Including new features across all product areas, the 2024 release is a significant release focused on 5 key areas: Automation, Simplified User Experience, Productivity, Process Management and Digital Connectivity.
Editorial/User Interface
Advanced workflow improvements such as multi-view spacing, batch processing of drawing updates, tangent control for face alignment, and easy interior island coverage option.
The Cimatron 2024 Drawing Batch Update
also features a new graphical user interface for managing drawing standards, improved visualization of rough drawing analysis, and automated chamfer face selection in CADena.
CAD users will also receive many new features for 2D drafting, such as PDF import of actual geometry and text, new minimum distance dimensions, improved symbology, and improved Geometric Data and Tolerancing (GD&T).
Improved Geometric Data and Tolerancing (GD&T)
Improved Geometric Data and Tolerancing (GD&T)
CAD
Moldmakers gain powerful CAD enhancements for rib creation, with additional functionality to handle multiple curves in a single operation and automatically extend rib geometry to the sidewalls of the part. In addition, Cimatron 2024 can now create partial fins in difficult situations where it is not possible to produce a full fin.
3D channel design has been improved in mold design to provide greater design control based on constant volume, vertical or section orientation.
3D Corridor Design
Electrode design is a critical aspect of the mold manufacturing process. The 2024 version includes automation of the Burn Body operation to optimize the shape of the electrode body, control of electrode elongation, and no-cut rules for manual fabrication.
Die designers can now easily create 3D bead geometries to control material flow during the drawing operation and achieve optimal part shapes without cracks or folds. The new procedure will generate a bead based on the section type and automatically blend the result on the bead faces.
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Advanced Automatic Feed Control (AFC) has been completely redesigned and optimizes material removal in roughing operations by automatically controlling feedrate, resulting in smoother motion, faster machining, longer tool life and fewer changes to the spindle and machine axes . Proof testing using Sandvik Coromant reduced cutting time on CNC machines by more than 10%.
Automatically use remaining stock for 5-axis operations.
Automatic Feed Control (AFC) during roughing reduces CNC cutting time by more than 10%.
Cimatron 2024 introduces a new 3-axis deburring procedure for creating chamfers or fillets along sharp edges. CAM users can create chamfers of constant width or depth, as well as fillets of constant width or radius.
3-axis deburring
3-axis deburring
For 5-axis machining, the software now allows the remaining material from previous 3-axis operations to be automatically used during roughing. This allows the use of shorter cutters for greater stability.
The 5-axis auto tilt function has been greatly improved, reducing calculation time by up to 25 times in some cases. This significant increase in efficiency improves productivity and reduces overall processing time.
5-Axis Auto Tilt
5-Axis Auto Tilt
New pre-drilling option during roughing prevents cutters from sinking into blind cavities. Cimatron automatically determines the optimal pre-drilling position and depth as part of the roughing procedure.
The Machine Tool Inspection Probe Module now supports multi-point selection and cylindrical probes for more flexible and accurate inspection processes.
Digital connectivity
Cimatron 2024 has a strong focus on digital connectivity, and this release unlocks the power of Sandvik Coromant through direct integration with the CoroPlus® tool library and TDM tool management system.
Cimatron 2024 includes new integration with NCSIMUL for customers who want to simulate G-code using NCSIMUL. All relevant data such as G code, parts, inventory, fixtures and cutting tools are automatically transferred to NCSIMUL from the job manager.
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Cimatron 2024 offers a number of new features. These include a new interface for managing drawing standards, a drawing analysis feature, and the ability to chain chamfer face selections.
Designers can benefit from CAD when modeling fins, being able to work with multiple curves in a single operation and extend fin geometry to the sidewalls of the part.
In terms of electrode design, Cimatron 2024 includes a Burn Body operation that optimizes the shape of the electrode body, controls electrode elongation, and no-cut rules for manual manufacturing.
This new version of Cimatron supports CAD/CAM machining operations ranging from basic 2D to five-axis procedures.
A redesigned cutting program with automatic feed control optimizes chip removal during roughing by controlling feed rates, resulting in smoother motion, shorter machining times, longer cutting tool life and fewer changes to the spindle and machine axes.
In addition, Cimatron 2024 is digitally connected and directly integrates with Sandvik Coromant's Coro Plus tool library and TDM tool management system.
