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Parasolid is a geometric modeling kernel originally developed by Shape Data Limited, now owned and developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. It can be licensed by other companies for use in their 3D computer graphics software products.

Parasolid's capabilities include model creation and editing utilities such as Boolean modeling operators, feature modeling support, advanced surfacing, thickening and hollowing, blending and filleting and sheet modeling. It also incorporates modeling with mesh surfaces and lattices. Parasolid also includes tools for direct model editing, including tapering, offsetting, geometry replacement and removal of feature details with automated regeneration of surrounding data. Parasolid also provides wide-ranging graphical and rendering support, including hidden-line, wireframe and drafting, tessellation and model data inquiries.

When exported from the parent software package, a Parasolid part commonly has the file extension .x_t. Another format is .x_b, which is in binary format so it is more machine independent and not subject to binary-to-text conversion errors.

To use Parasolid effectively, software developers need knowledge of CAD in general, computational geometry and topology.

Parasolid is available for Windows (32-bit, 64-bit and ARM64), Linux (64-bit), macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), iOS, and Android.[1]

Applications

It is used in many Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), Computer-aided engineering (CAE), Product visualization, and CAD data exchange packages. Notable users include:

References

  1. ^ "Parasolid v33.1 release highlights". 15 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Solid Modeling". Adina.com. 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)



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