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Contents
I. Installation Guide II. Highlight Functions
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Enhanced Mesh Segmentation and Display Easy and Intuitive Region Editing Tools Auto Sketch Enhancement Quick Modeling Auto Surfacing Enhancement Fillet Selection Guide LiveTransfer Enhancement CAD to Scan Alignment Unicode and Language Support
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I. Installation Guide
This RapidWorks 3.5.0 update is available for all users who use RapidWorks version 3.xx. You can check the version by clicking Help > About.
How to install
Download a setup file from the NextEngine website (http://support.nextengine.com) and install it. After installation, you can verify the update by running RapidWorks and checking the version by clicking Help > About.
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Function Location
Tools > Region Tools > Auto Segment View > Mesh Display Mode > Geometry Type
Technical Review
The User Interface has been changed in the Auto Segment function for greater ease of use: The Estimate button has been newly added next to the Mesh Roughness option. It estimates a proper roughness value for target mesh. The Merge Same Primitive Shapes option has been removed. Regions are automatically recognized as a geometry type and merged if the merging criteria is satisfied. The performance for the following functions has been improved in the Auto
Segment command:
Overall region segment results are now more accurate. How the application responds to noisy mesh is now more accurate. The generation of smooth boundary of regions has been improved.
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Region properties have been changed as follows: Region entities are no longer displayed in the Model tree. Region is now a mesh display method, so it is located both in the Display tab and in the toolbar.
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Region
Display Tab
Toolbar
A new display method called Geometry Type Display is added. The icon for the Geometry Type Display has been added both in the Display tab and in the toolbar.
Geometry Type Display shows groups of similar geometries in the same color so that the location of planar, cylindrical, conical, conical, spherical, torus, revolved and freeform areas of a mesh can be easily distinguished.
Plane Cylinder Freeform Region Display Result Geometry Type Display Result
The geometry type color scheme can be set within the Geometry Type
Material option in the Display tab of the Preferences (File > Preferences > Display tab).
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Function Location
Tools > Region Tools
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Technical Review
A new region editing command called Resegment has been added. When regions from Auto Segment need to be split or merged with different region segmentation parameters, the Resegment command can be used.
Original Regions
Resegment
Resegments existing regions by redefining classification criteria. Removes selected target regions and resegments the areas by using different classification criteria. Can be accessed in the popup menu. The User Interface for Region Group commands has been improved for greater ease of use. The Append command has been removed and merged with the Merge command. The Remove command has been removed and merged with the Split command. The Merge and Split editing tools were previously used by toggling but now work one at a time. The Split command now uses a dialog tree.
The Split command has been enhanced as follows: When splitting regions, the polyline method is available by picking starting and ending points on regions. However, dragging will use the current selection option (paint, rectangle, line, etc). When a polyline completely splits a region, the polyline color will be changed from yellow to violet.
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Split by Polyline
Split Result
A region can be limited to a single region in order to not affect other regions while splitting. Only a single region can be limited at one time. The Mouse Helper guides users on how to use the Split tool with before and after images. Before
After
Global options in the tool palette have been changed as follows: Filtering Criteria has been removed. The option for removing small cluster regions now works internally. The Geometry Classification Option has been added.
Users can now control geometry classification tolerances to compensate for model size and resolution using the Geometry Classification Option.
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Sketch can extract parametric sketch entities from scan data intelligently based on
section polylines. A sketch can be created not only from simple features, but also from complicated features.
Function Location
Tools > Sketch Entities > Auto Sketch
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Technical Review
The Auto Sketch command has been enhanced generally as follows: It now generates sketch entities from mesh sections automatically and intelligently. The location of the Auto Sketch command in the menu and on the Toolbar has been changed so that it is positioned at the top of the menu. Its icon has also been changed so that users can clearly understand how it works.
The Enable Realtime Preview button has been added. Results can be displayed in real-time without leaving the command.
Constraints are automatically applied to sketch entities according to a userdefined Geometry Capture Accuracy. Horizontal, Vertical, Parallel, Perpendicular, Coincidence, and Tangent are the 6 supported constraints conditions. Some options in Auto Sketch have been enhanced for usability: The Create Entities and Add Tangent options have been removed. The Sew Entities option has been integrated into a new option named Sew
Tolerance.
Previous options that required specific manually inputted values have been changed so that the values can be easily set by adjusting a slider. New options have been added in Auto Sketch: New methods named Make All Curves and Make Selected Only have been added so that entire section polylines or only partially selected section polylines can be generated while creating sketches. The Resolution slider has been added so that the resolution of a section polyline can be set. Note: When adjusting this option, the segment result will be displayed on a section polyline in real-time, and its value will be synchronized with the resolution within the Segment Section Polyline Tool Palette.
A new option named Geometry Capture Accuracy has been added. This option is used for adjusting the fitting accuracy of sketch entities.
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A new option named Remove Small Fillet has been added. This removes unwanted small fillet sketches that were automatically generated by using radius as the criteria. After creating sketches, fillet radii can be manually managed and fillets can be added by using the Fillet tool.
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The following images shows results from the Auto Sketch function with just one button click. Section Segment Auto Sketch Result
Example Case 1
Example Case 2
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Example Case 3
Example Case 4
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4. Quick Modeling
Overview
A model is a combination of various features. The common reverse modeling process is to add, merge, or subtract features to finally generate an overall shape. We wanted to make the reverse modeling process automatic, so we developed the revolutionary quick modeling process for this version of the application. RapidWorks recognizes features by analyzing regions on a mesh and users can select an analyzed region to insert/merge, cut or fillet features. RapidWorks will automatically decide an optimized sketch and then create features by extrusion, revolution, fitting or filleting. Repeating the semi-auto modeling can help to complete an entire model or edit features with less time than it would take to create all features manually from a base scan.
Function Location
The quick commands are located in the popup menu that is displayed by clicking the right mouse button while hovering the mouse cursor over a segmented region in a selection mode.
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Technical Review
General usage and convention of quick modeling: Quick modeling can be accessed by picking a region and using the popup menu. Commands connected with quick modeling are the Extrusion Wizard,
Extrusion Wizard will automatically run and find target regions on all sides.
The best extrusion direction for creating a feature correctly is recommended from extrusion direction candidates analyzed from the target regions.
Note: A sketch base plane will be automatically generated along a userdefined extrusion direction.
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If a Ref.Plane already exists and its normal direction corresponds with a user-defined extrusion direction, the sketch base plane will be generated offset from the Ref.Plane. When the offset distance is small, the existing Ref.Plane will be used as a sketch base plane. Revolution type feature shape: When a revolved feature shape is recognized from selected regions, the
Revolution Wizard will automatically run and finds similar connected target
regions. A proper revolution axis will be automatically extracted from the target regions for creating features correctly. The revolution axis will be previewed by a construction line in the first stage and it will be automatically changed to a Ref. Vector in the second stage.
Note: If the Revolution Wizard is executed by clicking the Revolution Wizard button in the Toolbar or by going to Insert > Modeling Wizard > Revolution Wizard in the menu, the revolution axis will not be previewed.
Freeform type feature shape When a freeform feature shape is recognized from selected regions, the Mesh
Fit command will automatically run and find target regions for creating
features.
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How to Use
1.
Import a mesh and then segment regions from it.
2.
3.
Click the right mouse button and choose Insert/Merge from the popup menu.
4.
The Extrusion Wizard command will automatically open. Check the regions are selected in each side, which require for creating a feature shape to see that the application automatically detected the proper extrusion direction.
Note: If needed, more regions can be manually added on each side for creating a feature shape.
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5.
6.
Check the preview and click the OK button to confirm the results.
7.
Using the same methods, cut four cylinders off of the corners by choosing Cut from the popup menu.
8.
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Function Location
Insert > Surface > Auto Surfacing
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Technical Review
General enhancements in Auto Surfacing: The Auto Surfacing command now supports multi-core CPUs when surface patches are generated on a mesh. Its performance has been enhanced and the calculation time is much faster The fitting success ration on thin and long patch around boundaries has been increased. A new option named Hole Filling By Area has been added in the Patch
Network Options. Target holes from holes on mesh can now be manually
distinguished, which can be applied to hole filling by using area as the main criteria.
Enhancements of the Evenly Distributed Network method: The Evenly Distributed Network method can now estimate the proper number of surface patches from a target mesh. The Estimate button has been added next to the No. Of Surfaces option.
Shortcut keys and a popup menu are now available in the second stage. The editing methods can be quickly changed by pressing the shortcut keys or by choosing a method in the popup menu.
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Erroneous patches, such as inappropriate angles between neighboring edges or missed patches after generating fitting surfaces are now highlighted in red when the results are previewed and restored.
Enhancements to the Feature Following Network method: The Feature Following Network method makes a more CAD-like patch network and creates less defective faces. Patch editing performance is much faster and more responsive than previous version. Shortcut keys and a popup menu are now available in the second stage. The editing methods can be quickly changed by pressing the shortcut keys or by choosing a method in the popup menu.
The Mouse Helper guides how to use editing methods such as Split, Slide, and Swap Y and T Junction, with before and after images.
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Split
Slide
The Feature Following Network method includes new editing options: Slide The name of the Detach And More method has been changed to
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Swap Y and T Junction A new method named Swap Y and T Junction has been added. This method swaps a Y junction with a T junction. Splines able to be swap will be displayed in green. If a green spline is chosen, the T junction mark will be swapped to a Y junction. Note: T-junctions are junctions where one spline joins another but does not cross it and is marked by thick lines at the intersecting node as shown in the right image. Surfaces matching around a T-junction may not be able to be used for auto surfacing, so it is better to remove them or add a spline to make a completed junction. A Y junction consists of three splines and T junction consists of two splines.
Y Junction
T Junction
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If a patch consists of a Y and T junction and the T junction is located at a corner of a rectangle, the rectangle does not contain four correct edges. By swapping Y and T junctions, this rectangle will have four correct edges.
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Quick Preview A new option named Quick Preview has been added. This option quickly displays preview results without calculating matching and sewing. Show Erroneous Patches A new option named Show Erroneous Patches has been added. This option shows erroneous patches such as inappropriate angles between neighbor edges or missed patches after generating fitting surfaces. Erroneous patches will be highlighted in red. The thin red patches shows errors that have inappropriate angles between neighbor edges. The thick red patches shows errors that will cause fitting surfaces on mesh to fail or generating surfaces from a constructed curve boundary to fail. These patches are updated after applying a preview.
Show Nodes And T-junctions A new option named Show Nodes And T-
junctions has been added. This option displays relevant nodes and T junctions
on patches.
Show Defined Sharp Edge A new option named Show Defined Sharp
Edge has been added. This option displays sharp edges if edges exist that are
defined by using the Define Sharp Edges method. Deform With Stiffening Around Crossing Nodes The name of the Apply
Stiffening Around Crossing Vertices option has been changed to Deform With Stiffening Around Crossing Nodes. This option is applied while patches
are deformed. It deforms patches by stiffening around crossing nodes.
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Function Location
Insert > Modeling Feature > Fillet: Selection Guide
Technical Review
General usage and convention of Selection Guide: The Selection Guide option works under the Constant Fillet method. Similar fillet edges are highlighted in real-time as a user inputs a radius. When a lot of candidate edges are highlighted, a slider can be used to limit the maximum number of highlight edges.
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Applicable for different fillet group. While the Selection Guide option is on, only highlighted edges can be selected by the dragging selection method. This helps to quickly select specific target edges in the view. However, if edges are manually picked, any edges can be selected.
How to Use
1.
Prepare a mesh and a body.
2. 3. 4.
Go to Insert > Modeling Feature > Fillet in the menu. Choose the Constant method. Pick an edge on the body and click the Estimate Radius From Mesh button to get a recommend value from the mesh.
5. 6.
In this example, the estimated value is 0.731mm but 0.7mm in input as a guess to the original designers intention. Check the Selection Guide option to see other edges that have a fillet radius of 0.7 mm.
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7. LiveTransfer Enhancement
Overview
To export a CAD model from RapidWorks to another CAD system with geometry information, including parametric information, is an important process to seamlessly connect design and manufacturing processes. The LiveTransfer function can export geometry and parametric information as well as modeling history to other CAD systems. Now the LiveTransfer command supports Autodesk Inventor. Inventor users can import model data with its parametric information from RapidWorks to Inventor where they can edit and change feature parameters. Additionally, the supported CAD version has been updated.
LiveTransfer
Function Location
File >LiveTransfer > To Inventor
Technical Review
LiveTransfer now supports the following CAD systems and versions: SolidWorks 2011 and 2012 Siemens NX 7.5 and NX8 PTC Creo Parametric 1.0
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Inventor 2010, 2011, and 2012 Note: The following table shows which CAD systems LiveTransfer supports. LiveTransfer to
SolidWorks Siemens NX Pro/E Wildfire (Creo*) AutoCAD Inventor
Version Supported
SolidWorks 2006 to SolidWorks 2012 Siemens NX4 to Siemens NX 8 Pro/E Wildfire 3.0 to Pro/E Wildfire 5.0, Creo Parametric 1.0 AutoCAD 2007 to AutoCAD 2011 Inventor 2010 to Inventor 2012
Website
www.SolidWorks.com www.plm.automation.siemens.com www.ptc.com/product/creo/parametric www.autodesk.com/autocad autodesk.com/autodesk-inventor/
* The previous product name of Pro/ENGINEER has been changed to Creo. The product name used in LiveTransfer as a file format or a command has been changed to the current product name of Pro/ENGINEER.
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Function Location
Insert > Modeling Feature > Transform Body: Align To Scan
Technical Review
General usage and convention of Align To Scan: A selected body can be aligned to target scan data. Picking method by corresponding pair position is available. The picked corresponding points are displayed with number. Selection of some area of the scan data is available. While aligning, a best fitting alignment is performed. The transform and rotation constraints are now available.
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A new button named Dont Quit Command With OK has been added so that multiple bodies can be transformed without leaving the command. When reentering the command to edit parameters, the Dont Quick Command With
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Function Location
Multi-Language Setting: File > Preference > Locale.
Advantages of Unicode
Any text can be written regardless of the platform or language. Any language path name can be used while importing or exporting files.
Technical Review
Language: When installing the application, a desired language can be manually chosen. When language packs exist, the current language can be changed by going to
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Locale tab setting: When a Locale option is changed, the application must be restart for the changes to be applied. The default Locale Format (Number and Time) is set by the settings of the OS. Unicode: When a file that has a file name that contains unsupported Unicode characters is imported and fails, a warning message will be displayed to inform the user that the file name needs to be changed.
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1. User Interface
(1) Changed Icons
Some icons used in the application have been changed to unify the concepts within the Rapidform products.
Within Mode: Smart Visibility will control the visibility of the following entity types within each
mode: Scan Data (Mesh / Point Cloud) Body (Solid / Surface) 2D Sketch 3D Sketch Mode
Default Mode
Visibility
4 States: Current State / Scan Only / Scan Data + Body / Body Only 3 States: Current State / Current Mesh Only / All Meshes
Remark
Mesh Mode
If poly-face does not exist in current mesh, Current Mesh Only state will be skipped.
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2 States: Current State / Point Cloud Only 4 States: Current State / 2D Sketch Only / Mesh + 2D Sketch / Body + 2D Sketch 4 States: Current State / 2D Sketch Only / Body + 2D Sketch / Mesh + 2D Sketch 2 States: Current State / Current Mesh + 3D Sketch 4 States: Current State / Body + 3D Sketch / Mesh + Body + 3D Sketch / Mesh + 3D Sketch Body for using Entity command Body for using Entity command Convert
2D Sketch Mode
Convert
Note: The Region, Ref. Geometry, and Measurement entity types are excluded from this control, but the Ref. Plane, Ref. Polyline, Ref. Coordinate and Measurement entity types can be controlled by Smart Visibility in Mesh Sketch mode and 2D Sketch mode. Note: If the visibility is manually changed to a specific entity type by using the Visibility tools rather than using the Smart Visibility tool, then the Current State will be updated as the modified state and the visibility circulation will be restarted by the Smart Visibility tool. If the Current State is identical with any pre-defined state, the Current State will be skipped. This rule will also be applied within a modeling command and Modeling Wizards.
Within a Modeling Command and Modeling Wizards: Smart Visibility will control the visibility of the following entity types within each
Modeling command and Modeling Wizard: Scan Data (Mesh / Point Cloud) Region (including Mesh Visibility) Body (Solid / Surface) 2D Sketch 3D Sketch
Mode Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, Loft Primitives Visibility 4 States: Current State / Preview Only / Scan Data + Preview / Body + Preview 2 States: Current State / Region Only or (In Preview stage) Region + Preview / Preview Only 3 States (In 1st Stage): Current State / Region Only / Body + Region 3 States (In 2nd Stage): Region + Preview / Region + Body + Preview / Body + Preview Remark
Modeling Wizards
Note: Other commands not described in the table above will follow the behavior of the Default Mode.
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Mesh Transparency
Body Transparency
(5) Printable Mesh Deviation results Mesh Deviation results with its histogram log
have now been printed in the Console window. The results can be viewed and copied into the notepad.
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Surfaces option while the Auto Surfacing command is running using the Evenly Distributed Network method. (8) Removed a display option within Manipulator options in Display tab of Preferences
The Snap Size option within Manipulator options in Display tab of Preference has been removed. While you move an entity by using Manipulator or add a Ref.Plane by holding Ctrl key, the snap size of movement will be dynamically determined according to the zoom scale of the view.
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2. File I/O
(1) Enhanced Import dialog window
Changes to the Include Texture option The Include Texture option has now been changed from a checkbox to a combo box to manually choose expected results. This option defines results by choosing None, As It is, or As Color Points.
3. LiveTransfer
(1) Changed menu name
The menu name has been changed from liveTransfer To to LiveTransfer so the English can be smoothly connected with the sub-menus.
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4. Scan Tools
(1) Enhanced capability of the Volume Merge method in the Merge command
Now the Volume Merge method can deal with point clouds that have normal information. Point clouds can be directly merged into a mesh without executing the meshing process for each scan data file.
5. Mesh Tools
(1) Enhanced Smooth command in Mesh Tools
The Smooth command in Mesh Tools has been enhanced as follows:
Removed options The Strength option has been integrated into the Smoothness Level option.
Now the smoothness level can be effectively controlled and apply to a mesh. The Do Not Modify Sharp Edges option has been removed and replaced with a new option.
Added options
A new option named Feature Preservation has been added. This option replaces the Do Not Modify Sharp Edges option. With this option, smoothness can now be applied to mesh, which preserves feature shapes
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Note: The volume manipulator appears when the Extend Boundaries option is enabled. This is useful when dealing with a mesh which has boundary shapes opened toward the outside.
6. Region Tools
(1) Enhanced setting method for the geometry types of regions in the Region Group mode
Classification methods for the geometry types of regions have been enhanced. The
Geometry Classification Option is a new Tool Palette in the Region Group mode
that specifies a tolerance and outlier for checking the geometry types of regions.
Note: The default value of geometry tolerance will be determined according to the size of a target mesh.
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Additionally, manual specification of the geometry types of regions can be set in the Properties.
This tool is useful for separating parts of a point clouds from an original point cloud and when dealing with large point clouds.
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Drawing Speed
The drawing speed of a large point cloud is now about two times faster than the previous version. This is noticeable especially when using multiple large point clouds, as the drawing performance has been exponentially improved.
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Selection Performance
When selecting points using the through all method, the selection speed has been enhanced. A bug that caused missing points within the selection area has also been fixed.
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8. Ref.Geometry
(1) Changed Intersect Line and Face method in the Add Ref. Point command
The name of the Intersect Line and Face method has been changed to Intersect
Line (Curve, Axis) & Face. Now, a Ref. Point can be created by intersecting any axistype geometric entity with a Ref. Plane or a planar body face. A line or any geometric entity that has an axis like cylinder, cone, or torus can be a target entity of the line.
(2) Newly added Flip Direction button in the Add Ref.Coordinate command
The Flip Direction buttons for each coordinate axis have been added in the Pick
Multiple Points and Pick Point & 2 Lines methods of the Add Ref. Coordinate
command so that the directions of coordinate system that have been set according to a user-defined order can be flipped. These buttons can be used while a Ref. Coordinate is previewed.
9. Sketch
(1) Enhanced segmentation of section polyline
The resolution level and segment shape of a section polyline have been highly enhanced. The enhancements are as below: When segmenting section polylines, the application now supports multi-core CPUs to get results much faster. The Max. Arc Radius option in the Toolbar has been removed. Now, the geometry types of section segments are automatically determined without specifying a maximum arc radius while adjusting the slider in the Segment Section Polyline Tool Palette.
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The method of segmenting section polylines has been changed so that it can be freely adjusted using the slider in the Resolution option. When adjustments to the slider are complete, the section polyline will be segmented. The default position of the slider in the Resolution option has been changed to be in the middle.
Note: The enhanced segmentation of a section polyline is applied in various cases such as; When using section polylines in the Mesh Sketch mode When estimating values in the Fillet and Chamfer commands by clicking the Estimate button When estimating a radius in the Conic Fillet option while the Variable Fillet method of the Fillet command is applied by clicking the Estimate button When using the Exclude Round Corner option in the Mesh Sketch Setup command When creating profile curves in the Extrusion, Revolution, Sweep and Pipe Modeling Wizards
Before Trimmed
After Trimmed
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Additionally, when drawing sketches on a section polyline, the Mouse Helper guides on how to use the Smart Snap function.
Target, Flip) to make how the datum alignment works with specified datum pairs
clearer.
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This enables the creation of multiple bodies from a base sketch by continually redefining different sketch profiles without leaving the command.
Newly added Estimate button An Estimate button has been added to estimate an extrusion direction from selected target regions.
Removed options
The Use Specific Direction As Initial Guess option has been removed and
the Use Specified Direction As It Is option has been integrated into the
The Freeform Curve(s) option under the Profile Auto Generation Options has been removed and the Profile Auto Generation Options
except the Freeform Curve(s) option have been moved to the second stage and divided into the Resolution, Geometry Capture Accuracy, and
The Cap Ends option in the second stage has been removed and
integrated into the Result Operator option.
The Manual Section Polyline option in the second stage has been
removed. The Extrusion Wizard automatically creates a virtual sketch base plane and extracts section polylines from the target regions on the sketch base plane. If a plane is specified by using the Fix Sketch Plane With
Selection option in the first stage, the plane will be used as a sketch base
plane. Added options
The Result Operator option in the second stage has been moved to the
first stage and changed so that results can be specified. If other bodies exist already, Boolean operation with the existing bodies can be applied while creating extruded features. The Result Operator offers the Solid
Insert, Solid Merge, Solid Cut, Surface Insert, and Surface Cut methods.
Note The Result Operator option shows sub options differently depending on the type of existing body. It determines how to use a resulting body that is related to the existing solid or surface body.
Solid Insert A resulting body will be inserted as a new solid body. Solid Merge A resulting body will be merged into an existing solid
body.
The Remove Small Fillet option has been added in the second stage. This
option removes automatically generated small fillet features by using the criteria of radius value. After creating an extruded feature, the fillet radius can be manually entered and fillets can be added to the body by using the Fillet command.
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Removed options
The Use Specific Direction As Initial Guess option has been removed.
The Use Specified Direction As It Is and the Use Specified Axis Of
Note The higher priority plane is determined by order of registration in the Feature Tree. For example, if Base Ref.Plane is selected and a user-defined Ref.Plane is selected as the target planes for defining a revolution axis, the Base Ref.Plane, which is higher priority plane in the Feature Tree, is determined as the sketch base plane. If 2 user-defined Ref. Planes are selected as the target planes, the plane created first will be set as the sketch base plane.
The Freeform Curve(s) option under the Profile Auto Generation Options has been removed and the Profile Auto Generation Options
except for the Freeform Curve(s) option have been moved to the second stage and divided into the Resolution, Geometry Capture Accuracy, and
The Cap Ends option in the second stage has been removed and
integrated in the Result Operator option.
The Manual Section Polyline option in the second stage has been
removed. The Revolution Wizard automatically creates a virtual sketch base plane and extracts section polylines from the target regions on the sketch
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base plane. If a plane is specified by using the Fix Sketch Plane With
Selection option in the first stage, the plane will be used as a sketch base
plane. Added options
The Result Operator option in the second stage has been moved to the
first stage and changed so that results can be specified. If other bodies exist already, Boolean operation with the existing bodies can be applied while creating extruded features. The Result Operator offers the Solid
Insert, Solid Merge, Solid Cut, Surface Insert, and Surface Cut methods.
Note The Result Operator option shows sub options differently depending on the type of existing body. It determines how to use a resulting body that is related to the existing solid or surface body.
Solid Insert A resulting body will be inserted as a new solid body. Solid Merge A resulting body will be merged into an existing solid
body.
Solid Cut An existing solid body will be cut by a resulting solid body Surface Insert A resulting body will be inserted as a new surface
body.
The Remove Small Fillet option has been added in the second stage. This
option removes automatically generated small fillet features by using the criteria of radius value. After creating an extruded feature, the fillet radius can be manually entered and fillets can be added to the body by using the Fillet command.
Enhanced Auto Sketch function The Auto Sketch function has been enhanced so that a closed sketch profile is automatically constructed when a target result is specified as a solid body.
11. Measure
(1) Snappable section planes
The N-Division Between Planes method has been enhanced when measuring sections that the sections can be snapped onto a pre-defined plane that is parallel to the Base Plane while manipulating its position. This is useful to exactly set the section plane on a pre-defined plane.
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1. Major bugs
When RapidWorks does not work normally the issue will be classified as a major bug.
User Interface
(1) Continuity of Accuracy Analyzer
When Curvature was selected as the Continuity in the Accuracy Analyzer, the application would crash occasionally. The bug has been fixed.
Shader in the Display tab, the display of point depth was incorrect. The bug has
been fixed.
File I/O
(1) Import of a file by drag-and-drop and using the menu
The result of importing a file was different between using the menu and by dragging-and-dropping the file. The bug has been fixed.
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(4) File name having Turkish, Czech, polish, and other characters
A file couldnt be opened when the file name had Turkish, Czech, polish, or other characters. The bug has been fixed.
LiveTransfer
(1) Transferring a sketch for revolving to SolidWorks
A sketch created by the Revolution Wizard would not transfer to SolidWorks. The bug has been fixed.
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Batch Process
(1) Cancel button of Batch Process
All buttons in a dialog box to quit a batch process saved the process even if the Cancel button was selected. The bug has been fixed.
Scan Tools
(1) Previewing or applying Mesh Construction
A temporary file was not removed after previewing or applying the Tools > Scan
Tools > Triangulate > Mesh Construction command. The bug has been fixed. (2) Edge Length Multiplier of Volume Merge Edge Length Multiplier was filled with a dummy value when Target Average Edge Length was entered without selecting a mesh/point cloud in the Tools > Scan Tools > Merge > Volume Merge command. The bug has been fixed.
Mesh Tools
(1) RGB update of Tools > Texture Tools > Edit Texture When the Curve method was selected under the Edit Texture command, RGB was
not modified as an adjustment of the Curves. The bug has been fixed.
Point Cloud Tools > Filter Noise, the range of the filtering box was abnormal. The
center point and size of the filtering box has been fixed. The center point of the filtering box is now fitted on the center of a bounding box and size of the filtering
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Alignment
(1) Normal direction of Tools > Scan Tools > Align Between Scan Data
The normal direction would change when Local Base On Auto Guess or Local
Based On Picked Point was selected to align a point cloud. The bug has been fixed. (2) Alignment of a suppressed mesh
The application would crash when a suppressed mesh was aligned by the Global
and Fine option in Tools > Scan Tools > Align Between Scan Data.
The bounding boxes of a suppressed mesh and unsuppressed mesh were also not updated and would remain. The two bugs have been fixed.
(3) Updating the histogram of the Align Between Scan Data command
The histogram did not display the value of the Max and Average Deviations when the Update View & Histogram option was checked with the Global And Fine option. The bug has been fixed.
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Scan Tools > Align Between Scan Data > Global and Fine, the histogram was not
updated. The bug has been fixed.
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When Local Based On Picked Point was used with Refine Alignment, scan data was not aligned. The bug has been fixed.
Tools > Align > Interactive Alignment Tools > Align > Quick fit
The bug has been fixed.
Tools > Align > Interactive Alignment Tools > Scan Tools > Transform Scan Data
The bug has been fixed.
Region Tools
(1) Preserve Existing Regions option of the Auto Segment command The Preserve Existing Regions option of the Auto Segment command didnt work.
The bug has been fixed.
(2) Regions of Small size The Region Group command made incorrect regions when the size of the region
was small. The bug has been fixed.
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Ref. Geometry
(1) Target of Add Ref. Point when an arc edge is selected
An arc edge can be considered as a part of a circle; when an arc edge was selected,
Add Ref. Point command selected the center point of circle but the selected edge
as the target. The target can be controlled by Ctrl key now. Add Ref. Point selects the edge without Ctrl key and a center point of circle with Ctrl key.
Sketch
(1) Mesh sketch using CMM data
Close points less than 0.005 mm from a CMM could draw a mesh sketch. The bug has been fixed.
Tolerance option didnt work when a point cloud was used. The bug has been fixed. (3) Sketch status between an editing mode and a creating mode
The sketch status between an editing mode and a creating mode was different even though the sketch was same. The bug has been fixed.
Surface
(1) Surface Offset When the Make Side Wall and Remove Original Faces options of the Surface Offset command were used to select a face for a surface offset and the face had no
side wall, the options failed. The options are now hidden when there is no side wall.
Auto Surfacing and the No. of Surfaces of the Curve Network Option was
entered as 20,000. The bug has been fixed.
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Solid
(1) Split Face
The application might crash when the Projection method with a Single Direction was used in the Split Face command. The bug has been fixed.
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2. Minor bugs
The following bugs also have been fixed.
(1) Wrong spellings or messages have been fixed. (2) Slow changing of show/hide statuses in a Model has been fixed. (3) The positions of some options have been rearranged for better legibility. (4) Some OK and Apply buttons, functions and options were not working or showed incorrect status. They have been fixed (5) The sudden switch of the status of shown or hidden entities after creating a new entity has been fixed. (6) Some default checkbox options of the License Utility have been changed.
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