LiveLink™ for PTC Pro/ENGINEER® Updates
For users of LiveLink™ for PTC Pro/ENGINEER®, COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.6 brings two new defeaturing and repair tools. Read more about these features below.
Detect Interferences
The Detect Interferences tool, added to the Defeaturing and Repair menu, can detect interference between objects. This tool supports solid and surface objects as input and detects intersections, touches, gaps, and containments. You can see this feature demonstrated in the Creating a Fluid Domain Inside a Solid Structure tutorial model.
Check Feature
The new Check feature, added to the Defeaturing and Repair menu, can be used to detect faults in CAD objects. Add a Check node to a geometry sequence, such as after a Delete Faces operation, to confirm that no problems remain after replacing a faulty face.
No faults remain in this geometry after replacing the faulty face using the Delete Faces operation.
Support for New and Updated CAD File Format Versions
The CAD file import and export functionality has been extended to support new versions for the following file formats:
Read from File
- AutoCAD® (.dwg, .dxf): 2021
- PTC Creo Parametric™ (.prt, .asm): 7.0
- Inventor® (.ipt, .iam): 2021
- NX™ (.prt): 1899
- Parasolid® (.xt, .xb, .xmttxt, .xmtbin): 33.0
Write to File
- Parasolid® (.xt, .xb, .xmttxt, .xmtbin): 33.0
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