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3D Systems’ reverse engineering software improves design efficiency and accuracy

ByLeslie Langnau|May 19, 2020

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3D Systems is accelerating the transformation to digital manufacturing workflows with its suite of software. With this software as part of their workflow, manufacturers can deliver high-quality products with digital precision and speed – from digitization and design to manufacturing, inspection and production management.

3 d系统宣布Geomagic德西的新版本gn X and Geomagic Wrap, which include capabilities that streamline workflows and empower designers and engineers with digital tools to achieve greater precision. These enhancements are specifically developed to help manufacturers maintain competitive advantage by accelerating product development cycles.

Geomagic Design X features increase efficiency with improved accuracy
Geomagic Design X combines robust 3D scan processing and complete CAD design functionality for faster, more accurate and reliable reverse engineering. Engineers have access to the following new features:

–Revolved parts with features have historically been cumbersome to model as CAD software is using a two-dimensional environment to create three-dimensional, rotating parts with multi-axis features. The process often requires much trial-and re-work to get to a final part – often times sacrificing precision.

Unrolling of a 3D scan of a tire for mold modeling in Geomagic Design X

Geomagic Design X release includes an Unroll/Reroll function that enables a new modeling workflow to tackle these complex, revolved parts. Using a suite of mesh processing tools, an engineer can unroll the mesh to automatically extract a 2D sketch, make the modifications needed, and then reroll the sketch for additional engineering. This feature reduces the need for multiple rounds of trial and re-work, dramatically improving part precision, efficiency and downstream usability.

Hybrid Modeling Workflow of a topology optimized part in Geomagic Design X

–Topology optimized parts and castings with precision features present unique challenges for repatriating a generative mesh, or 3D scan into CAD with intelligence. The new Selective Surfacing features in Geomagic Design X 2020 simplify the hybrid modeling process, providing easy workflows for parts with both organic and prismatic features. Selective Surfacing combines fast organic surfacing with high precision feature modeling methods.

Geomagic Design X 2020 streamlines Hybrid Modeling Workflows for molding, casting, topology optimization, and medical applications.

3D Systems is using its customer-centric approach, collaborating with customers to understand their application needs and developing solutions to address them. The company is accelerating this approach by releasing a framework for early feature and capability preview. Through this framework, Geomagic Design X customers on maintenance will be invited into the R&D process – providing early access to innovations and the ability to share feedback. Additionally, this new plugin structure enables 3D Systems to quickly gather customer support requests – and in many cases more efficiently deliver support for customers’ business critical needs. Shortly following the general release of Geomagic Design X 2020, on-maintenance customers will be directly invited to visit the company’s new support site, and get access to the first Add-in pack delivered through this framework.

Modeling of a complex part with cylindrical drum slots in Geomagic Design X

Geomagic Design X 2020 is planned for general availability in late May 2020.

Geomagic Wrap 2021 includes enhanced automation to accelerate workflows
Geomagic Wrap 2021 includes features such as scripting automation and texture manipulation that accelerate designs.

Geomagic Wrap includes scripting automation that enables engineers to work more efficiently. The latest release includes a new scripting editor that allows engineers to customize their workflow for their applications. The editor uses Python to interact with the custom Geomagic Wrap accessible features. This enables a simpler experience with new tools such as ‘auto complete’ and ‘contextual highlighting’ that accelerate the design of accurate, 3D surfaced models. These features are complemented by enhanced API Documentation that will be live-hosted on the company’s support site providing customers access to continuously updated documentation.

Example of using the updated scripting editor showing the real time error tracking, Contextual highlighting, and autocomplete tools.

Geomagic Wrap 2021 includes new texture manipulation tools to streamline workflows involving color and texture scans. When an engineer scans an object that includes colors, logos or other complex visual elements in a scan-to-web workflow or digital asset creation, an additional software program is generally required to edit and re-touch these files prior to manipulating the surface textures. The latest release includes a robust set of texture map manipulation tools to deal with complex geometries directly within Geomagic Wrap.

A new HD Mesh Construction method provides a way to construct 3D data from point clouds. This can be a particularly challenging operation when dealing with a scan that is missing information, or for those that result in large data sets. HD Mesh Construction is designed to overcome these challenges, enabling engineers to create watertight meshes.
General availability of Geomagic Wrap 2021 is planned for late July 2020.

3D Systems
www.3dsystems.com


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