Talk:ACIS
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Timeline
[edit]Would it be possible to include more details about the personalities and origins of ACIS in the main article? eg.
- Build1 - "In 1973, Brad completed thesis, to continue to stay in the CAD solid modeling technology, laboratory research, published several series of informative studies, and has developed Build1 and Build2 two new experimental system."
- Build2 - "Which was adopted in Europe Build2 into the latest structured programming language Algol 68."
- Buildx - "In the meantime, Brad and his mentor Charles Lang, classmate, Alan Grayer cooperation, to employ the Dutch Peter Veenman for market planning, in 1974 founded the Shape Data Corporation, with the Fortran language to develop the first generation of solid modeling product system Romulus, and the From 1978 onwards the market."
c.f. ACIS kernel and kernel context and comparison of parasolid
NevilleDNZ (talk) 06:27, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
COI - Updates to ACIS Page
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This page is currently outdated and needs some updates. I work for Spatial and want to disclose my Conflict of Interest as per Wikipedia policy. While I've read quite a few articles on this process, it is my first time contributing to Wikipedia. I've described the changes I'm proposing in text, below, and then posted my suggested edits- please advise if I should do this differently.
Change 1
In the summary table at the top of this page, it incorrectly indicates that the last stable release was "Version R25 / July 2014." This should be updated to "Version 2016 1.0 / September, 2015" [1]
Developer(s) | Spatial Corporation |
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Stable release | Version 2016 1.0
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Operating system | Windows 7 (and above), Mac OS X (Apple Computer) and Linux (Red Hat) |
Type | 3D modeler |
License | Proprietary software |
Website | www.spatial.com |
Change 2
In the "Supported Platforms and Operating Systems" section, the table should be updated to reflect current platforms/compilers:
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Supported Platforms and Operating Systems[edit]
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- Done by another user. Altamel (talk) 01:32, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Change 3
"PHL V5" has been replaced with "HLR." Also, as of September, 2015, there is a new ACIS Modeler Extension, CGM Polyhedra. I've added CGM Polyhedra to the extensions, below, and changed "PHL V5" to "CGM HLR"
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ACIS Modeler Extensions[edit]
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- Not done, need a citation for for CGM Polyhedra. Altamel (talk) 01:32, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Change 4
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Version Numbers and ACIS Releases[edit]ACIS is currently being developed by Spatial. They maintain the concept of a current version (release) number in ACIS, as well as a save version number. The save version allows one to create a SAT save file that can be read by a previous version of ACIS. Beginning with ACIS Release 4.0, the SAT save file format does not change with minor releases, only with major releases. This allows applications that are based upon the same major version of ACIS to exchange data without being concerned about the save version. To provide this interoperability in a simple implementation, ACIS save files have contained a symbol that accurately identified the major version number, but not the minor version. This meant that applications created using the same major version of ACIS would produce compatible save files, regardless of their minor versions. This was accomplished by simply not incrementing the internal minor version number between major versions. Beginning with Release 7.0, ACIS started again providing accurate major, minor, and point version numbers. Beginning with Release 2016 1.0 in September, 2015, Spatial updated to Semantic Versioning, and now describes versions by the model year and major, minor and point releases within that model year. To summarize how release numbers and SAT changes are related:
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Brianrohde (talk) 23:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Brianrohde. Some of your suggestions have been added to the article and others have been declined. Regards, Altamel (talk) 01:32, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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Explain Jargon
[edit]The lead paragraph mentioned "manifold and non-manifold topology" without providing an explanatory link. I've taken the liberty to link this to List of manifolds since at a cursory glance this seemed the least confusing of the manifold articles which I checked.
Now I know a fair bit about solid modelling in an engineering workflow, and I'm absolutely convinced that in this context it's possible to explain what "manifold and non-manifold topology" means in simple layman terms. Without resorting to stuff like "a topological manifold is a second countable Hausdorff space that is locally homeomorphic to Euclidean space." After all, the whole point of solid modelling is to represent real world geometries and not abstract mathematical concepts.
Can someone in the know please provide a simple understandable explanation, or at least link "manifold and non-manifold topology" to the appropriate article?
--BjKa (talk) 09:18, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Supported OS
[edit]It seems the latest ACIS Kernel does not support Windows 7 any more. I could not find official public documentation on the Spatial website, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.240.87 (talk) 07:55, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Version number outdated
[edit]The latest release is 2020 1.0.1: https://www.spatial.com/news/2020-1-0-1-Release — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.240.87 (talk) 07:57, 13 May 2020 (UTC)