As part of a new partnership, metal 3D printing company Intech Additive Solutions will license Polygonica from MachineWorks to enhance their Metal 3D Printing Ecosystem.
Polygonica is a general polygon mesh processing engine, a component for Additive Manufacturing Print Preparation and for hybrid AM processes’ simulation.
Intech on the other hand, is behind the first series of Metal 3D Printers based in India. Today, the company’s portfolio includes iFusion SF1, iFusion MF, and iFusion LF along with its build preparation software, AMBuilder, and parameter optimization software, AMOptoMet.
However, the partnership between MachineWorks and Intech ambitions to help the machine manufacturer address compensation for part deviations that occur during the print process. How?
With its advanced mesh algorithms, Polygonica will enable Intech’s build preparation software to overcome this challenge.
“At Intech, we are working hard to accelerate the adoption of metal printing in modern manufacturing by providing a complete end-to-end ecosystem, from design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), through printing, post-processing, and quality assurance. We’re striving to lower the cost of entry whilst improving reliability, throughput, and efficiency. Adding Polygonica’s world-renowned mesh algorithms to AMBuilder was an important step for us, and we also plan to introduce new and innovative software powered in part by the Polygonica engine,” commented Murari Venkataraman, VP of Operations at Intech Additive Solutions.
It should be noted that the last quarter saw the release of Polygonica 3.1. At that time, MachineWorks outlined that the significant increase in adoption of remeshing during the last year was partly driven by the addition of curvature sensitive remeshing in Polygonica 3.0. One of the interesting upgrades was the combination of mesh healing with the software’s multithreaded remeshing to provide a powerful mesh preparation tool for the CAE simulation and analysis market.
Headline Improvements in Polygonica 3.1 include:
- New .NET wrappers supporting programming with C# and other .NET languages
- Multithreaded Boolean union of multiple solids, including out-of-core support
- Identification of curves along curvature extrema of a mesh (crests and troughs)
- New non-manifold geometry healing that works on open surfaces with defects
- Recognition of screw threads in surface detection
- Memory-efficient method for slicing huge numbers of solids
- Optimisation of mesh export to support faster updates to external graphics
- Direct export of mesh solids that conform to Siemens Parasolid
- Remeshing:
Other improvements can be seen during shrink-wrapping, selection, 2D profile operations and 3D curve operations.
“We are of course very pleased to announce that Intech is our second Polygonica customer in India. Moreover, we are very excited to be working with Intech. Their undoubted knowledge and experience in the metal additive industry will help the Polygonica team meet the ever more demanding requirements of handling DfAM geometries. We look forward to seeing the new developments in their future products,” said Dr. Fenqiang Lin, Managing Director of MachineWorks.
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