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News Release from: Lantek Sheet Metal Solutions | Subject: Sheet metal CAD/CAM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 September 2005
Sheet metal CAD/CAM ups efficiency
Advanced sheet metal CAD/CAM presents a new user interface with powerful filters, navigation options and a very intuitive and flexible work frame.
Lantek presents the latest version of Lantek Expert, Version 25 With Version 25 of Lantek Expert, Lantek makes a very important step forward in improving the sheet metal work by developing a new product that allow the sheet metal fabricators to manage and optimize the different fabrication processes as efficiently as ever before
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Version 25 of Lantek Expert allows Lantek customers to achieve maximum efficiency while saving time and money on an every day basis.
The new Lantek Expert presents a new user interface with powerful filters, navigation options and a very intuitive and flexible work frame.
Some of the most significant new general features are: User programmable and customizable advanced filters.
Navigation: possibility to access any data from any module.
Possibility for the user to easily define new own fields in the database.
Improved security of control access to the system itself as well as to the data that each user can access.
A unique report center from which the user can have access to all the reports available in the system.
Other important features from the functionality point of view are: Report Design Module.
The new version includes a specific module for the easy and fast design of reports, offering the user the possibility to modify the reports in real time, adding zooms, detail lines, dimensions, texts, etc.
The system allows the user to access almost all the fields in the database.
* Nesting Module - new nesting algorythms have been developed, achieving better material utilisation, both in automatic and semiautomatic modes.
The nesting process has been improved in such a way that the resulting nestings are more efficient and regular.
machining.
More than 50 improvements in automatic and semiautomatic machining functions have been developed for cutting, punching and combination machines.
* Simulation - new features have been developed in order to achieve a more accurate and realistic sheet machining simulation, thus, giving the user better control of the verification process: The simulation process can be started at any point.
Simulation can be done step by step.
Simulation of 'next instruction' can be performed The user can stop and restart the simulation process at any point Different visualization formats are available in the nesting module.
These new options allow the user to configure the data to be viewed and the position where the user wants to view this data.
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