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Rapidform Success 2009 Training Conference

Rob Liebert — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:30:45 +0000

We are having our Rapidform Success Training Conference this April (14-17) at the Hilton in Las Vegas! Come join our team of experts and our growing network of hardcore users, as we all take part in a wonderful opportunity to:

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Dual-core and multi-threading support in Rapidform

Tom Charron — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:20:52 +0000

We recently had a customer ask us this question:

I’m currently building a new machine for running RapidWorks, and we will have a great deal of scanning data to process, taken from very large objects requiring the merge of dozens of scans. We need to find a sweet spot between cost and performance, and it would help if I had a better understanding of its threading performance. I’ve been extremely disappointed by some of the CAD software I’ve been using, having completely single-threaded routines for most CPU-intensive tasks. I’m curious about RapidWorks — how well does it split tasks into threads? If it doesn’t divide processing into threads very well, I’d be better off getting a very fast dual-core processor (e.g. 3Ghz+). If it does, I’d spend less on a more modest (2.4Ghz+) quad core and get much better performance. What’s your recommendation?

And here’s the answer from one of our developers:

1. Rapidform & RapidWorks support multithreading for some but not all operations. Rapidform XOR and RapidWorks use the Parasolid kernel for most CAD operations, so there are limitations on employing multi-threaded calculation for CAD modeling.
2. But for mesh operations, we harness multi-core/thread calculations in our most exhausting operations like Align, Merge and Deviation calculations. And also some basic functionalities and rendering operations are compatible with multi-threading.

So we recommend that you use multi-core system for handling heavy scan data.

Note : Our multithreading currently only supports dual-core. Even if you’re using quad-core or more, we don’t guarantee significant performance improvement.

It’s also worth mentioning here that 64 bit versions of XOS, XOR and RapidWorks are currently available (and 64 bit XOV will be released late Q3 2008).

RapidWorks 2.3 Released, adds 64 bit option

Tom Charron — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:06:55 +0000

We’ve just released RapidWorks 2.3, which has some nice improvements to hole filling on meshes, as well as a bunch of enhancements throughout the software. The biggest news, though, is that with the 2.3 release, 64 bit is now available. If you ever run out of memory while processing big scan data sets, you can switch to 64 bit at no cost. You’ll need to have Windows XP64 or Vista 64. Once you do, RapidWorks will be able to use more than 2GB of RAM (the per-application limit on 32 bit systems). That means 20, 30, even 100 million points are no problem with a powerful 64 bit PC packed with RAM.

RapidWorks releases typically follow XOR releases by a few weeks — RW 2.3 adds the features that were introduced in XOR2 Service Pack 1 (if you didn’t know, RapidWorks is the same software as XOR, except that it’s exclusive to the NextEngine 3D scanner).

Download the What’s New in RapidWorks 2.3 PDF for complete details.

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