ACIS Modeler is Thread-Safe

ACIS Modeler thread-safe capabilities enable multi-threaded applications to take advantage of multi-core hardware platforms for compute intensive operations. CAD, CAM, and CAE and related applications that support assembly models can achieve significant performance gains in areas such as regeneration of models in an assembly, assembly loading and faceting, and generating section views of assembly parts, and global operations that affect multiple parts, such as an assembly cut. ACIS as a thread-safe 3D modeler provides benefits which include near linear performance gains on multi-core hardware platforms.

Applications must be multi-threaded to achieve performance gains with thread-safe ACIS. In most cases incremental development work is required. Spatial development and professional service resources are available to assist in the development effort.

3D ACIS Modeler allows you to:

• Accelerate time to revenue thru rapid development and delivery of applications
• Expand innovation, increasing focus on key differentiators, enabling first-to-market advantage
• Increase productivity while reducing product development costs
• Confidently deliver a reliable and robust solution
• Count on outstanding Services and Support from a Spatial team committed to your success

3D ACIS Modeler Key Features:

• Provides advanced modeling capabilities including wireframe, surface, solid modeling, topology and geometric operations
• Enables model exploration thru easy to use utilities for modification, annotation, and query
• Promotes extensibility thru a flexible 3D modeler building block
• Supports the SAT file format and tolerant modeling for true interoperability

PHL V5

The Spatial PHL V5 product enables rapid development of 2D documentation and drawing features for use in a myriad of solutions including engineering, architecture, and manufacturing by providing easy access to proven hidden line removal technology (HLR). HLR improves the quality of product documentation by allowing the creation of images where only the edges of the model visible from a given perspective will be displayed. In industries such as CAD/CAM, accurate HLR renderings are required. Inclusion of HLR in your toolset enables a comprehensive solution to produce accurate documentation and drawings of any 3D design.

PHL V5 has a reputation for accuracy and speed, proven through heavy use under the most demanding conditions. This technology is readily integrated into applications via an easy to implement set of robust APIs, enhancing the functionality of traditional 3D modeling and visualization tools. PHL V5 will help reduce development time, achieve quality results, and improve time to market. The combination of performance, reliability, and precision delivered by Spatial’s PHL V5 makes it an excellent choice for any modeling or visualization package.

Key Features of PHL V5:

• Easy, flexible control of the hidden line accuracy
• Rapid, reliable results even on large, complex models
• Accurate classification and display of all edges and silhouettes of a model

Advanced Covering

Advanced Covering is a feature of Deformable Modeling that is now available as a standalone add-on for the 3D ACIS Modeler. This single API uses sophisticated algorithms to create high-quality n-sided surfaces that meet user-specified tolerances for position and tangency on boundaries and on optional internal guiding geometry. Advanced Covering allows a surface to be fit onto circuits (collections of edges that form closed loops) in solid or wire bodies. Many of our customers use Advanced Covering for post-translation surface replacement or re-covering, non-planar end-capping, and surface definition from curve data.

Key Features of Advanced Covering:

• Creation of non-planar, n-sided surfaces
• Retention of positional and tangential continuity with adjacent surfaces
• Individual specification of continuity tolerance on each edge (G0 and G1)
• Placement of auxiliary point and curve restraints (G0 only)
• Post-covering gap reporting (diagnostics)
• Optional specification of initial surface

Defeaturing

Defeaturing automatically identifies and removes small features that CAE analysts typically want to eliminate from a 3D model prior to meshing. Increasingly CAE analysts work from the same models that are used for design and manufacturing, but these models often carry much more detail than is appropriate for simulation or analysis purposes. By removing unnecessary detail, Defeaturing simplifies the model, a process that typically is done manually at a significant cost. The feature recognition parameters of Defeaturing are easily configured to achieve the level of detail desired by the analysis engineer. Exposed as a single API, Defeaturing can be implemented in a single day by an experienced programmer.

Key Features of Defeaturing:

• Automatically identifies and removes specified feature types
• Handles fillets, chamfers, and round holes
• Filters by feature size
• Filters by feature type

Original model	Holes and fillets less than R2.5 automatically recognized	Recognized features removed

Deformable Modeling

3D Deformable Modeling is a unique interactive sculpting tool for shaping 3D models while maintaining high-quality, manufacturable surfaces. 3D Deformable Modeling provides local and global editing features that allow for the easy creation and manipulation of free-form B-spline curves and surfaces. With this product, you can interactively sculpt shapes that automatically adhere to rich sets of constraints. It allows you to perform manipulations on curves and surfaces that would otherwise be extremely difficult or impossible to accomplish using control point manipulation, saving significant end-user time and resources.

Due to its precise shape and surface definition capabilities, 3D Deformable Modeling is ideal for complex mechanical jobs that require the rapid development of innovative surface and curve features, such as industrial design, aircraft skin and foil design (aerospace), automotive styling, prototype development, simulation, product design, shipbuilding, and free-form surface design for CAD/CAM/CAE and AEC applications.

Key Features of Deformable Modeling:

• Allows you to restrict a deformation to a limited local region
• Ability to create entirely new shapes by making large deformations
• Capability to make small deformations in an existing shape, modifying the shape without sacrificing the original characteristics
• Can be used to increase the continuity of existing shapes, quilted surfaces, or networks of curves