3D software toolkit for processing polygon meshes

Polygonica by MachineWorks provides essential 3D meshing functionality through a unique Boolean engine for automatic mesh repair, offsetting, model simplification, and much more. Learn how Polygonica and HOOPS SDKs pair together to build powerful 3D engineering applications.

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The Premier 3D Mesh Processing SDK

Polygonica provides advanced functionality for 3D printing and mesh editing workflows with advanced Boolean operations, automatic mesh repair, offsetting, model simplification, and much more. This trusted SDK can be found in applications from leaders such as Desktop Metal, Renishaw, 3D Systems, and Ansys.

Polygonica & HOOPS

With a partnership dating back to 2014 Polygonica and the HOOPS toolkits have been integrated into some of the world's leading manufacturing applications. Load over 30 different CAD file formats with HOOPS Exchange including SOLIDWORKS, Catia, Creo, Inventor, STEP, STL, and many more, process data with Polygonica, then view and interact with 3D data using HOOPS Visualize or HOOPS Communicator. Watch the video to learn more about Polygonica and HOOPS integrations.

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Additive Manufacturing

Fix errors, heal & repair, prep data, slicing & 2D processing

Generative Design

Constraint preparation, auto-heal, Boolean, & optimization calculation

CAD

Model reference, scan to mesh & heal, direct modeling with Booleans, export downstream

CAM

Analyze model with feature detection, toolpath generation, & simulation

Medical & Dental

Generate model from point cloud to mesh, smoothing, and model editing with Booleans

CAE

Data preparation, auto heal, decimate, surface and feature detection, Boolean, offset, defeature, shrink-wrap, isolate internals, remesh

Features & Functionality

Healing

Polygonica quickly and reliably closes solids, fixes self-intersections, removes noise shells, and more, on a variety of file types and sizes. Eliminate overlapping triangles in 3D printing, creating error-free meshes for CAE analysis, and in advancing any workflow requiring closed, watertight models.

Boolean Operations

Perform unions, subtractions, and intersections accurately and instantaneously, even when done successively on large models. These powerful Boolean capabilities are perfect for removing errors or unwanted components prior to 3D printing, combining objects for CAE, and much more.

Offsetting

Polygonica's no-fail offsetting tools allow for smooth 3D printing. Users can offset down in order to hollow a model and save material or offset up to account for shrinkage after cooling. Offsetting is also helpful for polygon- driven applications and generating 3D solids that show possible collision areas for any given tolerance in Robotics

Simplification

Maintain visual quality while reducing the size of a polygonal model for improved performance and downstream use. Simplify massive models to a manageable size to work with 3D printing software. Smaller data sets also enable better collaboration via 3D PDF or other 3D CAD viewers. This functionality works well for 3D Printing, CAE, CAD, Digital Construction, and Robotics.

Clash Detection

fast clash detection from Polygonica ensures that points of intersection are identified and corrected at an early stage. This functionality is critical for intersection checking and simulation in EDA, Robotics and BIM.

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CASTOR Uses Polygonica’s Geometry Engine For High Throughput Analysis Of Large Assemblies On The Cloud Alongside HOOPS Exchange For CAD Data Access

"We use Polygonica as one of our main geometry crunching engines. The quality of Polygonica’s automatic STL healing seems pretty widely known in the AM community but we have to go a lot further, investigating many aspects of printability such as layout, lattice and support creation. As well as healing and analysis we use Polygonica’s decimation, hollowing, offsetting, Booleans and geometry creation routines such as extrusions and sweeps."

Elad Schiller co-founder and CTO of CASTOR Technologies Ltd

Polygonica In Action

This Windows desktop application showcases how Tech Soft and MachineWorks SDKs can work together to create a powerful 3D Printing application. Mesh data loads into MachineWork’s Polygonica SDK, which analyzes it for 3D printing. Polygonica displays and heals errors, simplifies meshes, and hollows solids. Watch the video to learn more.

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