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| VX CAD/CAM Turns Digital Images Into 3D Models VX Corporation announces a powerful new function that lets product designers import and use digital images for defining 3D models. VX CAD/CAM, known for its powerful and fast import of external geometry, has now extended that capability to the import of digital images. Digital images, which can be any of the popular bitmap image file types (jpg, bmp, gif, png, etc), are converted instantly upon import into editable CAD geometry. Digital images are "raster" data, that is to say it only describes a picture in terms of pixels (dots of color). A CAD system on the other hand requires "vector" data (lines and arcs, etc.). VX can import an image and translate it into a 2D vector drawing in one operation. It's fast and done in seconds. The imported geometry goes into a VX sketch and from there can be expanded into 3D by extruding, revolving or sweeping. What is extremely impressive is that the sketch is not required to be parametised in any way. Users do not have to add any dimensions or geometric constraints. Also, the data does not have to be separated into multiple sketches. Users can produce multiple 3D shapes using just the one sketch object - it couldn't be easier. Add your company logo as an embossing to a model with the minimum of effort. Swiftly create complete, manufacturable 3D shapes from images for merchandising of toys and cool accessories associated with movies and games. Having produced the 3D model, the original image can be applied onto the faces of the model to visualize the finished result. This is special in VX for many applications too - users do not have to "cut to size" images for each face - they can apply the whole image to the required faces and leave VX to do the hard work of resizing. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |