User:N.mizina/KernelCAD

KernelCAD
Developer(s)	DInsight
Stable release	3.2 / June 29, 2012; 11 years ago
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows
Type	CAD software
License	Commertial
Website	dynoinsight.com

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KernelCAD is a proprietary development framework for 3D/CAD/CAM enabled applications. It is a product for engineers, architects, designers, draftspeople, students and educators. The product was first developed by DInsight in 2002 and allows application developers create, display and modify 3D models. Most of development environments supporting Microsoft ActiveX can add a KernelCAD window to forms, dialogues or views. KernelCAD can also be used as a background CAD/geometric computational component without a 3D window. Models can be imported via data exchange, created and modified at runtime or pre modelled using Modelling Studio or sample applications.

KernelCAD consists of three products: Viewer, Enterprise and Developer. Each product has a Light and a Full version and consists of several flavours of top-level ActiveX component, lightweight Modelling Studio (an editor of KernelCAD-specific types of objects and supporting tasks such as format conversions and 3D Debugger mode), Viewer and various core modules.

Viewer[edit]

Viewer is a proprietary freeware which displays 3D models in native to KernelCAD GLM format.

Enterprise[edit]

KernelCAD Enterprise is the central product, which implements all core functionality. See features below.

Developer[edit]

KernelCAD Developer has all the features of KernelCAD Enterprise and also allows direct access to core C++ classes of KernelCAD bypassing ActiveX.

Versions released in 2012, bifurcated into Standard Edition (v4.0) based on Open CASCADE Technology and KernelCAD Light (v3.2), which does not include bspline modelling and Step support. Some features like Shortest Path Algorithm and shading are available only in KernelCAD Light.

KernelCAD Features[edit]

Bspline curve, surface and solid modelling
Swept, extruded, interpolated surfaces
Boolean Operations on parametric Brep Solids and free form (meshed) surfaces
Surface creation from Point Clouds with pre and post processing
Textures and mesh shading
Pure 2D and mixed 3D/2D modes with .wmf and .emf export
3D text
Collision detection and distances
Measurements and 3D Grids
Solid interactive 3D views in Microsoft Office documents, html and compiled help

Unique KernelCAD Features[edit]

3DS type of objects allows simplified parametric solid modelling using only arcs and lines
Modelling in cylindrical coordinates
Cut Effect, which allows continuous simulation of cutting
Free-hand cut surface operation
Euclidean Shortest Path Algorithm
3D Debugger

Supported Formats[edit]

GLM (native), DWG, DXF, STEP, IGES, SAT, VRML, STL, CSFDB, BREP, CSV, XYZ

References[edit]

External links[edit]

example.com