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Rapidform Presentation at SME RAPID 2010

Tom Charron — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:20:03 +0000

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 of your products sitting squarely outside this system? As 3D Imaging has progressed, we see it converging with the regular digital domain of design. Via Imaging, you can take that “legacy” part, and get a 3D representation of it. How you use that data has been the question for over 10 years.

First, let’s talk about why your CAD or PLM system doesn’t understand 3D scan data. Now we see an apples-to-oranges problem: how do you take apples and make them into oranges? This presentation looks at the different generations of software trying to solve this dilemma. Closing with the latest generation, we see a way to take 3D Scan data, and make it work with our system, instead of outside of it. We look at a case study of a game controller, and how we can create everything from drawings to assemblies to tooling, just like a “real” part. The only difference being it wasn’t created in our PLM originally.

Reverse Engineering Workshop at SME RAPID 2010

Tom Charron — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:18:27 +0000

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!

How to make a simple solid model in XOR

Som Valliyappan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:20:17 +0000

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 well as variable fillets. it is worth noting that few steps involved in this example uses Rapidform Redesign Assistant capabilities.

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Region Group

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1 hour

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XOR Tutorial: CCTV Camera Housing

Som Valliyappan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:35:22 +0000

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 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.
1. To reverse engineer CCTV Cap using different solid modeling techniques
2. To LiveTransfer the finished model to SolidWorks