MCADCafe Industry Predictions for 2023 – C3D Labs

By Oleg Zykov, CEO, C3D Labs

Oleg Zykov

We can’t talk about predictions for 2023 without mentioning a technology that has been known for a long time. Polygonal modeling is actively penetrating the CAD industry. Traditionally, both in mechanical engineering and architectural and construction CAD-systems a boundary representation is used – B-Rep.

This is the most accurate way to represent geometry. However, more and more models are coming to engineers in the form of mesh and polygonal models. These are data from 3D scanners, generative design results and models from online catalogs. They need to be worked with. All leading geometric kernel developers are working on polygonal modeling tools. We presented the first results of this work at our international virtual conference C3DevCon 2022 in October. If you have both solid and mesh models in your workspace, then you will immediately want to work with them simultaneously. In 2023 we will see the widespread use of hybrid modeling not only in high-end CAD, but in any CAD products.

About Author:

Oleg is CEO of C3D Labs, developer of toolkit for engineering software, since its foundation in 2012. His 22 years of experience with CAD systems includes teaching CAD and serving as a head of product marketing department and innovation projects leader at ASCON, the parent company of C3D Labs.

Category: Industry Predictions

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