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 Magics

Premier Software for Additive Manufacturing Professionals

Drive efficiency throughout your entire AM process:

from importing data to preparing platform, to post processing

Import files Fix & prepare files Enhance & edit data Prepare your platform Print better parts

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 Magics16: Go with the flow
Tim Van den Bogaert
Product manager Magics

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 Introduction

Welcome and thank you for putting your trust in the new Magics: Magics 16.

We at Materialise keep on pushing our famous Magics software to deliver year after
year a new release which meets the expectations of our most critical users. This
new release is strongly oriented towards usability. Many users have send us
feedback the past years on issues which can make a big difference in their working
environment. We have bundled many of their suggestions to make this Magics
straightforward and easy to use. Next to that we keep on innovating and thinking
out new functionalities which we hope that they make your life more easy.

The next presentation will give you a thorough overview on the changes (big and
small) that we made for this release. So we hope you will enjoy this version of
Magics and that it enables you to run your AM/RP production environment in the
most efficient way.

Dr. Tim Van den Bogaert

Product manager Magics

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 Magics16 - Introduction

Magics16, optimizing your workflow:

25% 25%
functional new concepts
improvements

50%
usability !

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 Magics16 - General changes

The Magics flow:

Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
prep.

translated in the new menu structure:

Load your parts

Fix parts
Edit parts
Choose machine/technology

Machine/technology specific operations

Export your platform and parts

Reduces the extreme length of the old tools dropdown

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 Magics16 - General changes

• Rulers in Magics 16 show you in which order of

magnitude one is working. This can avoid
unnecassary work on small details

• Rulers can be turned on/off in Options > customize

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 Magics16 - General changes

•Popular operations are put behind the right mouse

button in the select part mode to speed up your
work.
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Make all your parts visible at once

with the ‘show all’ button in the part list
 Magics16 - General changes

Link to the “What’s new” presentation and the

manual (pdf) in the help section. A pdf can be
easier to retrieve the help information that one
whishes to acces.
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Option to send additional (e.g. license)

information for faster and improved
support

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 Magics16 - General changes

New licensing:
• The same for all Materialise products
• Local license user can automatically connect to our
servers to update their passwords when they expire.

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 Magics16 - General changes

A warning when Magics is going to be installed

on unsupported OS (e.g. win2000)
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• Renaming in Part List: Separated window for

renaming
 Multicore

• Hollow operation has changed to multicore.

• Shrinkwrap was changed to multicore.

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Magics16
Go with the flow

Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Import

Import almost any CAD format

New in Magics 15

Google SketchUp 7.0

JT Import

SolidWorks

ACIS

New in Magics 16

Google sketchup 8.0

.amf file format

All the other formats (almost any CAD format) from older versions are off
course still supported.
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Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Position

Positioning of parts

Easier manual positioning due to interactive

translate and rotate (also behind right mouse button)

Pull your object interactively in x, y or z. Rotate your object around x, y or z

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 Position

Positioning of parts

Rotate around a user defined line (for e.g. the design

of living hinges, …)
 Position

Positioning of parts

Auto-rotate your parts with the given criteria

• Minimize z-height for fast builds
• Minimize xy-area for optimal platform placement
• Minimize support surface to reduce finishing time
• Minimize max. cross section to avoid thermal stress

Combine criteria and find your optimal setting

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 Position

Improved picker performance

Improved picker performance for duplicated

virtual copies. This gives Magics a much
smoother feeling.
1. Pick’n’place
2. Measuring
3. Part selection
4. Moving annotation

Confidential!
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Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Fix

Fixing of parts

Wall thickness detail list:

Auto-zoom into a single problem area to
Detect the problem as fast as possible
 Fix

Fixing of parts

Surface to solid: make a complex second surface

which will help you to turn a surface into a solid
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Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Edit

Editing of parts

• Cutting previewer for polyline cut, circle cut, teeth cut

• Check cutting line from all sides and change if
needed

Prepare a cut Preview

 Edit

Editing

• Label parts:

• Auto part name:

Automatically put the part name
on the part
OR

• Remember last value:

E.g. for company names
 Edit

Editing of parts: prop generation

Strengthen your part when and where needed
(especially for sintering)
 Edit

Editing
optional
Protect your most fragile parts for shipping
with the formfit function

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 Edit

Editing

Notch in perforator to easily fit the plug

into the hole afterwards

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Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Build prep.

Build/platform preparation

• Collision detection with offset

• Only visualize parts which are in conflict

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 Build prep.

Build/platform preparation

Freely define no build zones (red zones)

Protect from building on top of screws

Protect “bad areas”

Heat sensor area
Overlapping laser areas

Stored in machine settings

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 Build prep.

SL technology: sintermodule
Smartspace to optimize your build volume

Added sortable columns with the density and the size of the
part when separating parts needing small or large spacings

Freeform & closed sinterboxes

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 Build prep.

Orientation tool

• Perform an analysis on your part(s) orientation

• Automatically calculate the optimal part orientation, based on
specific criteria such as Z-height, support surface, maximal
cross section and XY projection

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 Build prep.

New nest density report template

• allows analysis of the efficiency of your part nesting

• can be used with the reporting functions in Magics

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Magics16
Go with the flow
Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 Export

Export

New export platform screen

• Visualize your most important parameters
• Easy and direct access to settings
NEW !

Previous
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Export functionality

Optional collission (slide 35) & out of bounds

detection during export platform
• Avoid “forgetting” parts & bad builds
• Find the problematic parts in an easy way

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 Export

Advanced slice visualization

Scroll through the contours of a slice preview or evaluate a sliced file.

Use solid slices to evaluate “stair effects”. Hatchings can also be visualised.
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 Other features

1. Fix Wizard remembers shape when you

close/open Magics
2. Drag and Drop all file formats directly in
workspace
3. Import\Export .mgx consumes less RAM
4. When merge e-Stage support with Magics
support, there is no suffix _e appear
 Other features

• 5. Directory edit box is editable

• 6. Save as during unload in all supported formats
• 7. sort possibilities in part list
• 8. List of empty surface is created when pressing
manual support (faster than deleting all)
• 9. possibility to merge solid or non-solid supports
with parts

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 Conclusion

Magics16 is packed with new features to

optimize your workflow

Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

Go with the flow:

• check out our FREE Magics16 update webinars
• watch the tips & tricks video
• become a Magics expert and maximise your efficiency with
tailored Magics training

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 Advantages for customers with a maintenance contract:

• Excellent and elaborate support service:

• tutorials in the online manual
• ‘help’ function
• personal contact with our support team

• Access the Materialise Software User Community

• Training programs, organized by educational and software specialists,

will guide you to in-depth understanding of the software

• Free upgrades to new releases

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 Acknowledgements

• Many thanks to our supportive beta-testers. They

were crucial in meeting the “Magics” standard

• Enjoy our software !

• Please send comments or suggestions to your

nearest Materialise office (can be done from
Magics with the support request button)

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 Additional information

Magics 16: Supports e-stage 6.0

Go with the flow

Build
Import Position Fix Edit Export
Prep.

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 e-Stage: No-Support Zones

Install e-Stage 6.0 to use the feature.

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