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Software with new texture module revolutionizes component design

CoreTechnologie's innovative 4D_Additive Manufacturing Software Suite sets new standards in additive manufacturing.

With the new textures module of the 4D_Additive Manufacturing Software, developers and industrial designers are now accessing over 5,000 different surface structures. Above all, the combination of the software with precise B-Rep kernel and the high-resolution HP Jet Fusion process already enables the additive production of very fine, completely new surfaces, which will in future be used for individualized decorative trim in vehicles and many other plastic design products place.

Flexible customization and completely new component designs are an important innovation advantage in a highly competitive buyer market. For users, using 4D_Additives makes it easy to define textures on the CAD model, simply choosing the desired B-rep areas and a matching texture from the database. Thereafter, the fineness and position of the structure can be visually adjusted on the component, with a rendered, almost photorealistic representation of the model speeding up the work and allowing direct assessment of the printing result. The software automatically ensures distortion-free projection of the grain over surface boundaries. The graphical representation allows the assessment of the designed geometry and fuels the creative process in the design of new parts.

New precision in additive manufacturing

The trend-setting tool reads CAD data from all common systems such as Catia, NX, SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, STEP or JT with manufacturing information (PMI) and processes them as exact B-Rep geometry. The robust B-Rep geometry core of the software makes it possible to test, repair and prepare the original surfaces and solids of the exact 3D models to CAD engineering standard. In addition to the innovative TextureModule, the 4D_Additive Software Suite features healing and clean-up capabilities, automated part alignment, intelligent nesting capabilities with multi-processor calculation, an analysis tool for optimal part design, component optimization, and envelope geometry, as well as a Partfinder as a 3D search engine. Printing parts for the fully automatic classification of components on the basis of geometrical properties of the CAD models.

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  • Lyon, France
  • CoreTechnologie