Sheffield, UK | January 15th, 2025 - MachineWorks Ltd. is pleased to announce the availability of Polygonica 3.4, 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.

Key features being released in Polygonica 3.4 include:

• Seamless UV parameterisation
• Feature detection of embossed and engraved labels
• Smoothing of ragged boundaries typical of laser scan data
• Boolean operations between 3D curves and polygon mesh bodies
• Fast recreation of a mesh solid from a set of dense slices
• Improvements to registration and alignment including a new fine-tune mode
• New shrinkwrap convexity controls for joining surfaces in medical scans
• Extend a surface at an angle to a plane, for dental crown border modelling
• A new option to preserve large planar regions during mesh decimation
• A new form of surface reconstruction for use with sparse point data
• Improvements to edge blending, fillet and chamfer creation
• Improved engraving across sharp edges, aimed at imprinting deep texture patterns
• Optimisations for sequential Boolean operations (beta)

For further information please see the Polygonica 3.4 New Features blog.


A grid texture wrapped onto a selection of polygon meshes after computation of UV coordinates by Polygonica's new seamless UV solver.

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. Polygonica is the leading engine for polygon-mesh modelling 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. 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, companies who integrate MachineWorks’ components into their software solutions include Dassault Systemes, Autodesk, Hexagon MI, ANSYS, Synopsys, 3D Systems, Oqton, Stratasys, OpenMind, CAMBRIO, Xometry, Desktop Metal, Nexa3D, B9Creations, Velo3D, ETEC, Heidenhain, Okuma, DMG Mori, HCL, SolidCAM, Convergent Science, SimScale, Topsolid, ZWSoft, Diota, Theorem Solutions, Starrag, CASTOR, CADS Additive and Go2CAM.