Complete software solution tuned entirely to the needs and characteristics of Rapid Prototyping for STL manipulation.
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Materialise Magics 11
For everyone who works with STL files, Magics
is the ideal and complete software solution. Magics sets the standard for ease
of use and efficiency when working with faceted data. It offers advanced and
highly automated tools for STL manipulation. You can correct an STL file in
a matter of minutes with the help of unmatched tools to interact directly on
defective triangles.
Magics gives you full control over your STL
files. Among the offered functions you find:
Visualisation, measuring and manipulation of STL files
You are involved in Rapid Prototyping? Then
Magics 11 is indispensable for you. It's the only software that is tuned entirely
to the needs and characteristics of the Rapid Prototyping process. The powerful
and efficient 3D tools of Magics 11 enable you to deliver high quality prototypes
with the shortest lead times, while providing you and your clients with full
documentation in the process.
Magics 11 also includes some typical Rapid Prototyping functionality
like:
The platform concept, build-time estimation and quotation
calculation
Z-compensation
Slice verification
STL Editing
Intuitive STL handling:
Intuitive and easy-to-use tools enable you to quickly
rotate, translate, resize and assemble parts.
Extensive measuring capabilities can be used as
an alternative to traditional paper drawings. Magics enables you to
perform 2D and 3D measurements of distances, radii and angles based
on planes, cylinders, axis, spheres etc (picture 1).
Cut-away views and cross sections can be generated
to obtain a better understanding of the part.
You can generate customised printouts to document
features of the part.
User co-ordinate systems can be created and applied
to the parts. As in CAD systems, the Magics user can define and work
with multiple co-ordinate systems.
Dedicated functions ensure an easy orientation
by allowing quick alignment of parts.
A free STL compression tool
"STLzip" is available for download from our website. By
saving your work in a MGX file, you can compress STL files 10 to 20
times. This MGX format can be written and read by Magics.
Powerful STL manipulation:
Parts can be labelled with characters
in any Windows True Type Font in any size and at any location on the
model, even on complex surfaces. Information (e.g. version number)
can be engraved or embossed on the part (picture 2).
To support colour capable machines,
painting parts is simple in Magics. Different colours can manually
or automatically be assigned to triangles and surfaces. The colours
can be adjusted to compensate for colour changes due to the RP process.
Colour information is also preserved when importing VRML files (picture
3).
Parts can be cut and punched along
user defined paths, enabling you to produce large parts in different
pieces. Use the advanced cut to increase the contact surfaces between
the cut parts to boost the strength of the glued part (picture
4).
Offsets can be applied to make
volumes from shells or to compensate for machining, painting, sandblasting,...
Boolean operations turn Magics
into an STL based CAD system. Volumes can be added or removed by uniting,
intersecting or subtracting STL files. Starting from different volumes,
you can create a single shell object (picture 5).
Even parts with the most complex
geometries can be hollowed. These parts are not only faster to build,
but are also more accurate because less internal stresses are created
during building (picture 6).
Creating various objects - such
as spheres, cylinders, boxes, cones, pyramids, prisms, inserts and
more - in STL format is easy to do.
Surfaces can be extruded
to create machine stock.
Easy manipulation of scanned data:
With a 3D scanner a large amount of points can
be collected which results in large STL files. The triangle reduction
feature rationalises the size of this data with sophisticated options
to considerably facilitate the data handling.
Using a 3D scanner to create an STL file of an
object always entails noise. The triangle smoother removes the noise,
this way improving the quality of the surface (picture 7).
STL Repair
Many STL files contain flipped triangles, bad
edges, holes or other defects that require repairing before they can be used.
Magics provides unmatched means to interact directly on the defective triangles,
allowing you to correct an STL file in a matter of minutes. Solve any problem
without compromising the model thanks to the automated tools.
Clear visualisation and information:
Magics has excellent visualisation tools for highlighting
problems in STL files. Triangles with inverse normals, bad edges, gaps,
etc are clearly indicated. In a blink of an eye you can see whether the
STL file has flaws and where exactly the defects are located. Highlight
bad contours to easily find even the smallest defects.
Detailed STL analysis is available too, just perform a
check of the properties. All information about the dimensions, number of
triangles, number of bad edges, volume, number of shells, ... is generated
by a single mouse click.
Automatic repair:
Thanks to the use of intelligent algorithms,
most STL repairing can be done automatically, which drastically reduces the
time required.
Flipped triangles and shells - with normals pointing in
the wrong direction - can be inverted automatically. Magics determines the
inside and outside of the part and then checks every triangle to see if
its orientation fits this description. If not, the normal of the triangle
will be inverted (picture 2).
Automatic stitching Bad edges - created by gaps between
triangles - can be automati-cally stitched. Just indicate the desired tolerance
and the number of iterations and with a single mouse click, Magics closes
the gaps without exceeding the indicated tolerance. By stitching in iterations,
you ensure that even the smallest details of your design are pre-served
during stitching (picture 3).
Automatic triangulation Automatic triangulation to fill
holes and gaps is a real timesaver. One click... and the hole is filled!
Even holes with a complex geometry or with multiple contours can be quickly
filled using the advanced or freeform hole filling functions. These functions
fill the hole according to the geometry of the surrounding area. In seconds
complex holes are smoothly filled (picture 4).
With Magics double surfaces are easily detected. While
loading STL files you can also choose to remove identical triangles.
Advanced manipulation:
At all times you can also manually
repair defective or missing triangles. With a simple mouse click selected
triangles can be deleted, normals can be inverted and new triangles can
be created e.g. to fill gaps (picture 5).
Magics enables you to perform Boolean
and repairing operations on the different shells.
Separate parts or shells can very quickly
be merged to obtain a single shelled part.
Repairing untrimmed surfaces becomes
an easy task when using Magics. Just mark the triangles that need to be
trimmed and Magics will cut them along at the intersection line (picture
6).
Materialise Magic plug-ins available:
Support Generation
Slicing
Imports
RapidFit
Remeshing
2D plan generation
3D nesting
Tool Design
Tool Quoting
System Requirements:
Platform
Intel - NT4/Win2000/XP
Minimal Requirements
Pentium III
Memory (RAM): 256 MB
Graphics Card: 100% OpenGL compatible card with min
32 MB Ram
Screen Resolution: 800 x 600; High Color (16bit)
Disk Space: 150MB
Recommended
Pentium IV 3 GHz or higher
Memory (RAM): 1024 MB or higher
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX (PCI-express
card with 256MB on board)
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024; True Color (32bit)
'Materialise Magics Lite' Option also
Available: A cheaper option, without advanced manipulation functionality. Please
contact us
for more details.
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