Polygonica 3.3 with new features

26.01.2024

Software company Machine Works has unveiled Polygonica 3.3, a significant upgrade to its polygon mesh component software library, offering a range of new features and improvements. Polygonica is a useful tool for various industrial sectors, enabling the resolution of complex 2D and 3D geometrical challenges.

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Polygonica 3.3 introduces several headline enhancements, including the ability to adjust vertices to align with mathematical CAD surfaces during remeshing. Other notable additions include edge blending and chamfering, shelling (hollowing with selected face removal), Z compensation for 3D printing, a 1D medial guided skeleton, and options for healing complex self-intersecting support structures. Additionally, new point cloud registration options have been incorporated, enabling point cloud to mesh registration and alignment, general point set to point set registration, and sparse point set registration.

The latest version also comprises features like closing a mesh using a reference mesh, gap thickness and protrusion analysis, support for feature detection of fillets and chamfers, scaling of deformation compensation, tangential extension of poly-curves, and options for using surface detection in 3D medial axis computation and tolerance-based pruning in 2D medial axis creation.

Dr. Fenqiang Lin, Managing Director of Machine Works, emphasized that many of these enhancements were developed based on feedback and requests from OEM customers in CAE, AM, CAM, and dental modeling markets. Polygonica is now being adopted directly into the workflows of larger manufacturers and dental labs. The release of features like edge blending is part of Machine Works' ongoing efforts, with seamless UV parameterization expected in the near future.

Source: ETMM