PiXYZ PLUGIN : CONNECT ENGINEERING 3D DATA TO GAME ENGINES FOR NEW EXPERIENCES

PiXYZ PLUGIN

CONNECT ENGINEERING 3D DATA TO GAME ENGINES FOR NEW EXPERIENCES

 

GIVE LIFE TO CAD DATA WITH EFFORTLESS INTEGRATION IN UNREAL & UNITY

 

With PiXYZ PLUGIN, create ready-to-use assets with perfect tessellated meshes, limited polygon count, and automatic UV.

 

Our plugins for Unity3D and Unreal Engine are the perfect bridges for connecting the engineering & CAD worlds with the gaming world, and allowing effortless integration for creating new and powerful visualization experiences.

 

WORKFLOW

 

1. IMPORT ANY CAD MODEL

With PiXYZ PLUGIN, import a native CAD file (CATPart, SolidWorks, JT, STEP…) within Unity 3D or Unreal Engine.

 

Use PiXYZ powerful CAD import settings to obtain a ready-to-use asset: keep product hierarchy or merge objects, tessellation presets, LODs, UV creation, up-axis switch…

 

2. PREPARE YOUR ASSET

At import, access built-in tessellation presets to define mesh quality or create your own settings according to your optimization strategy.

 

Create LOD on-the-fly when tessellating your CAD model.

Automatically apply UV projection (channel 0) and UV flattening for baking (channel 1 Lightmaps) to your new mesh.

 

3. ENHANCE YOUR ASSET WITH ADVANCED TOOLS

Access advanced tools from the PiXYZ tab, for fine-tuning: UV re-generation and scale, change normals/faces orientation, decimation with our powerful trimming algorithm (available for PLUGIN for Unreal Engine only).

 

Not satisfied with a mesh? Re-tessellate it or recreate LODs on the fly (NURBS/CAD conservation).

 

A COMPELLING SOLUTION

 

FULLY INTEGRATED IMPORTER

PiXYZ PLUGIN is seamlessly integrated into your favorite game engine, with access to typical import options (combine, merge by material, LODs, collisions…)

 

CAD FORMAT COMPATIBILITY

Process any CAD model from industry-leading solutions (CATIA, NX, Alias, SolidWorks...), keeping the original product hierarchy

 

OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS

At import, models are automatically healed with CAD topology correction algorithms. Then PiXYZ Tessellator transforms them into high-quality meshes with optimum polygon count

 

IMPORT AT RUNTIME *

Use PiXYZ PLUGIN to load CAD models on-the-fly in a final built application (one file at a time, batch process not allowed, see FAQ and Product Terms & Conditions)

 

AUTOMATIC LOD GENERATION

Create LOD on-the-fly when importing a CAD model. They can be easily re-generated at any time (CAD data conservation)

 

AUTOMATIC UV CREATION (BETA)

Automatically apply UV Projection (channel 0) and UV flattening for baking (channel 1) when importing CAD models and get ready-to-use assets

 

* only available in PiXYZ PLUGIN for Unity

(PLUGIN for Unreal Engine coming soon)

 

POWERFUL FEATURES

Find out more about PiXYZ PLUGIN powerful and innovative features

 

PLUGIN WORKFLOW EXAMPLE

Here is a workflow example that shows how to easily import CAD models within Unreal Engine. And how to automatically obtain ready-to-use LOD with perfect meshes at optimum polygon count.

 

TESSELLATION

PiXYZ Tessellator creates high quality, low density meshes from almost any CAD model. It provides efficient and very fast tessellation, thanks to smarter organization of vertices. It results in a highly reduced and optimized number of polygons.

 

DECIMATION

PiXYZ trimming solution reduces the polygon density of a mesh by deleting vertices. It allows for precise control and perfect preservation of model topology, normals distortion and texture coordinates (UVW).

 

REPAIR FUNCTIONS

PiXYZ offers CAD and Mesh repair features, such as CAD topology correction, removal of duplicated faces/patches, face reconnection, polygon reconnection, normals/faces orientation unification, etc…

 

WHO IS IT FOR ?

 

Anyone who needs to easily bring CAD data coming from manufacturing collaborators or sharing platforms, into a game engine to create new virtual experiences: Interactive 3D developers, 3D artists, Marketing agencies, Engineering & manufacturing departments, Architecture firms,...

 

"With PiXYZ Plugin for Unity, I can now easily and direclty import and stage CAD models for real-time experiences"---T.W. 3D ARTIST