MICKINNEY, TX, Jan 23, 2025 – Sigmetrix has announced their latest release of CETOL 6σ tolerance analysis software, version 12.0, available for immediate download. Tolerance analysis offers several advantages for businesses. It supports higher profits by balancing product quality with production costs. Companies can speed up product launches by reducing the need for additional design or prototype stages. It also allows teams to make informed product and process decisions before making costly investments.

CETOL 6σ enables product development teams to understand the often-complex impact of dimensional and assembly variation easily and fully on their designs. This knowledge enables them to make the proper adjustments before problems appear in manufacturing or, even worse, in their customers’ hands. Users of all expertise levels will appreciate the multiple levels of assistance available within the software. This new release of CETOL 6σ builds upon the features already in place and adds improvements, including:
- A New Version of the Software Directly Integrated with Siemens NX– CETOL 6σ users will have the option of using CETOL 6σ as an add-in application within the NX environment, supporting the additional capabilities of saving the CETOL 6σ data embedded within the NX files as well as automatically pushing changes to linked tolerance values back to the PMI in NX. The standalone version of CETOL 6σ for NX is available as well to facilitate migration to the new solution, as data from the standalone version may be opened in the new, integrated version.
- Select Auxiliary Features for Other Conditions – Auxiliary Features, functionality first added in 3, may now be referenced to modify the location of measurement endpoints, to modify the location of a joint, or to modify the location of a feature origin.
- Reset Joint DOFs – CETOL 6σ has applied an algorithm to automatically set degree-of-freedom controls for joints being imported or manually added based on the order in which they are added. Adjusting the setting when the order wasn’t correct, though, is now much faster with this new context menu option.
- Add Geometric Tolerance Context Menu Option—This feature allows the user to add a geometric tolerance directly from the context menu for the feature in addition to the standard tool in the ribbon.
- Upload to VariSight – Uploading data to VariSight, a new, enterprise-level product for managing CETOL 6σ data files schedule to be released later this year, is supported directly within the application.
As with prior releases, CETOL 6σ v12.0 is available in English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
Sigmetrix director of customer success and product strategy, Stephen Werst, commented, “CETOL 6σ v12. is a significant step forward for Sigmetrix as we strive to achieve feature parity across all supported CAD platforms, continue to make the software easier to use, and prepare for the upcoming release of our newest product, Varisight. This release, along with improvements in our entire product portfolio, continues our unrelenting efforts to help companies build better products through mechanical variation management via a robust combination of software, training, and consulting services.”
Source: Sigmetrix