"2024 1.0.1 Delivers Advanced Functionality For Optimizing and Simplifying Complex Data during Import"
Release Highlights:
Data Prep Is Now Officially Released
Open New Horizons in Data Import
After successfully launching the alpha version, Data Prep, Spatial’s newest add-on product for 3D InterOp, is now officially released to all customers. Supported strategies include filtering small bodies from a model, removing small holes and fillets, and generating an assembly structure from a part with duplicate bodies.
Over the past three months, the strong customer interest confirms the market need for tools to simplify and optimize data during import significantly. Looking forward, Spatial plans to invest further in Data Prep strategies. Functionality to be released soon includes:
- Advanced capabilities to reduce significantly the amount of data to manage while preserving relevant features - to shorten model preparation times for multi-physics and process simulation workflows.
- Ability to convert polyline data to continuous curves during file restore - to decrease memory consumption and allow for successful import.
- A new option to avoid model shrinkage due to Data Prep strategies such as feature removal - to ensure the accuracy of collision detection analyses.
- More detailed logging information about model changes due to Data Prep.
If you are interested in helping to define future strategies for Data Prep, contact your account manager.
Consult Spatial today for additional details about Data Prep's new capabilities and file type support, or follow the link below to learn even more about the SDK.
3D InterOp Extends Support for BIM and Manufacturing
New Support for Navisworks and Writing DXF/DWG Drawing Sheets
The latest release allows BIM customers to read Navisworks files and introduces new functionality for writing drawing sheets in a DXF/DWG format. This feature is helpful for manufacturing environments that rely on drawing sheets. Additionally, the updated version of 3D InterOp now offers expanded support for the Linux platform in Parasolid-based 3D InterOp.
Manufacturing applications rely on hole pattern metadata to automate machining processes, including drilling, milling, cutting, or punching of intricate hole motifs that reflect functional specifications or part geometry. The latest release of 3D InterOp adds support for Point and Table type hole patterns from within the Creo Reader.
Enabling Support or More Formats through External Partners
Extensible 3D InterOp is an infrastructure that allows a partner to develop readers and writers for file formats that 3D InterOp does not currently support. These readers and writers implemented outside of Spatial integrate with existing formats to exchange BREP and Visualization data seamlessly. Customers interested in implementing custom readers and writers can contact their account manager for more information.
Package Size Optimization
For customers who don’t require support for all packaged formats, 3D InterOp now provides information on configuring a minimal set of libraries for many popular CAD and exchange formats. Consequently, you'll be able to reduce the number of libraries you need to ship with your application and conserve end-user disk space. For instance, if your application requires support for only IGES + STEP formats, you reduce the size on disk of the installed libraries by 70%”. It is important to note that this feature is tailored specifically for our ACIS-based 3D InterOp customers.
Consult Spatial today for additional details about 3d InterOp's new capabilities, or follow the buttons below to learn more.
3D ACIS Modeler Improves Polyhedral Modeling
Polyhedral Sheet Thickening
Additive manufacturing or EDA workflows often start with input that is a 2D representation of a thin part to be processed. When printing or simulating the part, generating a realistic 3D model representing the object with its actual thickness is helpful. This release delivers a new API to generate a thickened body from polyhedral sheets.
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| Input: Sheet body to be thickened by a specific thickness value | Output: Thickened into a solid as defined |
New Polyhedral Boolean Operations
ACIS now provides functionality to compute the intersection graph between two polyhedral bodies. It also allows combining disjointed polyhedral bodies into a single body, increasing the efficiency of downstream operations.
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| Input: 2 intersecting polyhedral bodies | Output: Green outline Intersection Graph |
Consult Spatial today for additional details about ACIS Modeler’s capabilities, or follow the button below to learn more about the SDK.
CGM Provides More Tools for Manufacturing Automation and Simulation
Enhancements to Feature Recognition and Removal
Users can now specify an industry context to customize the behavior of feature recognition. Setting the industry context tailors feature recognition to provide intuitive results for applications as diverse as Body in White, Micro-Mechanics, and Civil Engineering. This release also offers new functionality to remove chamfers.
Improved Polyhedral Modeling for Additive Manufacturing
This release provides various robustness and performance enhancements targeting polyhedral healing and offset. For both types of operations, options are now available to tune the performance for specific configurations.
New Medial Axis Extraction Operator
Simulation engineers need tools to simplify the geometry of parts to reduce the time it takes to compute an analysis. This release features the beta version of the Neutral Fiber Operator, which reduces radially symmetric 3D bodies to a one-dimensional line.
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| Input: circular cross-section solid piping elbow | Output: computation of the medial axis of the piping elbow |
Consult Spatial today for additional details about CGM’s capabilities, or follow the button below to learn more about the SDK.
CSM/CVM: Improvements to Cartesian Core Workflows
CVM provides the ability to generate Cartesian elements (axis-aligned hexahedra) that can be meshed in the space's interior. The result is an accurate triangular mesh at the surface and Cartesian elements in most of the volume mesh, often with a higher proportion of hexahedra. In previous releases, the algorithm automatically deduced the size of Cartesian elements from the size of the elements for the surface mesh, but now users can control the size of these generated elements.
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Different Sizes for Cartesian Core Elements
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