Halcon V8.0 (C) Mvtec Software

operations on regions enclosed by contours or polygons.

Bar Code and Data Code Reading

HALCON now provides a new bar code reader, which robustly finds any potential bar code region, can read multiple codes at the same time, and is easy to use. Furthermore, the bar code reader can now read RSS-14, RSS-14 Truncated, RSS Limited, and RSS Expanded bar code symbols.
HALCON's 2D data code reader now allows to assess the print quality, compliant with the international standard ISO/IEC 15415.

Other New Operators and Extensions
Contours can now also be read from and written to DXF files.
HALCON now provides operators to grab images (or image tuples), regions, and control data.
HALCON now provides a new operator for image inpainting based on coherence transport.
The generation of mosaics (image stitching) has been enhanced by new operators and extensions of existing ones.
HALCON now provides operators to create and interactively draw and modify XLD contours that approximate NURBS curves.
HALCON now provides new operators to compute the dense optical flow vector field between two images.
HALCON now provides operators for computing the polar transformation of regions and XLDs.
HALCON now provides operators for computing the transformation matrix for a principal component transformation of a multi-channel image and for applying an arbitrary linear gray value transformation.
HALCON now provides operators for powerful string processing based on regular expressions.
HALCON now provides an operator for testing whether a region is a subset of another region.
HALCON's variation model has been extended with three new operators and various enhancements of the existing operators.
Speed-Up

HALCON in general is now significantly faster because of a faster memory management.
A new operator allows to smooth images with the extremely fast binomial filter. This filter is also available via other filter operators.
In addition, many operators have been sped up significantly, e.g., laplace, compare_variation_model, edges_image and edges_sub_pix, fit_ellipse_contour_xld and fit_circle_contour_xld, and sobel_amp.
HDevelop

Complete Revision of the User Interface

HDevelop's Graphical User Interface has been completely revised to improve usability. Besides design improvements like new icons, many functional extensions have been introduced in almost every part of HDevelop. Due to their number, the list of detailed changes contains only the most important ones. The completely revised HDevelop User's Guide contains a detailed description of the current functionality.

Assistants
HDevelop now provides assistants that simplify the use of important machine vision tasks. The Image Acquisition Assistant allows to quickly configure the connection to an image acquisition device. The Matching Assistant acts as a comfortable front-end to HALCON's shape-based matching. It replaces HMatchIt. The assistants automatically generate the corresponding HDevelop code.
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cadmeister v2.0 (c)UNISYS

The era of mega competition demands everlasting quality improvement (Q), price reduction (P) and delivery time decrease (D). CADMEISTER assists Japan's production industries by offering the easy-to-use and smooth-to-implement 3D CAD/CAM system to the manufacturing workplaces who have been hesitant to install it because of the innate difficulty.
The Japan's high skilled engineers' expertise digitalized by Nihon Unisys Excelution's CAD/CAM development techniques and Digital Meister Project (*) conducted by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry improves the competitiveness of Japan's manufacturing industries extensively, from a personal office to a large corporation.

*Digital Meister Project
The official name is "Product Fabrication and IT Integration Promotion Technology". The objective of this project is to strengthen the Japan's "manufacturing ability" through developing and disseminating computer aided design and manufacturing systems equipping the expertise of Japan's high-skilled engineers and technicians.

CADMEISTER Concept
CADMEISTER provides "Customer-Oriented" services

Parting& cavity/core creation
CADCEUS provides powerful functions to create parting & core/ cavitiy
Mold base design
Futaba Standard Mold base is automatically generated by order code input, and user easily generates Customize Mold base type that is defined by user

The product designing
CADCEUS standard functions provide powerful shape modeling such as automatic
transition from surface to solid, application of draft angles and shape modification by taking shrink rate into account.

Mold flow Analysis
CADCEUS provides effective and functional solutions to the problems inherent in the injection molding design-to-manufacture cycle
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PlantSpace Design Series V8.x (c)Bentley

3D parametric equipment modeling
Bentley PlantSpace Equipment helps you create and edit mechanical equipment in a 3D environment. The system is built on powerful object-oriented technology, yet it is easy to use and customize. It provides parametric modeling and allows you to use existing equipment libraries, as well PlantSpace Equipment comes complete with mechanical equipment types commonly used in building and plant design (such as pumps, tanks and heat exchangers). A full selection of nozzle types also provides full connectivity to piping.
PlantSpace Equipment works seamlessly with other Bentley design and information management technologies and can integrate with your plant and business systems, making the most of your valuable information investments
PlantSpace Design Series software is a suite of 3-D design and modeling applications. This series is scalable to address the requirements at hand, whether a user is creating a small project, reusing an existing drawing, or designing an entire plant. A user can run a project independently on the desktop, or a work group can collaborate over a local-area network or global wide-area network, sharing a common plant model.
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