Rapidform Success
Training, Tips and Ideas for Rapidform Users
November 2, 2009

Parting Lines 101: How to Get Those Pesky Meshes to Trim

Categories: Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Tech Tips

If you've ever had to manufacture a really complex, organic shape, you may have wanted to split the model along a parting line for machining. Well, this can be a very tough job without a very powerful tool, plus a little guidance. Luckily, we are talking about Rapidform here, so "check" on the powerful tool. As for the guidance, here's a tutorial that one of our favorite customers has used repeatedly to split some of the most difficult meshes out there. By the way, this tutorial was written with the simplified RapidWorks interface in mind. That said, all the instructions here also apply to Rapidform XOR, but the commands may be in a different place ...


Posted By Rob Liebert at 1:00 am

October 26, 2009

Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 3)

Categories: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. This post continues our look at the command with a third example. The first two examples can be found by visiting this post and this post.
Posted By Mike Tsang at 2:00 am

October 22, 2009

Floating Licenses on a Network Server: New Install

Categories: By Product, InspectWorks, Novice, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

Instructions for a new installation of the Rapidform License Server Utility used for network/floating licenses.
Posted By Mike Tsang at 11:58 am

October 19, 2009

Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 2)

Categories: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. This post continues our look at the command with a second example. The first example can be found by visiting this post.
Posted By Mike Tsang at 2:00 am

October 12, 2009

Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 1)

Categories: By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. If you don't, press The F1 Key. We'll take a look at a few examples of how we can apply this useful command. Example #1 is below, keep an eye out for more examples which will be posted soon!
Posted By Mike Tsang at 2:00 am