Materialise Magics - Features

Magics Base

Versions

•  Windows NT/XP/2000

Visualisation

•  Hardware acceleration : support of OpenGL and Direct3D

•  Use of right mouse button for rotating, zooming and panning parts.

•  Zooming via the mouse wheel

•  Define the angle from which the wireframe will be drawn

•  Improved rendering: the lighting and material properties can be defined

•  Smooth shading (OpenGL & Direct3D only)

File Input/Output

•  STL, VRML (1&2), PLY, ZCP and DXF- input

•  STL, VRML, PLY-, ZCP-, DXF- output.

•  Automatic customizable mm-inch warning when loading STL-files

•  Optional removal of identical triangles while loading an STL-file

•  Save all files in one directory

•  MGX import and export. Compressions up to 20 times and encryption of your files.

•  Send Parts by e-mail as STL, MGX or Zip

•  Creation of self-extracting MGX files

•  Optional input of IGES, VDA, STEP, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Pro/E and Catia.

•  Output of 2D IGES and DXF sections

•  Output of IGES wireframes

•  Improved compatibility for 3D-lightyear

•  File association: associate MGX/stl to Magics

•  Export to jpg

•  Log file keeps history of all your actions

View-modes

•  Wireframe, shading (opaque), triangle (the STL-file), shaded with wireframe and bounding box mode.

•  Part dimensions: shows the bounding box around the part with its measurements

•  Transparency: Make your parts and/or supports transparent.

•  Depth shading: to improve rendering.

•  Different parts can be shown in different colors

•  Colored STL-files are shown in multiple colors

STL-viewer

•  Real time rotation and panning

•  Zoom Previous

•  Sections

•  Take simultaneously multiple (max 4) sections

•  Give different colors to the sections or make the section color dependent of the part color.

•  Hide the front or back of the part (for each section)

•  Section in X,Y,Z or user defined plane

•  2D-Grid

•  True scale printing

Measuring

•  Feature recognition

•  2D or 3D dimensions

•  Distance (Measure the distance between 2 features)

•  Radius/diameter (3-point definition, arc, cylinder-recognition)

•  Angle (Angle between 2 features or 3 points)

•  Retrieve the coordinates of the used points

•  Retrieve all properties of entities

•  Auto-snapping for fast feature selection

•  Complete customization of the measurements

•  Advanced snapping control

Advanced editing

•  UNDO and REDO

•  X, Y or/and Z rescaling parts (rescale factor or deviation)

•  Unit conversion between millimeters and inches. Automatic detection when loading the part.

•  Z compensation (anticipates the laser overshoot on down facing surfaces)

•  Translate, rotate, mirroring of parts

•  Duplicating STL-parts

•  Label: Put (multi-line) text on your part in any Windows True Type font - labels can be mirrored as well

•  Creating STL-parts (cube, cylinder, cone, sphere, slide, cutbox, slider …)

•  Extrude surfaces (automatic detect: add triangles or move points)

•  Cut and punch by a user defined cutting line

•  The corners of this edge can be rounded with a given radius.

•  A clearance can be used

•  Blind Cut

•  Straight cut with teeth

•  Cylindrical cuts (notches can be added)

•  Section cuts

•  Cut along sections

•  Cut out visible triangles

•  Cut selected contours

•  Complex Profile Cut (advanced cut) with XY-clearance

•  Triangle Smoother to improve scanned data

•  Triangle Reduction

•  Local smoothing and triangle reduction

•  Paint part: Assign colors to triangles so you can make multicolor parts.

•  Autocolor assigns a different color to each surface.

•  Adjust color: to compensate color changes done by the RP machine.

•  Split: Split the STL-file in different parts using the colors as separation method

•  The "bottom plane''-function allows an easy orientation of the part on the vessel

•  Extended part list

•  Create copy when rotating/translating

Tools

•  Improved Boolean operations: unite, intersection, subtraction of STL-files

•  Converting shells to parts for better STL control

•  UCS: Create user co-ordinate systems and apply these coordinate systems on your parts

•  Attach a UCS to a part

•  Align the UCS with the parts

•  Define a UCS by 3 points

•  Auto recovery

•  Part Management

•  Hollow Part Creation and Offsetting for less material consumption, faster building and to avoid geometrical distortion due to shrinkage.

•  Offset Part to compensate for machining, painting, sand blasting.

•  Offset with different offsets in X, Y and Z.

•  Local offset to perform an offset on a specified area. (automatic detect: add triangles or move points)

•  Offset Part to make volumes from shells.

•  Align of parts for easy orientation. Align multiple features on multiple ways.

•  Collision detection of parts

•  “Pick and place" of loaded files: the user can drag the parts and rotate the parts free-handed

•  Windows Calculator

•  Document generation will allow automatic and customized generation of documents

Fixing

•  STL Analyze

•  Visualization of bad files by showing flipped triangles, bad edges, gaps…

•  Automatic inversion of wrong normals

•  Automatic gap filling (Stitching and Hole filling)

•  Advanced fill hole

•  Manual editing of triangles (create, delete, invert normal)

•  Marking triangles, shells, planes, surfaces, or with a window

•  Visible or invisible display of marked triangles

•  Detect double surfaces

•  Divide a part in shells and merge shells

•  Cut triangles by trimming surfaces

•  Point fixing: create, delete STL points

•  Multi-contour hole filling

•  Freeform hole filling

•  Unify-operation: all self-intersections are automatically removed

•  Mark New Triangles: choose if new triangles need to be marked or not

•  Highlight bad edges

•  Additional marking tools: border marked/ connect marked

•  Small triangle filter

•  Small part filter