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Rapidform Presentation at SME RAPID 2010

By Tom Charron • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Application Stories, Feature Highlights, Industry News
SME RAPID 2010


Wednesday May 19th, 1:30pm-4:45pm

CAD in Context, How Physical Parts Factor-In to Your Digital PLM World

Do you have physical parts laying around with no CAD? Have you invested substantial amounts of money in PLM or PDM systems, only to have a large portion…

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Reverse Engineering Workshop at SME RAPID 2010

By Tom Charron • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
SME RAPID 2010

Michael Mock will be presenting at a Reverse Engineering Workshop, sponsered by SME at the 2010 RAPID conference.

Monday May 17th, 8:30am-12:00PM

See how Reverse Engineering can be used, and get up to speed on the latest technology in the industry!

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New Success Story in Europe: Designing better fans with Rapidform XOR

By Tom Charron • Feb 28th, 2010 • Category: 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

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Splitting faces by projecting curves

By Tom Charron • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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In our second installment on the Split Face command, I’d like to point out a difference between projecting 2D sketches and 3D sketches in XOR.

Using Split Face (found under Insert>Modeling Feature>Split Face), you can project a curve onto a face (surface or solid)…

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Creating parting lines on CAD solids or NURBS surface models

By Tom Charron • May 11th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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Rapidform XOR has a pretty cool command called Split Face. It can be used for several different purposes, and one of them is to generate parting lines after you’ve created a CAD model from scan data.

Using Split Face to create parting lines

1) Go…

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White Paper: 3rd Generation Reverse Engineering

By Tom Charron • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Product News

We’ve put together a white paper outlining the techniques and advantages of what we call third-generation reverse engineering. Click here to download a copy…

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