(InnovMetric: Québec City, Québec) -- InnovMetric Software has announced that version 12 of its PolyWorks/Modeler reverse-engineering solution offers parametric 2-D sketching capabilities at no additional cost.

The PolyWorks v. 12 sketcher allows users to:
• Create a sketch outline by sectioning a digitized part at a specific position, averaging multiple sections, or extracting a silhouette edge
• Create sketch entities following a logical order that corresponds to the design intent, from the primary entities that need to be perfectly fitted onto the outline, up to secondary entities that just connect primary entities together
• Anchor and fit new entities and automatically make them tangential or perpendicular to existing entities
• Import PolyWorks sketches into popular professional CAD packages, such as CATIA, UG, Pro/E, or SolidWorks, to create fully editable parametric and associative solid CAD models

In addition to sketching capabilities, PolyWorks/Modeler v. 12 also offers a curve mathematical engine and enhanced set of curve reshaping techniques that cut the total time needed to build a NURBS surface model from a digitized part by more than 50 percent.

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