Silma XG11 Release Notes
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- Geometrical Tolerances
- Point Cloud
- Features
- GM2 Program Engine
- DMIS Program Engine
- CAD
- Alignments
- Simulation
- Miscellaneous
- Functions available as from XG 11.002
Important: the
functionalities marked with 
are software options. Check the option(s) you need with the tool tip
on the mark.
Geometrical Tolerances
- Ability to measure or extract a surface
feature when evaluating a GD&T profile.
Point Cloud
- Improvement of the surface mapping sticker now showing two links to the min and max extracted points.
- Ability to teach an acquisition command
line into the program without being connected.
- Ability to teach an extraction command
line into a program, without point cloud in the session.
- New visualization of the optical scan path.
- Ability to record in a GM2 program the
point cloud database attributes (visibility and color).
- New point cloud selection toolbar for filtering and extracting functions.
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- Ability to merge scan paths within the point cloud database.
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- Improvement of the quick fit split graphic views, one is only displaying the point cloud and the other only the CAD file.
- Ability to define an exclusion area during scanning by selecting a plane.
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Without exclusion plane
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| Plane PLAN1 is the
exclusion plane
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Features
- Ability to duplicate a multi-selection of features.
- Ability to force CAD alignment as
defining alignment when defining a feature with a specific setting.
- Ability to set a material thickness on a surface feature.
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- Ability to retrieve I, J, K values from 2D features when using variables.
- New values calculated on section : average deviations (signed and unsigned).
- Ability to change the type of coordinates (Cartesian, Cylindrical, ...) on a multi-selection of features from the feature database.
GM2 Program Engine
- Ability to force probe center correction when importing PNT files from the program menu.
- Ability to change the type of coordinates (Cartesian, Cylindrical, ...) on a multi-selection of feature statements in a program.
DMIS Program Engine
- Improvement of the search and replace function.
- Ability to modify the name of the features, alignments and probes by adding a prefix, suffix,... when doing a mirror program.
- Ability to manage surface features in DMIS.
- Improvement of the DMIS duplicate function by allowing selection in the 3D view to set the translation values.
CAD
- Improvement of the Unigraphics CAD file
import with NX6 format now supported.
Alignments
- Ability to select families in the best fit alignment inputs.
Simulation
- New powerful collision detection engine.*
- New powerful path optimization function
for DMIS and GM2 part programs.
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- New fast teach-in mode.
- New capability for shaft probing management.
Miscellaneous
- Ability to display a multi-lines comment on a text value sticker.
- Improvement of the temperature monitor with ability to set a maximum range and display a warning when the temperature is out of range.
* Limitation :
With a TWIN workcell, possible collisions between heads of both machines can be not detected. This will be fixed in the next version. However, any other type of collisions will be perfectly detected.
Modifying the following parameter gives the possibility to go back to the precedent mode. In the INI file CONFIG, SILMA section:
COL2_Activated=0 Old collisions detection engine
COL2_Activated=1 New collisions detection engine
Functions available as from XG 11.002
- New work export format: ASCII GE.
- Possibility of limiting projection of surface points on non-extended CAD surfaces.
- Improvement of collision management at
entry and exit points of changes.
