Say you’re a company that develops CAD software for 3D printing and a new printer comes out – we’ll call it the Connex3 – that prints with a wide gamut of colours. What would you do? Well, if you know what you’re doing, you’d probably be pretty quick to update your software to accommodate these new developments. That’s what MachineWorks, makers of CAD software Polygonica, seems to have done. MachineWorks’ Polygonica is software typically used to repair meshes for 3D printing. The Polygonica 1.1 update enhances the software’s healing and boolean algorithms to increase the speed and overall capability of the software to repair a given mesh. More importantly, with Polygonica 1.1, the company may be responding to Stratasys’ latest release, the multicolor and multimaterial Connex 3. Because the .stl standard format for 3D printing is limited in terms of colour-processing, the new software update allows Polygonica to read other, more colour-friendly file formats, like .obj, .amf, and .3ds. While performing repair operations, like sealing a model, erasing self-intersections, non-manifold faces, and noise shells the colour data remains in tact.…
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