Efficient Wireframe Geometry

• Multiple point and line creation techniques

• Efficient arc, circle, and fillet functions, including filleting at every corner in a chain of entities

• A variety of functions for creating splines on surfaces including surface projections, surface intersections, edge curves, slicing curves, and parting lines

• Create pre-filleted shapes to save time

Flexible Geometry Editing

• Change widths, styles, and colours globally or for a single entity

• Quickly modify parameters such as line length and arc radius after creation

• Fillet or chamfer corners easily

• Extend lines, arcs, splines, and surfaces

• Trim single or multiple surfaces with full undo capability

• Quickly translate, mirror, and scale (uniformly or with separate factors in X, Y, and Z)

• Offset entities by a given distance

Powerful Surface Modelling

• Create parametric and NURBS surfaces using loft, ruled, revolved, swept, draft, Coons patch, and offset creation methods

• Trim single and multiple surfaces to curves, planes and surfaces

• Easily extend and split surfaces

• Flexible surface filleting offers constant radius fillets and point-and-click variable radius fillets

• Automatic parting line calculation for mould making

• Create, edit, and manipulate realistically shaded surface models

Easy Drafting Tools

• One pick dimensioning

• Modify dimensional geometry and its dimensions automatically update

• Easily drag and place drafting notes as they are being created and change their attributes on the fly

File Management & Data Exchange

• Built-in data translators for IGES, Parasolid®, SAT (ACIS solids), AutoCAD® (DWG, DXF™ and Inventor) CADL, STL, VDA, and ASCII. Direct translators for STEP, Catia, and Pro-E® are also available

• Save a description of your files for easier browsing and loading

• View files before opening them

Selection Options

• AutoCursor™ snaps to commonly used points to simplify construction

• Smart chaining selects an entire chain of entities at once and automates other selection tasks

Analyzing Geometry

• Instantly analyze any entity for size, location, entity type, and other attributes

• Check the integrity of surface models and trimmed surface boundaries