3-D printing is on the advance in the world of industrial design; and in order to take surface design options to the next level, the 3-D expert Substance and the software provider CoreTechnologie have entered into a partnership.
CoreTechologie brings the benefits of the additive manufacturing (AM) software 4D_Additive, while Substance contributes its expertise in 3-D printing with textured surfaces. With 4D_Additive, designers can choose from over 5,000 different surfaces from Substance and quickly ‘render components in photo-realistic quality’.
The preparation of CAD models requires high accuracy in terms of topology, especially with textures, which have continuous surface transitions and must be ‘watertight’ in order to avoid errors in the printing result.
The strength of the 4D_Additive software is a quick quality analysis as well as an automatic and manual repair of the exact CAD models, which are read in from all common formats including Catia, SolidWorks, CREO and NX, as well as STEP and JT.
With the Substance SDK ‘engine’ and the integration of its functions in 4D_Additive, the software now allows for an easy access to an advanced surface design of 3-D printed components and enables the user to ‘play’ with over 5,000 pre-defined textures.