2023 1.0.1 Expands Support for Cross-Department Collaboration, Polyhedral Modeling, Automation in Manufacturing, and More

Spatial Corp, the leading 3D software development toolkit provider for design, manufacturing, and engineering solutions, and a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, announces today the production release of 2023 1.0.1. This release delivers: the ability to read and write a range of new file formats, improvements to nesting capabilities, the introduction of convex hull generation, new functionality for ACIS Polyhedra, and a myriad of other improvements to Spatial's components.

Import AVEVA™ and Intergraph Smart® 3D Visualization with 3D InterOp

New in 2023 1.0.1, 3D InterOp introduces capabilities to import AVEVA™ E3D Design, AVEVA™ PDMS, and Intergraph Smart® 3D formats.

Application developers working in the process industries can now extend their applications to support visualization geometry and meta-data of 3D assets. This enables plant designers and operators to build experiences on virtual twins of "as designed" or "as built" 3D assets from their design or during their operational phases. With this new ability, 3D InterOp provides application developers and end users in the process industries with more precision, control, and potential possibilities for their software and workflows.

Selectively Browse and Import Revit Views with 3D InterOp

New in 2023 1.0.1, 3D InterOp introduces capabilities to retrieve the list of views present in Revit® files. BIM and AEC Application developers can now deliver efficient collaboration experiences with Revit Views so end users can focus on specific parts of the building projects.

By retrieving views in a preliminary step before import, 3D InterOp enables BIM and AEC application developers to let their end users select the views to be imported into their applications. End users can load only data of interest when needed, optimizing collaboration on large projects and reducing effective import time and memory footprint in applications.

For specific details about the new features for 3D InterOp, visit Spatial.com.

Improvements to Nesting in CGM

In 2023 1.0.1, nesting capabilities in CGM Modeler and CGM Polyhedra have been further improved to support contour nesting, nesting bodies within each other without interlocking, and exclusion and nesting zones.

Contour Nesting, also known as 2.5D Nesting, delivers a much tighter nesting of bodies than before. With the capability to nest bodies within each other while avoiding interlock, even more parts can be nested together. This can enable additive manufacturers to increase the number of parts per print or sheet metal manufacturers to cut more parts per roll while delivering automation to their end users.

The new exclusion zone feature enables product manufacturers to add a zone in which no result bodies will be nested. In contrast, the new nesting zone feature adds a zone that will be used for nesting the output bodies. Both of these zones enable the machine and print operators to customize their nesting area and automatically nest parts before cutting or printing.

Refer to this technical article for specific details about CGM Modeler and CGM Polyhedra's new features.

Convex Hull Generation with CGM Polyhedra

New in 2023 1.0.1, CGM Polyhedra introduces functionality for creating a mesh that represents the convex hull of a specified collection of input meshes or bodies.

This can be especially helpful in robotics workflows. When detecting collisions between the robot and other objects in the 3D world, robotic software applications must check for intersections and overlaps between one subset of meshes versus another. If the input meshes are dense, i.e., there is a high number of triangles to check, the performance can be poor. To combat this challenge, applications may replace the full-fidelity meshes with simpler versions produced by CGM Polyhedra's convex hull operator. This results in fast collision detection. For example, a Yaskawa MH24 robot model before running the convex hull operation had 130,394 individual mesh triangles, and the resulting model, after running the convex hull, had 9,040 mesh triangles. That is a 93% reduction in triangles with minimal user intervention.

For specific details about the new features for CGM Polyhedra, visit Spatial.com.

Process Mesh Data with ACIS Polyhedra

New in 2023 1.0.1, ACIS Polyhedra introduces features for segmentation, wall thickness analysis, and slicing.

With segmentation, ACIS-based applications can now introduce hard edges into a polyhedral model as well as fit canonic surfaces wherever possible. This can allow ACIS application developers to add more information and intelligence to a polyhedral model. With wall thickness analysis, additive manufacturing software developers can ensure that their application checks for printability by identifying regions that are too thin to print.

The new slicing operation enables end users to produce bodies with multiple planar wire cross-sections from the original polyhedral body. These slices can then form the input for downstream toolpath generation modules.

These new functionalities extend the 3D ACIS Modeler further into the domain of mesh geometry and provide 3D ACIS Modeler customers with even more flexibility and performance for different types of geometric data.

For specific details about the new features for ACIS Polyhedra, visit Spatial.com.

Other Modeler Improvements

New in 2023 1.0.1, the 3D ACIS Modeler has added multi-threading support for the ACIS Checker. This speeds up workflows for end users and has made the improper face intersection check more performant.

New in 2023 1.0.1, CGM Modeler introduces improvements to point cloud alignment to ensure fail-safety, perform more robust analysis for nearly symmetric point clouds, and an option to either use all points in the point cloud for a more precise alignment or down-sample them for improved performance. These new improvements can be leveraged to add more automation to manufacturing QA processes.

For specific details about the new improvements for Spatial's modelers, visit Spatial.com.

Other Release Highlights

This release also delivers a number of other improvements for various Spatial components. For more information, see the full list of highlights on Spatial.com.

About Spatial Corp

Spatial Corp, a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary, is the leading provider of 3D software development toolkits for technical applications across a broad range of industries. Spatial 3D modeling, 3D visualization, and CAD translation software development toolkits help application developers deliver market-leading products, maintain focus on core competencies, and reduce time-to-market. For over 30 years, Spatial's 3D software development toolkits have been adopted by many of the world's most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, Germany, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.spatial.com.