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For everyone who works with STL files, Magics is the ideal and complete software solution. Magics sets the standard for ease of use and efficiency when working with faceted data. It offers advanced and highly automated tools for STL manipulation options.


Intuitive and easy-to-use tools enable you to quickly rotate, translate, resize and assemble parts.

Extensive measuring capabilities can be used as an alternative to traditional paper drawings. Magics enables you to perform 2D and 3D measurements of distances, radii and angles based on planes, cylinders, axis, spheres etc (picture 1).

Cut-away views and cross sections can be generated to obtain a better understanding of the part.

You can generate customised printouts to document features of the part.

User co-ordinate systems can be created and applied to the parts. As in CAD systems, the Magics user can define and work with multiple co-ordinate systems.

Dedicated functions ensure an easy orientation by allowing quick alignment of parts.

A free STL compression tool "STLzip" is available for download from our website. By saving your work in a MGX file, you can compress STL files 10 to 20 times. This MGX format can be written and read by Magics.

Intelligent and powerful STL manipulation tools enable you to modify designs directly on the STL data:


Parts can be labelled with characters in any Windows True Type Font in any size and at any location on the model, even on complex surfaces. Information (e.g. version number) can be engraved or embossed on the part (picture 2).

 

 



To support colour capable machines, painting parts is simple in Magics. Different colours can manually or automatically be assigned to triangles and surfaces. The colours can be adjusted to compensate for colour changes due to the RP process. Colour information is also preserved when importing VRML files (picture 3).

 



 

Parts can be cut and punched along user defined paths, enabling you to produce large parts in different pieces. Use the advanced cut to increase the contact surfaces between the cut parts to boost the strength of the glued part (picture 4).

Offsets can be applied to make volumes from shells or to compensate for machining, painting, sandblasting,...

 

 

Boolean operations turn Magics into an STL based CAD system. Volumes can be added or removed by uniting, intersecting or subtracting STL files. Starting from different volumes, you can create a single shell object (picture 5).

 

 

 

Even parts with the most complex geometries can be hollowed. These parts are not only faster to build, but are also more accurate because less internal stresses are created during building (picture 6).

Creating various objects - such as spheres, cylinders, boxes, cones, pyramids, prisms, inserts and more - in STL format is easy to do.

Surfaces can be extruded to create machine stock.
Easy manipulation of scanned data

With a 3D scanner a large amount of points can be collected which results in large STL files. The triangle reduction feature rationalises the size of this data with sophisticated options to considerably facilitate the data handling.

Using a 3D scanner to create an STL file of an object always entails noise. The triangle smoother removes the noise, this way improving the quality of the surface (picture 7).

 

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Last modified: June 18, 2013