While other applications in the design space get all the headlines and have the huge communities of users, PowerShape has differentiated itself over the last decade as a system that lets you wrangle geometry — all sorts of geometry.

Due to Delcam’s heritage in the manufacturing sector, PowerShape allows you to work with explicit surfaces and more recently with parametric solid geometry (it’s now even got the venerable Parasolid kernel built in). It’ll let you combine these with triangle or polygon data to create highly organic product geometry. Basically, if you can represent something with 3D geometry, PowerShape can handle it.

This, even in an industry over 30 years old, is a rarity. Essentially, it is one of the very few systems that lets the user work with the data they’ve got and the data they need to use.

Alongside this, Delcam has been carrying out some consolidation of its other design related tools into the PowerShape application over the last few releases.

While CopyCAD has been around for some time, bringing together a suite of tools for manipulating, fixing and working with scanned data, the Delcam team took the decision to introduce the same functionality into PowerShape Pro.

This trend continues in the 2013 release and it’s worth exploring further.