Class A Polygonal Modeling & Fast Surfacing
for Manufacturing Applications
PolyWorks/Modeler™ is a comprehensive software solution for creating accurate and smooth polygonal
models and NURBS surfaces from high-density point clouds. Preferred by automotive design studios worldwide,
PolyWorks/Modeler™ is the only software solution that has demonstrated the capability of creating class
A polygonal models for stringent polygonal manufacturing applications such as 3-axis & 5-axis milling,
aerodynamic simulation, and digital review. PolyWorks/Modeler™ also offers a powerful rapid surfacing
methodology that delivers the most usable NURBS surfaces in CAD software such as CATIA and UG.
PolyWorks/Modeler™ allows you to:
Generate manufacturable class A polygonal models
- Transform aligned point clouds into highly accurate polygonal models using PolyWorks' unique tolerance-based
adaptive meshing technology.
- Reconstruct perfect polygonal features from imperfectly digitized geometry.
- Apply all typical CAD operations directly to polygonal models and prepare these models for a wide variety
of manufacturing applications such as milling, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, inspection, CFD
& FEA, digital review, etc.
Create smooth and logical NURBS surfaces easily editable in CAD software
- Use automatic feature-tracking tools to quickly create curve networks containing center
curves, fillet tangent lines, sharp edge curves, etc. Curves can also be extracted interactively using
only one mouse click.
- Constrain the automatic surfacing process to predefined curves in order to create more logical curve
networks.
- Control the rigidity of the fitted NURBS surfaces, mimicking a sheet metal material to get super-smooth
surfaces without ripples, or a plastic material to closely follow subtle polygonal details.
- Optimize your subsequent efforts in the downstream CAD application by minimizing the number of control
points and patches, increasing the smoothness of patches, and easily creating perfect feature curves.
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