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CADfix provides a solution for the problems of data exchange and re-use between different engineering systems and applications. It allows the user to import CAD data and then to repair and manipulate it to a form most suitable for the downstream application - with the main objective of eliminating expensive CAD model repair and rework. CADfix is a suite of translation and repair tools for engineering product data. The result of two decades of ongoing research and development, CADfix offers true interoperability between a comprehensive selection of CAD, CAM and CAE systems through an unrivalled series of automatic and manual geometry manipulation tools.

The CADfix Process

The CADfix Wizard offers an automatic processing capability for fixing the data to a valid well connected surface or solid model. The Wizard is supported by an extensive set of interactive geometry manipulation tools for use as required.

CADfix also offers model defeaturing utilities which are very popular with CAE analysis users who defeature the model with operations such as the joining or collapsing of short edges and small faces, and automatic hole removal.

The CADfix geometry preparation process then makes sure that the model is suitably flavored for the downstream application. This includes detecting and repairing badly parameterized surfaces, twisted or folded surfaces and simplifying overly complex entities - all within user controlled tolerances.

Who should use CADfix?

CADfix is the ideal solution for anyone who needs to:

• Share product data between departments or with customers and suppliers
• Reuse solid model geometry in different classes of CAD/CAM/CAE applications
• Recover legacy data that would otherwise need to be remodeled from scratch