Parasolid Bodyshop is a Parasolid-based toolkit that repairs, optimizes and validates CAD data imported into Parasolid to maximize the success of downstream modeling operations.

Parasolid Bodyshop: Key Features

Parasolid Bodyshop is designed to play a role in a number of important 3D modeling data quality processes.

Data Import

• Create valid, usable Parasolid models from imported models in solid or sheet form
• B-Rep data, e.g. STEP solids/sheets
  • Validate and clean incoming topology
  • Heal sheets and solids
• Trimmed surface data, e.g. IGES trimmed surfaces
  • Validate and clean incoming trimmed surface data
  • Heal and sew trimmed surfaces into solids

Data Cleaning

• Detect and resolve topological problems
  • Invalid sense, missing topology, bad loop and region structure
• Detect and resolve geometric problems
  • Zero length curves, short edges, coincident geometries, unwanted gaps & spikes, sliver faces, illegal curve and surface intersections

Model Optimization

• Optimize models for performance and reliability in downstream use
  • Convert geometry to simpler forms
  • Recompute tolerant edges to greater accuracy
  • Recover geometric alignments, e.g. axes, tangent edges, scale factors
  • Remove small entities

Data Fidelity

• Track modifications that Parasolid Bodyshop makes when cleaning imported data
  • Pre-cleaning: Apply local positional fidelity information of variable density
  • Post-cleaning: Measure closeness of cleaned geometry to original shape

Data Export

• Convert geometry to common or standard forms
• Split periodic geometry
• Remove small entities