STL translator gains automatic file fixing
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Delcam product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 9, 2004
Delcam has enhanced its PS-Exchange online data translation service with the addition of automatic file fixing to its STL output option.
Delcam has enhanced its PS-Exchange online data translation service with the addition of automatic file fixing to its STL output option.
This improvement will ensure that the STL files able to produce high quality prototypes can be generated from all major CAD systems.
The software will now repair automatically the majority of gaps that might exist in the CAD model.
For more serious errors, for example when surfaces are completely missing, PS-Exchange will produce an error message summarising the problem.
Other common problems with STL files are also rectified automatically.
Duplicate triangles and nodes are removed, as are triangles with a poor aspect ratio, intersecting triangles and triangles that have more than one other triangle sharing an edge.
STL files can be generated from the full range of input formats covered by PS-Exchange, including AutoCAD ACIS, DXF and DWG, Catia versions 4 and 5, Pro/Engineer 2001 and Wildfire, SDRC, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Cimatron, Parasolid XT, Iges, VDA and Step, as well as Delcam's own PowerShape hybrid modeller.
Delcam launched PS-Exchange in 1999 when it was the first online translation service to use a pay-per-use voucher-based payment system.
This gives two immediate advantages over other translation services.
First, since the translation software is stored on the user's own computer, the system is completely secure, with no chance of sensitive information being intercepted or mailed to an incorrect address.
Secondly, this approach gives much faster results since only a short authorisation code is transferred over the web, not the complete CAD model.
Once the authorisation has been obtained, the translation itself should never take more than a few minutes.
A demonstration of PS-Exchange can be viewed on the Delcam website.
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