An Innovative Interactive Application Using Geomenon's Patent Pending Technology

The ShapeRight interactive healer is like no other CAD application on the market today. It employs Geomenon's patent pending interactive healing technologies that enable CAD database errors to be presented and fixed like spelling and grammar errors in word documents. ShapeRight combines advanced visualization, automatic error detection, easy navigation, and sophisticated fix and analysis functions to present the user with the right information at the right time to easily understand and fix CAD Database errors

With ShapeRight, all types of CAD errors can be identified and removed including gap problems, tangency problems, redundant geometry problems, missing geometry problems, connectivity problems, and more. ShapeRight is based on the following principles:

• A Crystal Database: We visualize all CAD database data and interrelationships.
• Automated Healing: All CAD database errors can be detected automatically and most eliminated automatically.
• Problem Visualization: Remaining problems can be displayed for the user using a variety of innovative rendering techniques.
• Problem Navigation: A single key-stroke steps through the database problems one at a time automatically updating displayed information as needed.
• Sophisticated Fix Tools (yield 100% healed databases): For every problem, there is a fix. Once a problem is understood by the end-user through visualization, problems are resolved quickly by picking an appropriate fix function.

Unlike current CAD packages that treat the CAD database as a black box to be manipulated indirectly through CSG, and Feature based interface metaphors, ShapeRight treats the CAD database as a crystal box to be completely viewable by an end-user to understand and fix CAD databases data and relationships.

A variety of innovative rendering techniques are required to provide a crystal clear understanding into the inner-workings of CAD database. ShapeRight supports standard macro-scale part rendering, innovative micro-scale rendering for seeing gap problems, hierarchical tree displays for understanding part connectivity graphs, domain space curve and surface renderings to see parametric shape representation details and problems and others.

A variety of industry standard and innovative fix functions are required to eliminate CAD database problems. ShapeRight supports fix functions to edit the connectivity graph, modify vertex, edge, and face shapes, and improve parametric curve and surface representations to eliminate over sampling and poor parameterizations.