SIEMENS PLM Software has released V23 of its Parasolid software, a leading 3D geometric modelling component in the PLM industry.
Siemens PLM Software claims it is continuing to place emphasis on increasing productivity by supporting complex processes throughout the entire product development process, and Parasolid V23’s enhancements reflect this.
Parasolid has extended its support for multi-core processor hardware to enable applications based on Parasolid to take full advantage of this parallel-processing power.
Parasolid V23 is fully thread-safe, enabling applications to have several threads running on different processors, with each calling any Parasolid function simultaneously.
The software has optimised thread, session, and memory management as well as error reporting capabilities, freeing the application developer from the need to coordinate the multi-thread function calls.
A new face deformation operation enables sophisticated shape changes to digital models based on either design requirements or simulations of shape changes that occur due to real-world situations such as deflection under load or distortion during temperature cycles.
The deformation preserves and adjusts existing features, such as offsets and blends, and the deformation may also be applied simultaneously with other model edits.
Parasolid V23 also introduces more sophisticated blending techniques and controls. New options provide more refined control over the shape of chord width blends. Edge blends can now be defined to be trimmed at a specific edge or face.
The software has a new function to analyse the topological structure of a model and repair ambiguities, producing data to meet the rigorous requirements of a fully consistent boundary-representation model, while maintaining the intent of the original data.
It can also automatically detect and repair surfaces that are ill-defined and unstable because they contain degeneracies which may go unnoticed in less accurate and less rigorous modellers.