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1 October 2013

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Siemens PLM Introduces Parasolid v26.0

Parasolid version 26.0 includes enhancements in a wide variety of areas with a special focus on providing high level functionality to support rapid development of sophisticated PLM applications. Areas enhanced in v26.0 include Modeling, Blending, Surface Modeling, Wire and Sheet Modeling, and Support Collateral.

Modeling

Enhancements have been made to the handling of matched topology in local and global Booleans. Parasolid now provides fully-automatic matching of nearly coincident regions between the target and tool bodies. The application can specify a tolerance bound for the coincidence test or Parasolid can select a suitable value. Developers are now encouraged to use Parasolid functionality to streamline this aspect of their application.

A body can now be created by sweeping a tool body, locked in a defined orientation, along a 3D path. This is particularly useful for modeling tool paths in CAM.

Blending

Edge blends can now be created with the requirement that they are curvature continuous with their underlying surfaces. Enhancements have also been added to resolve self intersections in G2 face blends.

Surface Modeling

When creating a surface to fill a hole, the usual G2 requirement may be relaxed in areas where the existing geometry makes it impossible to fit a G2 surface. This is a common case when importing data from other systems.

Wire and Sheet Modeling

Wire bodies may now be split or knit whilst retaining edge tags. Control is also provided as to whether internal loop of faces are sewn up. This gives developers extensive control of behavior.

Support Collateral

Several notable enhancements have been made to Parasolid’s support collateral to help improve developer efficiency. These include additional C++ code examples and extensive revision of the Workshop.Net Source Code Overview documentation.

These broad enhancements are in addition to numerous highly-specialized improvements targeted at specific industries and workflows.

For more information, visit: http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/open/parasolid/v26.shtml?stc=wwiia400200

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