The latest release delivers powerful new capabilities for engineering and manufacturing applications, improves application developer productivity with a streamlined interface, and adds support for large scale Point Clouds, enabling metrology and reverse engineering applications to efficiently store and perform operations on vast amounts of point data. R21 significantly improves the performance of 3D InterOp, the market leader in translation components for high-quality, precise geometry in data reuse applications. In ACIS R21, the new faceter interface for generating a surface mesh includes pre-defined settings for 3D visualization or analysis plus an expert mode resulting in faster implementation time.
ACIS R21 New Capabilities:
- The ACIS Faceter, used for visualizing 3D models or analysis applications generating a surface mesh to seed volumetric meshing, utilizes an all-new quad tree gridding algorithm for improved memory usage and performance. ACIS R21 also introduces an easy-to-use Faceter interface thereby reducing the implementation effort and time.
- R21 supports efficient handling of large amounts of point data. Point Cloud operations include property queuing; Boolean operations such as unite, subtract and intersect; copying and subsetting; undo-redo; and adding and removing points. The interface is user extensible for applications to add custom data to the Point Cloud.
- For manufacturing applications, R21 handles more complex geometrical conditions when thickening surfaces, ensuring accurate, precise and fully-bounded solids.
- Metrology applications benefit from fail safe slice operations offered in R21. Fail safe slicing enables partial results when slicing an ACIS model imported from low-quality data. The result is complete inspection / measurement paths regardless of geometrical complexity or noise.
- The Entity-Point-Distance function, which metrology applications use to measure the distance between design models and manufactured parts, has a new option to detect internal, boundary and external points. This significantly improves calculation times when comparing large amounts of data.
For a complete list of functionality see the R21 ACIS Release Notes
3D InterOp R21 Enhancements
The 3D InterOp Suite has improved performance, increased translation capabilities, and added support for the latest CAD versions.
- New CATIA V5 Translation Capabilities
- Reports missing components in XML EBOM product structure for assemblies
- Supports Capture Sets
- Supports Hidden PMI in parts
- Translation Performance Improvements
- String processing for IGES, STEP and VDA reader / writers
- Attribute processing for CATIA V5 reader
- Model generation for all readers with ACIS writer
- New CAD Version Support
- CATIA V5 R20 read and write
- SolidWorks 2010 read
- ProE Wildfire 5, Siemens NX7, Inventor 2010 read
- Parasolid v22 read and write
For a complete list of functionality see the R21 InterOp Release Notes
