Categories: Tech Tips, XOV
One of the great features of XOV is that you can cut cross sections through your model to see the deviation between your nominal model and the scanned part. Once you take a cross section, you can use XOV's 2D GD&T tools to take measurements and check tolerances, and you can include all this info in an XOV inspection report. But what if you want to take the cross section into CAD and print it at the correct scale? As we heard a lot in last week's Success conference, "there's a button for that".
Let's walk through the process:
1) After you've imported and aligned your nominal and scan data, create a section profile by going to Insert>Section
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Categories: Intermediate, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS
There may be times when all you need is a nice water-tight mesh. Scan the part, run the Healing Wizard, maybe a Rewrap command, and presto! But what if you want to add a precise feature? Perhaps a few quarter inch holes for fastening locations or maybe you want to trim the part so that its an exact height. Well its a good thing you have Rapidform! In this post, I'll show you how to use some of our CAD Tools on mesh bodies.
Categories: Novice, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS
While helping a customer with a support call the other day, I came across more proof that the developers are more clever than credited. As part of their strive to make sure the software is intuitive, a lot of the keyboard shortcuts used in one scenario, carry over to another. A great example is the use of the CTRL key.
Categories: 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 design and production of controllable external rotor motors. Rosenberg is a competitive medium sized ...
Categories: 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, we are talking about Rapidform here, so "check" on the powerful tool. As for the guidance, here's a tutorial that one of our favorite customers has used repeatedly to split some of the most difficult meshes out there.
By the way, this tutorial was written with the simplified RapidWorks interface in mind. That said, all the instructions here also apply to Rapidform XOR, but the commands may be in a different place ...
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