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Case Study / Software 22 MoldMaking Technology March 2013 VISI-Machining is easy to learn and use, but also provides the means to create the high-end toolpaths necessary to machine sophisticated mold core and cavity work. process such as machining part geometry into a simple process that can be learned quickly. ���Just by setting a few limits and allowances, the program was able to determine the exact paths that the tooling needed to go in to remove the correct amount of material,��� Eden continues. ���It was helpful with the project because our part geometry was too complicated to be machined with mills or drill presses. VISI allowed us to determine the correct tooling paths while creating the program for the CNC machine. We were able to make the CNC program for complex geometry inserts all within a couple of hours.��� Image courtesy of Vero International, Inc. Senior Maureen Cress���who is majoring in Plastics Engineering Technology���finds VISI easy to learn���and use. ���After learning the basics of VISI, and with my work using other types of engineering programs, I found VISI to be user-friendly and straightforward,��� she comments. ���It was a simple program to grasp and I had very little difficulty using the program.��� Cress liked how VISI showed her the path of the different cuts and animated them to see how the cut was going to be made. ���Visualizing what I was telling the program to do made it much easier to understand how to do different cuts,��� she notes. ���It was very helpful to use VISI to create a CNC program to cut the core and cavity halves of our car mold. Without this program, we would have had to learn how to manually program the CNC, and this would have required much more class time and out-of-class time. VISI made this portion of the project much simpler and much more accurate and advanced.����� Fellow Plastics Engineering Technology major Kevin Eden��� also a senior���agrees that VISI is simple to learn. ���Once the assembled part and stock material is imported into VISI, there are only a few easy steps left for creating a basic part,��� Eden says, ���picking which tool you wish to cut with, choosing the limits on how far the material needs to cut, and any allowances that you wish to use. Overall, VISI turns a very complicated