Repurpose

Many companies are finding productivity improvements can be achieved by repurposing existing designs and CAD assets. As competitive pressure heats up, a rising demand for new products continues to hammer time-to-market schedules. Finding new ways to adapt successful CAD assets is proving to have immediate value. Challenges creep in when design data no longer resides in native CAD formats, complexity is added by history-based rules and constraints, or model simplification is needed for downstream manufacturing.

Smart Use of Existing CAD Assets
REALyze provides an intuitive and completely free-form approach to working productively with history-free models. As companies identify opportunities to combine specific elements of existing designs with new ideas or merge proven CAD designs to adapt to new market needs, these projects are streamlined with REALyze.

A finely tuned architecture leverages the strength of data exchange, diagnosis, repair and editing capabilities to give design teams the flexibility to work with models from other CAD systems. REALyze uses the intelligence within the imported geometry to discover features, patterns of features, and symmetry in real time. Imagine passing a cursor over an area of the model and immediately seeing the detailed feature information displayed. A simple search for holes, pockets, patterns, and more are quickly highlighted on imported solid models. This feature discovery technology inside REALyze looks beyond a solid edge or face to understand a defined feature or set of features.

Feature discovery is only one of the new advancements available in REALyze for working with history-free models. Designers and engineers can take advantage of additional tools with the power to quickly repair, cut and paste, and modify an imported or legacy design. These tools use new modeling capabilities that are unencumbered by the limitations typical of the parametric history structure.

There are instant advantages when adding geometry-based modeling tools to coexist with popular CAD systems. It's time for companies to take advantage of these new capabilities to leapfrog the competition. Repurposing models offers a new approach to creative thinking and a more rapid introduction of new products. Highlights of the repurposing tools in REALyze:

Highlights of the repurposing tools in REALyze:

• Hybrid techniques to blend solid, surface, and wireframe modeling.
• Sophisticated geometric shape creation and deformation techniques without the complications of constraints and feature dependencies.
• Complex modification of solids through face editing, removal and Boolean operations.
• Direct feature editing to modify traditional features (blends, holes, faces) on imported geometry.
• Pattern identification and selection.
• Boolean prune and graft operations to easily tear off pieces, generate sections and pull positions of models for use in building new models.