Delcam Offers Tribrid Modelling in PowerSHAPE Pro

By DE Editors

Delcam (Salt Lake City, UT) will launch the first product development system to offer Tribrid Modelling, a new version of Delcam's PowerSHAPE Pro design software that adds triangle modeling to the combination of surface and solid modeling currently offered in existing packages as hybrid modeling. The extended range of functionality is suited for the re-engineering of existing products into improved designs.

Delcam developed this design approach through the integration of its CopyCAD reverse engineering and triangle modeling software into the earlier hybrid modelling version of PowerSHAPE Pro.

The combination of functionality from PowerSHAPE and CopyCAD has enabled easier, faster and more accurate creation of CAD surfaces from triangle data. Each area can be converted into CAD data by generating a network of curves and then projecting it onto the mesh of triangles. A single surface is generated within the complete set of curves using PowerSHAPE's Smart Surfacing functionality. This automatically analyzes the curves and determines the most appropriate way to create the surface.

The other key benefit of the integration of triangle modeling into PowerSHAPE Pro is the ability to create "perfect" geometry, in areas where any reverse engineering system would give only approximate results.

Tribrid Modelling in PowerSHAPE Pro allows users to build up CAD models quickly and easily with data from different sources. It makes it easy to design the main outline of a product with CAD but to use hand models for complex details or decoration, or to capture specific data from a customer or patient. The extra data required can then be collected with a scanning device and combined with the main CAD model in the computer.

For details, go to Delcam.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.