2024 1.0.1 Delivers Advanced Functionality for Optimizing and
Simplifying Complex Data during Import
Spatial Corp, the leading software development toolkit provider
for design, manufacturing, and engineering solutions and Dassault
Systèmes subsidiary, announces the production release of 2024
1.0.1.
Data Prep Is Officially Released
Open New Horizons in Data Import
After launching the alpha version, Data Prep, Spatial’s newest
add-on product for 3D InterOp, is officially released to all
customers. Supported strategies include filtering small bodies from
a model, removing small holes and fillets, and generating an
assembly structure from a part with duplicate bodies.
Over the past three months, customer interest confirms the
market need for tools to simplify and optimize data during import.
Spatial plans to invest further in Data Prep strategies.
Functionality releasing soon includes:
- Capabilities to reduce data to manage while preserving relevant
features - to shorten model preparation times for multi-physics and
process simulation workflows.
- Ability to convert polyline data to continuous curves during
file restore - to decrease memory consumption and allow for
successful import.
- Option to avoid model shrinkage due to Data Prep strategies
like feature removal - to ensure accuracy of collision detection
analyses.
Users interested in defining future strategies for Data Prep
should contact their account manager.
3D InterOp Extends Support for BIM and Manufacturing
New Support for Navisworks and Writing DXF/DWG Drawing
Sheets
The latest release allows BIM customers to read Navisworks files
and write drawing sheets in a DXF/DWG format. Additionally, 3D
InterOp offers expanded support for the Linux platform in
Parasolid-based 3D InterOp.
Point and Table Patterns from Creo Files
Manufacturing relies on hole pattern metadata for automated
machining processes such as drilling, milling, cutting, or
punching. The latest release of 3D InterOp supports Point and Table
type hole patterns in Creo Reader.
Enabling Support of More Formats through External
Partners
Extensible 3D InterOp enables partners to create readers and
writers for unsupported file formats. These external
implementations integrate with existing formats to seamlessly
exchange BREP and Visualization data. Customers wishing to develop
custom readers and writers can reach out to their account manager
for assistance.
Package Size Optimization
For customers not needing support for all bundled formats,
ACIS-based 3D InterOp offers guidance on configuring a minimal
library set for popular CAD and exchange formats. This minimizes
the libraries shipped with their application, saving end-user disk
space. For example, supporting only IGES + STEP formats reduces
installed library size by 70%.
3D ACIS Modeler Improves Polyhedral Modeling
Polyhedral Sheet Thickening
Additive manufacturing or EDA workflows often start with input
that is a 2D representation of a thin part to be processed. When
printing or simulating the part, generating a realistic 3D model
representing the object with its actual thickness is helpful. This
release delivers an API to generate a thickened body from
polyhedral sheets.
New Polyhedral Boolean Operations
ACIS now provides functionality to compute the intersection
graph between two polyhedral bodies. It also allows combining
disjointed polyhedral bodies into a single body, increasing the
efficiency of downstream operations.
CGM Provides More Manufacturing Automation and Simulation
Tools
Enhancements to Feature Recognition and Removal
Users can now specify an industry context to customize the
behavior of feature recognition. Setting the industry context
tailors feature recognition to provide intuitive results for
applications as diverse as Body-in-White, Micro-Mechanics, and
Civil Engineering. This release also offers functionality to remove
chamfers.
Improved Polyhedral Modeling for Additive
Manufacturing
This release provides various robustness and performance
enhancements targeting polyhedral healing and offset. For both
types of operations, options are now available to tune the
performance for specific configurations.
New Medial Axis Extraction Operator
Simulation engineers need tools to simplify the geometry of
parts to reduce analysis computation time. This release features
the beta version of the Neutral Fiber Operator, which reduces
radially symmetric 3D bodies to a one-dimensional line.
CSM/CVM: Improvements to Cartesian Core Workflows
CVM generates Cartesian elements for interior meshing, resulting
in accurate triangular surface meshes and predominantly hexahedral
volume meshes. Users can now control the size of these elements,
which were previously determined automatically based on surface
mesh element size.
About Spatial Corp.
Spatial Corp, a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary, is the leading
provider of 3D software development toolkits for technical
applications across a broad range of industries. Spatial 3D
modeling, 3D visualization, and CAD translation software
development toolkits help application developers deliver
market-leading products, maintain focus on core competencies, and
reduce time-to-market. For over 35 years, Spatial’s 3D software
development toolkits have been adopted by many of the world’s most
recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes,
and universities. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Spatial
has offices in the USA, Germany, Japan, China, and the United
Kingdom. For more information, visit www.spatial.com.
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