From left: Original Model, Offset in x and y only, Offset in z only
Manufacturing software developer, MachineWorks will demo its expanded range of 3D polygon modelling capabilities for its Polygonica Software Toolkit at RAPID + TCT.
Key updates include a new Anisotropic Offsetting tool where a solid can be offset in different directions, each with their own value.
Along with further performance improvements to laser scan meshing and hole-filling, a new hole-fill algorithm has been added specifically to identify and reconstruct dental margin lines from low quality scans.
Visitors can also expect to see performance and quality improvements to the adaptive shrink-wrapping algorithm. Shrink wrapping removes internal detail and can produce a close-fitting watertight envelope around arbitrary geometry including sparse point datasets. Other uses include generating proxy level of detail meshes for use in VR/AR and accelerating clash detection by providing a tighter envelope than is possible with convex hulls.
The Polygonica Software Toolkit is already being used in a range of leading AM and scanning applications from key players such as 3D Systems, Stratasys, ANSYS, Desktop Metal and Renishaw.
“Our Polygonica customers benefit from MachineWorks’ 25 years of developing advanced polygon-based technology. Integrating Polygonica into their applications not only reduces costs and time to market but reduces the demands of ongoing maintenance and bug-fixing allowing their development teams to focus on adding unique value to their workflows,” states Richard Baxter, Sales Manager for Polygonica. “Every year we are providing more and more polygonal mesh design functionality, allowing our customers to build advanced polygon-editing workflows without the time-consuming and expensive requirement to reverse-engineer back to CAD.”
MachineWorks’ Polygonica will be exhibited on booth 334 at RAPID + TCT in Detroit on 21-23 May. Register here to attend.