Let's know about SpaceClaim
SpaceClaim enables anyone to create, edit, or repair geometry without worrying about underlying technology. With SpaceClaim, working with 3D modeling software becomes fast, easy, flexible, and rewarding, no matter where in the workflow you need it.
SpaceClaim can be used for:
- Edit, repair, and create any geometry - without worrying about where the file comes from
- Increase productivity by removing the CAD bottleneck in your workflow
- Manipulate geometry faster, easier, and more intuitively resulting in less time spent struggling with geometry and more time dedicated to primary job functions such as manufacturing, analysis, and concept modeling.
Design Overview :
- Full part and assembly modeling.
- Detailed drawings included full 2D/3D GD&T
- Open/edit files from neutral and native CAD systems.
- Complete help guide and tutorials to help you get started.
2D CAD or Drawings to 3D
- Open common 2D file formats like DXF, DWG, bitmaps, and IGES.
- Use 2D drawings as the profiles to pull the drawing into 3D.
- Sketch directly on top of 2D CAD images, appropriately scaled to size.
- Automatically detect and fix gaps with 2D geometry so the 3D computer aided design is correct.
- 2D and 3D tools let you tweak geometry in areas where the dimensions were incorrect.
Concept Design for Product Design and Development
Traditional history-based CAD software was designed to facilitate detailed models for manufacturing documentation. While extremely important to ensure successful production, the constraints used in history-based CAD become troublesome for the initial concept design phase of product development. Innovation is stifled and users spend more time rebuilding the model than coming up with creative design ideas.In addition, using a CAD specialist to brainstorm modeling ideas can be a slow and expensive process.
Reverse Engineering Without Constraints
SpaceClaim offers intuitive tools that are perfect for reverse engineering. With SpaceClaim, STL files and solids can be easily altered to recreate perfect models for parts and fixtures. Users can even start with 2D models. Imperfect data from worn components or a dirty scan can be quickly corrected.For reverse engineering, SpaceClaim is unmatched in terms of power, ease of use, and flexibility.
Functionality for Reverse Engineering
- Quickly create complex solids from scratch.
- Sketch curves along the facets of an STL file.
- Adjust a model's geometry.
- Easily create fixtures around mesh data.
- Convert 2D models or STL files into 3D models.
- Modify the geometry of worn parts.
- Clean up messy scans.
The Value of SpaceClaim for Reverse Engineering
- Users don't need to have a process in place with specialty tools for reverse engineering, which saves time and money.
- Train users in days instead of weeks. Don't need to spend majority of time relearning specialty reverse engineering software every time you want to use it.
- Work with both STL files and solids in order to recreate models more efficiently.
- Increase workflow productivity by more quickly preparing recreated parts for simulation, machining, and 3D printing.
STL Prep for 3D Printing Software
Work with STL to Easily Ready Models for 3D Printing
- Analyze and Clean STL: Watertight & intersection analysis; generalized detection of holes, misaligned normals, co-incident triangles; repair STL for printing .
- Decimation/reduction.
- Cut & Combine parts (Boolean operations).
- Edit STL directly significantly faster performance - for many functions across the software including 30 percent improvement in model load times and multithreading support for several functions, including importing files eliminate time consuming extra steps from any user's process
Shelling & Creating Connecting Features
- Shelling: Less printing costs, less shipping costs, faster print times.
- Creating Connecting Features: Make connecting pins or offsets to recombine the model after printing.
- Converting to solid: Thickening, deleting, splitting, and more.
SpaceClaim's 3D Printing Software also:
- Save & export STL files.
- Import other faceted formats such as OBJ, cgr, AMF
