CADfix 11 Service Pack 2

CAD interface updates, enhanced defeaturing, improved assembly handling, faster and smarter screen selection, bug fixes

CADfix 11 Service Pack 2 contains updates to CAD interfaces, a new export to OpenCASCADE, improved assembly handling, increased support for morphing and 3D printing as well some new and improved defeaturing and diagnostic tools. The following lists a selection of the most significant enhancements and bug fixes in the service pack.

CAD system updates

• CATIA V5-6R2017
• Inventor 2017
• JT v8.5
• Parasolid 29
• ACIS 2018
• NEW OpenCASCADE

Assemblies

• Faster display and selection
• Significant speed-up when exporting

Wizard

• Improved healing of grossly sloppy faces

3D Scans

• Point cloud noise reduction/smoothing
• CAD to Cloud comparison (no tesselation)

Morph

• NEW import of NASTRAN mesh
• Support for morphing an assembly model
• Improved mesh matching performance

Diagnostics

• Improved 3D differ tool

Defeature

• NEW hole simplification tool
• Improved robustness when splitting face with a plane 

Full enhancement and bug fix list

For a complete list of the enhancements and bug fixes, please see the WHAT'S NEW (PDF) and FIX LIST (PDF)

Pre-requisites

CADfix 11 or CADfix 11 SP1 installed.

Installation

Extract the contents of the downloaded file and follow the instructions in the README (PDF) file

Download

Customers with active support and maintenance will have received e-mail notification about the release of SP2. This e-mail also contained details about the location of the download files for SP2. If you have not received this e-mail then please contact your regional CADfix support team.