ZW3D, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced CAD/CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry, announced that it has been selected by Able Tech industries Ltd. (Able Tech) for improving the efficiency of precision mold making. Able Tech, a Hong Kong invested enterprise, specializes in mold making, plastic part injection and secondary processing. 85% of their clients are from Japan and Japanese enterprises in China, like Panasonic, DAKIN, Canon and Sony etc.

The Need

Able Tech focuses on precision mold making and invests heavily on their overall production lines. To maximize flexible capital operation and enlarge their market share, they needed a fully functional 3D CAD platform for designing high-tech craft of molds at affordable prices.

The Solution

Having advantages in price and function, ZW3D was finally chosen by Able Tech to be fully applied in the enterprise, tremendously alleviating the pressure of finance and strengthening the flexibility of procurement.

“ZW3D has many unexpected functional advantages such as unique hybrid modeling which can flexibly realize the interchange between solid and surface. The proper price greatly eases our company’s internal financial pressure. The price of foreign software is five times that of ZW3D. Moreover, local services can quickly respond to our requirements, and give sufficient technology supports as well as training services,” said Mr. Huang, IT Manager at Able Tech. Plus, with the powerful data interface and repair capacity, ZW3D is able to collaborate with the former 2D design software. Besides, the direct edit function makes modification more flexible and convenient, shortening the products’ design cycle immensely. Huang added,“In the future, we would very much like to be in close contact and progress together with ZW3D.”

ZW3D, one of the world’s leading suppliers of advanced CAD/CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry, has released a CAD/CAM white paper to discuss practical approaches for product design, bringing better products with shorter time-to-market.

With user experience becoming a major talking point, the marketability of products relies on not just usability but also aesthetics. Customers prefer products with eye-catching shapes, leaving product designers with more challenges than ever. They are constantly seeking for solutions to maximize the flexibility of product design process, in a bid to conceptualize and realize even their craziest ideas.

Empowered by a unique OverdriveTM kernel, ZW3D CAD/CAM offers designers the following six approaches to turn their creative insights into tangible products.

Sketch Flexibility
With “Ready Sketch”, ZW3D’s built-in sketching library, standard parts can be sketched with a few clicks. As for not so commonly-used sketches, they can be generated in seconds with the equation curve. Plus, adjustments can be made by drag & drop operations.

Modeling Flexibility
Previously, designers were trained to apply different modeling commands to surfaces and models separately. ZW3D’s unique Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling technology, however, eliminates this barrier. It delivers much more user-friendly experience and more flexibility in creating 3D models, since the Boolean operation works for both solid and surface geometries.

High-quality Surface
Generally, to create products with the best surfaces, continuous curves and surfaces is essential. In ZW3D, surfaces can be generated from continuous curves. Furthermore, curvature tools help improve the quality of the curves and surfaces during the operation.

Assembly Modeling
Flexible assembly design can meet different needs of designers. ZW3D supports not only Bottom-up assembly design but also Top-down assembly deign. Both the design of independent parts and the update of associative parts can be done easily in ZW3D.

Editing Flexibility
With parametric modeling and Direct Edit tools in ZW3D, designers can adjust models easily and quickly at every stage of product design.

Documentation
Both 2D and 3D documentation is supported by ZW3D: 2D documentation can be achieved with 2D drafting, while models can also be shown three-dimensionally in PDF documents without 3D software.

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