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Archives for the ‘XOR’ Category

Full Face Fillet

By Mike Tsang • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Novice, Tech Tips, XOR

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 [...]



How to Activate Rapidform Licenses

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

Activating Rapidform on your PC is generally a straightforward process, but you may have a few questions about how to activate, especially for floating licenses or when your PC isn’t connected to the internet.  We’ve put together a PDF installation guide that covers license activation that we recommend you read. If you still have trouble activating [...]



How to Region Group a mesh in XOS and XOR

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Novice, XOR, XOS

Objective:
Region segmentation is a way to group set of poly-faces that belong to one feature. Regions assist in alignment of the mesh data to the global coordinate system and in the selection of a region of interest for extracting the design intent and converting it to a surface. This example in detail will give instructions [...]



How to make a simple solid model in XOR

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

Objective:
This is perfect example to explore the parametric modeling capabilities of XOR. This covers few basic concepts on how to convert a mesh into a feature based solid model. It includes sectioning the mesh by planar method, basic sketching, extruding up to a region, performing cut operations and finishing up the model with constant as [...]



How to Autosurface a mesh in XOS and XOR

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Novice, XOR, XOS

Objective:
This example primarily focuses on how to autosurface a part. one of the quickest way to get NURBS from a mesh data. The airbag part is first aligned using interactive alignment method and then autosurfaced to get NURBS as displayed in the image above.
Pre-requisites:
Align
Estimated Time:
30 minutes

Files Available for Download:

File Name:
File Type:
Size

Autosurfacing.pdf
Autosurfacing.stl
Autosurfacing.avi
Pdf Document
Mesh File
Video
0.66 MB
3.08 MB
95.5 [...]



XOR Tutorial: CCTV Camera Housing

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

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 we’re going to liveTransfer the model to SolidWorks. Incorporating various solid modeling techniques in XOR, we can RE the part in about 2.5 hours. This is a good exercise for practicing parametric modeling methods. This is a highly recommend tutorial for intermediate users.



How to align a mesh to a coordinate system and/or to a CAD model

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Novice, XOR, XOS

Objective:
The objective of this tutorial is to learn various alignment techniques. This involves 2 data set that are used for understandingthe following
1. How to align a mesh to desired co-ordinate system using reference geometries
2. How to align a mesh to desired co-ordinate system using already segmented region groups
3. How to align a mesh to a [...]



User Interface

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Novice, XOR, XOS

Objective:
This tutorial will give a very detailed overview on the User Interface of Rapidform Software. It starts with basics on showing such how to pan, rotate and zoom a part, how to show and hide entities etc to advanced options such as dynamic draw. This is a very good start for any new user trying [...]



Quick Start Guide

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

Did you know that Rapidform Softwares come with in-built Quick Start Guide and Tutorials
Show me how to use Quick Start Guide
Show me how to use Tutorials
I am missing my Tutorials/Help Files
Quick Start Guide
Quick Start Guide helps to quickly learn how to use the software and its various commands using interactive and highly descriptive examples. [...]



PC Requirements

By Som Valliyappan • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: XOR, XOS, XOV

The following are the recommended specifications to run Rapidform softwares on a Windows based PC
Operating System: Windows 2003, Windows XP Windows Vista (32/64 bit version)
Processor: Intel Pentium M/Intel Centrino Dual Core or higher
CPU Clock Speed: 2.0Ghz or higher
RAM: Atleast 2GB (atleast 4GB if you are running Windows Vista)
Hard Disc: Atleast 10GB of free space in [...]