Create Dynamic Visualizations Designs in Real-time

ICEM Vis is designed to easily compose and generate both high quality, photo-realisticstatic images of CAD surface models as well as dynamic visualisations for livepresentations and design assessments.

Design visualization tools include real-time rendering, dynamic self-shadowing,reflection mapping, transparency, highlights, lens flares, model navigation, camerafly-through, animation and a dedicated background image facility. This enablesa number of images or environments to be imported and placed on different viewingplanes, says the company.

Users are able to define a virtual environment, with multiple light sources,colours and types, hard and soft shadows, self-shadows, fogging and depth of fieldand to assign textures and materials to the digital model surfaces for added reality.

Design data from other vendors' engineering CAD systems can be imported intoICEM Vis via an industry-standard IGES or STL interface, either of which, at thecustomer's choice, is included in the package as standard.

Additional-cost, direct interfaces are also available for Catia V4 and CatiaV5 from IBM/Dassault Systemes, for Unigraphics, I-deas and NX from UGS and forCADDS and Pro/E from PTC.

In other ICEM news, the company has announced the availability of a new, standalone reverseengineering software package. RevEng is designed to enable users to handle 3D digitised data imported as individualpoints from tactile measuring devices, as point clouds or facet data from laserscanners, or from photogrammetry systems. In addition to standard ASCII-basedand STL formats, proprietary formats from individual scanner manufacturers arealso supported.

Once imported, scan data can be displayed as rendered images and then convertedto a surface model for further development and refinement. According to ICEM,this provides the quickest way of having digital representations of real-worldobjects available on the computer for further processing. Scan data and surfacedata can also be used simultaneously, together with ICEM's real-time renderingtechnology, to create photo-realistic visualisations for early design review andpackaging needs.

For more information on either product, visit the company's website.