Molding Tools

[Dave]

Just curious about Mold Tools development. Anything happening?

 

Thanks,

Dave Mills

BKJ Digital Design

[Carlosan]

Hello

 These are the last changes.

it will be released as a separate add-on (as not all users require this feature).

At the same time, development team are continuing to work on it to develop it as a solid add-on to 3DCoat for those working in industrial design, prototyping and printing.

We believe this should be available in the next month or two.

Would like to receive temporary access to this add-on in the "as is" state ? Request it via sales@3dcoat.com

Thanks

[Dave]

Need export 3D curve to Rhino option. Can this be done?

Dave Mills

BKJ Digital Design

[Carlosan]

3DCoat-2022-45 
Sat Sep 3 23:14:32 2022

- All molding tools are now available without any additional license till 1 Nov 2022

- The preview of the molding shape bound box shown in the molding dialog.

[Carlosan]

3DCoat-2023-26 
Mon Aug 7 13:01:03 2023

- Major improvement of the molding tool. I developed a new sort of Boolean operations that are always stable, lightning-fast, and applied it to this tool first. Now you can create molds for meshes up to 70-100M, which is unreachable in the industry.
The result is subdivided adaptively, so the mesh at output will be relatively not too heavy. It is much, much faster; on my PC, molding the 50M mesh takes 6 minutes.

The principle of fast Booleans may soon be used for other important tasks - real-time Booleans, even for heavy meshes.
Developing of that algorithms took some time, but the result will influence on the whole 3DCoat, not just on molding.

This improvement may really be game changing, because industrial molds of very detailed objects may be done via mesh in 3DCoat when using NURBS is just impossible.