CADfix V8.1 Service Pack 1 - Interface Enhancements and Upgrades

CADfix V8.1 Service Pack 1 contains updates to CAD interfaces plus a few minor enhancments and bugfixes. The following tables list a selection of the most significant enhancements and bug fixes in the service pack.

Enhancements to Import/Export:

• ACIS SAT multi-part file supprt
• CATIA V5 version R21 and import of .cgr files
• CATIA V4: *PIP entity support, SOLIDM exprt of CAD BREP geometry
• JTOpen import: facet support and export: external config file
• Inventor 2012
• Nastran import via STL
• SC03 support for non-blank tags
• STL export of assemblies and file merging into a CADfix session
• SolidWorks 2011
• Pro/E import: skip blanked entities

GUI Enhancements:

• Improved build tools for swept/extruded
• Improved point picking menus
• New 'Auto-sizing' in Mesh Manager
• Quick-fix tool bar options have new parameter modifictions prompts

Wizard Process:

• Improved display/selection of assembly specific instances
• New Wizard repair for grossly sloppy vertices
• New find and fix for spiral arc lines

Defeaturing/Simplification:

• NURBS scaling includes degree reduction
• Improvements to high aspect ratio face fix
• Improvements to FLITE3D source creation
• Derivative averaging for FROGS in an attempt to create a C1 effect
• Improvements to the self intersecting surface test
• External visibility filtering
• Improvements to the accuracy of the Build MOVE/COPY options

General:

• Smarter 'Save on exit' question
• New turn angle display shading control
• New axis-aligned clipping planes
• User specified display quality values

Full Enhancement and Bug Fix List

For a complete list of the enhancements and bug fixes, please see the WHAT'S NEW (PDF) and CHANGE NOTES (PDF)

Pre-requisites

CADfix 8.1 installed.

Installation

Extract the contents of the downloaded file and follow the instructions in the README (PDF) file

Download

Customers with active support and maintenance will have received e-mail notification about the release of SP1. This e-mail also contained details about the location of the download files for SP1. If you have not received this e-mail then please contact your regional CADfix support team.