Materialise’s Mimics 11.1 Strengthens Link to FEA

By DE Editors

Materialise (Leuven, Belgium) launched Mimics 11.1, a new release of the company’s medical imaging and editing software, which enhances export to FEA even more.

The link to FEA, which is strengthened via the remesher to support nonmanifold (matching) surfaces, enables the creation of coinciding nodes for accurate analysis of touching surfaces; automatic remeshing creates an optimized surface mesh in one mouse click; and you can also generate smoothed voxel meshes in Mimics, based on your segmentation.

Other features include the ability to import your 16-bit MR images and segment them with the highest precision; calculate the distance over the surface between two points in a 3D reconstruction; and hide parts for easier 3D segmentation. Plus you can perform Boolean operations on multiple segmented parts at once.

In the RP&M field, Materialise’s latest version of Magics 12 is RP software that focuses on facilitating and automating the work of RP&M professionals. Magics’ new Batch Import module allows users to import and convert batches of files (overnight) instead of handling them one by one.

Magics now allows for building designs, such as architectural parts, that were previously unsuited for RP because they contained too many defects. This Color Shrinkwrap functionality is a fixing tool that bypasses intensive manual fixing and decreases the time spent in data preparation of bad STL’s’, while preserving colors and textures.

Materialise also provides the RP&M industry with free software for fast file inspection and compression — MiniMagics —a tool for easy and efficient communication with sales people and customers who don’t have Magics RP. Apart from viewing, measuring, and analyzing parts, MiniMagics also allows users to compress STL files up to factor 20, make annotations, and generate print-outs.

Take a look at Materialise for more information.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.