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Using the Pro/E Wildfire Interface in XOV

By Michael Mock • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOV

XOV, the world’s leading inspection package, is capable of importing many neutral CAD formats. In addition, CAD interfaces can be added to XOV to improve the fidelity of inspecting physical objects to your original CAD parts.
One such interface is for Pro/E Wildfire. With the Pro/E interface, you can open the PRT files from Pro/E directly. [...]



How to get a watertight solid model in CATIA

By Som Valliyappan • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR

Rapidform XOR/XOS can create a body on a mesh using “Auto Surfacing” command. This method can quickly and automatically wrap the mesh and create a surface/solid body with just one click of a button, but it might be possible for gaps to be created between patches on complicated and sharp areas of a mesh. [...]



How to extract real scaled section profile from the CAD data and scan data

By Som Valliyappan • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOV

In the Application, you can obtain several inspection results such as deviation map, section profiles, result image etc during the inspection process. However the results will be recorded as captured images. In case if you want to print sections out in its original scale, you can export sections as *.dxf file format.
Method
First of all, you [...]



How to generate an accurate mesh from line type scan data

By Som Valliyappan • Oct 6th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

When you create a mesh, Mesh Buildup Wizard is typically used. If scan data consists of line type point clouds, then it is not easy to maintain the original shape of its boundaries while generating the mesh.

If you use the manual way of using 3D triangulation command in the Addins menu, you will get [...]



How to copy poly-vertices from a mesh

By Som Valliyappan • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

The application has no command to convert a mesh to poly-vertices.
So, you may easily think that you need to import the existing mesh data using the “Point Only” option in the Import dialog box or export the existing mesh data by point type file format and import it again.
Through this technical tip, you will understand [...]



How to transfer XOR model with Boolean operation to UGS NX

By Som Valliyappan • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: By Product, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

How to transfer XOR model, which is applied Boolean operation, to UGS NX
CAD system has own kernel and specific interface. So, sometimes, liveTransfer may not perfectly forward a redesigned data to CAD system because of the difference between Rapidform and CAD system.
Of cause, if liveTransfer cannot perfectly forward all information, you can model in CAD [...]



How to Generate an Accurate Mesh from Line-type Scan Data

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

When you create a mesh, you typically use the Mesh Buildup Wizard. If scan data is constituted by line-type point clouds, however, boundaries are not easy to maintain in their original shape while you generate the mesh.

If you manually triangulate using the 3D Triangulation command in the Addins menu, you will get better a result [...]



How To Get a Watertight Solid Model in CATIA

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

Rapidform XOR/XOS can create a body on a mesh using the “Auto Surfacing” command. This method can quickly and automatically wrap the mesh and create a surface/solid body by clicking one button, but it may possibly create gaps between patches on complicated and sharp areas of the mesh. So if you want to export the [...]



The Panning Problem When Using ATI Graphic Card Drivers

By Mike Tsang • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

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 [...]



How to Edit Splines in SolidWorks/UGS/ProE

By Mike Tsang • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR

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 [...]