Design8 bv is excited to announce the official release of solidThinking Suite 2016. Both Evolve and Inspire are renewed and both applications contain promising new features.
New Features
Evolve 2016 offers many improvements and additional features including:
Modeling from center - The Rectangle, Cube, Plane, PolyCube, PolyPlane Tools now have an option to construct from the center by holding down CTRL when selecting the tool.
Improved Loft & Sweep tools - The updated Loft and Sweep tools offer a new feature called Auto-alignment, which lets you use profiles for reference only. The profiles and rails don't have to intersect. It comes with extra parameters that let you fully control the position and orientation of each profile.
Improved Face Bridge tool - Evolve will automatically figure out the shortest bridge route, you no longer have to select the connecting points.
New Edge Creasing tool - It is now possible to determin the curvature of the surfaces for every edge in the polynurb model independantly.
New Intersect Curve tool - Simply select a bunch of curves and start picking segments to retain or delete. New entities will be created while the old curves remain in tact in history.
New Pause feature for IR and Final Rendering - Click the Render Mode button again to pause the realtime rendering of your model.
Automatic Floor - You no longer need to draw a face to act as a floor in your rendering to catch shadows and reflections. Simply check the ‘Floor’-option in rendering background options.
360° panorama render - You can now render out a panorama and also create your own HDRI image this way.
New IBL format support - Choosing an IBL image instead of an HDRI image will automatically place a high resolution background image in sync with the illumiation and reflection image.
New Snapping options - Two new snaps have been added: Snap to Intersections and Snap to Midaxis.
Snap to Endpoints, Snap to Midpoints, and Snap to Curves are now automatically activated when moving the Pivot point in the Translate, Rotate, and Scale tools.
Error Feedback - When some modeling tools fail, an error icon is displayed next to the object's name in the World Browser. Hovering over the object's name in the World Browser displays information regarding the error.
New Lock Camera option - You can now lock a view with the click of the mouse.
Interactive Background image controls - You can now move and rotate a background image directly in a model view window.
File Preview Image - A screenshot of the file is saved with the file for a quick preview in the operating system file browsers.
Official support for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and Windows 10
Create PolyNURBS - The new Create tool allows you to quickly create free-form solid geometry that is smooth and continuous.
Wrap - The new Wrap tool allows you to quickly generate polynurbs geometry by clicking along the contour of your existing shape.
Midsurface - The new Midsurface tool allows you to find and extract 2D sheets from single thickness thin solid geometry.
Mirror - The new Mirror tool allows you to reflect selected parts across a symmetry plane.
Scale - The new Scale tool allows you to resize selected parts.
Push/Pull - The updated Push/Pull tool allows you to create a new part by holding down the Ctrl or Shift key as you pull.
Section Cuts - The new Section Cut tool allows you to view 2D cross-sections of your model.
Enforced Displacements - The new Enforced Displacements tool can be used when the magnitude of a force applied to a part is unknown, but you do know how much the part displaces as a result of that force.
Angular Velocity and Acceleration - The new Angular Velocity and Accelerations tool allows you to define the speed of rotation of the entire model and the axis about which it rotates.
g-Loads - The new g-Loads tool allows you to simulate a model undergoing acceleration, which imparts a force on all of the parts in the model.
Temperature Loads - The new Temperatures tool allows you to simulate the effects of temperature changes on your model.
Buckling Analysis - You can now analyze your model for buckling modes, which are used to predict when a part will bend or collapse under load.
Compare - The new Compare tool allows you to compare the results of analysis or optimization runs.
PDM - Inspire now allows you to open models from Teamcenter or Windchill PDM systems. It’s also possible to save Inspire models back to your PDM system.
If you are convinced of the possibilities of solidThinking 2016, ordering is very simple. Place you order in our webshop and you will receive your license and downloadlink as soon as possible. Please see the following page for the most recent (upgrade) pricing for solidThinking.
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