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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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Generating offset surfaces from a complicated surface body

By Som Valliyappan • Apr 12th, 2009 • Category: By Product, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

Generally, when you model a sheet metal body with finite thickness, you create one side and using offset command you can create the other side.

This modeling method is used to create a sheet metal body with thickness even when you have

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How To Create a High Quality Mesh-Fit Surface

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Advanced, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

XOR’s Boundary Fit Surfacing function helps you to easily create a surface body using boundary curves on the mesh, even if the mesh is a complex freeform shape.

This technical tip will help you understand how to create a high quality fitting surface.

Step 1:

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Beginner’s Exercise: Creating High Quality Boundary Fit Surfaces

By Rob Liebert • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

Create fit surfaces by drawing a patch network on the mesh:

As you can see below, there are some cases where the trimmed surfaces will produce a bad result. Specifically, the “Tangent Constraint On Boundary” option, which uses mesh normals to match

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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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