PowerPREP Overview

PowerPREP is an interactive graphical mesh tool that allows you to perform quality checks on a surface mesh to verify suitability for importing into PowerCASE. You can edit and repair mesh problems that are discovered. Also, PowerPREP allows you to decimate a mesh, which reduces the number of facets in the mesh while retaining key attributes of the original shape. Decimation can also be used to add and redistribute facets for parts exported from CAD directly to STL.

Key Features

• Import facetized geometries in ABAQUS, ANSYS, NASTRAN, PATRAN and STL formats
• Perform mesh quality assessment
• Obtain geometric information of the mesh
• Geometric modifications
• Decimation to reduce total facet count
• Export mesh for importing into PowerCASE
• Complete scripting capability

Animation of differential housing mesh before and after decimation in PowerPREP.
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Quality Assessment

• Find & show penetrations (self-intersections)
• Find & show extreme aspect ratio triangles
• Find & show non-manifold edges
• Find & show wrinkles

 Geometric Information

• Calculate projected area
• Maximum, minimum and average edge lengths
• Facet and vertex counts
• Bounding box dimensions
• Information about bodies, shells and faces

 Geometric Modification

• Merge vertices
• Automatically seal small gaps
• Close shells
• Mirror geometry about a plane
• Reorient surface normals
• Add and delete individual facets
• Move verticies

Decimation

• Reduce the total facet count while preserving a specified level of geometric detail
• Add and redistribute facets for parts exported from CAD directly to STL