ICEM-Surf-V4.7 (C) PTC

ICEM Surf provides breakthrough technology enabling users to produce world-class aesthetic products in today's competitive, global markets. Acknowledged as the premier system for the creation and development of Class A surfaces, ICEM Surf bridges the demands of aesthetic designers and production engineers from visualisation right up to tool and die designers.

The flexibility of ICEM Surf results in high-quality surfaces required in today's design environment, while substantially reducing overall design time. Product development teams using ICEM Surf leave the traditional process behind. ICEM Surf's integrated solutions enable users to implement a new, more efficient method of product development called Virtual Modelling. Stylists and engineers work out design treatments dynamically on screen and immediately see the aesthetic, as well as the engineering, implications of their ideas.

ICEM Surf also has special functionality to painlessly handle the input of digitised physical models. Surface models can be reverse engineered from ordered or unordered (point clouds) digitised data in a fraction of the time compared to other systems. Special diagnostic tools guide the user to form the correct balance between surface smoothness and adherence to the digitised data.

ICEM Surf supports the direct modelling techniques that optimise the update cycles in design and engineering. After creating an initial shape, the user can concentrate on developing the shape through Direct Modelling, operating on surfaces or even directly on scans (point clouds). As the scans or surfaces are directly manipulated, all diagnostics like cross sections or split lines are dynamically updated. With ICEM Surf you always see what you get.

By using ICEM Surf's Global Modelling function, whole detailed models can be modified in total – interactively and dynamically – giving the aesthetic designers an interactive tool to work out a design solution. With the new Unified Modelling approach, you can model all different kinds of entities with the same functionality, without even thinking about their geometric nature. Engineering can adapt structural surfaces to the modified aesthetic surface effortlessly through ICEM Surf’s Feature Modelling function.

And with simultaneous real-time analysis, you can monitor reflection lines, curvature, or deviation from reference data dynamically as you manipulate surfaces. This approach results in unparalleled surface quality and enables designers to converge on production quality surfaces in a fraction of the time that other systems would require for the same task.

Last but not least, ICEM Surf also takes you into Virtual Reality. The rendering module provides advanced rendering functions and photo-realistic images that give the designer a realistic view of the model for presentations and design reviews. You may use stereo mode for 3D visualisation of your CAD model, and real-time renderer for continuous assessment of your modifications in a realistic environment, while continuing to model the geometry.

Based on these techniques, ICEM Surf is the tool of choice in the automotive, tool and die, and product design industries where aesthetic design concepts must be implemented in harmony with product functionality. ICEM Surf allows the designer to create and visualise ideas freely. But most importantly, it allows an interactive environment for the collaboration of the designer and the product engineer. Through a comprehensive set of direct and standard CAD interfaces, ICEM Surf fits easily into any CAD environment.

With ICEM Surf, your product development teams can combine artistic style and engineering performance while developing fully feasible, aesthetic designs faster and with higher quality than with any other CAD system on the market today!

So ICEM Surf will lead to more efficiency if it is used as the platform system for freeform surfacing in any existing CAD/CAM environment.

With ICEM Surf, product styling is no longer held hostage by its engineering!