New Thickness Tool Released

By DE Editors

Geometric Software Solutions(Mumbai, India), a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM)services and technologies, announced the launch of GeomCaliper forPro/Engineer Wildfire.

According to a press release, GeomCaliper is a tool for measuring andchecking the wall thickness of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3D models. It issaid to be easy to use and can be accessed within a Wildfire session,providing immediate feedback to designers during the design processitself. Among other applications, it will help engineers to quicklydetect thin areas in plastic molded components that may result intowarps, or thick sections in castings that may result in hot spots.Minimal training is required to use the tool and interpret thegenerated results. 

GeomCaliper provides users with quick and accurate thicknesscalculations, easy to locate and analyze critical thickness areas,advanced visualization for easy interpretation of results, the abilityto clip models at any section, dynamic thickness display at pointclick, and customizable reports in XML/HTML format.

GeomCaliper is based on PTC’s Pro/Toolkit from PTC(Needham, MA) and leverages the mature API provided by PTC to 3rd partydevelopers. Wildfire customers will benefit from its 3D-orientedproductivity features such as advanced thickness map display and manipulation.

GeomCaliper for Pro/Engineer Wildfire supports Wildfire 1, 2, and 3.Detailed product information and a trial version of GeomCaliper forPro/Engineer Wildfire is available by visiting geometricsoftware.com.

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