A powerful tool views, measures, refines, and corrects solid surface models imported from popular CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

Moldflow STL Expert is a powerful tool for viewing, measuring, refining, and correcting solid surface models imported from popular CAD/CAM/CAE systems. It outputs high quality stereolithography (STL) models, which can then be used for Moldflow Plastics Advisers (MPA) and Moldflow Plastics Insight (MPI) analyses, or any other application that uses STL as input. Now, Version 3.0 has been released which contains a number of important new features: Enhanced mesh repair tools - A complete suite of mesh repair tools, including global node merging, swap/remesh edges, remesh areas, insert, move, and align nodes, orient individual or groups of elements, and fill holes.

These tools allow users to optimise meshes more efficiently.

Dynamic model diagnostics and statistics - A diagnostics window provides a quick overview of the model and serves to highlight potential problems as well as dynamically update the status of these problems as they get fixed.

STL Wizard enhancements - The STL Wizard walks users through a series of steps to automatically repair five common STL mesh problems.

The 'remove overlap' feature has been enhanced to detect and repair partially overlapping elements or intersecting elements.

Enhanced CAD interfaces - Moldflow STL Expert 3.0 supports Moldflow Design Link 3.0, a geometry data translation interface that allows the direct import of native Pro/ENGINEER part files, as well as Parasolid, STEP, and IGES file formats.

Moldflow STL Expert 3.0 supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/NT 4.0, as well as a range of UNIX platforms, including Silicon Graphics IRIX 6.5, SUN Solaris 2.7 and 2.8, Hewlett Packard HP-UX 10.2 and 11.0, and IBM AIX 4.3.