Geomagic Freeform

• The new Sketch Text tool easily generates outline font profiles that can be used to create 3D part labels.

• Shell Cut is a new tool that enables the creation of layered text or details as independent 3D objects that match the surface contours of the underlying part. Together these new tools make mass-customization of any design easier than ever. 

This 2D slicing analysis tool not only provides a dynamically interactive cross-section inspection tool, but also provides multiple methods and modes for extracting slice-based image stacks or profile curves. These functions can be used to identify voids, avoid collisions, validate clearance specifications, or reverse engineer the shape of a volume giving you the assurance that your design is accurate and correct.

Advanced documentation tools enable streamlined communication with your customers.

• Easily create images for downstream documentation with the click of a button
• Generate a single image or sets of images based on orthographic or turntable views
• Utilize options that eliminate downstream editing time such as cropping, centering, object filtering and background transparency (PNG)

Freeform Plus v2017 has a new option to promote legacy Common Solids to be Solid Pieces, infusing them with new capabilities. Promoting a legacy Common Solid to be a Solid Piece enables more precise positioning control, per-piece attribute assignment, higher status in the Object List, and access to a broader set of palette tools.

• Multi-piece Reduce-for-Export is now multi-threaded, reducing processing time as much as 50% or more based on one piece per logical core
• Reduce file sizes by as much as 95% using optional File Compression on save
• Optimizations to transparency improves framerates, increases rendering quality, and supports modes for either High or Low Resolution Clay See Through, allowing for the best balance of quality and redraw performance in any workflow situation.

• Drag-and-drop to import clay files into an existing open project
• Measure angle capability added to the ruler tool
• New tessellation controls are now provided for solid-to-mesh conversions, incluing the import of CAD parts as mesh

Make smooth surfaces and razor sharp edges with SubD, model precisely defined CAD shapes with NURBS and Solids or deform and emboss shapes with Clay.

Carve and shape your clay with a wide range of tools in your virtual space including razors, knife cutters, scrapers and more. Smooth, smudge and shape the design using a variety of available tools.

Tug, ridge, emboss and deform your clay without limitations using Freeform’s detailing tools to create exactly the design you envisage. Benefit from the full range of selection and move features that allow repositioning, alignment, and separation of the design. Benefit from a range of dimensional controls to assist with accuracy in designs.

Easily draw, repair and edit curves, project from a sketch and to a plane, intersect sketches and offset curves.

Create, edit and sketch on a plane, orient the plane and copy profiles

Fully create and edit sketches within Geomagic Freeform with pencil, freehand, control point curves, and basic 2D forms such as lines, arcs, circles, etc.

Import mesh models and convert to clay, and then edit the data using a range of tools to stitch, deform and tug to desired shapes. Paint the data with airbrush tools, wrap images on a model and render with the mental ray® rendering engine.

Import and export 2D and 3D industry-standard formats including: OBJ, STL, PLY, ZPR, IGES curves, Parasolid, and JPG, among others. VRML and Freeform are included as export-only formats.

• Create and apply intricate, dimensionally controlled textures
• 2D sketch; import 2D digital art files
• Automated alignment of different data sets
• Toolsets for voxel, polygonal mesh, SubD and NURBS modeling
• Seamless integration of Geomagic's powerful AutoSurface platform
• Powerful Boolean operations
• Draft analysis, no-fail shelling and thickness analysis
• Complex parting surface development for mold insert design
• 3D Printability Analysis
• Pattern/emboss a bitmap along curves
• Full HD color rendering with KeyShot for 3D Systems

Measure mass properties such as surface areas, volumes, piece density, and analyze piece-to-piece fit, intersections and thickness. Display the model with a choice of resolutions to increase processing speed, and opt for scalable secondary views.

Toggle new displays for undercuts, hide/show curves and fit to view, customize the UI for color schemes and favorite palettes.