TransMagic's UNIQUE Value Proposition

According to customer surveys, TransMagic provides a value significantly larger than the required investment. These benefits include:

  1. The ability to work in the CAD system of YOUR choice without the costs associated with purchasing, training and maintaining multiple CAD seats.
  2. Eliminate duplication of geometry modeling. While CAD is the best tool for documenting 3D design, the number of uses for this geometry is growing rapidly. These software products, which are "geometry consumers," typically do not have the interfaces required to load and reuse the CAD master. Without TransMagic, geometry tends to be remodeled multiple times within a company and throughout your supply chain.
  3. Choose the right time for your company to update to new software versions. With TransMagic, you can not only read the latest version, but also save it to any version of a software format, old and new. With this ability, you can decide the appropriate time to update your software products.
  4. Eliminate problems associated with poorly constructed geometry. Many of these geometry issues appear and require additional time spent in CAD, CAM, RP and CAE software remodeling and processing geometry. Downstream, these issues can cause parts to be manufactured out of specifications, errors to be manufactured and wasted materials.
  5. Reduce time to market. With the largest return on investment, ensuring a fast time to market reduces opportunity costs and increases time savings.

At a higher level, what makes TransMagic unique are the following three principles. These provide the foundation for automated and worry-free 3D data exchange.

Data Integrity

3D geometric translation is a very complex task that, if done poorly, can degrade the geometry being translated. This degradation is frequently invisible, resulting in a translated model that looks the same as the original source, but is not in a usable state for downstream processing within a CAM, CAE, rapid prototyping, CAD, or simulation system. To ensure a high level of data integrity, TransMagic products have the ability to:

Taking “CAD healing” to the next level, TransMagic's state-of-the-art repair technology ensures the highest level of data integrity on the market today. In view of cost comparison, TransMagic also provides this quality data at one of the most reasonable price. Typical healing algorithms frequently treat the symptoms of geometry issues, whereas the goal of TransMagic is to identify the root cause of any anomaly and quickly resolve it automatically. Like any technology, "the proof is in the results," including the success rates of downstream processes such as feature recognition (CAD to CAD), defining cutter paths (CAD to CAM), building prototypes (CAD to STL), complex analysis (CAD to CAE) or visualization (CAD to VIZ).

Completeness

Anyone who has read a document translated between spoken languages realizes that frequently a lot of meaning or data can get "lost in translation." The best translations are done by people that, not only understand both languages fluently, but also have complete domain knowledge of the subject matter. This is exactly how TransMagic works! For an understanding of the languages (3D CAD formats), TransMagic licenses the readers and writers directly from the CAD vendors themselves. TransMagic, then, adds our domain knowledge to the translation in a process we call “Geometry Mapping.” This technology actually looks at the source with the target files, and adapts the translation so the resulting file is ideally suited for its application, including:

  • Assembly hierarchy
  • Adaptive / procedural faceting for polygonal outputs
  • PMI (Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance, Feature Dimensioning & Tolerance and MetaData)
  • Feature recognition conditioning
  • Large file support (XL-64)

Value

The biggest value any manufacturing software company can deliver is reducing time to market, in most cases, eclipsing any reduction in labor hours or machine time. TransMagic helps deliver value in many ways, including:

  • Short learning / relearning curve, enables use by less technical and/or occasional users.
  • Fast translation, full native 64 bit support and profiled graphics display are all a part of the XL-64 feature.
  • Minimized and most often eliminated rework / remodeling due to a high level of data integrity and completeness.