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New Success Story in Europe: Designing better fans with Rapidform XOR

By Tom Charron • Feb 28th, 2010 • Category: Application Stories, Uncategorized

Today we heard about a great use case for reverse engineering from some Rapidform XOR users in Germany:

Since 1981 Rosenberg Ventilatoren GmbH (http://www.rosenberg-gmbh.com), located in Künzelsau-Gaisbach, has developed into an outstanding centre of the air movement and air handling industry by



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

By Rob Liebert • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: 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,…



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 3)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

The Rewrap Command (part 3)

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…



Floating Licenses on a Network Server: New Install

By Mike Tsang • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: By Product, InspectWorks, Novice, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

Floating Licenses on a Network Server: XOR2/XOV2

  1. Install the License Server Utility
    1. On the license server, please install the license server utility by downloading and installing the following: www.rapidform.us/license/ServerUtility.zip. You may also find this file on the installation DVD



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 2)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

The Rewrap Command (part 2)

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…



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 1)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS
The Rewrap Command (part 1)

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



Learn more with F1

By Mike Tsang • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: By Product, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

The F1 Key

Rapidform contains a plethora of features and commands. Many of which that have options that provide additional functions and control. Have you ever wondered what happens if you uncheck a checkbox? What happens if you slide that slider all the way



Licensing Walkthroughs

By Mike Tsang • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: InspectWorks, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

Licensing Walkthroughs

Need help with licensing? Check out these interactive movies that will walk you through the steps of activating or deactivating your licenses!

Node Lock Licensing

Online Activation

Online Deactivation

Offline Activation

Offline Deactivation

Network Licensing / Floating Licenses

Online Activation

Online



Floating Licenses on a Network Server: Updating Licenses

By Mike Tsang • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: InspectWorks, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

Floating Licenses on a Network Server: XOR2/XOV2

  1. Stop Rapidform Service
    1. Go to Control Panel>Administrative tools>Services and stop the service called “Rapidform License Service”.
  2. Deactivate old License
    1. Please go to Start Menu> All Programs>INUS Technology>Rapidform License Server



RAM and Rapidform

By Mike Tsang • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

How much RAM can Rapidform use with a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system?

XOR/XOV/XOS 32-bit versions can use a maximum of 2GB (by default) or optionally 3GB. The 64-bit versions can theoretically use an “unlimited” amount of memory that is available by Windows.

So…