3D Modeling: Technical Articles and Resources
How to future-proof your modeling engine for freeform surfaces
Spatial Team | 04-05-2026
1. Hybrid geometry representations: pick one and lose Why a single representation is a trap Betting on a single geometry representation is probably the biggest architectural mistake we see teams ...
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Outcome Checking, Logging and Progress Reporting in 3D ACIS
This article shares a simple architecture which can be used to capture meta-data about the use of ACIS APIs in your ...
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Healing Gaps in CGM
As we live in a less than perfect world, 3D CAD models are far from perfect. Particularly, models often times contain ...
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Create an Ellipsoid in 3D ACIS
How To Create an Ellipsoid using 3D ACIS The 3D analytics supported directly in 3D ACIS include: sphere, block, ...
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Interactive 3D: How Do We Get There?
Basically, there are two priorities when using a software component, particularly a 3D modeling kernel: Does it do what ...
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Does Lisp Influence Your C++?
The idea for this post started on Aug 11, 2011, when I read Gregg’s post about choosing a scripting language for ...
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The Top 5 Essential Functions of 3D ACIS Modeler
A geometry kernel is a big thing. It’s a huge thing. Maybe even big enough to see from space. By most accounts, even ...
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What You Don't Know You Don't Know
Debugging problems is really easy once you "have them under glass". Get all the input data, get all the code, build it ...
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The Trouble with Namespaces
Today, I’m going to talk about the way my attitude towards using namespaces has pretty much done a complete reversal ...
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3D Modeling in Popular Culture
Did anyone else notice in Prometheus (recent movie), that when they landed on the planet of the crazy space men, the ...
