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Posts Tagged ‘XOR’

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



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 3)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

The Rewrap Command (part 3)

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. This post continues our look at the command with a third example. The first two examples can be…



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 2)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: By Level, By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

The Rewrap Command (part 2)

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. This post continues our look at the command with a second example. The first example can be found…



Commands and Applications: Rewrap (part 1)

By Mike Tsang • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: By Product, Intermediate, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS
The Rewrap Command (part 1)

We all know that the Rewrap command is useful for interpolating mesh data as well as smoothing noisy data. If you don’t, press The F1 Key.


We’ll take a look at



Learn more with F1

By Mike Tsang • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: By Product, Self-paced Learning, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

The F1 Key

Rapidform contains a plethora of features and commands. Many of which that have options that provide additional functions and control. Have you ever wondered what happens if you uncheck a checkbox? What happens if you slide that slider all the way



RAM and Rapidform

By Mike Tsang • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

How much RAM can Rapidform use with a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system?

XOR/XOV/XOS 32-bit versions can use a maximum of 2GB (by default) or optionally 3GB. The 64-bit versions can theoretically use an “unlimited” amount of memory that is available by Windows.

So…



Latest Version Number of Rapiform Software

By Som Valliyappan • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: By Product, Product News, XOR, XOS, XOV

You can find the version number of Rapidform Software by following these steps

1. Start the software
2. Goto Help->About
3. The version number will be displayed on the pop up splash screen as shown below the title Version Information

The Latest



ICF publishing tips (Creating a web page with an embedded 3D model)

By Tom Charron • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips

Rapidform XOS, XOR and XOV can create web pages with your 3D scan, CAD model or inspection result embedded as rotatable 3D models. They do this by creating an ICF (INUS Compression Format) file and an associated html file, which you can then place on…



Tool entity extension in XOR’s Split Face command

By Tom Charron • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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On to the third installment of our tech tips on the Split Face command.  Did you know that XOR will automatically extend a surface if it’s too short to split another face? If you’re splitting a face by intersecting another surface, it will extend…



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)…