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Multi-processing in ACIS and CGM

I have spent many years of my career here at Spatial developing Thread-Safe ACIS and now I’ve been given the opportunity to additionally work on the multi-processing infrastructure in CGM. The two...

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Au Contraire: Only Public Virtual Functions Are Necessary

I am writing this blog post largely in response to John’s blog post: Public Virtual Methods: A Bad Idea. John and I work closely, and have for as long as I have been at Spatial. I like working with him...

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Managing the 16,777,217th Color

Here’s a quick poll:  How many of you have figured out by now that 16,777,217 = 2^24+1, and that the "24" refers to the 3 RGB bytes in RGBA32?An alternate title I considered for this post was "NoColor...

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How to Train Eight People Without a Trainer

John's recent post on documentation and behavior driven development reminded me of an interesting experience I had last fall in developing training documentation.  Our annual 3D Insiders' Summit (early...

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Application Driven Documentation

In this post I’m going to talk about how we use C3D Toolkit to generate 'live' sample code snippets for our CGM documentation.One of the things we’ve done with the CGM documentation from the start is...

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Healing Gaps in CGM

As we live in a less than perfect world, 3D CAD models are far from perfect. Particularly, models often times contain gaps, which can be found between adjacent vertices, edges, and faces. When gaps are...

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Calculating the Geometry for Bevel Cuts using Water Jet or Laser Cutters

IntroductionAs water jet and laser cutters become more sophisticated, the geometries that they are able to cut are also increasing in complexity.  In recent years, the ability to angle cutting heads...

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Multi-processing in ACIS and CGM

I have spent many years of my career here at Spatial developing Thread-Safe ACIS and now I’ve been given the opportunity to additionally work on the multi-processing infrastructure in CGM. The two...

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Au Contraire: Only Public Virtual Functions Are Necessary

I am writing this blog post largely in response to John’s blog post: Public Virtual Methods: A Bad Idea. John and I work closely, and have for as long as I have been at Spatial. I like working with him...

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Managing the 16,777,217th Color

Here’s a quick poll:  How many of you have figured out by now that 16,777,217 = 2^24+1, and that the "24" refers to the 3 RGB bytes in RGBA32?An alternate title I considered for this post was "NoColor...

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How to Train Eight People Without a Trainer

John's recent post on documentation and behavior driven development reminded me of an interesting experience I had last fall in developing training documentation.  Our annual 3D Insiders' Summit (early...

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Application Driven Documentation

In this post I’m going to talk about how we use C3D Toolkit to generate 'live' sample code snippets for our CGM documentation.Tags: CGM

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Healing Gaps in CGM

As we live in a less than perfect world, 3D CAD models are far from perfect. Particularly, models often times contain gaps, which can be found between adjacent vertices, edges, and faces. Tags: CGM

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Calculating the Geometry for Bevel Cuts using Water Jet or Laser Cutters

IntroductionAs water jet and laser cutters become more sophisticated, the geometries that they are able to cut are also increasing in complexity.  In recent years, the ability to angle cutting heads...

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CGM Core Modeler Enhances Feature Recognition

The 2017 1.1 release of Spatial’s CGM™ Core Modeler improves the robustness of its feature recognition capabilities by extending the range of recognizable structures. Feature recognition rapidly...

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