3D sketchingģD sketching has also seen some work, paving the way for the creation of more complex geometry. While you won’t get ‘final’ dimensions from this process, you’ll be able to explore function and form, then tie things down nicely with specific constraints. When geometry, such as a face or face-sets, is grabbed and dragged you not only see how the free parts move but also the system dynamically redesigns the geometry on the fly.

While this all pretty standard fare, what’s interesting is the way in which this functionality combines very nicely with SpaceClaim’s direct editing tools.Īs anyone who’s played with SpaceClaim will know, all manner of relationships and dimensions between parts can be set so they are essentially “locked”. This lets users define contact arrangements between parts (using tangency, ball joints and gear relationships) and then see how the mechanisms move. Generally applicable updatesįirst up, the team has integrated assembly mechanisms into the system. So let’s take a quick whirl, then revisit that “not a great deal” comment. But the reality is that the tools introduced in this release back up those already there, adding more power without introducing complexity, responding to some requests from customers and generally advancing On the surface of things, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the answer is “not a great deal” in comparison to many of the mainstream modelling tools.

Direct modelling of parts and assemblies occurs simultaneously in one environment. SpaceClaim 2010 features new 3D mechanism capabilities including gear and tangent placement conditions.

Spaceclaim 2020