The newly released SAi EnRoute 5.1 software package includes more than two dozen new productivity enhancing features and improvements, including new import filters, additional nesting options for the Automatic Toolpath Processing (ATP) option and new Parametric Textures.
Thanks to an expanded range of import filters, SAi EnRoute 5.1 users benefit from improved compatibility with a variety of popular CAD programs. SAi EnRoute 5.1’s AutoCADDXF/DWG import filters now accommodate current AutoCAD objects, while both the Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat import filters have been updated to support current and legacy AI and PDF files, now supporting the import of layers.
In addition, SAi EnRoute 5.1 features support for Caldera digital registration and contour cut as well as improved Onyx XML import.
The new SAi EnRoute 5.1 can also take in Wavefront 3D OBJ files, a file format for exchanging three-dimensional designs between 3D graphics applications.
SAi EnRoute 5.1 brings two new texture tools to design and create textures to apply to a 3D surface. The new Flow Texture produces a 3D surface with the random characteristics of a flowing fluid and the Phase Texture generates a distinct sequence of recurring waveforms. Each of these textures can be used as defined or further refined to achieve the precise texture the user is looking for.