Sheffield, UK, 28th November 2023 - MachineWorks Ltd. is pleased to announce the availability of Polygonica 3.3, a substantial upgrade from previous versions.

Polygonica is a component software library for working with polygon meshes that helps companies in a range of industrial markets solve complex 2D and 3D geometrical problems.

The main functions of Polygonica include mesh healing, Booleans, offsetting, remeshing, simplification, shrinkwrap, surface and feature detection and point-cloud manipulation and meshing.

Headline improvements in Polygonica 3.3 include:

• Adjust vertices during remeshing to lie on a mathematical CAD surface
• Edge blending and chamfering
• Shelling ( Hollowing with selected face removal )
• Z Compensation for 3D printing
• 1D medial guided skeleton
• New option for healing of complex self-intersecting support structures
• New point cloud registration options
• Point cloud to mesh registration and alignment
• General point set to point set registration
• Sparse point set registration
• Closing a mesh using a reference mesh
• Gap thickness and protrusion (height) analysis
• Support for feature detection of fillets and chamfers
• Scaling of deformation compensation
• Tangential extension of poly-curves
• Option to use surface detection in 3D medial axis computation
• Tolerance-based pruning option in 2D medial axis creation
• Miscellaneous Changes
• Enhanced error reporting
• Tolerance option for self-intersection query
• Conversion of imprinted curves to normal curves
• Suppress selection region joining across sharp edges
• Improved query APIs for vertex attributes and face vertices

Managing Director of MachineWorks Ltd, Dr Fenqiang Lin, stated “As always, much of the headline functionality in Polygonica 3.3 is based on requests from OEM customers in the CAE, AM, CAM and dental modelling markets, along with larger manufacturers and dental labs now using Polygonica directly in their in-house workflows. We are also starting to see the fruition of some longer term projects, such as edge blending, and we plan to release seamless UV parameterisation very soon.”

For more detailed information, please refer to the blog Polygonica 3.3 New Features.

About MachineWorks Ltd ( www.machineworks.com ,  www.polygonica.com )

MachineWorks Ltd has been providing advanced 3D software engines to manufacturers and engineering software developers since 1994.

MachineWorks is the leading toolkit for CNC simulation and verification and is supplied embedded within a wide range of brands from major machine tools and CNC controller manufacturers and CAM software vendors. With over fifty major OEM licensees, Polygonica is the leading engine for polygon-mesh modeling and is widely used in a range of markets, including CAD, CAM, CAE, and AM, along with Medical, Dental, EDA, Metrology, AEC, Construction, Mining, and other large capital asset industries.

Companies who integrate MachineWorks’ components into their software solutions include Dassault Systemes, Autodesk, Hexagon MI, ANSYS, Synopsys, AECOM, 3D Systems, Stratasys, OpenMind, CAMBRIO, Xometry, Desktop Metal, Nexa3D, Heidenhain, Okuma, DMG Mori, HCL, SolidCAM, Convergent Science, SimScale, Topsolid, ZWSoft, Diota, CASTOR, CADS Additive, Intech Additive Solutions, and Go2CAM.