For academic research and teaching, Parasolid is used by over 100 universities and academic institutions worldwide. Parasolid’s extensive software documentation, application support materials and Workshop.Net prototyping environment make Parasolid the ideal tool for exposing students to the leading edge core technology of hundreds of today’s most sophisticated commercial applications in an easily accessible form.

For undergraduate students, Parasolid offers:

• Overview documentation that introduces the concepts of solid modeling
• The Workshop.Net prototyping tool with source code of base functionality for importing, healing, viewing, analyzing and inquiring Parasolid XT files

Together, these make it easy to quickly write plug-ins to develop mini applications using Parasolid’s extensive and thorough API documentation. Workshop.Net is written in C# and developed using Microsoft Visual Studio making use of the C# binding for Parasolid.

For post-graduate and post-doctorate researchers, Parasolid offers:

• A foundation to research projects that have direct applicability to commercial design and manufacturing disciplines using the technology relied upon by more end users than any other solid modeler across all aspects of CAD, AEC, CAM, CAE and adjacent markets
• The opportunity to collaborate with other researchers and a community of over 100 leading independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide

Parasolid Academic and Research Customers

Parasolid academic and research customers include: