VP-Sculpt
1.
Platforms,
price, and company
2.
Applications
- VP-Sculpt
is a software package used for interactive computer-assisted editing and
free-form sculpting of three-dimensional (3D) polygonal mesh surface
models. Visualize, verify, repair, and measure digitized models.
- Prepare
and communicate data between 3D digitizing and rapid prototyping (RP)
systems.
- Perform
working-with-clay type artistic sculpting.
- Reverse
engineer digitized physical parts or models.
- Customize
digitized objects and characters for animation.
- Perform
pre-operative plastic surgery planning.
- Design
biomedical implants and prosthetic devices.
- Generate
caricatures of scanned faces.
- Modify
industrial design (aesthetic) shapes.
- Visualize,
verify, repair, and perform calculations on 3D polygonal mesh models.
- Create,
search, and visualize databases of 3D scanned faces.
- Make
measurements for forensic studies.
- Design
industrial (aesthetic) shapes.
3.
Examples
and Samples
4.
Functional
- Modeling
- Reorient
- Translate
- Scale
- Mirroring
- Center model at origin
- refine to increase resolution
- decimate to decrease resolution
- Viewing
- 6
preset orthographic views.
- Multiple
windows each with independent view control.
- Interactive
3D rotations, zooming, and panning with mouse or keyboard.
- User-controllable
perspective and clipping planes.
- User-controllable
model color properties and the light source.
- Rendering
- Point
cloud, wireframe, bounding box.
- Flat-faceted
or smooth Gouraud shading.
- Hidden
line removal, backface removal.
- Adjustable
quick-rendering mode.
- Color
contour display of stretch thicknesses.
- Surface Sculpting and Editing
- Select
areas directly on the 3D surface with various tools.
- Selectively
stretch the surface with an indicated stretch profile and direction.
- Selectively
smooth and roughen.
- Selectively
delete and trim.
- Selectively
decimate and refine.
- Snap
areas to flats plane.
- Snap
edges to straight lines.
- Offset
or scale the surface.
- Add
or delete individual vertices or facets.
- Automatically
fill holes.
- Automatically
perform mirror image sculpting and editing of symmetric surfaces.
- Metrology
- Distance
between the sculpted surface and the original surface at any point.
- Distance
between selected points (straight-line or along surface).
- Surface
area of a selected area.
- Surface
area of the entire model.
- Volume
of a closed model.
- Radius
of a 3D arc or circle.
- Anatomical
features and planes on a scanned face.
- Rapid Prototyping Tools
- Import
digitized data.
- Edit
and repair the surface (see "Surface Sculpting and Editing"
above and "Mesh Repair" below).
- Create
a closed volume from an open surface by offsetting to a wall thickness or
by extruding (with a draft angle) to a flat bottom.
- Decimate
the model to reduce the file size.
- Mesh Repair
- Automatically
fill holes in the surface.
- Add
or delete individual vertices or facets.
- Reorient
and align normal vectors.
- Delete
stranded vertices.
- Delete
null facets or improper facets.
- Replace
low aspect ratio facets.
- File Formats
- import Wavefront OBJ, STL, DXF (POLYLINE), DXF (3DFACE),
- export Wavefront OBJ, STL, DXF (POLYLINE), IGES, Inventor, SCL
5. Web Resources