In PowerSHAPE 2016, reverse engineering of prismatic parts has been made easier

Delcam has added a series of enhancements to its PowerShape Pro 2016 software for modelling and reverse engineering that it says will help users to complete complex designs, more quickly and easily. In addition, more efficient code and the extension of multi-threaded calculations makes the software faster than any previous version.

A major enhancement allows groups of features to be copied between two solids in a single operation. While the features do not need to be of the same type, the most common application is expected to be in copying patterns of holes.

Other revisions include the ability to edit the axis direction of any number of surface or solid primitives simultaneously, while for reverse engineering, it has been made easier to switch between measuring modes when using devices that offer data collection by laser scanning and point probing. Also, speed improvements have been made to the core modelling functions.