What's New in OneSpace Designer Modeling 2005
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Work in a modern, user-oriented environment
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Now you can...
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- Define a direction, point, vector, or axis with
on-screen 3D CoPilots. CoPilots reside right in the Viewport and replace
dialog boxes.
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- Preview your changes with real-time
Feedback. See changes on the screen as you work with the
Catch tool, patterns, 3D curves, surfacing, and
more.
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- Real-time feedback is
featured in the Patterns training.
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- Access most commands with only two clicks in the menu
panel on the right side of the screen. The menu panel is organized into
sections that you can expand and collapse, for faster access to frequently
used commands.
- Open toolbars that have been reconfigured with the
most commonly used commands, and you can still create your own toolbars.
- Select an item in the Structure
Browser the same way you select items in Windows Explorer.
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- Fast and advanced search using Ctrl F.
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- Find the latest shortcuts
in the help under The design environment >
Keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
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- Find help faster with an improved help system.
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- Click on
Help > Help Topics in
OneSpace Designer Modeling's main menu.
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Create complex designs with powerful new tools
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Now you can...
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- Create sophisticated 3D curves easier, with greater
accuracy, and more options. The original 3D Curves module is now part of
the standard OneSpace Designer product and includes the following
improvements:
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- Create and modify 3D curves with greater flexibility
and control, using the new curvature continuous,
tangential, fixed point, and other options.
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- Create or imprint a curve on a surface.
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- Create a fillet with a defined radius between two 3D
curves. The resulting curve connects tangentially to the given edges.
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- Adjust two curves at a common point or merge them
into a single curve.
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- Create complex faces easily with improvements to the
Surfacing module:
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- Generate a face part by extruding edges in a
specified direction. You can even use non-planar edges to create
extruded surface with a draft.
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- Create solid parts from face parts using
Extrude face parts and the Vector 3D CoPilot.
You can even specify a draft angle to create a taper on the part.
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- Create a surface using Cap
without creating construction geometry—thanks to the new 3D CoPilots.
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- Create a chain of blend-like faces
to connect two face part sets tangentially with Face
Round.
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- Create a surface with Guided Loft
by moving one or more profiles along a spine and birail curve or curves.
Guided Loft combines Sweep
and Loft without the need for multiple
workplanes.
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- A robust and easy to use
new Surfacing feature is Guided loft.
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- Analyze the reflection behavior of surfaces and
detect small surface defects with the Zebra Stripes
analysis tool.
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- Improve smooth tangential connections between faces
with Adjust Faces.
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- Trim multiple faces in a single operation.
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- Skin meshes with more options:
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- Skin meshes that contain curves for one direction
only, without an intersection of curves. Turn on the
Smooth option to create a tangentially smooth connection between
the boundaries of the new surface and an existing surface.
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- Check surface orientation with the
Flip option. Use Flip
with Gauss curvature surface analysis to see
the analysis on both sides of the surface.
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- Improve surface quality with
Optimization. Check connections between a skinned surface and
neighboring surfaces. Use Preview or
Surface Analysis to
analyze the result of the optimization.
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- Create patterns from features with greater control and
flexibility. Pattern functionality has been unified and enhanced across
all modules. Now you can modify and delete all types of patterns, too.
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- Complete the
Patterns self-paced training.
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- Extrude or
Mill with a draft angle to create tapered faces.
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- Define a minimal face thickness when you adjust a
taper in a blend.
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- Copy parts with Linear or
Radial, adding the copies to the source
assembly.
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- Import and export CAD data more easily, with support
for more file types.
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- Find information about
data adapters in the online help under Modules >
Data Exchange.
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Control and animate assemblies
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Now you can...
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- Define Assembly and
Parametric relations from separate menus. These
two new menus include all the functionality available with the Dynamic
Relations menu in previous releases, with additions to the Assembly
Relations menu.
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- Read the new online help
for Relations under Modules >
Relations.
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- Create three new relation types:
Cam, Rack, and Gear.
These new types are only available with the Advanced Design License.
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- Easily create complex animations to demonstrate,
analyze, and detect clashes in your designs with the new
Animation module.
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Document your designs
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Now you can...
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- Automatically create an entire set of production-ready
documents for sheet metal parts in just three clicks with
Multi-unfold.
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- Try it yourself by
completing the Multi Unfold
self-paced training.
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- Define docuplanes with greater control, and with a
rotation angle and up direction.
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- Customize generic text labels with the same
characteristics as 3D Notes: use the same categories, attach a reference
file or url, and include generic text labels in the structure browser and
custom feature reports.
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- Create and extend section lines with 3D Documentation
to appear the same as in Annotation.
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Create 2D drawings from your models with improved Annotation
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Now you can...
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- Quickly create and modify dimensions without leaving
the command with:
- Actual dimension feedback.
- Re-attachment of dimension reference points.
- Reposition the dimension during creation. Simply
click the dimension and reposition it before you click

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- Create standard dimensions with fewer mouse movements:
- Right-click to change orientation.
- Right-click to define directions for section line
definition.
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- Ensure dimension stagger lines and breaks aren't lost
when you modify geometry and dimension lines.
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- See accurate thread lines in aligned section views,
not just in the normal view.
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- Use more plotter types and set more plotter and
plotting settings.
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- Other enhancements include
- Keep Annotation text attributes and positioning even
after View Update.
- Support for face parts.
- Improvements in Symbol Handling.
- Improvements in the transfer of 3D documentation to
Annotation.
- Multiple copies of text, symbols and geometry have
been simplified.
- View Dimension Text as you move it.
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