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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…



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.


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How To Extract True Scale Section Profiles from CAD and Scan Data

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Intermediate, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOV

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…



How to Trim a Mesh using a Curve or Ref. Plane

By Mike Tsang • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Intermediate, Product News, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

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



XOR Tutorial: CCTV Camera Housing

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Intermediate, XOR, XOV

Objective:

In this module, we create a CAD model of a plastic security camera housing from 3D scan data using XOR. The redesign techniques used assume