Power Surfacing/Power Surfacing RE v5 Released for SOLIDWORKS

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 23, 2018 – nPower SoftwareIntegrityWare, Inc announces the release of version 5 of its award winning products – Power Surfacing / Power Surfacing RE for SOLIDWORKS. Version 5 is a significant upgrade, with patent pending new features and improvements to greatly improve productivity and usability.

Image above – Shrink wrap control of detail accuracy (bottom row, with increasing detail from left to right)

With new patent pending technology, version 5 makes Power Surfacing RE a powerful, unmatched tool for reverse engineering scanned meshes, sculpted meshes (like ZBrush), and SOLIDWORKS geometry. The 5.0 version automates many of the most difficult reverse engineering operations to simplify the design work flow. Patented shrink wrap technology also provides unparalleled accuracy while minimizing the model overhead. Here are some of the major Power Surfacing RE new features that will greatly improve reverse engineering productivity. (See a video overview of the new Power Surfacing RE features.)

Top left – scanned model, Top right – Auto Quad Wrap, Bottom left – surface breakdown (converted), Bottom right – converted SOLIDWORKS model

  • Automated scanned mesh conversion (see video)
  • Superior accuracy with Shrink Wrap technology
  • Follows curvature and mesh flow lines
  • Powerful, automated mesh cleanup (see video)
  • Intelligently captures geometric detail
  • Topology optimization conversion (see video)

Converted scanned mesh with a lot of complexity and surface detail

Power Surfacing is the premier industrial design solution for SOLIDWORKS. Version 5.0 of Power Surfacing makes further improvements in an already extremely easy to use and powerful product. Improvements in assembly management, constraining to 2D & 3D sketches, UI, network licensing, etc. make Power Surfacing 5.0 more efficient and even easier to use in creating and modifying complex / beautiful surface geometry. The new assembly features provide for greater flexibility in handling various work flows to meet a wide range of customer requirements. Constraining to 2D & 3D sketches provides for greater parametric capabilities and more streamlined design (see video showing constraining to sketches). The bottom line is that the 5.0 version enables customers to get their industrial design work done faster and easier.

Design by Andrew Ward

Power Surfacing / Power Surfacing RE are tightly integrated within SOLIDWORKS, and the objects they create live within the SOLIDWORKS feature tree just like typical SOLIDWORKS features. Many other additional features (and videos) can be found on the Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE web pages.

Power Surfacing RE is an add-in reverse envineering (RE) product for SOLIDWORKS 3D design software that significantly improves the process for reverse engineering scanned meshes, other mesh data, and SOLIDWORKS geometry within SOLIDWORKSPower Surfacing RE is the industry leading solution for reverse engineering organic meshes. It provides extremely accurate conversion of even the largest of scanned meshes; it is fast and efficient, creating light weight models out of extremely complex scans. If you need to convert complex, difficult scanned data into SOLIDWORKS geometry, Power Surfacing RE is the ideal solution.

Converted ZBrush model

Power Surfacing RE is built on top of the award winning Power Surfacingproduct. Power Surfacing is a subdivision surface (SubD) based organic modeling tool for SOLIDWORKS Power Surfacing creates fully compatible SOLIDWORKS surfaces and solids that support all of the powerful SOLIDWORKS commands that you use on native SOLIDWORKS geometry.With its tight integration inside of SOLIDWORKS, and its rich and powerful feature set, Power Surfacing has become the tool of choice for industrial designers who want to quickly generate beautiful designs that can easily be turned into manufactured solutions.

nPowerSoftware is a certified SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner.

Power Surfacing currently sells for $1,995. Power Surfacing RE will now sell for the special discounted price of $2995. 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 (Power Surfacing) / $595 (Power Surfacing RE) per year in order to receive ongoing product support, free patch releases, and upgrades to major version releases.

Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE are 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 provide the highest order of surfacing, solids modeling, analysis, and tessellation technologies.  In addition, Power Surfacing and Power Surfacing RE utilize the SubD-NURBS library product, which provides accurate conversion between SubD 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, Tech Soft 3D, Bentley Systems, and Ford Motor Company.

For more information on IntegrityWare Inc, visit www.IntegrityWare.com.

For more information on nPower Software, visit www.nPowerSoftware.com.

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