Silma XG 8 release notes

Simulation

• Possibility to make shaft measurement probes compatible with Zeiss CMM/OS.

• Improvements in the Virtual Keyboard (possibility to lock axes, possibility to work in part alignment, etc.).

• It is now possible to learn calibration instructions.
  
• The both 3D view and Simulation view can now be synchronized.

Point Cloud (analysis only) *

• Full optimization to be able to process millions of points.
  
• New database point cloud tab page.

• Three new alignment creation instructions point cloud oriented:
  Quick-fit
  Best-fit
  Fit on retrieved features 

• Improvement of feature retrieve functionality.

• New "Surface Mapping feature for points cloud analysis on the complete CAD or on a part of the CAD. Ability to generate automatically a color mapping associated to this feature. 

• New Flush & Gap feature (currently no documentation available).
  
• Point cloud meshing with optional smoothing included.

• Advanced point cloud filtering functionalities.

• AC, PSL, STL, MTL import / export file formats.

• Specific toolbar for point cloud 3D view visualization.

Features

• Better consistency between Surface Point and Geometrical Point : same display, same result window, same automatic measurement methods, same print report, same way to define coordinates.
  
• All feature construction fields can be set with calculated values.

• Ability to define circle on a cone surface with automatic diameter adjustment.
  
• Possibility to use CAD curves or sophisticated CAD projections to define surface points or geometrical points.
  
  
  
• New construction of a geometrical point : offset a point along a direction and a distance.

• Best-fit feature construction based on other features probing points.
  
• Construction of line based on other feature direction (main axis or normal).

• Automatic Inner / Outer property recognition in the feature definition dialogs, according to the click or the CAD.
  
• It is now possible to evaluate a circularity on a cone (ISO 1101:2004).
  
• Feature naming rule improvement.
  
• Warning during definition if the shape does not fit the feature. (if a user try to define a circle on elliptic shape).

• Single and total runout improvement

Import / Export

• Support of the GSURF statement in the DMO import. *
  
• Possibility to import basic point files in working sessions (position, position with normal, point name and position, etc.).
  
• Features (including 3D features shape) can be exported as IGES file.

GM2 program engine *

• Improvements in path display (ability to display path on part program selection or on all program, and possibility to display only probing points).

• Direct jump from active feature to its definition instruction in a part program.
  
• New Find and Replace dialog.

• New program import format: DAT.
  
• Improvements in the PNT program converter:
  define and/or measurement instructions,
  automatic normal calculation by projection on CAD,
  selection of the features of the file.

• Improvement of the POLAR coordinates management :
  teach probing points in the coordinates system of the definition feature,
  teach constructions in the coordinates system based on the coordinates system of the features,
  support polar coordinates in the Convert Hit Points dialog.
  
• New security position management instructions.

• Possibility to force a part program to be run in automatic mode.
  
• Manual probing assistant can now be based on probing points during a part program execution.

DMIS program engine *

• Ability to update feature/alignment databases when editing DMIS alignment statements.
  
• Check of probing in comparison to CAD: ability to update points nominal.

CAD

• CAD entities orientation visualization in the 3D view.

• Possibility to reverse the entity orientation.

• When defining a geometrical feature from a CAD entity, automatic Inner / Outer property initialization based on the surface orientation.
  
• Possibility to create a CAD surface by extension with one click on a circle.

• Catia V5 R17 supported. *
  
• Automatic CAD surfaces re-orientation with one click.

3D View

• Ability to show / hide alignment representation in 3D view for current, CAD or MCS alignments.

• It is now possible to modify the alignments axes sizes.
  
• New statistic histogram column that can be added in stickers.

• New detailed 3D view for form tolerances (flatness, straightness, circularity and cylindricity).

• The feature names are now displayed in transparency in the 3D view.

• Stickers: feature icon depends of the font size.

Miscellaneous

• It is now possible to define the translation values of a geometrical alignment directly by clicking in the 3D view.

• New possibility to choose between nominal and actual values in calculated values.

• Advanced settings panel can be resized.

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