WIPL-D Pro CAD 2010

Features introduced in version 2010:

• Mesh coarsening (decimation) - The new algorithm offers automatic coarsening of the mesh in order to optimize it for EM simulation speed. Starting from the result of the uniform or the adaptive algorithm, it reduces the number of mesh elements and enlarges them maximally or up-to user-specified size limit on the flat and quasi-flat model parts.

• Excess mesh detail elimination - Removes all mesh elements that fall under a user-specified tolerance thus allowing the same geometry approximation to be achieved with less mesh elements. The algorithm can be applied independently from mesh coarsening (decimation) or successively.

• Wire radius global and local specifications - Enables specification of all wire radii in the model by a single command, and/or locally, for individual wires.

• New platform - HOOPS 17.10, Parasolid 22, and 3D InterOp R20 - faster rendering and selection, more robust file import.

• Support for WIPL-D Pro 8.0 file formats.

* HOOPS is a trademark of TechSoft 3D, Parasolid is a trademark of UGS Inc., 3D InterOp is a trademark of Spatial.

Minor corrections

• Region regeneration after face deletion is now more robust,

• Wire segmentation improved in case of uniform meshing and inches as valid units,

• Corrected focus problems after context menu activation in 3D View after which no action was performed,

• Error reporting during the mesh process is now more informative,

• Model validation is automatically invoked prior to meshing (conversion to WIPL-D project),

• Undo/redo functionality is now robust after multiple face deletion operations,

• Crop operation on wires is corrected,

• Removed focus problems after multiple selections made in Model Tree,

• Model Tree is kept expanded on Body level at all times,

Features introduced in version 2009B:

• Model cropping and symmetry - model into a half by all three coordinate planes enables easy application of symmetry in EM simulation,

• Remove Hole and Remove Feature - enables easy removal of un-needed cylidrical or polygonal holes as well as complex tunnel and cavity structures from the model,

• Delete Face - enables non-intrusive deletion of arbitrarily selected faces from a body, as a means of model simplification,

• Faster and more robust operation of Model Tree – the operation of the tree is optimized in terms of the number of events it is reacting to and background operations that it performs (especially important for large models)

• Enhanced control of Mesh Growth Speed – higher resolution of the slider in most important ranges,

• Hide and Transparency characteristics are kept wherever possible (at body and face deletion, at change of selection level,...) which facilitiates handling of the model,

• Imported models encompassing assemblies are unpacked into a regular Body-Face-Edge-Vertex structure which enables application of all the program features to the model,

• Angle Tolerance now influences segmentation of model curves into quads – lower angle tolerance means a larger number of segments per circumference of a circle, for instance.

Minor corrections

• Project is marked as changed after Explode command,

• Dialogs for information about computationally intensive operation being done in background are replaced by Status Bar messages,

• Dialogs for domain and mesh size specification are extracting information from the attributes of selected model parts if all the selected part’s attributes have the same values. Otherwise, they display default values,

• Bottom section of Model Tree now displays for each face to which region that face belongs (or what two regions it divides),

• Corrected bugs for export into some geometry and picture formats. All formats are now functioning correctly,

• Support for STL files containing more than one entity,

• Disabling the Domains subtree in Model Tree if STL file is loaded (it makes no sense to assign domains in that case).