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Reference Guide 9.0 Last update: 17 April 2014 3-matic Research L-10116 3-matic Research 9.0 Reference Guide
Reference Guide
9.0
Last update: 17 April 2014
3-matic Research
L-10116 3-matic Research 9.0 Reference Guide
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................. iii
PART I: Important Information .......................................................................................................... 1
License Agreement ............................................................................................................................... 2
Third Party Software Usage ............................................................................................................... 10
3-matic Research Instructions for Software Use ............................................................................. 14
Feature changes related to the Medical and Research Edition...................................................... 15
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 15
2 Technical details ......................................................................................................................... 16
2.2 Import and copy-paste ......................................................................................................... 17
2.3 Preferences .......................................................................................................................... 18
2.4 Recovery files ....................................................................................................................... 18
PART II: Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 19
Chapter 1: Whats new in 3-matic Research 9.0 .............................................................................. 20
1 BASE .......................................................................................................................................... 20
1.1 New renderer ........................................................................................................................ 20
1.2 Search in Scene Tree (View menu) ..................................................................................... 20
1.3 Plane to Plane align (Align menu) ........................................................................................ 21
2 ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................................. 22
2.1 Header information in exported *.txt files ............................................................................. 22
2.2 Scale bar .............................................................................................................................. 22
3 DESIGN ...................................................................................................................................... 23
3.1 Curve .................................................................................................................................... 23
3.2 Design .................................................................................................................................. 24
3.3 Finish .................................................................................................................................... 25
3.4 Finish .................................................................................................................................... 26
4 ANATOMICAL REVERSE ENGINEERING ................................................................................ 27
4.1 Export to STEP ..................................................................................................................... 27
5 MINOR CHANGES ..................................................................................................................... 28
Chapter 2: Registration ...................................................................................................................... 29
1 Request a local license ............................................................................................................... 29
1.1 Evaluation ............................................................................................................................. 30
1.2 License (local) ...................................................................................................................... 34
1.3 Floating License Server ....................................................................................................... 44
1.4 License and system information ........................................................................................... 46
2 License Server ............................................................................................................................ 50
PART III: General Information ................................................................................................. 51
CHAPTER 1: User Interface................................................................................................................ 52
1 3-matic Research way of working ............................................................................................... 52
1.1 A project ............................................................................................................................... 52
1.2 The Scene Tree.................................................................................................................... 52
1.3 The Copy/ Paste functionality .............................................................................................. 53
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1.4 Expert mode ......................................................................................................................... 53
2 User interface: an overview ........................................................................................................ 53
2.1 The Scene Tree.................................................................................................................... 55
2.2 The Search bar ..................................................................................................................... 55
2.3 The Work Area ..................................................................................................................... 55
2.4 The Operation Page ............................................................................................................. 57
2.5 The property page ................................................................................................................ 59
2.6 The macro page ................................................................................................................... 59
2.7 The Menu, the Main and Tabbed Toolbars .......................................................................... 63
2.8 The context menu................................................................................................................. 64
CHAPTER 2: 3-matic Research entities ............................................................................................ 68
1 The world coordinate system ...................................................................................................... 68
2 Group .......................................................................................................................................... 68
3 Parts and primitive parts ............................................................................................................. 68
3.1 The coordinate system of a part ........................................................................................... 69
3.2 Surface List, Loaded surface list, surface set ...................................................................... 69
3.3 Curve list, Curve set ............................................................................................................. 72
3.4 Triangles and the marked and invisible triangles list ........................................................... 72
3.5 Wireframe ............................................................................................................................. 73
4 Sketch ......................................................................................................................................... 73
4.1 The coordinate system of a sketch ...................................................................................... 74
4.2 Point list ................................................................................................................................ 74
4.3 Point ..................................................................................................................................... 74
4.4 The curve list ........................................................................................................................ 74
PART IV: Menus & Toolbars ............................................................................................. 77
CHAPTER 1: File menu ....................................................................................................................... 78
1 Project ......................................................................................................................................... 78
1.1 New Project .......................................................................................................................... 78
1.2 Open Project ........................................................................................................................ 78
1.3 Save Project ......................................................................................................................... 78
1.4 Save Project As .................................................................................................................... 78
1.5 Save Subproject As .............................................................................................................. 78
2 Import Part (general) ................................................................................................................... 79
3 Materialise project files & exchange formats .............................................................................. 80
3.1 Mimics project file ................................................................................................................. 81
3.2 Magics project file................................................................................................................. 81
3.3 MDCK file ............................................................................................................................. 81
3.4 MGX file ................................................................................................................................ 81
3.5 XML file ................................................................................................................................ 81
4 File formats with a triangle description ....................................................................................... 82
4.1 STL file ................................................................................................................................. 82
4.2 VRML file .............................................................................................................................. 83
4.3 3D Studio file ........................................................................................................................ 85
4.4 PLY (*.ply, *.zcp) .................................................................................................................. 85
4.5 ZPR (*.zpr) ........................................................................................................................... 85
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5 File formats described by CAD entities ....................................................................................... 86
5.1 JT (*.jt) .................................................................................................................................. 88
5.2 OBJ (*.obj) ............................................................................................................................ 88
5.3 Google SketchUp (*.skp) ...................................................................................................... 88
5.4 3DM (*.3DM) ........................................................................................................................ 88
5.5 ACIS (*.sat) .......................................................................................................................... 89
5.6 Catia V4 (*.model, *.exp, *.dlv, *.dlv3).................................................................................. 89
5.7 Catia V5 (*.CATpart, *.CATproduct) ..................................................................................... 89
5.8 DXF (*.dxf) ............................................................................................................................ 89
5.9 IGES (*.igs, *.iges) ............................................................................................................... 90
5.10 Pro/E (*.prt, *.asm*) ............................................................................................................ 90
5.11 Solidworks (*.solidprt, *.solidasm) ...................................................................................... 90
5.12 STEP (*.stp, *.step) ............................................................................................................ 90
5.13 Unigraphics / Parasolid (*.prt, *.x_t) ................................................................................... 90
5.14 VDAFS (*.vda, *.vdafs) ....................................................................................................... 91
6 Point Cloud file ............................................................................................................................ 91
7 CAE mesh file formats ................................................................................................................ 91
7.1 Fluent mesh .......................................................................................................................... 91
7.2 Nastran mesh ....................................................................................................................... 92
7.3 Patran mesh ......................................................................................................................... 92
7.4 Ansys mesh .......................................................................................................................... 93
7.5 Abaqus mesh ....................................................................................................................... 93
7.6 Comsol mesh ....................................................................................................................... 94
8 Interactive CAD Import................................................................................................................ 94
9 Export .......................................................................................................................................... 96
9.1 STL ....................................................................................................................................... 96
9.2 MDCK ................................................................................................................................... 97
9.3 3D PDF ................................................................................................................................. 97
9.4 Screen Capture .................................................................................................................... 98
9.5 Curves and Primitives .......................................................................................................... 98
9.6 Measurement ....................................................................................................................... 99
9.7 Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 100
9.8 ABAQUS ............................................................................................................................ 100
9.9 ANSYS ............................................................................................................................... 102
9.10 Comsol ............................................................................................................................. 103
9.11 FLUENT ........................................................................................................................... 104
9.12 Nastran ............................................................................................................................. 105
9.13 Patran ............................................................................................................................... 107
9.14 Point Cloud ....................................................................................................................... 107
9.15 Curves .............................................................................................................................. 108
9.16 Iges ................................................................................................................................... 108
9.17 Step .................................................................................................................................. 110
9.18 MGX ................................................................................................................................. 111
10 Exit .......................................................................................................................................... 112
CHAPTER 2: Edit Menu .................................................................................................................... 113
1 Edit menu .................................................................................................................................. 113
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1.1 Undo, Redo, Show Undo Stack ......................................................................................... 113
1.2 Select ................................................................................................................................. 113
CHAPTER 3: View Menu and Toolbar ............................................................................................. 115
1.1 Pan View ............................................................................................................................ 115
1.2 Rotate View ........................................................................................................................ 115
1.3 Zoom Window .................................................................................................................... 115
1.4 Unzoom all ......................................................................................................................... 115
1.5 Create section .................................................................................................................... 115
1.6 Rectangular Clipping .......................................................................................................... 119
1.7 Invert invisibility .................................................................................................................. 120
1.8 Make All Visible .................................................................................................................. 120
1.9 Default views ...................................................................................................................... 120
1.10 Shading modes ................................................................................................................ 120
1.11 Toggle Bad Contours ....................................................................................................... 121
1.12 Toggle orientation indicator .............................................................................................. 121
1.13 Sort ................................................................................................................................... 121
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1.14 Log info ............................................................................................................................. 122
1.15 Scene tree ........................................................................................................................ 123
1.16 Search bar ........................................................................................................................ 123
1.17 Macros pagdisc ................................................................................................................ 123
1.18 Property page ................................................................................................................... 123
1.19 Operation page................................................................................................................. 123
1.20 Calculator ......................................................................................................................... 124
CHAPTER 4: Point Cloud Menu and Toolbar ................................................................................. 125
1.1 Mark points inside a rectangular window ........................................................................... 125
1.2 Mark points inside a freehand contour ............................................................................... 125
1.3 Unmark All .......................................................................................................................... 125
1.4 Remove Marked ................................................................................................................. 125
1.5 Reduce Noise ..................................................................................................................... 126
1.6 Sub sample ........................................................................................................................ 126
1.7 Split .................................................................................................................................... 127
1.8 Scan Registration ............................................................................................................... 127
1.9 Merge Point Clouds ............................................................................................................ 128
1.10 Mesh Data ........................................................................................................................ 128
1.11 Mesh Range Data ............................................................................................................ 130
1.12 Glue Meshes .................................................................................................................... 131
CHAPTER 5: Align Menu and Toolbar ............................................................................................ 133
1 Align Operations ....................................................................................................................... 133
1.1 Interactive Translate ........................................................................................................... 133
1.2 Interactive Rotate ............................................................................................................... 134
1.3 Interactive Positioning ........................................................................................................ 134
1.4 Translate ............................................................................................................................ 135
1.5 Rotate ................................................................................................................................. 136
1.6 Linear Pattern ..................................................................................................................... 137
1.7 Scale .................................................................................................................................. 139
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1.8 Mirror .................................................................................................................................. 141
1.9 Align ................................................................................................................................... 141
1.10 Plane to Plane Align ......................................................................................................... 143
1.11 Arc to Arc Align................................................................................................................. 144
1.12 Bottom Plane Positioning ................................................................................................. 144
1.13 N Points Registration ....................................................................................................... 145
1.14 Global Registration ........................................................................................................... 145
1.15 Update OCS to CS ........................................................................................................... 146
CHAPTER 6: Mark Menu and Toolbar ............................................................................................. 148
1 Mark: general ............................................................................................................................ 148
1.1 Database and property page .............................................................................................. 148
1.2 Color of marked triangles ................................................................................................... 148
1.3 Preferences ........................................................................................................................ 148
1.4 Selecting the Mark Toolbar ................................................................................................ 149
2 Mark menu ................................................................................................................................ 149
2.1 Mark triangle ....................................................................................................................... 149
2.2 Mark plane .......................................................................................................................... 149
2.3 Mark Entities ....................................................................................................................... 149
2.4 Mark smooth region............................................................................................................ 150
2.5 Mark shell ........................................................................................................................... 150
2.6 Unmark ............................................................................................................................... 150
2.7 Invert .................................................................................................................................. 150
2.8 Expand ............................................................................................................................... 151
2.9 Expand by Number............................................................................................................. 151
2.10 Shrink ............................................................................................................................... 151
2.11 Shrink by number ............................................................................................................. 151
2.12 Connect Marked Triangles ............................................................................................... 152
2.13 Rectangular Mark ............................................................................................................. 152
2.14 Wave Brush Mark ............................................................................................................. 153
2.15 Polyline Brush Mark ......................................................................................................... 154
2.16 Lasso Area Mark .............................................................................................................. 155
2.17 Polygon Area Mark ........................................................................................................... 156
2.18 Smooth Marking Border ................................................................................................... 156
2.19 Make invisible ................................................................................................................... 157
2.20 Make All Visible ................................................................................................................ 157
CHAPTER 7: Fix Menu and Toolbar ................................................................................................ 158
1 Fix Wizard ................................................................................................................................. 158
1.1 Description ......................................................................................................................... 158
1.2 Diagnostics ......................................................................................................................... 158
1.3 Combined Fix ..................................................................................................................... 159
1.4 Normals .............................................................................................................................. 161
1.5 Stitching .............................................................................................................................. 162
1.6 Noise shells ........................................................................................................................ 163
1.7 Holes .................................................................................................................................. 164
1.8 Triangles ............................................................................................................................. 165
1.9 Overlaps ............................................................................................................................. 166
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1.10 Shells ................................................................................................................................ 167
2 Fixing Operations ...................................................................................................................... 168
2.1 Autofix ................................................................................................................................ 168
2.2 Auto Adjust Normal ............................................................................................................ 170
2.3 Invert Normal ...................................................................................................................... 170
2.4 Stitch .................................................................................................................................. 170
2.5 Glue Meshes ...................................................................................................................... 171
2.6 Create Triangle ................................................................................................................... 172
2.7 Fill Hole Normal .................................................................................................................. 172
2.8 Fill Hole Ruled .................................................................................................................... 173
2.9 Fill Hole Freeform ............................................................................................................... 173
2.10 Mass Hole Filler................................................................................................................ 175
2.11 Wrap ................................................................................................................................. 176
2.12 Slot Restoration ................................................................................................................ 178
2.13 Reduce ............................................................................................................................. 182
2.14 Subdivide .......................................................................................................................... 183
2.15 Filter Sharp Triangles ....................................................................................................... 184
2.16 Filter Small Edges ............................................................................................................ 184
2.17 Filter Small Shells............................................................................................................. 185
2.18 Unify ................................................................................................................................. 186
2.19 Mark Intersecting Triangles .............................................................................................. 186
2.20 Mark Double Triangles ..................................................................................................... 187
2.21 Smooth ............................................................................................................................. 188
2.22 Project Mesh .................................................................................................................... 189
2.23 Fill Pipes ........................................................................................................................... 190
CHAPTER 8: Surface Menu and Toolbar ........................................................................................ 192
1 Surfaces .................................................................................................................................... 192
1.1 Surfaces and parts of surfaces .......................................................................................... 192
1.2 Selection ............................................................................................................................. 194
2 Surface context menu ............................................................................................................... 194
3 The surface menu and toolbar .................................................................................................. 194
3.1 Filter Small Surfaces .......................................................................................................... 195
3.2 Split Surface ....................................................................................................................... 195
3.3 Shells to Surface Sets ........................................................................................................ 195
3.4 Shells to Parts .................................................................................................................... 196
3.5 Surface Sets to Parts ......................................................................................................... 196
3.6 Autocolor Surfaces ............................................................................................................. 196
3.7 Uniformly Color Surfaces ................................................................................................... 197
3.8 Surface Recovery ............................................................................................................... 198
3.9 Polyline Patch ..................................................................................................................... 198
3.10 Elliptical Patch .................................................................................................................. 199
3.11 Rectangular Patch ............................................................................................................ 199
3.12 Freeform Patch................................................................................................................. 200
3.13 Automatic Rectangular Patch ........................................................................................... 201
CHAPTER 9: Measure Menu and Toolbar ....................................................................................... 203
1 Measuring ................................................................................................................................. 203
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1.1 How to measure? ............................................................................................................... 203
1.2 Selection ............................................................................................................................. 203
1.3 Database ............................................................................................................................ 203
1.4 Property page ..................................................................................................................... 203
2 Measurement Menu and Toolbar .............................................................................................. 207
2.1 Measure Distance .............................................................................................................. 207
2.2 Measure Angle ................................................................................................................... 209
2.3 Measure Radius ................................................................................................................. 210
2.4 Measure Length ................................................................................................................. 211
2.5 Add Annotation ................................................................................................................... 212
2.6 Select Measurement .......................................................................................................... 213
CHAPTER 10: Analyze Menu and Toolbar ...................................................................................... 214
1 Analytical Primitives .................................................................................................................. 214
1.1 Create point ........................................................................................................................ 214
1.2 Create line .......................................................................................................................... 215
1.3 Create arc ........................................................................................................................... 217
1.4 Create datum plane ............................................................................................................ 218
1.5 Create analytical cylinder ................................................................................................... 222
1.6 Create analytical cone ........................................................................................................ 223
1.7 Create analytical sphere .................................................................................................... 224
1.8 Edit Axis ............................................................................................................................. 225
2 Introduction to analyze .............................................................................................................. 226
2.1 Analysis entity .................................................................................................................... 226
2.2 Properties ........................................................................................................................... 226
2.3 Histogram ........................................................................................................................... 227
2.4 Color bar ............................................................................................................................. 228
3 Analyze Menu and Toolbar ....................................................................................................... 230
3.1 Create Wall Thickness Analysis ......................................................................................... 230
3.2 Create Curvature Analysis ................................................................................................. 231
3.3 Create Part Comparison Analysis ...................................................................................... 233
3.4 Create Distance-to-Curve Analysis .................................................................................... 234
3.5 Create Distance-to-Curve over Surface Analysis .............................................................. 234
3.6 Create Midplane Thickness Analysis ................................................................................. 235
3.7 Create Extrema Analysis .................................................................................................... 236
3.8 Measure Analysis Locally ................................................................................................... 237
3.9 Segmentation ..................................................................................................................... 237
CHAPTER 11: Curve Menu and Toolbar ......................................................................................... 240
1 Curves ....................................................................................................................................... 240
1.1 Definition ............................................................................................................................ 240
1.2 Selection ............................................................................................................................. 240
1.3 Database and property page .............................................................................................. 240
2 Curve context menu .................................................................................................................. 243
2.1 Curves you draw ................................................................................................................ 243
2.2 Surface curves ................................................................................................................... 243
3 Curve menu .............................................................................................................................. 243
3.1 Create Curve ...................................................................................................................... 243
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3.2 Edit Curve ........................................................................................................................... 248
3.3 Project Curve ...................................................................................................................... 249
3.4 Attract Curve ...................................................................................................................... 250
3.5 Extend Curve ...................................................................................................................... 251
3.6 Close Curve ........................................................................................................................ 254
3.7 Connect Curves.................................................................................................................. 254
3.8 Curve Web ......................................................................................................................... 255
3.9 Trim Curve .......................................................................................................................... 256
3.10 Split Curve ........................................................................................................................ 256
3.11 Enlarge Curve .................................................................................................................. 257
3.12 Flip Curve ......................................................................................................................... 258
3.13 Convert to Curve .............................................................................................................. 258
3.14 Edit Curve Tangent .......................................................................................................... 259
3.15 Blend Curve ...................................................................................................................... 259
3.16 Smooth Curve .................................................................................................................. 260
3.17 Straighten Curve .............................................................................................................. 261
3.18 Reduce Curve .................................................................................................................. 262
3.19 Subdivide Curve ............................................................................................................... 263
3.20 Filter Curve ....................................................................................................................... 263
3.21 Create Intersection Curve ................................................................................................ 265
3.22 Create Self-Intersection Curve ......................................................................................... 266
3.23 Create Geometry Curve ................................................................................................... 267
3.24 Create Spiral Curve .......................................................................................................... 269
3.25 Create Center Line ........................................................................................................... 271
3.26 Create Isocurves .............................................................................................................. 271
3.27 Split Surfaces by Curves .................................................................................................. 272
CHAPTER 12: Sketch Menu and Toolbar ........................................................................................ 274
1 The Sketcher ............................................................................................................................. 274
1.1 Definition ............................................................................................................................ 274
1.2 Making a sketch design ...................................................................................................... 274
1.3 Database, Scene and Property page of a sketch .............................................................. 275
1.4 Selection of a sketch .......................................................................................................... 276
2 Sketch entities, database and property page ........................................................................... 277
2.1 The coordinate system of a sketch .................................................................................... 277
2.2 Point list .............................................................................................................................. 277
2.3 The curve list ...................................................................................................................... 278
2.4 Selection of sketch entities ................................................................................................. 282
3 Context menu ............................................................................................................................ 282
4 Sketch menu part 1: sketches .................................................................................................. 283
4.1 New Sketch ........................................................................................................................ 283
4.2 Reorient .............................................................................................................................. 285
4.3 Call solver ........................................................................................................................... 286
4.4 Unzoom and show the top ................................................................................................. 286
4.5 Import ................................................................................................................................. 287
4.6 Import Bitmap ..................................................................................................................... 289
4.7 Export ................................................................................................................................. 290
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4.8 Sketch Folding .................................................................................................................... 290
5 Sketch menu part 2: create sketch entities ............................................................................... 292
5.1 General remark: Snapping and putting constraints while drawing ..................................... 292
5.2 Toogle Construction by default .......................................................................................... 293
5.3 Create Point ....................................................................................................................... 293
5.4 Create Line ......................................................................................................................... 293
5.5 Create Line Sequence ....................................................................................................... 294
5.6 Create Circle ...................................................................................................................... 294
5.7 Circle Arc (Center and radius) ............................................................................................ 295
5.8 Circle Arc (3 points) ............................................................................................................ 295
5.9 Create/Refine Spline .......................................................................................................... 295
5.10 Create Label ..................................................................................................................... 298
5.11 Create Line Grid ............................................................................................................... 299
6 Sketch menu part 3: conversion ............................................................................................... 300
6.1 Convert to Context Curve ................................................................................................... 300
6.2 Convert to Polyline ............................................................................................................. 300
6.3 Convert to Sketch Curves .................................................................................................. 301
7 Sketch menu part 4: constraints ............................................................................................... 301
7.1 General remarks................................................................................................................. 301
7.2 Vertical ............................................................................................................................... 302
7.3 Horizontal ........................................................................................................................... 302
7.4 Collinear ............................................................................................................................. 302
7.5 Parallel ............................................................................................................................... 302
7.6 Perpendicular ..................................................................................................................... 302
7.7 Coincident .......................................................................................................................... 303
7.8 Tangent .............................................................................................................................. 303
7.9 Equal length ....................................................................................................................... 303
7.10 Equal radius ..................................................................................................................... 303
7.11 Set Angle .......................................................................................................................... 303
7.12 Set Distance ..................................................................................................................... 304
7.13 Set Length ........................................................................................................................ 304
7.14 Set Radius ........................................................................................................................ 305
7.15 Fix point (Coordinates) ..................................................................................................... 305
7.16 Midpoint ............................................................................................................................ 306
7.17 Point on curve .................................................................................................................. 306
7.18 Toggle fixed property ....................................................................................................... 306
7.19 Set fixed property on ........................................................................................................ 306
7.20 Set fixed property off ........................................................................................................ 306
8 Sketch menu part 5: tools ......................................................................................................... 307
8.1 Trim curves ......................................................................................................................... 307
8.2 Trim extended .................................................................................................................... 307
8.3 Extend ................................................................................................................................ 308
8.4 Round ................................................................................................................................. 308
8.5 Split .................................................................................................................................... 311
8.6 Create Offset ...................................................................................................................... 311
8.7 Create Width ...................................................................................................................... 312
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8.8 Pattern ................................................................................................................................ 313
8.9 Mirror .................................................................................................................................. 314
9 Sketch menu part 6: select, delete, drag .................................................................................. 315
9.1 Select ................................................................................................................................. 315
9.2 Delete ................................................................................................................................. 315
9.3 Select and drag .................................................................................................................. 316
CHAPTER 13: Design Menu and Toolbar ....................................................................................... 317
1 CAD operations ......................................................................................................................... 317
1.1 Extrude ............................................................................................................................... 317
1.2 Revolve .............................................................................................................................. 320
1.3 Sweep ................................................................................................................................ 322
1.4 Extend Surface ................................................................................................................... 324
1.5 Loft ..................................................................................................................................... 325
1.6 Surface Construction .......................................................................................................... 328
1.7 Anatomy Reconstruction .................................................................................................... 329
1.8 Cut ...................................................................................................................................... 330
1.9 Cut with Internal Tooth ....................................................................................................... 331
1.10 Cut with External Tooth .................................................................................................... 332
1.11 Hollow ............................................................................................................................... 334
1.12 Wrap ................................................................................................................................. 335
1.13 Offset ................................................................................................................................ 337
1.14 Move Surface ................................................................................................................... 338
1.15 Create Base ..................................................................................................................... 340
1.16 Local Offset ...................................................................................................................... 341
1.17 Local Offset by Curve ....................................................................................................... 342
1.18 Create Cage ..................................................................................................................... 343
1.19 Morphing to Curve ............................................................................................................ 343
2 Analytical Primitives .................................................................................................................. 344
2.1 Create point ........................................................................................................................ 344
2.2 Create line .......................................................................................................................... 346
2.3 Create arc ........................................................................................................................... 347
2.4 Create datum plane ............................................................................................................ 349
2.5 Create analytical cylinder ................................................................................................... 352
2.6 Create analytical cone ........................................................................................................ 353
2.7 Create analytical sphere .................................................................................................... 355
2.8 Edit Axis ............................................................................................................................. 356
3 Convert Analytical Primitive to Part .......................................................................................... 356
4 Triangulated Primitives ............................................................................................................. 357
4.1 Properties of a triangulated primitive.................................................................................. 357
4.2 Create Cylinder .................................................................................................................. 358
4.3 Create Sphere .................................................................................................................... 359
4.4 Create Box ......................................................................................................................... 360
4.5 Create Cone ....................................................................................................................... 361
4.6 Create Pyramid .................................................................................................................. 362
4.7 Create Prism ...................................................................................................................... 363
4.8 Create Torus ...................................................................................................................... 364
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5 Boolean operations ................................................................................................................... 365
5.1 Boolean Union .................................................................................................................... 365
5.2 Boolean Intersection .......................................................................................................... 366
5.3 Boolean Subtraction ........................................................................................................... 367
5.4 Local Boolean ..................................................................................................................... 368
5.5 Matching surface Boolean .................................................................................................. 369
6 Design Tools ............................................................................................................................. 371
6.1 Rib creation ........................................................................................................................ 371
CHAPTER 14: Plate Menu and Toolbar .......................................................................................... 374
1.1 Create Cranioplasty Prosthesis .......................................................................................... 374
1.2 Create Custom Plate .......................................................................................................... 376
CHAPTER 15: Finish Menu and Toolbar ......................................................................................... 380
1 Finish Operations ...................................................................................................................... 380
1.1 Fillet .................................................................................................................................... 380
1.2 Smooth edge ...................................................................................................................... 380
1.3 Chamfer edge ..................................................................................................................... 381
1.4 Local Smoothing................................................................................................................. 381
1.5 Push and Pull ..................................................................................................................... 382
1.6 Local Translate ................................................................................................................... 383
1.7 Local Rotate ....................................................................................................................... 384
1.8 Path Based Pattern ............................................................................................................ 385
1.9 Trim .................................................................................................................................... 387
1.10 Undercut removal ............................................................................................................. 388
1.11 Quick Label ...................................................................................................................... 389
CHAPTER 16: Tooling Menu and Toolbar ...................................................................................... 391
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 391
2 Tooling Menu and Toolbar ........................................................................................................ 391
2.1 Split part ............................................................................................................................. 391
2.2 Create Parting Line ............................................................................................................ 393
2.3 Create mold shape ............................................................................................................. 394
2.4 Create cavities .................................................................................................................... 396
2.5 Create runner ..................................................................................................................... 397
2.6 Create cooling channel ...................................................................................................... 398
CHAPTER17: Remesh Menu and Toolbar ...................................................................................... 400
1 Remeshing ................................................................................................................................ 400
1.1 Inspection scene ................................................................................................................ 400
1.2 Quality of a mesh ............................................................................................................... 400
1.3 Grouping ............................................................................................................................. 403
1.4 Remesh operations ............................................................................................................ 404
2 Volume meshing ....................................................................................................................... 404
2.1 Quality measures of a volume mesh .................................................................................. 404
2.2 Comparison between volume mesh and surface mesh ..................................................... 406
3 Remesh Menu and Toolbar ...................................................................................................... 406
3.1 Create Inspection Scene .................................................................................................... 406
3.2 Auto Remesh ...................................................................................................................... 408
3.3 Quality Preserving Reduce Triangles................................................................................. 410
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3.4 Growth Control ................................................................................................................... 412
3.5 Measure Single Triangle Quality ........................................................................................ 414
3.6 Flip Edge ............................................................................................................................ 414
3.7 Collapse Edge .................................................................................................................... 415
3.8 Collapse Triangle ............................................................................................................... 417
3.9 Subdivide Triangle.............................................................................................................. 418
3.10 Add Point .......................................................................................................................... 419
3.11 Add Point On Edge .......................................................................................................... 420
3.12 Move Point ....................................................................................................................... 422
3.13 Create Triangle................................................................................................................. 423
3.14 Delete Triangle ................................................................................................................. 423
3.15 Delete Marked Triangles .................................................................................................. 424
3.16 Create Non-manifold Assembly ....................................................................................... 424
3.17 Split Non-manifold Assembly ........................................................................................... 424
3.18 Split Surface at Self-Intersection ...................................................................................... 425
3.19 Create T-junction .............................................................................................................. 426
3.20 Create Non-manifold Curves ............................................................................................ 427
3.21 Create Midplane ............................................................................................................... 428
3.22 Create Volume Mesh ....................................................................................................... 428
3.23 Extract surface from Volume ............................................................................................ 430
3.24 Analyze mesh quality ....................................................................................................... 430
3.25 Convert Volume Mesh ...................................................................................................... 432
CHAPTER18: CAD Link Menu and Toolbar .................................................................................... 434
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 434
1.1 The CAD link module ......................................................................................................... 434
1.2 First step to CAD link ......................................................................................................... 434
1.3 Feedback on surfaces that could not be approximated ..................................................... 436
2 CAD link operation .................................................................................................................... 438
2.1 CAD link ............................................................................................................................. 438
3 The CAD link toolbar and menu ................................................................................................ 439
CHAPTER 19: Options Menu............................................................................................................ 441
1 Customize Shortcuts and Toolbars ........................................................................................... 441
1.1 Toolbars ............................................................................................................................. 441
1.2 Commands ......................................................................................................................... 441
1.3 Keyboard ............................................................................................................................ 441
1.4 Options ............................................................................................................................... 441
2 Reset Menu and Toolbar Defaults ............................................................................................ 441
3 Reset Layout Defaults............................................................................................................... 441
4 Preferences ............................................................................................................................... 442
4.1 User Info ............................................................................................................................. 442
4.2 General ............................................................................................................................... 442
4.3 Selection ............................................................................................................................. 443
4.4 Rendering ........................................................................................................................... 443
4.5 Visualization ....................................................................................................................... 444
4.6 Import ................................................................................................................................. 450
4.7 Marking ............................................................................................................................... 452
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4.8 Sketcher ............................................................................................................................. 454
4.9 Tooling ................................................................................................................................ 455
PART V: Extra Information ....................................................................................................... 456
1 System requirements ................................................................................................................ 457
1.1 Minimum system requirements .......................................................................................... 457
1.2 Preferred system requirements .......................................................................................... 457
2 Contact info ............................................................................................................................... 458
2.1 Europe ................................................................................................................................ 458
2.2 Asia-Pacific ......................................................................................................................... 459
2.3 Americas ............................................................................................................................ 459
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PART I: Important Information
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License Agreement
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standard international practice, the Licensed Material is hence not intended by Licenser for use in the
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to publish articles in which reference is made to the use of Licensers Software. The Licensee will publish and/or present the result of the work, achieved by using the Software.
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