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CADfix Product Overview

CADfixCADfix provides a solution for the problems of data exchange and re-use between different engineering systems and applications. It allows the user to import CAD data and then to repair and manipulate it to a form most suitable for the downstream application - with the main objective of eliminating expensive CAD model repair and rework. CADfix is a suite of translation and repair tools for engineering product data. The result of two decades of ongoing research and development, CADfix offers true interoperability between a comprehensive selection of CAD, CAM and CAE systems through an unrivalled series of automatic and manual geometry manipulation tools.

The CADfix ProcessCADfix Translation and Repair

The CADfix Wizard offers an automatic processing capability for fixing the data to a valid well connected surface or solid model. The Wizard is supported by an extensive set of interactive geometry manipulation tools for use as required.

CADfix also offers model defeaturing utilities which are very popular with CAE analysis users who defeature the model with operations such as the joining or collapsing of short edges and small faces, and automatic hole removal.

The CADfix geometry preparation process then makes sure that the model is suitably flavored for the downstream application. This includes detecting and repairing badly parameterized surfaces, twisted or folded surfaces and simplifying overly complex entities - all within user controlled tolerances.

Who should use CADfix?

CADfix is the ideal solution for anyone who needs to:

  • Share product data between departments or with customers and suppliers
  • Reuse solid model geometry in different classes of CAD/CAM/CAE applications
  • Recover legacy data that would otherwise need to be remodeled from scratch

Key features and benefits?CADfix Translation and Repair

By enabling effective engineering data interoperability, CADfix removes significant barriers that can hamper the reuse of solid models. Without CADfix, users of downstream applications have little alternative but to rework models from scratch.

Research suggests that remodeling can consume as much as 80 percent of the length of a typical engineering project, time that can only be considered wasted. With CADfix, little or no rework is necessary and engineers are free to spend their time doing what they’re being paid for. Experience has shown that CADfix pays for itself in productivity gains within the first few months.

Supported Geometry Formats (CADfix V7.1 Update, October 16, 2007)

  • Native CATIA V4/V5, NX, Pro/E, CADDS 5i, Solidworks, Inventor
  • SolidEdge, I-deas NX (flavored neutral format)
  • ACIS (flavored & standard)
  • Parasolid (flavored & standard)
  • IGES (flavored & standard)
  • STEP AP203 and AP214
  • STL
  • VDAFS
  • DXF/DWG
  • ANSYS, FEMGV, Flite3D
  • Boeing's AGPS Format
  • Rolls Royce's SC03 Format
  • Centaur, NASTRAN, Xpatch

CADfix Customers

A sampling of customers using ITI TranscenData's CADfix based translation and repair solutions includes large, product development programs for leading manufacturers: ABB, BAE Systems, Boeing, Schlumberger, P&H Mining, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Raytheon, Dana, Loewe, NASA, Pratt and Whitney and many more.

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3D CAD Data Translation and Repair Solution

This page is intended to answer the question of what CADfix is from a software product perspective. Please select the following link to better understand how CADfix is applied as part of a 3D CAD Data Translation and Repair Solution or within the context of a CAD Data Exchange Automation Solution.

CADfix Support

For CADfix support, FAQ's, troubleshooting and detailed release documents, please go to the CADfix Support Page