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News Release from: Moldflow Vertriebs | Subject: Moldflow STL Expert
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 August 2002
Imported solid surface models corrected
A powerful tool views, measures, refines, and corrects solid surface models imported from popular CAD/CAM/CAE systems.
Moldflow STL Expert is a powerful tool for viewing, measuring, refining, and correcting solid surface models imported from popular CAD/CAM/CAE systems It outputs high quality stereolithography (STL) models, which can then be used for Moldflow Plastics Advisers (MPA) and Moldflow Plastics Insight (MPI) analyses, or any other application that uses STL as input
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Enhanced CAD interfaces - Moldflow STL Expert 3.0 supports Moldflow Design Link 3.0, a geometry data translation interface that allows the direct import of native Pro/ENGINEER part files, as well as Parasolid, STEP, and IGES file formats.
Moldflow STL Expert 3.0 supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/NT 4.0, as well as a range of UNIX platforms, including Silicon Graphics IRIX 6.5, SUN Solaris 2.7 and 2.8, Hewlett Packard HP-UX 10.2 and 11.0, and IBM AIX 4.3.
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