SMLib has demonstrated some very capable fillets and blends features (see www.smlib.com/pr080199.html for details) at the recent SIGGRAPH 99 show in Los Angeles. The show attracted over 45,000 attendees, and Solid Modeling Solutions’ booth was well attended. In addition to questions about our new features, we received many favorable comments about our attractive licensing arrangements as well as plans for additional translators. At Mtech 99 in Chicago’s McCormick Place on November 9-11, we will be demonstrating the newly released SMLib version 2.0. If you’d like free admission to Mtech, drop us an email at sales@smlib.com, and we’ll send you a complimentary admission pass. You can check out the details of the Mtech show at www.mtechexpo.com.

Solid Modeling Solutions in conjunction with HarmonyWare, Inc. announces the prerelease availability of VDAFS/SMLib, its new capability to translate VDAFS files into and out of SMLib. Details on VDAFS/SMLib and IGES/SMLib can be found on the web at www.harmonyware.com.

VDAFS/SMLib allows reading and writing of VDAFS files, interfacing with the Nlib and TSLib kernels of SMLib. Its major features include:

• Resistance to faults in the physical format of VDAFS files.
• Reads all VDAFS entities.
• Imports and exports points, curves, surfaces, and trimmed surfaces; exports solids as VDAFS TOPs; imports TOP faces as unconnected trimmed surfaces
• Builds on the core technologies of IGES/SMLib, providing well-tested and sophisticated cleaning tools: eliminating minor self-intersections and gaps in trim loops, improving singularities, etc.
• Supports conversions of IwBrep entities to and from VDAFS trimmed surfaces.
• Simple high level interfaces, plus full access to the powerful under-the-hood classes used to implement them.

The translator is available as C++ source code, designed with the new ISO C++ standard in mind, but targeted at the prior generation of compilers. Please contact us at sales@smlib.com if you'd like more detail on the data translators.

In addition, development is currently underway on STEP/SMLib, with prerelease availability expected in October. STEP/SMLib will translate STEP files into and out of SMLib. For more information, see www.harmonyware.com or contact sales@smlib.com.

In a recent issue of the CAD newsletter upFront.eZine NEWS is the following quote:

"Diehl Graphsoft has restructured its content development team, announced plans to increase staff by 40%, move into a larger facility, and has posted an 8.3% increase in revenues for fiscal 1999. The company recently signed a licensing agreement with Solid Modeling Solutions for SMLib, which Diehl calls "an advanced geometry and topology library and emergent alternative to ACIS and Parasolid." Ceo Richard Diehl says, "As early as the next revision of VectorWorks, our users will have more powerful solid modeling tools, including non-rationalized B-spline (NURBS)." Diehl plans to develop and market as many as seven new vertical market products by 2001."

See www.upfrontezine.com/current.htm for the complete newsletter...and check out the Diehl Graphsoft site for more details on their product line.

Larry Lukis, founder and Chief Engineer of The ProtoMold Company, Inc. recently stated "The SMLib kernel gave us a great jump-start in the development of our new rapid tooling process for injection molding." Larry is also the source of the comment on our website "Gotta love source code! This problem only slowed me down for 5 minutes, whereas if this was an object library it would have been a week in the very best circumstances." ProtoMold offers 5 day turnaround on injection molded parts using a proprietary aluminum tooling process. More info can be found at www.ProtoMold.com.

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