CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 September 2004
Product News
Kubotek Partners with Northwood Designs to Enhance Toolpath Functions
Kubotek USA announced it has signed an OEM deal with Northwood Designs, to embed portions of its MetaCut® Utilities 3.0 (MCU) as the engine behind Toolpath Verification features in Kubotek's KeyCreator modeling and machining software. Additionally, a 30-day trial version of the full MetaCut Utilities will ship with KeyCreator 3.0.2 this month.
Kubotek's KeyCreator, the evolution of CADKEY, is a solution for the design, development and tooling of products. The solution uses Kubotek's geometry-based approach to design and manufacturing and is particularly adept at working with 3D and solids.
"KeyCreator helps design engineers develop innovative products for today's competitive market," said Robert Bean, chief operating officer, Kubotek USA. "But design is only one aspect of the manufacturing process - in the end; manufacturability is a determining factor of success. By adding MetaCut Utilities to KeyCreator, we are making it easier for our customers to not only design creatively, but also manufacture products competitively."
The new Toolpath Verification functions in KeyCreator 3.0.2 can automatically transfer selected stock, toolpaths, and tools to the MetaCut Utilities interface for detailed analysis. MetaCut Utilities enable toolpath functions to verify, graphically edit, backplot, analyze, problem solve, revision control, reverse post to DXF files and DNC send and receive. MetaCut Utilities offers a feature set for easier and more rapid creation of toolpaths throughout the manufacturing process.
"The tight integration of KeyCreator and MetaCut Utilities Verification engine gives Kubotek customers an exceptionally fast and informative verification of their toolpaths," said Bill Elliott, president and CEO, Northwood Designs. "With the addition of the direct link to the stand-alone G-Code version of MCU, customers have inexpensive and painless access to the most complete set of G-Code utilities available at any price."
As part of the agreement between the two companies, Northwood Designs becomes a Kubotek Integrated Technology Partner. Kubotek Integrated Technology Partners offer technology that is integrated into KeyCreator and enhance the value to the customer.
For information on joining the Kubotek Partner Program, please contact: partners@kubotekusa.com
The KeyCreator creation engineering product line includes multidimensional design and drafting, NC programming and reverse engineering capabilities. The expanding product line features the company's geometry-based foundation with localized feature editing and sophisticated deformation techniques. These capabilities are particularly useful for design teams working with advanced designs of solid models because KeyCreator blends surface, solids and wireframe modeling, allowing easy modification and editing functionality.
The "CADKEY Evolution Tour," a series of free half-day events, is designed to introduce CADKEY customers to KeyCreator design and manufacturing software-the evolution of CADKEY-and demonstrate its ease-of-use. Registration for specific dates is available online at http://www.kubotekusa.com/roadshow Attendees will receive a free trial-version of the software and will also be registered to win an HP Pavilion notebook PC at each event.
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