What's New in OneSpace Designer Modeling 2005

Work in a modern, user-oriented environment

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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.
  • 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.
  • Real-time feedback is featured in the Patterns training.
  • 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.
  • Fast and advanced search using Ctrl F.
  • Find the latest shortcuts in the help under The design environment > Keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
  • Find help faster with an improved help system.
  • Click on Help > Help Topics in OneSpace Designer Modeling's main menu.

Create complex designs with powerful new tools

 

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:
 
    • Create and modify 3D curves with greater flexibility and control, using the new curvature continuous, tangential, fixed point, and other options.
    • Create or imprint a curve on a surface.
    • Create a fillet with a defined radius between two 3D curves. The resulting curve connects tangentially to the given edges.
    • Adjust two curves at a common point or merge them into a single curve.
  • Create complex faces easily with improvements to the Surfacing module:
 
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Create a surface using Cap without creating construction geometry—thanks to the new 3D CoPilots.
    • Create a chain of blend-like faces to connect two face part sets tangentially with Face Round.
    • 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.
  • A robust and easy to use new Surfacing feature is Guided loft.
    • Analyze the reflection behavior of surfaces and detect small surface defects with the Zebra Stripes analysis tool.
    • Improve smooth tangential connections between faces with Adjust Faces.
    • Trim multiple faces in a single operation.
  • Skin meshes with more options:
 
    • 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.
    • Check surface orientation with the Flip option. Use Flip with Gauss curvature surface analysis to see the analysis on both sides of the surface.
  • Also in the Skin lab.
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • Complete the Patterns self-paced training.
  • Extrude or Mill with a draft angle to create tapered faces.
  • Define a minimal face thickness when you adjust a taper in a blend.
  • Copy parts with Linear or Radial, adding the copies to the source assembly.
 
  • Import and export CAD data more easily, with support for more file types.
  • Find information about data adapters in the online help under Modules > Data Exchange.

Control and animate assemblies

 

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.
  • Read the new online help for Relations under Modules > Relations.
  • Create three new relation types: Cam, Rack, and Gear. These new types are only available with the Advanced Design License.
  • Easily create complex animations to demonstrate, analyze, and detect clashes in your designs with the new Animation module.

Document your designs

 

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.
  • Try it yourself by completing the Multi Unfold self-paced training.
  • Define docuplanes with greater control, and with a rotation angle and up direction.
 
  • 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.
 
  • Create and extend section lines with 3D Documentation to appear the same as in Annotation.
 

Create 2D drawings from your models with improved Annotation

 

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
 
  • Create standard dimensions with fewer mouse movements:
    • Right-click to change orientation.
    • Right-click to define directions for section line definition.
 
  • Ensure dimension stagger lines and breaks aren't lost when you modify geometry and dimension lines.

 

  • See accurate thread lines in aligned section views, not just in the normal view.
  • Use more plotter types and set more plotter and plotting settings.
  • 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.