The offered Poly Works Modeler generates manufacturable class A polygonal models. It converts aligned point clouds into highly accurate polygonal models using PolyWorks' unique tolerance-based adaptive meshing technology. With high efficiency it reconstructs perfect polygonal features from imperfectly digitized geometry. Application of this product is found in of all typical CAD operations directly to polygonal models and prepares these models for a wide variety of manufacturing applications such as milling, rapid prototyping and inspection. The product creates smooth and logical NURBS surfaces easily editable in CAD software. Using its automatic feature-tracking tools, it creates curve networks containing center curves, fillet tangent lines and sharp edge curves, with utmost ease and efficiency. It restricts the automatic surfacing process to predefined curves and controls the rigidity of the fitted NURBS surfaces. Optimization of efforts in the downstream CAD applications, minimize the number of control points and patches, maximizing the smoothness. Further, the product is used for 3D Digitizing. The product allows direct scanning from within its user interface, using several plug-INS. The Poly-work is optimized, for reasons of handling datasets of up to 100 million points efficiently. Generate manufacturable class A polygonal models:
Transform aligned point clouds into highly accurate polygonal models using PolyWorks' unique tolerance-based adaptive meshing technology
Reconstruct perfect polygonal features from imperfectly digitized geometry
Apply all typical CAD operations directly to polygonal models and prepare these models for a wide variety of manufacturing applications such as milling, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, inspection, CFD FEA, digital review, etc
Create smooth and logical NURBS surfaces easily editable in CAD software:
Use automatic feature-tracking tools to quickly create curve networks containing center curves, fillet tangent lines, sharp edge curves, etc
Curves can also be extracted interactively using only one mouse click
Constrain the automatic surfacing process to predefined curves in order to create more logical curve networks
Control the rigidity of the fitted NURBS surfaces, mimicking a sheet metal material for getting super-smooth surfaces without ripples, or a plastic material to closely follow subtle polygonal details
Optimize your subsequent efforts in the downstream CAD application by minimizing the number of control points and patches, increasing the smoothness of patches, and easily creating perfect feature curves
3D Digitizing:
PolyWorks handles organized and unorganized high-density point clouds produced by all laser scanners, fringe-projection systems, LIDAR scanners, etc
It also offers several plug-ins that allow direct scanning from within its user interface
Finally, PolyWorks is optimized to handle datasets of up to 100 million points efficiently without subsampling
Overview of a typical PolyWorks/Modeler(TM) Process:
3D Digitizing
Multiple Scan Alignment
Adaptive Meshing
Polygon Editing
Rapid NURBS Surfacing
Downstream Applications
