24.12 LTS

Part Identification

Connection to CAD Environment

The latest enhancements to our Part Identification tool, is now fully integrated with PTC Creo. This update makes it easier than ever to streamline your Additive Manufacturing workflows directly from your preferred CAD environment.

Key Features & Capabilities:

• Ease File Transfer: Through our partnership with PTC, you can now send .PRT and .ASM files directly from Creo to Part Identification.

• Embedded Metadata Recognition: Automatically extract metadata such as part name, description, revision, department, assembly details, tolerances, sizes, and more to create parts effortlessly.

• Empower Designer to AM: Designers can now send parts for evaluation directly from Creo and quickly determine if their designs are suitable for AM technologies such as L-PBF, WAAM, and WLAM.

With integrated manufacturability checks—developed in collaboration with industry and academia (see https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYAagw) —designers can confidently optimize their creations for AM. This includes guidance on thin wall design, overhang limitations hole and printing orientation and more.

This new Creo integration enables faster iterations and smarter design decisions, bringing additive-ready parts to life.

Digital Inventory Management

Independent Price Setting for Catalog Parts Enables AMPI Customers

We've enhanced the flexibility of our Catalog module by allowing Catalog admins to define prices for parts independently of whether the 3YD ERP module is activated. This update enables a fixed price to be set for any catalog part, making it simpler to communicate expected costs to users upfront, regardless of their service selections or ERP usage. The system now maintains manually entered prices even when a service is later associated, ensuring pricing consistency. Additionally, all price displays and transactions will align with the user’s currency, streamlining the pricing process across different regions and services. This change supports more transparent and direct pricing strategies,

Quality Management & Machine Connection

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Performance

We were able to improve the overall performance and reliability of our Backend, leading to a significant reduction of page load times across the software. General page load time is reduced by up to 30%, with a reduction of up to 50% when multiple users are using the software simultaneously.

The algorithms that handle optimization and analysis of uploaded 3D files have been improved.
Newly supported features:

• STEP files with abbreviated entity names

• STEP files with a certain malformed header that several customers received from their clients

• ASCII STL files with empty lines or vertex coordinates close to zero

• OBJ files with missing texture file are now treated as unicolor

• Binary STL files produced by Meshmixer

Additionally, several small bugs were fixed, resulting in improved processing times, reduced memory consumption and fewer analysis errors.

Slightly reduced tessellation quality of triangle meshes created from parametric file formats which reduces processing time by up to 50% while keeping deviation of parameters like surface area and volume below 0.5%.

Analytics

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Administration Actions & Information

Updating Kurl.Sh

With release 24.12 we are updating our Kurl installer with a newer version of Kubernetes and updating most of the clusters’s components. Use this article to do the upgrade process.

Upgrade Kubernetes components(Kurl.sh)

Migrate to Metabase Serialization v2

Duplicated Analytics Dashboards

In some circumstances, Metabase may import some question in the wrong place, resulting in duplicates.

1. Find the duplicates:

   1. In Default Collection/Professional/Part Lifecycle Management, there can be 1 duplicate

   2. In Default Collection/Professional+/Part Lifecycle Management, there can be 3 duplicates

2. If any duplicate exists, archive the oldest duplicates.

   1. Hover with the mouse over the duplicates, and locate the progressive integer in their URLs. Example:
      Duplicate1: <domain>/analytics/question/1203-configured-parts-per-part-type
      Duplicate2: <domain>/analytics/question/1214-configured-parts-per-part-type

   2. Archive the one with the lowest index (in this example Duplicate1, because its url contains 1203)

Re-Analysis of 3D Files for new Manufacturability Checks

This is relevant for all AMPI customers who need a complete set of our new manufacturability checks of parts that had been created before updating to 24.12

In our new Manufacturability Checks Panel, existing parts might show an .

To resolve the errors, one must re-analyse the part in the Admin panel.

Re-Analysing all parts is also possible. It will require some time (hours) to finish and run in the background. To do so, follow the following steps:

• Open the Admin Panel (/admin/)

• Go to “Parts”

• Click on the top-left checkbox to select all parts on the current page

• Click on “Select all xxx parts” on the top right

• As an Action, select “Recalculate Geometries, Scores & Manufacturability Checks” in the dropdown

• Click Go

Configuration of the Tessellation Quality

Slightly reduced tessellation quality of triangle meshes created from parametric file formats. The old behavior can be restored by setting meshTessellationQuality: 0 in the values.yaml.

Changes to Machine Connectivity System Requirements

The 3YOURMIND Aggregator release v2.7.0 for Windows is the first to require Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 or higher (see also Machine Connectivity System Requirements).