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Schott Systeme Significantly Reduce CAM Toolpath Calculation Times
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MUNICH, Germany, July
23, 2009 - German CAD/CAM developer Schott Systeme GmbH have announced the inclusion of parallel processing functionality within the latest release of their CAD/CAM software 'Pictures by PC 3.4', providing significant reductions of up to 60% in toolpath calculation
times.
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With machining strategies becoming ever more complex, especially when employing high end 5 axis simultaneous milling and engraving techniques such as those offered by Schott Systeme, toolpath calculation times naturally become longer. However the Schott Systeme team have recently rewritten their software to ensure that the latest 32 and 64 bit versions can parallel process toolpath calculations. By dividing the processing of toolpaths over multiple cores in a computer's CPU, the software has instant access to the extra processing power offered by dual and quad core PC's. Totally transparent to the user, Schott Systeme cite immediate speed gains of between 30-50% for their 32 bit version running on a dual core processor, and anticipate additional gains of up to 60% when running on a quad core. As a result, this is generating immediate savings on every single job machined, without the user having to change the way they work. This compliments Schott Systeme's existing innovation of 'background calculation' enabling users to calculate complex toolpaths while simultaneously working on other parts within a different drawing.
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For a demo of some of the latest machining techniques, see http://www.schott-systeme.com/en/new3dmillvideo-en.htm
About Schott Systeme GmbH
Celebrating over 26 years of CAD/CAM excellence, Schott Systeme continue to develop the same software solution originally launched back in 1983. Starting out as one of the very first vector based graphics packages for the PC, their product 'Pictures by PC' as the name suggests, has evolved into one of the most mature CAD/CAM and technical documentation products available today. Being a fully integrated 2D/3D CAD, CAM and graphics package, Pictures caters for all aspects of workshop machining, through to product design and documentation. Schott Systeme is also proud to be one of only a few CAD/CAM developers to continually offer the sale of their product without any yearly maintenance charge, instead offering free lifetime customer
support.
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