GeometryQA®
GeometryQA adds advanced geometry quality verification
capabilities to your design engineering process. Using
engineering standards defined by the manufacturer, GeometryQA
helps eliminate engineering data exchange and interoperation
errors caused by geometric problems found in 2D/3D CAD files.
GeometryQA provides the capabilities to automatically check for
geometric errors such as tangent continuity of surfaces; minimum
curvature radius; slivers, gaps and more. When combined with
DesignQA solution for checking overarching design standards or
as stand-alone, GeometryQA provides a powerful tool to ensure
CAD geometry retains integrity.
Features
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Visualisation : GeometryQA provides
instant visualisation of geometry errors within the CAD system
interface to enable immediate understanding of the extent of any
problems. |
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Out-of-Box Standards : GeometryQA provides
instant standards for geometry to ensure and improve data
exchange, analysis, class A geometry and manufacturing. |
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Easily Customisable standards : Each
manufacturer can set unique geometry standards for checking with
GeometryQA. |
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Geometry Reporting : Create reports for
facilitating correction of problems, for use by management and
for acceptance of model quality. GeometryQA will stamp each
model with a quality rating, date and time. |
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Quality Metrics database: Maintain records
of geometry standards which pass and fail, plus tools to
identify, quantify and track geometry quality across the
organisation.This data can be easily visualised using the
DriveQA quality metrics management tool from TDCi. |
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Benefits |
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Better manufacturing processes: GeometryQA
will check if surfaces have smaller radii than what your
manufacturing equipment can produce; ensure that models have
correctly defined surface normals for NC toolpath generation;
ensure smooth model surfaces critical to automotive and
industrial manufacturing; identify and remove gaps and slivers
that cause problems in manufacturing equipment. |
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Improved Data Exchange: GeometryQA will
check and identify gaps in curves and between surfaces that can
affect interoperability; check for small items of geometry that
will be misinterpreted; minimise file size by eradicating
duplicate geometry; identify incorrectly translated face
geometry caused by overlaps, self intersections etc. |
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Faster Analysis of Data: GeometryQA will
check and verify your data for small faces that can cause
suspect analysis results, and will ensure that the model
surfaces mesh correctly to give more accurate results. |
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A sample of the Standards checked by GeometryQA
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Minimum curvature radius of surfaces |
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Undefined surface normals, variation of normals, and alignment checking |
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Point continuity of curves, edges, surfaces and quilts |
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Mini and relative patch segment size checking |
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Self intersection of boundaries |
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Tangent continuity of curves, surfaces and quilts |
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Mini curves and surfaces checking |
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Identical points, curves and surfaces |
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Unused patchrows |
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Curve and surface topology |
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Bad surfaces |
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Polynomial degree of surfaces |
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Assembly Components |
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Assembly Constraints & ISO Compatibility |
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Assembly Structure |
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Fixed Component/Skeleton in Assembly |
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Flexible-Sub Assembly |
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Twisted Surface |
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Catia Version |
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Catia Units |
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Preferred Boolean Convention |