Release Announcement of CADdoctor EX4.0

We are pleased to announce the release of the CADdoctor EX4.0.
CADdoctor EX4.0 is our new, improved product for all concerned with
design and manufacturing.

Followings are details about the CADdoctor EX4.0.

1.Product name
CADdoctor EX4.0

2.Version
EX4.0

3.Release date
May 22, 2009

4.EX4.0 major enhancements
1.Solid Envelope Function (Simplification Option)
Function to extract shrink wrap model of assembly model as 1 solid
part.
This function can be used by a wide usage such as the reductions in
the file size.

2.Reverse Engineering Function (Reverse Engineering Option)
2.1.Newly added "CAD-Polygon Fitting Function
- Function to fit original CAD model to Polygon model
- The connectivity and composition of original CAD model are
maintained.
2.2.Improvement of the quality of generated Brep
- Set and keep tolerance between Polygon and generated Brep
2.3.Support analytical surface in reverse engineering

3.Polygon Function (Polygon Option)
3.1. Newly added "Point Cloud" function
- Generate Polygon from point cloud
- Remove noise
- Remove outliers
3.2.Support new file format
- VRML
- OBJ
3.3.Improvement of Polygon optimizing function
- Remesh
- Wrapping
- Generate Polygon from Brep
- Alignment
3.4.Improvement of Polygon check and healing function
- Stitch
- Detect and heal intersecting Polygons
3.5.Improvement of comparison function
- Show the distance between any two models; Point Cloud, Polygon,
Brep

4.Improvement of Geometry Verification
4.1.Newly added "High-Speed comparison" function
- Detect differences at high speed
4.2.Improvement of UI
- Show difference by each part.

5.Simplification Function (Geometry Simplification Option)
5.1.Improvement in detecting and removing "hole"
- Support general hole other than round hole
- Discriminate Through hole from Blind hole
- Added "Leave original hole shape as sheet" mode
5.2.Improvement in removing "step"
- Enabled to remove counter bores

6.Standard Function
6.1.Improvement in detecting "Free Edge"
- Enabled to detect free edges by the loop
6.2.Added new check items for NX-NX translation
- Non-tangent segment(UV)
- Tiny edge/segment(segment)(UV)
6.3.Added cross section view function
6.4.Added zebra shading mode
6.5.Added the function of displaying elements by layers

7.CAD I/O option
7.1.JT Option
- Added new CAD interface option
7.2.Parasolid
- Improvement in geometry translation quality
(Support Brep method)
7.3.CATIA V5(Plug-in)
- Support coexistence model of V4 and V5
- Added "Convert hidden instance" mode

8.Latest CAD-compliant
8.1.CATIA V5 R19(stand-alone)
8.2.Parasolid V20

9.Other Enhancements
10.Specification Changes
11.Corrected bugs

For inquiries or information, please feel free to contact us.