CAD Design

PowerSHAPE provides a complete design environment to take your product ideas from concept to reality. PowerSHAPE offers unrivalled freedom to manipulate surface form, build designs from wireframe building blocks, and make global changes with solid feature operations and editing.

PowerSHAPE is unique in that it allows you to work with all CAD data in the same work space, wirframe, surfaces, solids and STL triangles. This means that the user can combine existing CAD models with scanned data and substantially reduce the modelling time. PowerSHAPE works well with other modelling systems because it can read not only most other CAD systems native formats but also standard formats like IGES and STEP.

PowerSHAPE follows the philosophy of "Simple to create, easy to modify" and gives the designer a massive range of tools to successfully tackle any task.

The clean user interface makes the system easy to learn and use for occasional as well as full-time users.

Advanced modelling tools allow:

• Associative solid modelling
• Complex surface creation from points, wireframe and b-spline curves
• Dynamic surface manipulation and positioning
• Object-orientated editing

Advanced manufacturing tools allow:

• Automatic core and cavity splitting
• Identification of design changes
• Undercut and minimum radii identification

Based on Delcam's parasolids modeling kernel, designers can interact with their 3D design with wireframe building blocks, complex b-spline curves, totally freeform surfaces, associative solids, and triangle STL models. All of these formats are supported within a single model, allowing designers the flexibility to use the most appropriate tools for each task.

PowerSHAPE Pro is the fully featured version of PowerSHAPE and includes all the functionality to use PowerSHAPE for Reverse Engineering. Combined with point cloud, meshing functionality and solid modelling PowerSHAPE Pro is an excellent tool for building CAD models from laser scanned data.