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Providing help on the most complex and time consuming tasks will release the designer to fully utilize their experience and maximise their productivity.

Parting & shut off faces Model validation & cleaning The creation of the parting and shut off faces are often one of the most time consuming and difficult tasks that a designer can face. A comprehensive suite of surfacing tools and a split plane manager combine to create a powerful tool for the generation and management of the most complex parting faces. Externally created surface sets such as intricate shut off conditions can be imported into the split plane manager and combined with extruded, offset, ruled, connection and patch surfaces to generate the parting geometry. Using the split plane tool it is also possible to automatically create the core and cavity models using the part geometry. Providing help and removing the laborious tasks will release the designer to fully utilize their experience and maximize their productivity. Powerful model clean-up tools are available to check data for redundant geometry. Duplicate geometry will be automatically highlighted, extracted and moved to another layer. Sliver face recognition will analyse the model and detect any potential problematic faces based upon a user-defined surface area. Automatic removal, healing and sewing will maintain the solid topology and guarantee data consistency. Graphical solid interference checking and model validation for corrupt data, geometry faults and trimming conditions will ensure the best possible result. Tip data If working with geometry in ‘car-line’ or managing data between multiple origins, tip data greatly simplifies the task of moving information from 3D model space to your working origin. All movements between origins can be extracted and output to a report file for future reference and project documentation. Surface analyser An information tool that will provide relevant face data as you dynamically move the mouse over the model. Without doubt, the fastest way to check draft conditions, trimming loops or fillet radii. Seed faces The seed face tool provides the ability to select a single or multiple starting faces and automatically detect any flowing surfaces from the reference face using a user-defined angle threshold. This tool is particularly useful and a very fast way of extracting water jackets or separating geometry into A & B surface sets. tel. +44 (0) 1453 732900 fax. +44 (0) 1453 887444 email. info@vero.co.uk web. www.vero-software.com Vero Software Plc The Mill, Brimscombe Port Brimscombe, Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 2QG United Kingdom