MERGE provides an automatic, fast and robust solution for merging and repairing CAD surface meshes.

In the industrial environment CAD software, like CATIA, NX, or ProE, is used to create virtual model data of industrial structures. A logical implication is to use this data as input to subsequent stages, like CAE software applications.

However, such a simulation software often has a high demand on the quality of its input data. Most of the CAD meshes do not conform to this quality and a lot of “rework by hand” is necessary to make the geometry data proper. In case of complex structures, e.g. full Body In White, it can take months of man power.

Our software MERGE is the solution for the above mentioned time problem. Consequently its usage reduces the costs. It is an automatic preprocessing tool, which takes erroneous CAD data (triangulated surface meshes) and turns them into well defined meshes suitable for a wide range of simulation applications, e.g. for the simulation of the dip painting process with our software ALSIM.