SAN DIEGO, CA, Jan 6, 2015 – nPower Software announces the 2.0 release of its award winning Power Surfacing product.
Power Surfacing is an award winning industrial design plug-in product for SOLIDWORKS 3D design software that significantly improves the design process for modeling organic, free form surfaces in SOLIDWORKS.
the Power of Power Surfacing
Power Surfacing 2.0, with support for SOLIDWORKS 2015, builds on the successful 1.0 version of Power Surfacing. Power Surfacing 2.0 greatly improves the ability to integrate organic / free form design with mechnical / functional design. Power Surfacing integrates Subdivision Surface (Sub-D) modeling (with powerful free form surface modeling) into the SOLIDWORKS product; the integration of Power Surfacing’s Sub-D modeling tools has empowered SOLIDWORKS customers with tools to design free form, aesthetically pleasing “Class A” surfaces quickly and easily, improving product design and work flow. The 2.0 version of Power Surfacing enhances the ability to integrate Sub-D design with typical NURBS models. Power Surfacing now supports parametric Sub-D design, tangential connectivity to SOLIDWORKS surfaces and solids, constraints to connect to SOLIDWORKS geometry, level of detail editing, and curvature analysis / display tools to facilitate optimal surface smoothness. Once converted into a native SOLIDWORKS part, Power Surfacing Sub-D models are treated just as if they had been created with traditional SOLIDWORKS tools. Thus SOLIDWORKS features like Booleans, fillets, shells, etc. can be applied to the Power Surfacing bodies. Design changes are a breeze with Power Surfacing. After applying SOLIDWORKS features, Power Surfacing users can go back to the original Sub-D form and modify the surface shape and downstream SOLIDWORKS features will be reapplied.
Power Surfacing 2.0 includes the following new features (see video of new features):
- Constraints – user can constrain Power Surfacing points, edges and faces to SOLIDWORKS geometry.
- Tangential connectivity to NURBS surfaces / solids – user can (by default) establish connections to SOLIDWORKS surfaces with G1 (tangent) continuity.
- Parametric (dimension driven) Sub-Ds – using constraints (to planes and other geometry), dimension driven Sub-Ds can be created and parametrically modified.
- Curvature Display/Analysis – presents the user with a graphical (color coded) representation of the model, highlighting areas of high curvature.
- Level of Detail Editing – user can locally edit the model at different levels of detail so that detail can be added to specific / local areas without affecting the rest of the model
- Selection Groups – provides intelligent selection grouping for greater organization and productivity.
- SOLIDWORKS 2015 support
Power Surfacing unites the diverse modeling paradigms of Sub-D (Subdivision Surface) modeling and CAD (NURBS-based) modeling. Neither Sub-D modeling nor NURBS modeling can effectively solve all 3-D design problems. Each has strengths and weaknesses. Sub-D modeling is great at producing and modifying complex freeform / organic shapes with smooth surfaces. NURBS modeling is good at combining shapes via. Boolean and Feature operations as well as refining shapes with operations like filleting, blending and face editing. We see Power Surfacing as a novel and powerful unification piece between these two technologies. Being able to use both modeling paradigms together in the modeling process provides huge productivity advantages in both the design and revision process. Power Surfacing free form design combined with SOLIDWORKS parametric design provides SOLIDWORKS users with a ground breaking Industrial Design toolkit. Power Surfacing 2.0 dramatically improves the integration between these two important design paradigms; now design combinations with these technologies is almost without limits.
Power Surfacing is an excellent bridge between Sub-D modeling products like modo and SOLIDWORKS. Power Surfacing can quickly and accurately convert virtually any Sub-D model (even Sub-D models that have some triangles) into the precise NURBS representation that is standard for SOLIDWORKS parts. Power Surfacing creates high quality surfaces, which accurately interpolate the vertices of the original Sub-D mesh.
Power Surfacing 2.0 sells for $1495. The 2.0 version is a free upgrade for our valued customers who purchased the 1.x version. nPower products can be purchased from the nPower Web store (www.nPowerSoftware.com/store.htm), or through certified nPower Software resellers throughout the world. Customers can purchase maintenance subscriptions for $395 per year in order to receive ongoing product support, free patch releases, and upgrades to major version releases.
Power Surfacing is based on IntegrityWare’s SOLIDS++ geometric modeling Kernel, a unique and powerful hybrid modeling system that supports Solids, Surface and Polygonal modeling. nPower modeling tools (Power NURBS, Solids, Translators) provide the highest order of surfacing, solids modeling, analysis, and tessellation technologies. In addition, Power Surfacing utilizes the new SubD-NURBS library product, which provides accurate conversion between Sub-D geometry and NURBS geometry.
Engineers, designers, architects, and artists from top companies around the world like Toyota, Boeing, Microsoft, Disney, SEGA, Blizzard Entertainment, Northrup Grumman, Sony, Honda, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Whirlpool, Trek Bicycles, Nvidia, Blur Studio, Hasbro, Fisher Price, Gensler, Harley Davidson, Fox Sports, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, BAE Systems, Panasonic, Tiffany, SOLIDWORKS, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, HDR, Luis Vuitton, Avon Products, Hallmark, Samsonite, Hewlett Packard and Cannon Equipment are optimizing their design throughput with nPower Software.
About IntegrityWare Inc.
IntegrityWare Inc. is a company that specializes in advanced geometric modeling solutions. Founded in 1996, IntegrityWare has been providing advanced modeling solutions to a growing base of customers building industry-leading solutions. The SOLIDS++ modeling kernel is an object-oriented non-manifold modeling kernel that provides a comprehensive suite of geometry and topology tools for solids modeling, surface modeling, curve modeling, polygonal modeling and non-manifold modeling. SOLIDS++ has been in development for more than 10 years, with research and development of the most advanced modeling solutions. The SOLIDS++ kernel is currently licensed to developers needing to provide the most advanced geometric modeling functionality to their customers – such as Autodesk, MOI, Nemetschek, PTC, New River Kinematics, Bentley Systems, and Ford Motor Company.
Do you have commands in your software like grab and pull, draw 3D lines or bumps positive and negative and smoothing on mesh surfaces like those found in Z brush and Mudbox? The ability to do this within a Solidworks format would be HUGE!
Your descriptions of your software are not very detailed or specific.
Thanks, Doug