has provided products and services that enable customers to improve the productivity of their machine tools, shorten design and manufacturing time, optimize material usage and deliver high quality goods and services to their customers. For additional information, visit www.alphacam.com.

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