• Intuitive and easy-to-use tools enable you to quickly rotate, translate, resize and assemble parts.
• Extensive measuring capabilities can be used as an alternative to traditional paper drawings. Magics enables you to perform 2D and 3D measurements of distances, radii and angles based on planes, cylinders, axis, spheres etc.
• Cut-away views and cross sections can be generated to obtain a better understanding of the part.
• You can generate customised printouts to document features of the part.
• A free STL compression tool "STLzip" is available for download from Materialise website. By saving your work in a MGX file, you can compress STL files 10 to 20 times. This MGX format can be written and read by Magics.

Powerful STL Manipulation

Intelligent and powerful STL manipulation tools enable you to modify designs directly on the STL data:

• Parts can be cut along user defined paths, enabling you to produce large parts in different pieces. Offsets can be applied to make volumes from shells or to compensate for machining, painting, sandblasting,...
• Even parts with the most complex geometries can be hollowed. These parts are not only faster to build, but are also more accurate because less internal stresses are created during building.

STL Repair Many STL files contain flipped triangles, bad edges, holes or other defects that require repairing before they can be used. Dimension Magics provides unmatched means to interact directly on the defective triangles, allowing you to correct an STL file in a matter of minutes. Solve any problem without compromising the model thanks to the automated tools!
	Clear visualisation and information Dimension Magics has excellent visualisation tools for highlighting problems in STL files. Triangles with inverse normals, bad edges, gaps, etc are clearly indicated. In a blink of an eye you can see whether the STL file has flaws and where exactly the defects are located. Highlight bad contours to easily find even the smallest defects. Detailed STL analysis is available too, just perform a check of the properties. All information about the dimensions, number of triangles, number of bad edges, volume, number of shells, ... is generated by a single mouse click.
	Automatic repair Thanks to the use of intelligent algorithms, most STL repairing can be done automatically, which drastically reduces the time required. Flipped triangles and shells - with normals pointing in the wrong direction - can be inverted automatically. Magics determines the inside and outside of the part and then checks every triangle to see if its orientation fits this description. If not, the normal of the triangle will be inverted (picture 2).
	Bad edges - created by gaps between triangles - can be automati-cally stitched. Just indicate the desired tolerance and the number of iterations and with a single mouse click, Magics closes the gaps without exceeding the indicated tolerance. By stitching in iterations, you ensure that even the smallest details of your design are pre-served during stitching (picture 3).
	Automatic triangulation to fill holes and gaps is a real timesaver. One click... and the hole is filled! Even holes with a complex geometry or with multiple contours can be quickly filled using the advanced or freeform hole filling functions. These functions fill the hole according to the geometry of the surrounding area. In seconds complex holes are smoothly filled (picture 4). With Magics double surfaces are easily detected. While loading STL files you can also choose to remove identical triangles

Advanced manipulation

• At all times you can also manually repair defective or missing triangles. With a simple mouse click selected triangles can be deleted, normals can be inverted and new triangles can be created e.g. to fill gaps (picture 5).