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InnovMetric Software Inc. (Quebec City, Canada) released an intermediate version of PolyWorks, a universal metrology software platform that will increase the productivity of its sheet metal customers. PolyWorks 10.1 will be available for free to all customers with a valid support/maintenance contract.
The workflows for specifying and using material thickness, creating and computing surface and boundary comparison points, creating reference points for alignment, laser-scanning sheet metal outer and inner boundaries, and probing sheet metal parts have been improved, resulting in greater operator efficiency and overall usability, says the company.
PolyWorks 10.1 offers hundreds of other improvements in the PolyWorks/Inspector, PolyWorks/Inspector Probing, and PolyWorks/Modeler packages: the optional CATIA V5 and Pro/E CAD translators, for example, will now import feature definitions, dimensions, tolerances, and GD&T from native CAD files; a curvature-sensitive smoothing method will be available when processing point clouds digitized by laser scanners and area-based digitizers; inspection reporting tools will have annotation positioning methods and intelligent snapshots that can restore the 3D scene for quick updates; probed points and compensation parameters will be editable after a feature has been probed; and more. For the rest of the features, please go to InnovMetric.
]Ed. Note: A review of PolyWorks 10 has just been published in DE 's December 2007 issue.]
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
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