FEM (Polygonal modeling, drafting and point cloud, plus NURBS and BRep modeling, IGES/STEP, CAM, 2D/3D meshing and Finite Element Analysis)

• Modules
  • Region Booleans - Trim and Union/Subtraction/Intersection operations for planar regions.
  • BRep Booleans - Trim and Union/Subtraction/Intersection operations for manifold 3D solids.
  • Meshing - Subdivision of a continuous geometric space into discrete geometric and topological cells.
  • Collision Detection - Determining if when and where two objects come into contact.
  • Geometric Constraint Solver - Find the positions of geometric elements that satisfy the given constraints.
  • Hidden Lines - 2D vector views generation of complex 3D models.
  • FEM Solver - Partial differential equations solution in two or three space variables.
  • Surface Reconstruction - Compute a triangle mesh interpolating a given point cloud.
  • Geometry Tessellation - Subdivision of analytical curves and surfaces into polygonal chains and meshes.
  • Surface Trim - Find the intersection of two surfaces.
  • Surface Fillet - Create a surface that smoothly connects two primary surfaces.
  • Machining - Generate 3D toolpaths for a given setup, geometry and tool definition.
  • Marching Cubes - Generate surfaces for a 3D scalar field.
  • Mesh Booleans - Union/Subtraction/Intersection operations for mesh objects.
  • Measure - Minimum distance computation between objects.
• Entities
  • Point
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Ellipse
  • LinearPath
  • CompositeCurve
  • Mesh
  • Solid (Polygonal)
  • PointCloud
  • Region
  • Dimensions
  • Sketch
  • NURBS Curve
  • NURBS Surface
  • BRep
  • FemMesh
• Workspaces (the actual .NET controls)
  • Design
  • Drawing
  • Simulation
  • Manufacture
• CGAL
  • Triangulation
  • Mesh reconstruction from point cloud
  • Marching squares/cubes
  • Collision detection
  • Area/mass properties
  • Hidden Lines Removal
  • Hidden Lines Removal with 3D model edges recover
  • Constraint solver
• 3D Graphics
  • OpenGL and DirectX renderers
  • Fully-leveraged 3D GPU acceleration
  • Wireframe, Shaded, Rendered, Flat and HiddenLines display modes
  • Orthographic and perspective projection for each viewport
  • Up to eight lights (point, spot, directional)
  • Examine, Walk and Fly navigation modes
  • Planar and realistic shadows (with three different quality settings)
  • Multi-viewport support
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Planar reflection
  • Environment mapping
  • Dashed hidden lines
  • Geometric and image-based silhouette curves
  • Minimum frame rate control
  • Progressive drawing
  • Built-in High DPI Support
  • Turbo mode
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
  • Small object and frustum culling
  • Up to six clipping planes
  • Customizable overlay drawing
  • High-quality TrueType and 3D text support
  • High-quality WYSIWYG hard copy output
  • Vector copy to Windows clipboard
• Modeling
  • Mesh booleans/cut/split/section
  • Curve-Curve Intersection
  • Surface-Surface Intersection
  • BRep booleans/cut/split/section
  • Curve and surface offset
  • Curve and surface edit
  • Fillet and chamfer
• Proprietary File Format
  • Always compatible with previous versions
  • Geometry, tessellation or both.
  • Single or multi-file
  • Lazy loading of large assemblies
  • Extensible with customer data
  • Optional data compression
• Input
  • Keyboard
  • Touch
  • Mouse
  • Space mouse
• Translators
  • ASC
  • LAS
  • STL
  • OBJ
  • DWG/DXF
  • IFC
  • BRep in IFC import
  • WebGL
  • GCode
  • PDF
  • 3D PDF
  • IGES
  • STEP
  • Nastran
• Miscellaneous
  • WorkUnit and WorkManager
  • WinForms and WPF Visual Studio designer support
  • ViewCube, Legend, Toolbar, Timeline and Histogram UI elements
• Labels
  • TextOnly
  • LeaderAndText
  • ImageOnly
• CAM
  • Work plane setup
  • Support for flat, bull nose and ball end mills
  • Support for any kind of geometry (flipped, cracked and faulty included)
  • 2D toolpath generation
  • Material removal simulation
  • Climb, conventional and mixed cut directions.
  • Straight and circular leads
  • Plunge and helix ramps
  • 3D Clearing
  • 3D Pocket
  • 3D Contour
  • 3D Parallel
  • Toolpath generation limited to a boundary region
  • Flat area detection
• Meshing
  • 2D triangles (linear and quadratic)
  • 3D tetrahedrons (linear and quadratic)
  • 3D meshing on NURBS surface and BRep objects with mesh control at vertex/edge/face level
• FEM Boundary conditions
  • Fixed displacement and rotation
  • Concentrated load and moment
  • Pressure load
  • Temperature
• FEM Element Types
  • 2D & 3D trusses
  • 3 & 6 node triangles - plane stress & strain, 3D axisymmetric
  • 4 & 8 node quadrilaterals - plane stress & strain, 3D axisymmetric
  • 4 & 10 node solid tetrahedrons
  • 6 & 15 node solid pentahedrons
  • 8 & 20 node solid hexahedrons
  • 2D & 3D joints
• FEM Solvers
  • Direct
  • Parallel, iterative, preconditioned Conjugate Gradient