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With built-in CAD file readers for:

Auto Align

ü      IGES

ü      STEP

ü      VDA

ü      Parasolid

ü      SolidEdge

ü      SolidWorks

 Autodesk
 ü      DWG
 ü      DXF
 ü      IPT
 ü      IAM

ü      SAT

ü      CADL

ü      STL

ü      HPGL

ü      ASCII (CSV)

 

Option for direct native import for all major CAD System including:
CATIA V4 & V5, Unigraphics and Pro-E.

Included interfaces for all your portable or manual CMM Devices:
 

  • Several tools for aligning the device to the CAD system
  • Create multiple Part-Axis Systems
  • Create and Read Point files with option for point names and vectors
  • Plus hundreds of other custom and useful tools

Alignment Tools for Locating Measured Geometric Features

Use any combination of measured geometric features such as a point, line, slot, rectangle, plane, sphere, cylinder or cone.

This tool greatly simplifies basic alignments for reporting and or aligning a measuring device. It provides both options for creating either a device alignment or local reference frame.

Automatically pops up after you have measured simple features

 

 

Align Device

Several alignment types are available.
  • Auto Align
  • Three points
  • 321 Alignments
  • Select Feature Alignments
  • Plane-Line-Point
  • Plane-Line-Line
  • Plane-Plane-Plane
  • Plane-Axis-Origin
  • Plane -Origin
  • Plane
  • Align to Values
  • Best-Fit

 Part Axis

Define Your Datum Reference Frames with Part Axis

  • Create Part-Axis Systems 
  • Translate
  • Rotate
  • Translate between two Part-Axis

Reports

  • Make point report (Reference File)
  • Read point report (Reference File)
  • Compare to Reference File (makes deviation report)

Tools

  • Planes
  • Hole axis
  • Tool Ball
  • Pierce
  • Surface Grid
  • Data to Excel
  • Levels
  • Name Groups
  • Fit Spine
  • GD&T
  • MBD (Model Based Definition)

 

 

CAD System Video

Import it.
Create it from scratch.

 

Efficient Wireframe Geometry

  • Multiple point and line creation techniques.
  • Efficient arc, circle, and fillet functions, including filleting at every corner in a chain of entities.
  • A variety of functions for creating splines on surfaces including surface projections, surface intersections, edge curves, slicing curves, and parting lines.
  • Create pre-filleted shapes to save time.

Powerful Surface Modeling

  • Create parametric and NURBS surfaces using loft, ruled, revolved, swept, draft, Coons patch, and offset creation methods.
  • Create blend surfaces for complex tasks such as ball corners and blending between surfaces.
  •  Instantly create a flat surface simply by creating a rectangle or selecting a closed boundary of any shape.
  • Create swept surfaces with an unlimited number of cross-sections.
  • Trim single and multiple surfaces to curves, planes and surfaces.
  • Undo surface trimming all at once or one boundary at a time.
  • Easily extend and split surfaces.
  • Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets.
  • Automatic parting line calculation for mold making.
  • 3D Primitives allows easy parametric creation of surfaced blocks, spheres, cylinders, cones, and other shapes.
  • Create, edit, and manipulate realistically shaded surface models.

Solid Modeling Option

Solids gives you powerful, streamlined solid modeling for practical design.

  • Fast solids construction using familiar modeling techniques.
  • Powerful revolve, extrude, loft and sweep commands.
  • Easy shelling and thin-wall creation.
  • Boolean addition, subtraction and common volume calculation between solids.
  • Fast, efficient filleting and chamfering.
  • Draft solid faces.
  • Cut solids using a surface or plane for maximum design potential.
  • Data including volume, surface area, and center of gravity.
  • Freedom to model without part constraints.
  • Solids Manager for efficient operation tracking, reordering and editing.
  • Import Parasolids files as true solids, surfaces and/or wireframe.
  • Export Parasolids files.

 

Fast geometry creation and powerful surfacing tools give you the best in flexible part modeling.

Verisurf gives you all the tools to design machinable parts quickly and easily.

 

Flexible Geometry Editing

  • Change widths, styles, and colors globally or for a single entity.
  • Quickly modify parameters such as line length and arc radius after creation.
  • Fillet or chamfer corners easily.
  • Extend lines, arcs, splines, and surfaces.
  • Trim single or multiple surfaces with full undo capability.
  • Quickly translate, mirror, and scale (uniformly or with separate factors in X, Y, and Z).
  • Offset entities by a given distance.

Selection Options

  • AutoCursorTM snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction.
  • AutoHighlight changes the color of entities when the cursor is over them, making selection easy.
  • Quickly access common functions using the right mouse button.
  • Smart chaining selects an entire chain of entities at once and automates other selection tasks.
  • Restrict your selections to specific entity types, colors, levels, line styles or line widths.
  • Group and ungroup entities for easy selection.
  • Select entities inside, outside, or intersecting a rectangular window or a polygon sketched with the mouse.
  • User-definable grid simplifies detailed construction.

Analyzing Geometry

  • Instantly analyze any entity for size, location, entity type, and other attributes.
  • Measure distance between points and angles between lines in 2D or 3D.
  • Check the integrity of surface models and trimmed surface boundaries.
  • Measure minimum and maximum radius of curvature anywhere on a surface, and calculate surface area for single or multiple surfaces.
  • Draft angle analysis (from vertical) anywhere on a surface.

 

Easy Drafting Tools

  • Automatic dimensioning.
  • Modify dimensioned geometry and its dimensions automatically update.
  • Create horizontal, vertical, parallel, baseline, chained, angular, diameter, radius, ordinate and point coordinate dimensions, as well as notes and labels.
  • Easily drag and place drafting notes as they are being created and change their attributes on the fly.
  • Plot or print drawings in full color.
  • Choose from a library of line and cross-hatch styles.

File Management and Data Exchange

  • Built-in data readers for AutoCAD (DWG), IGES, Parasolid, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, SAT (ACIS solids), DXF, CADL, STL, VDA, and ASCII. Direct read for, STEP, CATIA, UG and Pro-E are also available.
  • Save a description of your files for easier browsing and loading.
  • View files before opening them.

 

System Requirements

  • Pentium-based PC
  • Windows compatible mouse
  • Windows NT 4.0 or higher, Windows 98, 2000 or XP
  • Minimum 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with Open GL, min 64 Mb video RAM.
  • Minimum 512 MB RAM; Minimum 900 MB free disk space in addition to Windows requirements

 

 

What's New for V9

Improved handling of Inch and Metric parts

  • All part files now store information regarding the units used to create it, when a file is loaded the configuration file with the correct Units will be loaded if it is not already the default.
  • Files can be converted from Inch to Metric or Metric to Inch by going into Screen, Configure and changing the current configuration file from one unit to another. When the file is saved it will store the units it was converted to. Users also have the ability to have Verisurf automatically scale the part during this process.
  •   The icon at the lower-left corner of the screen also includes the current system units as well.

Some of the sample files used as examples are only available in Inch or Metric to serve as an example of this new functionality. 

Chaining option - Surface Edges available for Single Selection

A new chaining option allowing users to select a surface edge when in Single selection mode is now available.  Prior to Version 9 users first had to create edge curves on the surface first.  With this option set the system will automatically create the edge curve and use it with the function currently in use.  Use the sample part Surface Edge Selection.MC9 to experiment with this new capability.
 

Expanded Attributes Settings

The Style / Width dialog box found in the Version 8 secondary menu has been enhanced to include all possible attributes.  Users can still change Color and Level independently, but they can also set them along with Line Style, Line Width, and Point Style in one location.

 

Printing and Plotting line widths

As printers and plotters have been introduce with higher resolution the lines output have become increasingly harder to see.  This has been especially difficult when faxing the output.  With Version 9 users can control the pixel width of the printed output.  This will create bolder prints without forcing the user to modify their line widths in the MC9 file.  This change affects printing and plotting only when Windows drivers are used.  Defaults for this and other settings can be set in Screen, Configure, CAD Settings, Hardcopy.

Entity Attribute Manager

In response to many user requests for more ways to manage the geometry we have created the Entity Attribute Manager.  This new function, found under the Attributes button in the secondary menu, allows users to set specific rules for what attributes are used in the creation of entities.  With minimal keystrokes users can setup the system so that all dimensions are created on Level 100, in Red, with a Line Width of 2.  As long as the Entity Attribute Manager is active all dimensions will be created with those attributes without forcing the user to set them before starting.  To access the EA Manager open the Attributes dialog box, activate the EA Mgr switch, and press the EA Mgr button.

 

Improved Selection Masking

With Version 9 it is now easier to set a specific selection mask.  A new tree structure improves access to all entity types. The attributes information is now available on the same dialog box, making it much more efficient to define your selection mask.

 


 

View Manager

In an effort to make working with named views for Graphics and Construction, we have created the View Manager.  Users can now create, name, edit, and activate named views from a single dialog box.  The View Manager can be accessed from the Named menu option in C-Plane found on the secondary menu.  The View Manager is also part of the new WCS functionality

 

Working Coordinate Systems

One of the changes inside of Version 9 that can greatly increase productivity in many ways is the new WCS, or Work Coordinate System.  The WCS is found in the secondary menu and is part of the new View Manager dialog box.  The WCS provides the ability to temporarily reassign which View is the Top.  This is especially helpful when working with Aerospace or Automotive parts that were created in the orientation to where they are being used in the whole project.   Use the sample files WCS 1.MC9 and WCS 2.MC9 to experiment with this powerful feature.

Improved Right-Click Menu

Options for Dynamic Pan and Zoom have been added to the right-click menu.  A new option in Screen, Configure, Screen allows the use of “Free Mode” during Dynamic spin.  This method of dynamically rotating the part is similar to many of today’s current CAD products.


 

Delete Duplicates

Users now have the ability to determine exactly what defines a duplicate entity.  In previous versions, only X, Y, Z coordinates were considered when determining duplicates.  Unfortunately this could remove geometry that users wanted to keep.  Now users can use any combination of attributes to determine if two entities are identical.  Load Delete Duplicates.MC9 and follow the instructions found in File, Properties.

 

Analyze Edit  - Redefine

A redefine button has been introduced for Lines, Arcs, and Points.  This enables the user to completely recreate the entity without changing it’s ID#.  This is especially useful when drastic changes need to be made to Wireframe entities used in Solids creation.  Prior to this change users were forced move each endpoint one at a time.

Create

All of the functions found on the second page of the Create menu have been modified to increase efficiency and ease of use.

Create – Chamfer

This functions dialog box has been redefined for ease of use.  Select the method of 1 Distance, 2 Distances, or Distance and Angle, and the dialog box changes to prompt for the correct input.  This function also supports line-to-arc and arc-to-arc chamfers in addition to the line-to-line capabilities found in Version 8.

Create - Letters

This function has been greatly simplified and reorganized with a single dialog box.  Now each of the 3 methods works identically.

 

Create – Pattern

A simplified interface along with the ability to preview parts before they are loaded makes this feature easier to use.

Create – Ellipse and Polygon

These functions have been improved with an easier interface and more feedback to users so there is no guesswork in what is being created.

 

 

Create – Bounding Box

This useful function has been upgraded for Version 9 with a Dialog Box that matches the one found in Job Setup.

 

Create – Spiral/Helix

The ability to create Spirals and Helixes has been added to the long list of Create options available in Verisurf.  This function incorporates the abilities of the Spiral and the Helix c-hook utilities into a single, easy to use, dialog box.

 

Create – Add-Ins

This new menu contains three items, Fplot, Gear, and Htable.  These are standard C-hooks that have been distributed with Verisurf for several versions.  Creating the Add-ins menu frees up more room in Create, and makes more room for users and 3rd party software developers to add new features.

Modify – Drag

A new dialog box improves the interaction at the same time more capabilities have been added.

 

Xform – Squash        

The Squash functionality available in Version 8 only as a c-hook utility has been added to Xform.  Squash enables users to flatten geometry on to the current Construction Plane at a desired depth.  Use the sample Squash.MC9 to experiment with this capability.

 

Xform – Scale and Scale XYZ

These two functions have been combined into a single dialog box.  Users have the option of Uniform or XYZ scaling.  When a type is selected the dialog box changes to allow for the input needed for that option.

 

    

Entities in Background Color

Now when users are warned about entities in the background color they are given an opportunity to change the color immediately.

Dialog Box Focus

Version 9 will now remember the last tab visible in a specific dialog box and make it visible the next time the function is entered.  A nice feature when working with dialog boxes with multiple tabs.

Function Key Mapping

Function key mapping has been expanded to include F11 and F12.


 
 


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Last modified: April 02, 2008