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Manage files and navigate through the PolyWorks® interface

• Navigate through the PolyWorks Workspace manager interface
• Create and save a workspace
• Navigate through the PolyWorks|Inspector and PolyWorks|Modeler interfaces
• Create and save PolyWorks|Inspector and PolyWorks|Modeler projects
• Define the steps of a typical reverse-engineering workflow

Obtain part data and position the polygonal model

• Connect to a device
• Scan a polygonal model using quality metrics
• Acquire data in different device positions
• Create a unified polygonal model
• Extract key features on the polygonal model
• Position the polygonal model with respect to the coordinate system standard axes

Edit the polygonal model

• Transfer objects between modules
• Smooth polygonal model vertices
• Reconstruct areas of the polygonal model
• Fill holes
  • Automatically and interactively
• Optimize the curvature
• Reduce or subdivide triangles
• Create, edit, and insert curves into the polygonal model
  • Standard
  • Boundary
  • Fillet Tangent & Edge

Model prismatic shapes using sketching

• Create a sketch from the outline of a polygonal model
• Create and edit sketch entities fitted
  • Add dimensions
  • Add relations
• Export sketches in native CAD software formats

Model freeform shapes using NURBS surfacing

• Create a network of curves that defines NURBS patches
• Fit NURBS patches to the underlying polygonal model
  • Review fitting errors
  • Adjust fitting parameters
• Create a NURBS model from the fitted NURBS patches
• Export the fitted NURBS patches or the NURBS model for downstream modeling