FEATURES
Sketch sections using
- lines, rectangles, datum lines and points
- circles, arcs of a circle, datum circles
- cubic Bezier segments, C2 interpolating splines
- text in a TrueType font, exportable as vectors
- trims to split lines and curves where they intersect
- tangent arcs, to fillet lines and curves
- line styles for stroke color, stroke width, fill color
- adjustable snap grid, for entities and text
- menu item, keyboard shortcut, or toolbar
- cut and paste, in plane and from workplane to workplane
- background image with specified scale, for ease of tracing
- 3Dconnexion six degree of freedom controllers
Constraints and dimensions on
- distance (or line length), point-line distance, diameter
- projected distance, along a line or vector
- angle, curve-to-curve tangency, parallel, perpendicular
- horizontal, vertical
- equal length, equal angle, equal radius, length ratio
- line length equals arc length
- point on line, point on circle, point on point, point on face
- point at midpoint of line, line's midpoint on plane
- points (or line) symmetric about line or plane
- 2d (projected into specified plane) and 3d geometry
- lengths in metric or inch units
- lengths entered as arithmetic expressions (32.6 + 5/25.4)
Build solid model with
- an extrude, lathe (solid of revolution) or helix from a sketch
- Boolean operations: union (add material), difference (remove material), intersection (leave only common material)
- parametric step and repeat (pattern), rotating or translating
- operations performed on either meshes or NURBS surfaces
Parametric and associative assembly
- link parts and drag them with six degrees of freedom
- link mirrored or with arbitrary scale
- place parts in assembly using constraints
- link surfaces, and merge them using Boolean operations
- link lines and curves, for 2d work or solid operations later
- changes in parts propagate automatically into assembly
Analyze with
- measurements on a part or assembly (of point coordinates, line length, point-point distance, point-face distance, projected distance, face-face angle, point-line distance)
- path traced by mechanism, exportable into a spreadsheet
- area of a plane sketch, volume of a solid shell
- degrees-of-freedom check to show unconstrained points in sketch
- interference check for assemblies
- "STL check" (vertex-to-vertex and not self-intersecting) for mesh
Export
- 2d vector drawing as DXF, EPS, PDF, SVG, HPGL, STEP
- toolpath as G code
- as either piecewise linear segments or exact curves
- wireframe model, hidden-line removed model, vector shaded surfaces
- isometric view, orthogonal view, user-specified other view
- section of solid model
- with cutter radius compensation
- with adjustable canvas size
- 3d wireframe as DXF, STEP
- triangle mesh as STL, Wavefront OBJ
- NURBS surfaces as STEP
- shaded view as bitmap