Problem:
When you pan a model in XOR/XOS, based on ATI graphic (Radeon or FireGL series) and Preferences > Hardware > OpenGL > Frame Buffer Save/Restore is “FBO” in the application,

Fig1. Preference Setting
the model unpredictably moves in the Model View as shown in the image below - fig2 and fig3.

Fig2. Before Panning

Fig3. After Panning
Solution:
You [...]

Problem
After you transfer splines (2D and 3D) that are used for, say, a Lofted Surface, you may want to edit the control points of the splines to do design changes. This document explains how to edit splines in each CAD system.

Solution in SolidWorks
1. Click RMB on a 3D sketch profile/entity in the [...]

XOR’s Boundary Fit Surfacing function helps you to easily create a surface body using boundary curves on the mesh, even if the mesh is a complex freeform shape.
This technical tip will help you understand how to create a high quality fitting surface.
Step 1: Mesh Optimization
To get a high quality fitting surface, you will first need [...]

In XOV, you can obtain several types of inspection results, such as deviation maps, section profiles, etc. during the inspection process. However, the results will be recorded as captured images. If, instead, you want to print out sections at their true scale, you can export them via the *.dxf file format.
Method:
First of all, you can [...]

When you import scan data, the data will be loading in the software, and a new Mesh Feature will be added in the Feature Tree. Sometimes, you can have additional items created after the Mesh Feature, but you will not be able to immediately be able to trim the mesh using these items. This is [...]

Rapidform user Local Motors has posted another installment about how they’re using XOR with a Z Corp Z Scanner to create SolidWorks models of components for the new car they are creating.  Local Motors has only had Rapidform for about a month, but they are already putting it to very good use.
LM: Engineering Blog - [...]

Using the Full-Face-Fillet command:
The “Full Face Fillet” option is used for rounding or capping ribs and other exterior part features. This option uses three adjacent face sets and allows the creation of fillet geometry which is difficult or impossible to create using traditional edge-based filleting method. The image below shows an example feature using Full [...]

Create fit surfaces by drawing a patch network on the mesh:

As you can see below, there are some cases where the trimmed surfaces will produce a bad result. Specifically, the “Tangent Constraint On Boundary” option, which uses mesh normals to match continuity, sometimes gives a bad result.
(In General, you should avoid drawing patch boundary curves [...]

Local Motors, who just bought Rapidform XOR, had this to say after their first day of training.
LM is a fascinating company.  They’re a spin-off of MIT that is working to make vehicle production a local, customized affair.  They’re combining advanced engineering capability (especially 3D scanning!) with web 2.0 community capabilities to let people directly affect [...]

We recently had a customer ask us this question:
I’m currently building a new machine for running RapidWorks, and we will have a great deal of scanning data to process, taken from very large objects requiring the merge of dozens of scans. We need to find a sweet spot between cost and performance, and it would [...]