Additive Manufacturing
Who knows your printer better than you?
If you are a hardware manufacturer thinking of developing your own software then there’s a good reason for that, and that reason probably isn’t that you just love developing software.
You know you can make your hardware more competitive by improving ease of use and consistency of results. Developing your own custom software is an important enabler, allowing you to take control of the workflow and help your customers optimise parts for your machines, rather than relying on generic third-party solutions.
Polygonica is widely used as the mesh engine inside a range of leading additive manufacturing applications, from 3DXpert by Oqton and GrabCAD Print from Stratays to Xometry's auto-quote pipeline. Polygonica is used on printers covering a range of materials from metals, ceramics and sand to polymers and plastics.
Standout features include:
- Automatic healing
- 2D and 3D Booleans
- 2D and 3D Offsetting
- Hollowing
- Tolerance-based decimation
- Remeshing
- Shrinkwrap
- Surface and feature detection
- Slicing
- 2D polyline operations for hatch and infill
- 2D and 3D medial axis
- 3D polycurve operations for non-planar slicing and path planning
- Support sweep
- Collision detection
- Mesh-mesh comparison and heatmaps
- Thickness, gap and wall-height analysis
- Deformation compensation
- Z-Compensation
- Reconstruct solid from slices
- Registration and alignment for in-process metrology
- Example code for 3MF import and export
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