TransMagic Blog
The TransMagic blog focuses on material to make you more productive with TransMagic and your other tools and procedures. If there’s a topic you’d like to see here, let us know! Reach us at social@transmagic.com.
Bounding Box Calculations
This article will describe how you can get an accurate minimal material estimate for your part using the Bounding Box tool. A Bounding Box is a 'box' that tightly encompasses your part geometry, giving you height, width and length values for the part....
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CAD File Extensions
As a company that specializes in CAD Translation, we often get questions about a wide range of CAD file extensions; to make this easier on our customers, we've compiled a list of the most common Brep and Visrep formats. Brep stands for Boundary Representation, which...
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How do you Compare CAD Models?
The need to compare CAD models Imagine you are an estimator who works for a mold development company; a prospective customer sends you a CAD file and asks for a quote to have a mold made. You pull up the model on your CAD or viewing system, make a few measurements,...
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3D Printers Under $4000 Compared for Industrial Usage
"The 3D Printer market is exploding. With dozens of affordable 3D printers, arbitrary categories, endless specifications and variations, how do you choose the device that will best meet your industrial 3D printing needs?" By Brad Strong and Todd Reade The...
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3D Printing Priorities
Recent survey results from a 2017 Sculpteo survey highlighted the top priorities of 3D printing for the industrial sector, in terms of what they want to achieve with 3D printing. It seemed to us that these 3D printing priorities implied that they are also benefits of...
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Top Videos
We’re starting off the year in 2018 with a look back at some of the most popular videos over the past few years; today, the top five videos of all time (as measured in views during the past month) from TransMagic.com. They are: SOLIDWORKS and Inventor File...
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Top Blogs of 2016 & 2017
We've covered a lot of ground in the past two years. Here are the top twelve TransMagic articles from 2016/2017. Actually, it's hard to measure what the top blogs were in any given year; do you count the number of views? In that case, older articles have a definite...
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CAD Model Validation
A Recent CAD Forum Discussion Reading various CAD forums can be illuminating. Here's a paraphrase of a discussion on a recent CAD forum where a CAD engineer is looking for a way to test if the original CAD model has been changed in any way when translating...
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Materials and Mass Properties
This article will demonstrate how materials are applied to models in TransMagic R12, and how parts and assemblies can then be interrogated for Mass Properties. Mass properties are particularly useful if you are generating quotes or estimates, and need to know the...
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Assembly Restructuring
Assembly Restructuring allows you to work with the parts you have and restructure components as necessary to fit your design or manufacturing objectives. Being able to restructure assemblies gives you viewing and functional flexibility, even if you no longer have...
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