SpaceClaim Release Notes. SpaceClaim SP2. Release Notes

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1 SpaceClaim SP2 Release Notes

2 Table of Contents Table of Contents... 2 SpaceClaim Enhancements Overview... 3 SP2 Items... 4 SP1 Items... 5 Changes to default settings and behaviors Graphics/UI General Detailing Datums Pull Move Fill Mirror Patterns Standard Holes Combine Prepare Repair Sheet Metal Sketch Measure Import/Export STL Editing Journal Tab ANSYS Welcome Screen Multi-touch Add-ins... 67

3 SpaceClaim Enhancements Overview This release introduces significant new capabilities for manufacturing, simulation, concept development, and mesh remodeling. These enhancements will help all engineers work more effectively in 3D, without the high cost and complexity of traditional CAD. New capabilities in SpaceClaim include: Numerous enhancements for manufacturing workflows, including connections to Mastercam and Esprit, new annotation types like weld symbols, machinist-friendly measuring and positioning, broken and broken out section views, and advanced sheet metal capabilities such as formed bends. New tools to work with mesh and STL data, such as the ability to compare a mesh to a solid, improved section curve fitting, plane and cylinder fitting, mesh splitting, and improved selection and coloring. Major improvements to core modeling, including significant performance improvements, radial move, curve filling, structure search, section properties, and XYZ-based move. SpaceClaim is certified for Windows 8. New language support for Polish, Czech, and Portuguese, bringing the total number of languages supported by SpaceClaim to 12, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, as well as Traditional and Simplified Chinese. The production release of version 10 of the SpaceClaim API, including mesh support, animation handlers, custom window support, the ability to replace panels, asynchronous threading to update custom objects in the background, and the ability to add custom items to the structure tree. As previously announced, built-in, free PDM using Microsoft SharePoint

4 SpaceClaim SP2 Release Notes SP2 Items Support has been added for MS Surface Pro tablet PC s by adding system awareness of the pixel density (DPI). Mini-toolbars have been added for sheet metal thickness edges and side faces. Thickness edge mini-toolbar: Side face mini-toolbar: When measuring Draft in the Measure tab, you can now set the Draft Direction using the World Origin. For selected component patterns, there is now an Unpattern command in the RMB menu. The Use matching SpaceClaim documents for faster export option is now disregarded for manufacturing integrations. It is located in the General page of SpaceClaim Options under Import options. This option, is intended to speed the import of very large assemblies by saving the part files on disk as they are read. In the manufacturing use case, you want to prevent SpaceClaim from importing the old version of a file that has been overwritten with the same name but different (manufacturing) geometry. You can now access and download models from the Cadenas website using a new button in the Insert group > File menu (not to be confused with the former Application menu which is now labeled as File). Unlike TraceParts, you cannot insert Cadenas models directly into SpaceClaim. The File menu allows you to access their website, where you can select and download files onto your computer. You can download models in any of their supported formats. The button links to:

5 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes SP1 Items You can now create a Full Round (if possible) when modifying an existing round by pulling in the opposite direction. Previously, this only worked during the initial creation of the round. You can now modify a toroidal round attached to a sphere using the Pull tool. An example of this case is shown in the image to the right. The Pull tool now succeeds in cases where changing a round radius will consume interior faces. An example is shown below. Corner transitions in Fillets can now be changed to other types with Select and Pull mini-toolbars. The other types are: Sweep Around Corner Sweep on Miter Corner Chamfers can now be pulled up to Mesh vertices in the same way that rounds can.

6 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes You can now add a Pull and Draft angle to a group and apply it to future Pulls. Move performance has been significantly improved. In general, cases where neighboring faces for the Move operation have many internal loops (depressions, protrusions) will see performance improvement. Radial Move now allows Ctrl+drag copy. Copied faces (using Ctrl+drag) now retain their attributes, like color and thickness. You can now pattern Custom Objects and Notes. Dimension-driven editing has been improved. Previously, some modifications would not work because the system was attempting to reach zero error (within modeling accuracy). Now, if the result is within a relatively small tolerance (0.1 degrees for angular values and 0.1mm for linear) a message will be shown with the actual result reached, to 8 decimal places. The Measure tool button and the E shortcut now invoke the Measure tool the same way in all contexts. They also do not allow setting up driving measurements. Only the Measure button in the option panels for the Pull and Move tools allows for setting up driving measurements. There is now a Copy button in the Measure tool text box. Hovering over a measurement value shows a copy button to copy the value. The earlier behavior of copying the entire measurement popup text to the clipboard, is retained (unless overridden, as stated, with the button).

7 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes Deviation tool enhancements: Added checkbox in the Options panel to turn off Target body display. The Ctrl key is no longer required for the two selections, making it consistent with the always two selection tools like Midsurface and always many selections like Volume Extract. If Ctrl is pressed, it is ignored. Added body deviation analysis sampling GUI. Added a Swap Source/Target button. Added sample point display type. Added progress bar and interrupt capability for the Mesh Deviation tool. Double-clicking on a non-planar, non-filleted face now selects ALL tangent faces. Previously, it selected faces out to some arbitrary limit. You can now search the Structure Tree with Ctrl+F. The following options are available: Look in Match case Match whole word Search up Zoom to fit Wildcard and Expression search methods Switches to search the Whole Document or the Active Component Notes are now shown in the Structure Tree. Like curves, notes can live in datum planes or drawing sheets. Unlike curves, they do not live directly in a part. So, in a part, you will not see a Notes folder. The note contents have nothing to do with the name of the note in the structure tree, despite appearing so in the image. The More notes node expands in place to show unnamed notes.

8 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes In a drawing sheet, just like curves, there is a Notes folder. When splitting a Mesh, there is a new option that lets you cap the split mesh with a planar mesh piece. Mesh options in the Split Body tool are disabled if the design does not contain any mesh objects. Vertex quick drag of whole bodies now only works when the vertex being dragged was pre-selected prior to the drag operation. Previously, you could accidentally and unknowingly drag when boxselecting. The Mesh paint selection radius setting has been moved to the Options>Selection panel. Previously, it was in the lower status bar s Selection popup dialog. Specular Highlight has been added to Object Export by default. This allows exporting from SpaceClaim to SketchFab, which expects certain values in the material file (.mtl).

9 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes Bend Up behavior now allows selection of Radii from a set of table-driven values. The table is an extension of the current Bend Table format (.csv file) and is applied to the part like a normal Bend Table. The data type for the new table is DataType Radius. Normal Bend table data is DataType Compensation. The.csv file can contain Radius data, Compensation data, or both. An example of Radius data is shown to the right. For each combination of thickness and vee die width, there is a table within the file that provides the actual radius based on tool radius and angle. In the example, the yellow cells are the tool radius, blue cells are the angle, and the green cells are the actual radius applied to the geometry. The radius table only effects creation of the bend. Once it is created, the actual (table lookup) radius is stored on the bend. There are no restrictions to prevent the user from changing the radius after creation. This also means that disconnecting the table will have no effect on existing bends. To accommodate this change, there have been some changes to Sheet Metal Options. A Die width dropdown list has been added to the options panel. The Bend radius text box is dynamically changed to a dropdown list and labeled Tool radius if the following conditions are met: o One or more edges of a sheet metal part are selected o The selected edge is in a part which references a bend table file o The bend table file contains a table that matches the part s thickness and selected vee die width

10 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes There are also changes to the Sheet metal Bend tool. The Bend radius text box is changed to a dropdown list list and labeled Tool radius when the following conditions are met. o The tool is in Bend creation mode o A bend preview is placed on a face by clicking on an edge o The selected face is in a part which references a bend table file o The bend table file contains a table that matches the part s thickness and selected vee die width There is now a Snap to grid checkbox in the options panels of the Form tools. Bends with complex end conditions can now be created. An example is shown below. You can now Move and Pull walls with multiple split Hems. An example is shown below.

11 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes A warning message is now issued for Bend Up requests that cause walls to clash. In the example below, the result produces a non-manifold edge. In the Status Log, you will see the message: Body may be selfintersecting or non-manifold. Faceted bend areas are now identified and fixed automatically in the Convert tool. You can now Reverse a patterned single Tab. You can now Pull an edge consisting of only a single arc into a Flange form that can be Flattened.

12 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes We added the ability to Identify Corner Reliefs with a new tool guide in the Identify tool. Conical bends with multiple bend steps now unfold correctly. Performance of Conversion to Sheet metal has been enhanced dramatically for parts with many offset faces (internal regions) that are not thickness faces. Pulling a full edge and a partial edge together has been disallowed. Converting sheet metal parts with many holes in the faces is now 80X 100X faster. Thru, blind, non-countersunk, and non-counterbore holes can now be placed on arbitrary planes with a preview projected onto the nearest solid face. This is useful for placing Standard Holes on non-planar faces. However, only the geometry is created. No hole object is created and it cannot be modified as a Standard Hole. Weld Symbols can now be placed on vertices. When the boundary of a Broken-out Section view is selected, we now show a depth dimension. Visible immediately after the view is created Labeled Depth Driving dimensions are now editable in the drawing sheet via the Spark icons.

13 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes Moving many lines at once in a Drawing, or as Layout Curves, has been optimized, and is many times faster. When under 1000 Curves are box-selected, a ghost image of the old location is shown. When Layout Curves are single-selected or greater than 1000 curves are box-selected, the curves are just moved without a ghost image to save resources. Curves that are inordinately segmented now made mathematically more efficient when first created in SpaceClaim. Sketch curves on drawing sheets can now be patterned using the Move tool. Secondary selections are now ignored if they produce curves that leave the drawing sheet or notes that leave the annotation plane. An example is shown to the right. You can now enter Latin-based characters that require the ALTGr modifier key in dimensions and notes. AltGr is alternate graphic layout with the right Alt key to enter extra characters for languages like German, French, Polish, Czech, etc. Notes on drawing sheets can now be patterned with the Linear Pattern and Circular Pattern tools. When creating Mating conditions, the object-action and action-object workflows now behave the same way. Animation is shown in both cases and does not produce jumping. Animation for both can be turned off with the Animate Full Pull option. Objects inside and outside components may be aligned in both cases. Performance of the Make Independent function has been improved. A progress bar has been added to the Externalize and Make Independent functionality. Tangency indicators have been added to the Fit Curves tool. The Stitch, Gaps, and Missing Faces tools now have a popup progress bar. Mid-planes can now be made between non-parallel solid faces. Points lying on faces now transfer to ANSYS as embedded vertices.

14 SpaceClaim SP1 Release Notes In the SpaceClaim Options, the General page of File Options now has a switch to import Structure Only for JT files. The switch is located under Use lightweight assemblies for imported documents. We now allow import of PCX bitmap image files. OBJ import has been added. Multi-threaded import for JT is now supported. The Assembly Structure Only option now works for JT files In SpaceClaim options, there is a new Export>Version option for Rhino. Support has been added for INTCURVE, STRAIGHT, COEDGE types in SAT file import. The SpaceClaim Standalone Viewer now takes advantage of DirectX V11, if it is present in your graphics board. You can now drag and drop OBJ files to open them in the Viewer.

15 Changes to default settings and behaviors Selection has been updated as follows: Ctrl+Drag area select (box, lasso, polygon) has been modified to remove objects only if a previously-selected object is in the area. If not, objects within the area are added to the selection. For Drag selection (box, lasso, polygon), Ctrl+Shift+Drag is now equivalent to Ctrl+Drag. So, Ctrl+Shift+Drag will no longer toggle all objects. For click-selection in the Find and Fix tools, Ctrl will toggle selection and Shift will add to selection. Ctrl+Drag selection of meshes has been made consistent with other objects. Any previouslyselected facets in the area are removed and un-selected facets are added to the selection. Ctrl+click on a selected mesh facet will now toggle selection of the area. Previously, the Ctrl was ignored and the selection was replaced. In the Selection section of SpaceClaim options, Show previous selections is now Off by default. We had initially thought this would have helped you make repeated changes to previously-selected model faces and edges. Expert SpaceClaim users may have gotten used to this and keep it on, though we have found that new users can be confused by this behavior. In the Selection section of Advanced SpaceClaim Options, Select edge loops using mouse scroll wheel is now enabled by default.

16 Graphics/UI The default Windows UI style has changed to Office 10, Scenic style. It was Fluent, Office 2007 style. The first image below is the new Office 10, Scenic style and the second is the old Fluent, Office 2007 style. The left is the new and the right is the old in the images below. The image on the left is the new File menu. The image on the right shows the Window menu invoked by clicking on the SpaceClaim logo.

17 There is now a radial menu for the Split tool on the Display tab. To view the new radial menu 1. Open the Display tab 2. Hold the LMB and click the RMB to open the radial menu 3. Click the center of the radial menu The Lightweight Component transparency control has been moved from the status bar to the Show drop-down menu in the Display tab of the ribbon. There is also a button to shut off opacity altogether, thus making it consistent with the Color controls. The drag-selection buttons (Rectangle, Lasso, and Paint) have been added to the Status Bar. Here, they set the persistent area selection mode. The button image displays the current mode. You can cycle through the modes without opening the menu with successive clicks of the button. Changing the mode in the Selection fly-out is temporary and will reset to the persistent box selection method (in the Status bar) immediately after a selection is made. The default tool guide position has been changed to Left. There is a new Selection section in SpaceClaim Options. Selection related options that used to be in the Advanced section have been moved to the Selection section. In the Navigation section of SpaceClaim options, speed sliders have been added to Zoom and Spin. Spin speed has also been slowed a bit for usability.

18 Search has been added to the Structure Tree using Ctrl+F only. The Default highlighting scheme is now the actual default scheme for highlighting objects. This is the one that shows selected faces/objects brightened and slightly sandy in texture. SketchUp Hidden Geometry has been moved from an Import option to the Show drop-down in the Display tab. It has also been renamed Soft. Soft geometry refers to the soft edges from tessellated curved faces. The display of SketchUp specific edges is turned ON by default. The context menus for conical and cylindrical Sheet Metal objects, Standard Holes, and Pattern members have been made consistent with other design bodies. The following commands have been added. Hide Hide Others Show Locate in Structure Tree The default naming scheme for exploded groups has been changed to <Original name>.1, <Original name>.2, etc. For example: 1. Start with a group containing three faces. 2. Right-click on it and select Explode. 3. Three groups are created each containing a single item. A shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+G) and a SpaceClaim option have been added to toggle showing RMB+drag mouse gestures. Zoom Extents works on selected Mesh triangle faces.

19 Clip Scene Above Grid and all Planar Graphics Clipping now clips 3D curves and layout curves. This also applies when Lineweight is ON. This is very useful if you work with large numbers of 3D curves. You can now have an unobstructed view of curves on the current sketch plane. Working with files containing a large number of curves (such as imported DWG/DXF) has been made up to twenty times faster. Specifically, Spin, Pan, and Zoom is faster and operations such as box-select and toggling curve display in the Structure Tree. General Solids, Planes, Axes, and Origins can now be deleted from the RMB menu in the design window. Previously, you could only delete a solid from the Structure Tree which was difficult when working with a large assembly. You would have to locate the solid in the Structure Tree and then delete it. This is now consistent with Surfaces. There is now a Meshes option in the Selection filter to ease working with Mesh objects (STL files). The Component and Invert Selection RMB menu items now exist for all objects. Previously, this worked on all objects except Standard Holes and all Sheet Metal objects. For Standard Holes, Sheet Metal objects, and all objects with association, Invert Selection works on the faces belonging to those objects. In Converter.exe, the File filter in the Model Input and File Type in the Model Output drop down menus has been alphabetized. There is now an option called Power Selection relative tolerance which allows you to input a tolerance value for finding edges of the same or very similar length. Previously, if edges were almost the same length but not exactly the same length, power selection would not detect them. Another benefit of this change is that at large enough tolerances, edges of different types can be detected. You can now create patterns of Datum Planes and Axes with the Linear Pattern and Circular Pattern tools.

20 The accuracy for partial pick-box selection has been improved for circles, ellipses, and spline sketch curves. Now you can select these objects by partial pick-box when you have only selected a small segment of the curve. Previously, you had to select a point in between the segments of the curves in order to select the entire curve object. Selecting components in the Structure Tree, or design window, then copying and pasting them into a new design now retains the structure tree order. Copying and pasting assembly components now works correctly in the following cases: Selecting a component then copying and pasting creates a dependent copy Selecting a body then copying and pasting creates an independent copy In sketches, Create rounded corners now works in an Object-Action workflow. Detailing There is now a Weld Symbol tool in the Annotation group on the Detailing tab. The basic operation for weld symbol creation is to build up the symbol, adding progressively more detail; while the UI adapts intelligently to the options available based on the previous choices. There are two standards: AWS and ISO. The AWS standard follows the specification titled AWS A2.4:2007 Standard Symbols for Welding, Brazing, and Non-Destructive Examination. The ISO standard follows ISO 2553:1992 (E) Welded, Brazed and Soldered Joints Symbolic Representation on Drawings p. 193 of ISO Drawings. SpaceClaim defaults to AWS (American Welding Society). This setting can be changed in the Annotation options in the General Detailing options independent of the standard chosen for font. There are tooltips for every place possible to input a value or symbol. Box-selecting the entire Weld symbol will show all the possible places to input values. Weld symbols can be created and edited while in the Welding Symbols tool. There are two sides to every reference line, the arrow side and the other side. In AWS standards the arrow side is always on the bottom. There is a dotted identification line for ISO standard weld symbols.

21 To create a Welding Symbol: 1. Click the Welding Symbol tool in the Annotation group on the Detail tab. 2. Click to place the arrow 3. Click to place the Reference line. a. You can add and move a Jog Point to a Weld Symbol leader while in the Weld Symbol tool. RMB click on the Weld Symbol leader to display this option. b. You can now press the Esc key after you have begun to place the Weld Symbol leader to delete the leader and cancel the command. 4. Once the reference line is placed, click the reference line to display the Reference line mini toolbar. From left to right, top to bottom, the tools are as follows: Weld all around, Field weld (3 options), Swap arrow and other sides, Joint with spacer, Show tail even if reference is not used, Add welding symbol reference line, and Add welding symbol leader. 5. Click in the text blocks on either side of the reference line to add a Weld Symbol. 6. Once you have chosen a Weld Symbol a variety of other options are available. Weld Symbols can have multiple leaders. Once the last leader is deleted, the Weld symbol is also deleted. You can Ctrl+drag to create a copy of a Weld Symbol. Newly inserted Welding Symbols are placed in the current Active layer. Exploded Views functionality now works with the Fulcrum tool guide in the Move tool. Arc Length dimensions can now be imported from AutoCAD. Drawing sheets which contain Hole tables without an origin (meaning one without X and Y dimensions, since there is no dimension reference for the chart so it shows only the hole information (radius or hole note)) are now correctly exported to AutoCAD files. RealDWG has been fixed so that dimensions are attached to reference geometry on import. Previously, this was one of the only differences between RealDWG (from AutoCAD and OpenDWG (now called Teigha)).

22 Centering imported data There is now an option called Center imported data for dwg/dxf files in the AutoCAD file options. This is useful when importing AutoCAD files which have models positioned outside of the SpaceClaim modeling range (+/- 1km). Re-centering is defined as moving all imported data starting from the center of the imported data bounding box and moving it to the world origin (at coordinates 0,0,0). This option is ON by default. If the imported AutoCAD model is positioned outside of the modeling range and the option is ON, then SpaceClaim will attempt to fit the imported data into the modeling range by re-centering the model. You then receive the following information message: "Imported data was outside of the modeling range of SpaceClaim and was re-centered. Disable the Center imported data option in File Options / AutoCAD if you want to prevent re-centering." If the imported AutoCAD model is positioned outside of the modeling range and the option is OFF, then SpaceClaim will import the data without modifying it. You then receive the following information message: "Imported data is outside of the modeling range of SpaceClaim. Enable the Center imported data option in File Options / AutoCAD to attempt to translate imported data into the SpaceClaim modeling range." If the imported dwg/dxf file is not positioned outside of the modeling range - then SpaceClaim will handle data as before. There are new RMB options for Notes called Attach Notes and Detach Notes. These options allow you to attach notes to each other. The note you select first is the parent note (highlighted in light blue) and any other notes you select after that are the children notes (highlighted in dark blue). Select two or more notes then RMB click and select the Attach Notes option. After attaching, selecting the parent note makes all other notes move with it, however selecting a child note moves that particular note individually. RMB click an attached note and select the Detach Notes option to make the note independent. There are several tools on the Detail tab which have note fields. For example, Surface Finish symbols, Datum Targets, Datum symbols, notes within a Symbol, Dimensions, and Weld symbols are a few tools which have note fields that you can use to attach to. Any notes can be attached to any other notes but Dimensions can only act as parent notes because dimensions are attached to the model.

23 Symbols can now be inserted into the Model space on a drawing sheet. There is a new option called Creation that allows you to choose between Creating the Symbol in Model space and Creating the Symbol in Paper space. The Cosmetic>Space property for Symbols allows you to change how each individual Symbol insertion behaves as to scale and visibility. Previously, each insertion was linked to the symbol definition Cosmetic>Space property and could not be controlled individually. For each insertion, you can set the property to any one of the following values: Same as original uses the value of Cosmetic>Space property of Symbol Definition. View space makes the insertion dependent on the Sheet Setup>Scale of the design window, which means changing the sheet scale changes the scale of the insertion. It also makes it invisible inside drawing views. With this setting the insertion is said to be behaving more as an annotation object and less as a model space object. Model space makes the insertion independent of the Sheet Setup>Scale of the design window, which means changing the sheet scale does not change the scale of the insertion. It also makes it visible inside drawing views. With this setting the insertion is said to be behaving more as a model space object and less as an annotation object. To insert a symbol in Model space: 1. Create a Symbol then click the Symbol you want to insert 2. Check the Creation option radio button Create in model space 3. Hover over a view on the drawing sheet; you will see an annotation plane highlight 4. Click to select the view you want to place the symbol in; you will see that the view adjusts according to where you place the symbol 5. Click to place the symbol; go back into your original design to confirm that the symbol exists in model space There is now an option called Hidden Components for BOM s in the properties panel. There are two options: Include and Do Not Include. Include is the default. If you have it set to the Do Not Include option, components which are hidden will not be displayed in the BOM.

24 The leader of a Datum Symbol can now be attached to a GTOL frame. When adding text to a basic dimension, you can place the text outside the dimension box. Previously, text was added inside the box and there was no way to place it outside. Circular pattern centers have been added to the list of allowable Hole Table coordinate system origins. The table is placed in the annotation plane orientation. Previously, bolt hole patterns could not be dimensioned in tables. A crosshair has been added to the Hole Table center if the center is an axis of a Bolt Circle.

25 The Merge Cells command has been disabled in BOM s and Hole Tables. You can now create broken views. To create a Broken View: 1. Select the Broken command in the Detail tab. 2. Set the following options (remembered for the entire session): a. Cut Direction Horizontal, Vertical, or Aligned to Geometry b. Break Line Straight line or a spline sketched by the user c. Default Gap Specifies the initial gap between broken view pieces after the break is added 3. Pick a location for the first cut line. A blue line pre-highlights the current cut location. If Cut Direction is Aligned to Geometry, the cut orientation is based on selected geometry. Pick a location place the first cut line. 4. Pick a location for the second cut line to create a view break. This means a new view was created and both the current and new view were converted into partial views. An alignment is set up to match the cut orientation.

26 5. The default gap is set to match the value from the tool options panel but later the user can drag any of the views to any location. In order to satisfy the initial gap the views that are on the side of the second cut line are moved together. To create a Broken View with a sketched spline break: 1. Select the Broken command in the Detail tab. 2. Set the Break Line option to Freehand Spline Cut. 3. Pick a location for the break. You will be put into spline sketch mode. 4. Sketch the spline and double-click to finish sketching. 5. When the spline is complete, the break is shown in blue. To sketch a different spline you need to restart the tool. 6. Pick the location for the second spline. 7. The break is created. Some rules for creating view breaks. Both break locations must be picked on the same view (this is automatically enforced by the tool). When inserting a new break in a view the new break lines must not intersect with existing ones. To delete a view break: 1. While in the Select tool, mouse over the break. 2. A handle is displayed. 3. Select and Delete the handle. a. The break is removed b. The view is also removed

27 To change the angle of an existing cut line: 1. Select the break line 2. Change the Angle property 3. Both sides are slanted by the specified amount relative to the original Cut Orientation. To move a set of Broken Views: 1. Double-click on any view in the set. 2. All the view pieces are highlighted. 3. Move the views as needed. You can now create Broken-out sections. To create a Broken-out section 1. Set the attachment point by picking somewhere on a model inside a drawing view. 2. Set the Depth to a positive number. The default is zero which, in this case, does not actually create a section.if the section plane is placed through an hole axis inside the model, a zero depth creates a section through the center of the hole. 3. Sketch the section boundary.

28 4. The view is created. There is a new option for specifying the lineweight for broken-out section clipping edges. You can select the clipping boundary of a Broken- Out section. Hovering over the clip boundary will pre-highlight the section for selection. With the section selected, you can: Drag the boundary to resize the section area

29 Select the anchor and drag it and re-attach to a new location Change the depth via the Properties panel Delete the section You can attach a broken-out section on the axis of a cylinder. Here, the section was moved and attached to an axis. Since the axis is deeper into the part the section now starts on a different plane. With the original depth of 63.5 mm, the section now passes all the way through the part. Here, the depth was changed to 0 mm to bring the section back out to pass through the cylinder. The section depth direction is measured into the sheet. You can enter a negative value to flip the depth direction.

30 Datum symbols can now be made semantically, which means they will update to changing attachment objects. Datum symbols now appear in the tree and, when selected, show their attachment objects. There is a new workflow for Datum symbol creation. 1. Select the object 2. (Optional) Select an optional object 3. Select the Annotation plane 4. Click to place the symbol When creating a new planar datum feature symbol, the last suitable (i.e. perpendicular to planar surface datum feature) preselected planar face is used as the hint for Annotation plane orientation. Datum symbols are also supported for DWG/DXF export. Foreshortened radius dimensions can now be made with an RMB command. 1. Start with a radius dimension. 2. Right-click and select Foreshortened. 3. The dimension will be converted to a foreshortened radius dimension as shown below You can also manually move the endpoint, or jog points, of these dimensions, and create a linear dimension to locate the radius center. Linear dimensions to foreshortened locations can also be foreshortened using the context menu. The foreshortened location for radial dimensions is shown with a cross using a new Foreshortened radial dimension center size setting in the Detail section of SpaceClaim Options.

31 Double clicking on a drawing or drawing sheet in the tree opens it in a window. Rendering hidden lines in drawings now makes use of the HiddenEdges setting in SC Options>Detailing, which controls the lineweight of the hidden lines. Datums Creating an origin now works in the following ways: If you just have one planar face or datum plane selected, the origin is created in the center of the face. If you have two intersecting planar faces selected, the origin is created with XY in the first plane, and Y aligned in the intersection of the two planes. If you have three intersecting planar faces selected, the origin is created with XY in the first plane, Y aligned in the second, and Z placed at the intersection of the third with Y. The Plane tool now creates three orthogonal planes when only an origin is selected. The Plane tool now creates three orthogonal planes when only an origin is selected. Planes are previewed at the time of creation, similar to the annotation plane preview during note creation.

32 A new Tool guide selected geometry. has been added for creating planes parallel to the screen, and through In the image on the left, the plane will be created through the highlighted point and parallel to the screen. In the image on the right, the plane will be created through the highlighted edge and parallel to the screen. Pull You can now use the Pull Up To tool guide to pull a chamfer setback up to an object. You can now copy edges correctly on a transformed component. Previously, you could not copy an edge over a previously copied edge. A chain of rounds between non-analytic faces can now be converted to chamfers.

33 Now when you enter the Pull tool with an edge selected in Section mode, the edge is converted to its 3D face so that the pull will operate on the face. In Section mode, selection priority is curves because curves are created at the intersection of the section grid and the geometry. Previously, when you selected a curve and then entered the Pull tool, you could not do anything because the selection stayed a curve. Now, in the Pull tool, multiple-selected surface vertices are rounded by default. Previously, the tool would switch to blend and you could not round multiple corners. The Datum Plane and Datum Axis tools now return to the previous tool upon completion. Previously, they would return to the Select tool. This was inconvenient if you needed the datum to do what you need in the previous tool. For example, if you enter the Pull tool and realize you need an axis to revolve about. You would create the axis and then have to re-enter the Pull tool. Now, you are placed back in the Pull tool. Slots swept along splines are now created correctly. The images below show an example of the slot not following the spline (left) and the new correct behavior (right). When the Thicken Surfaces option is turned off, faces of surfaces are now offset and faces of solids are thickened. Previously, in both cases, they were copied and Ctrl+Shift allowed them to be offset and thickened. So now, as expected, Ctrl will copy the faces.

34 Move There is a new Enter XYZ coordinates button in the Move tool. It can be invoked by the spacebar in certain situations. XYZ axis labels are now shown on the Move tool handle when showing the XYZ dimensions. XYZ values are in terms of the Move tool s relative position to the World-coordinate system. The rotation handles are also removed when the XYZ dimensions are showing. For Move, Alt+click still orients the Move Handle but the ruler dimension will only display if you click on a planar or cylindrical/ axis reference. The Move tool has a new tool guide called Move radially about axis. It allows you to move radially symmetrical geometry, bodies & components about an axis. The tool will automatically find and highlight radially symmetrical objects matching the primary selection, and apply the same transformation to each one of the matching sets of objects. This can be used to move objects that are not in a circular pattern without having to recognize the pattern first. Radial Move also makes it possible to move components, for example in an exploded view, radially away from the central axis.

35 In addition, the radius of revolved faces can be edited using Radial Move. Unlike Pull, which offsets faces, radial move allows the transformation of the cross-section geometry, thus making the following modification possible: When the tool guide is selected, the Move Handle will orient to have one axis parallel to the move axis and the other in the radial direction, as shown in the images to the right. Radial Move supports circular/elliptical surfaces. General laminar surface edges are not supported at this time. For a radial move, X, Y, Z, input is restricted.

36 Fill The Fill tool now works with sketches in the same way it works with surfaces. See examples below. Fill on sketch curves now works like Fill on edges. For a single entity, the selected entity is replaced by a straight line between its endpoints. For curve chains (multiple selected entities), the selected entities are replaced with a straight line between the chain endpoints. You can now use the Delete key to Fill faces on a solid. Previously, using the Delete key would delete the face turning the object into a surface. The following methods are now available for Filling and deleting faces: To Fill a face on a solid or surface you can click the Fill tool, press the F key, or press the Delete key To delete a face on a solid you can press Ctrl + Delete keys, or you can RMB on the face and select the Delete option from the context menu

37 The Fill tool now works in the case shown below. One neighbor face extends continuously out a certain distance and the others extend to the bottom face. Previously the operation would fail. The tool now produces the correct result shown below. Mirror Box selection can be used in the Mirror tool for Remove Mirror association. Mirrored components now have a different appearance in the structure tree. Previously, the icon and name were identical. Now, the icon appears mirrored and (Mirror) is appended to the name. Patterns In Pattern tools, when the tool is entered with a selected object other than a face, the tool now automatically advances to the Direction tool guide. Previously, this only worked for faces and now it works for all objects including curves and bodies. For Linear Patterns, if you enter a Count value, it is maintained when changing the Pitch of the pattern. Previously, changing the Pitch direction reset the Count values and the user had to enter their values again. During pattern preview, any pattern members which cannot be created are now displayed in red. Members that can be created are still shown in blue.

38 You can now create linear and circular patterns of Datum Axes. Previously, you could not select axes for patterning in the Pattern tools. Patterns succeed in more cases where the old tools would fail. The following images show some examples. The image on the right shows a case where the pattern should have extended beyond the sloped face. The next example shows how the pattern preview was inconsistent for members that partially lie on solid faces. The final example shows how the pattern preview is correct, but some members that partially lie on solid faces were not created. Up-selecting of patterns is now possible. Preview highlighting now shows all pattern members when you query to a single member. Selected pattern members can be un-patterned via the context menu > Unpattern member.

39 Fill works on pattern member objects to fill the geometry AND remove the pattern member. With pattern members or standard holes selected, you can now select the parent body using the context menu option Select>Body. A new Delete menu item has been added to the context menus for Standard Holes and Pattern members. Standard Holes Double clicking on a Standard Hole now activates the Standard Hole Edit ribbon tab. There is now a Reverse Hole option in the RMB context menu for Standard holes. This option will flip the hole to the other side of the part. Combine The name of Split Solid tool has been changed to Split Body, and it now enables the splitting of Surface bodies as well as solids. Previously, surface bodies could not be selected as Target bodies. Prepare You can now select bodies and components for Midsurfacing from the Structure Tree. Previously, you could only select objects for Midsurfacing in the design window. The Midsurface tool now has a new Trim surfaces option. It intersects the midsurfaces with the original body to trim excess pieces. Volume Extract will now execute with only a seed selected if the internal volume has no openings. The Cushion and Symmetric options for custom enclosures have been disabled. Repair The Curve Gaps tool no longer changes the Mode you are in when entering the tool. Previously, if you were in Section mode and then clicked the Curve gaps tool, the mode switched to 3D mode. Sheet Metal There is now a Bend Table drop down menu under the Basic Defaults section of the Sheet Metal options which allows you to select a default Bend table for new parts.

40 Unfolded part layer names now display in the current UI language. Previously, they were in English regardless of the current UI language. When converting to sheet metal, faces with problems are identified with error messages in the Status Log. Clicking on each message will highlight the problem area with red blinking. In the example below, the message is selected and the problem is highlighted in the upper left corner of the image. A detailed view of the problem geometry is shown below right. Undocking the unfolded part tab, when many tabs are open, now keeps the formed part tab as the other top-most tab. This allows you to view the folded and unfolded parts side-by-side. Previously, the leftmost tab defaulted to the other top-most tab. A cylindrical part with a hole or other cutout can now be split with the Split tool on the Sheet Metal tab. Previously, this tool did not work on cylindrical parts which were identified as bends.

41 You can now use a sheet metal Marker to set the radial center of a circular pattern. Flange junctions assigned to >90-degree angles now retain flange attachment when neighboring wall is rotated. Previously, rotating the wall caused the flange to detach as shown in the image below with the right wall. Now, the flange remains attached as shown below in the left wall. Rotating and/or moving a wall with a single tab, keeps the tab attached. Previously, the tab would disappear as in the image to the right. You can no longer perform an in-plane rotation of a wall in a tabbed junction. Previously you could perform the rotation, which would remove the tabs. An example is shown below.

42 While rotating a joggle, you can now modify the Inner Radius. While creating a joggle, the face highlighting (that leads the user through the creation of the joggle) is now consistent with other tools by using the Sandy (Default) highlight scheme. You can now use the Move tool to individually modify the bend angles of a Joggle that was previously defined as an equal-side-angle object. Bends with an angle greater than 180 degrees now display correctly.

43 When sketching lines for a profile wall, the attachment edge for determining automatic inside/outside wall alignment follows the same paradigm set for flat-sketched walls. In the images to the right, both lines start at the top corner. Sketching the line vertically upward, will automatically create an inside wall, while sketching vertically downward, will create an outside wall. There is now a Reverse option the RMB context menu for Rectangular and XY bevel notches. Previously, to get the notch lengths as intended, you had to change the parameters in the Properties panel. This was cumbersome and inconsistent with similar objects such as Partial and No-overlap Junctions. The default colors for Notches and Joggles have been updated to take full advantage of the new Default highlighting scheme. Modifying the height of a tab now works correctly so that the slot geometry is modified. Previously, only the geometry on the tab side was modified. The slot side of a Sheet Metal Tab junction is now also deleted when the Tab side is deleted. Previously, the slots remained on the Sheet Metal object causing the user to have to Fill them separately. You can now use the Move tool to move objects Up To faces or circular edges of Standard Holes and Sheet Metal objects.

44 When pulling a wall using the Up to option, you can now select an edge. Previously, only selecting a face would work. Previously, as shown in the middle image below, selecting an edge would create a new solid body instead of moving the wall. Now, the wall is correctly moved to the new location, as shown in the rightmost image below. You can now pull on the edge of a Sheet Metal bend junction to create a conical bend. You can now change the thickness of a Sheet Metal part with a conical bend junction. The Sheet Metal Pull status message has been updated to display which kind of wall you are currently pulling whether it is Automatic, Inside, Outside, or Offset. The Pull Both Sides option is now respected when pulling multiple edges to create flanges. Previously, this option created flanges that were being pulled in opposite directions instead of the same direction. The Inside and Outside Sheet Metal pull options are now remembered when pulling walls from a chain of selected edges. Previously, after pulling once, and having the selected edge(s) reset to the next relevant set of edge(s), the option would switch to another type and created the wrong type of wall. Corner Relief types have been re-ordered in the ribbon drop-list and mini-toolbar as follows.

45 Now, when a corner relief is filled to create a rounded corner with an inner radius, a corner object is created. When filling corners that originate from shelled models, cases that have neighboring Full or Partial overlap junctions now fill correctly. The cases are described in the images below. The first set shows the Full overlap case in the left image. The previous behavior is shown in the middle image. The new, correct, behavior is shown on the right. The next set shows the Partial overlap case in the left image. The previous behavior is shown in the middle image. The new, correct, behavior is shown on the right. Pulling side edges of sheet metal with neighboring bend junctions now snaps the resulting round radius to the radius of the junction. Hold the Shift key while pulling to snap to the bend radius, inner or outer, whichever is appropriate.

46 Corner reliefs are now filled with a radius matching the inside radius of the bend. The image to the right shows the corner relief to be filled. The middle image shows the old behavior, and the left image shows the new behavior. The Corner Relief mini toolbar is no longer displayed when a vertex is selected which cannot be turned into a Corner Relief. Now only the Default Corner Relief type is available in the mini toolbar when selecting on a vertex which can be turned into a Corner Relief. The Corner Relief mini-toolbar is now displayed when a Sheet Metal vertex (associated with a corner relief) is selected. Miters are now recognized as Sheet Metal objects. You can now switch between Miter types and reverse them through the mini-toolbar. The ribbon and mini-toolbar now have a None button to delete miter objects. Miter objects are now ahead of adjacent faces and edges in the selection hit-list to minimize scrolling and make them easier to select.

47 When making Perpendicular miters, make sure you create a clean rounded corner on the side wall. Make it as if it had been filled. Only complete Forms can now be patterned. You can now place certain forms (like the bridge form shown here) on the edges of sheet metal parts. Forms are now identified as individual forms when clicking the Complete button to identify multiple forms at once. Previously, identifying multiple forms at a time caused them all to become a single form.

48 Hems can be created using the Pull tool by pulling in the opposite direction of the non-perpendicular arrow to the chosen edge. Now, the options for pulling an edge are respected when pulling to create a Hem (but not yet in the Hem tool, proper). Previously, no matter which option was selected, the Hem was created outside the original length of the edge. If the edge was originally 20 mm, after pulling the Hem, the edge would still be 20 mm. Now, if you create a Hem using the Inside option, the edge plus the outside radius of the Hem, will measure 20 mm in length. There are now two options for creating a Hem. One allows you to create a Hem Outside the sheet size which preserves the size of the original sheet. The other allows you to create a Hem Within the bounds of the original sheet size. The new Hem options are also present in the Pull options panel. You can now Identify Hems by double clicking the bend. Previously, the only way to identify a Hem was to click the bend and then click the Complete button. You can now copy a Hem with Ctrl+Move. Any faces that are classified as dual-role, higher-level objects (for example, a face involved in a Miter and a Bend Relief) can now be differentiated and selected by scroll-selection. You can now multi-select sheet metal markers using the Box, Lasso, and Polygon selection tools. Previously, this was not available, making it difficult to delete a large number of markers.

49 Sketch There is now a Body outline only option in the Project to Sketch tool. Note: this tool uses the wireframe edges (and silhouette edges) of the model to project to the sketch grid so it may be necessary to use the Fix Curves Repair tools if your projected sketch does not automatically close into a surface. To Project the Body outline only to a sketch plane: 1. Open a part for which to use the body outline 2. Establish a sketch plane 3. Click the Project to Sketch tool 4. Click the radio button Visible body edges 5. Check ON the Body outline only option 6. Select the Select Bodies tool guide 7. Click the body (or bodies) you want to project You can now use the Create Rounded Corner sketch tool to create fillets by clicking on a vertex between two curves and dragging until the desired fillet radius is achieved. While being dragged by their center, circles and arcs now snap to tangent locations. This does not apply to resizing and it does not apply to ellipses. In SpaceClaim Options, Grid guide defaults are now Large and Bottom. Previously, they were Small and Attached.

50 Measure You can now calculate section properties for planar faces with an additional tool guide and Alt+select for selecting faces and an origin. You can also select a single closed loop of section curves in section mode to calculate section mass properties. In the Mass tool, you can now calculate section properties of a selected loop of curves while in Section mode. You can now measure the X, Y, and Z angles between lines and planes. Selection of coordinate systems and the World Origin has changed. Now, mouse scrolling on an axis selects the whole origin. Mouse over of the base of an origin still preselects the whole origin. Selecting coordinate systems for relative mass properties has changed. You now use Alt-selection instead of Ctrl-selection. This change makes the tool consistent with the Section properties functionality. The Mass Properties tool filters out pre-selection of coordinate system axes for section properties.

51 In the Measure tool, when you Alt+select a coordinate system, angular measurements now also show the rotations around the X, Y, and Z axes. The rotations are component angles, not projected angles. In the Mass and Measure tools, there is a new tool guide icon for selecting an origin. In the Mass tool, there is also a new tool guide icon for projecting to a plane. In the Deviation tool, objects from the first selection are not available for the second selection, making the selection UI much smoother. Import/Export You can now print All Open Sheets to a PDF file. Previously, you could only print all open sheets to a printer. For Save As with Reference objects, you can now input a path when saving multiple Reference files. Previously, you could only locate a file path by clicking the Browse button and then choosing a folder to create the path. Now, after you click the Browse button, you can type a path rather than clicking on a specific folder. You can now import and export CATIA V5 R22 files. The default export version is still R17. You can now import an STL file as a Mesh object and export it as another STL file. This makes it possible to import multiple STL files into a document and then export everything as a single STL file. Several updates have been made to JT PMI functionality: You can now export Weld Symbols to JT PMI.

52 Datums attached to holes are now properly exported and imported. The Import PMI checkbox in the JT file open dialog is now sticky for the entire SC session. Previously, on an XP platform, PMI was only imported when the box was checked ON in the file options. A datum symbol is now correctly attached to a cylinder when exporting a JT part with PMI. There is a new option under Use JTOpen toolkit called Configuration file length units. This option allows you to set the units for the JT toolkit Configuration file. JT export now supports Flagnotes. JT import and export now uses Unicode name. When exporting assemblies to JT PMI, some cases result in PMI information being assigned to components incorrectly. Hence the structure tree will not be the same in JT as it is in SpaceClaim. This issue has been resolved. Font names are now transferred to JT correctly. Previously the font name would show up as blank when viewe d in JT. Refere nce datum attach

53 ment triangles now export correctly to JT. Previously, they displayed as arrows in JT. The All Around symbol now exports to JT correctly. Previously, it was not displayed in JT. Arrow styles are now exported to JT correctly. Refer to the following image for examples.

54 In JT PMI, the following symbols are imported as the single symbol on the right. <= is now >= is now Surface finish details are now exported correctly to JT. The image below shows how they looked previously. Leaders are now added for dimensions in certain cases when importing CATIA V5 files. The problem cases occur when dimensions in CATIA are linked to construction geometry. Construction geometry does not get translated into ACIS. Now, any blank line between single curve data points will create a point. Previously, this worked only for points that were not in the same plane. For TIFF images, SpaceClaim now supports: DirectX dynamic rescaling on DirectX on 64-bit Custom 32-bit dynamic rescaling This can be overridden with incubator option UseLibTiff on by default For ECAD import (IDF), SpaceClaim has added support for.idb and corresponding.idl file import. This will read IDF V3 files exported by DesignSpark (for example).

55 Open file filters have been isolated from Save file filters. You can now read and write DWG 2013 files. However, the latest Teigha does not support DWG 2013 reading/writing. Only RealDWG supports it. A lightweight SpaceClaim document can now be exported as an STL file, removing the need to fully load the geometry first. There is now a configuration filed called SpaceClaimAddInBridge.dll.config to set the intermediate file format for the Mastercam-SpaceClaim plug-in. The configuration file needs to be in the same folder as SpaceClaimAddInBridge.dll. For example, in the C:\Program Files\mcamx6\chooks\SpaceClaim folder. For R10SP0, we are using the ACISBinary format by default for transferring geometry To and From SpaceClaim. ACISBinary format does not require any SpaceClaim translator license. All the possible configuration option values are as follows: Option Name Option value Required SpaceClaim Translator License FromSpaceClaimFormat / AcisBinary None ToSpaceClaimFormat ParasolidBinary Parasolid translator STEP STEP translator The contents of the default configuration file are shown below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <configsections> <sectiongroup name="usersettings" type="system.configuration.usersettingsgroup, System, Version= , Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" > <section name="spaceclaimaddinbridge.properties.settings" type="system.configuration.clientsettingssection, System, Version= , Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" allowexedefinition="machinetolocaluser" requirepermission="false" /> </sectiongroup> </configsections> <usersettings> <SpaceClaimAddInBridge.Properties.Settings> <setting name="setting" serializeas="string"> <value /> </setting> <setting name="fromspaceclaimformat" serializeas="string"> <value>acisbinary</value> </setting> <setting name="tospaceclaimformat" serializeas="string">

56 <value>acisbinary</value> </setting> </SpaceClaimAddInBridge.Properties.Settings> </usersettings> </configuration> The default Parasolid export version has changed from V17 to V22. The following fixes have been implemented for AutoCAD transfers Plus/Minus symbols import correctly from DWG. Section Line Arrow Size exports correctly to DWG GTOL leader positions no longer shift when exporting to DWG. In the AutoCAD section of SpaceClaim Options, there is a new setting to control whether or not dimensions are associated to geometry. We now prompt for missing components during SolidWorks import. STL Editing You can now control the highlighting scheme for mesh selection. Use the following options that have been added to the Selection section of SpaceClaim Options. Fine Uses the existing SpaceClaim style which highlights the point on the mesh face, edge, or vertex Coarse Uses the Mesh Editing style which highlights the entire mesh face as a unit Meshes can now be converted from Simple (no connectivity information) to Connected. The Import options panel in the STL section of SpaceClaim Options has changed as follows. Added Connected mesh Added Simple mesh Initial colors for imported meshes are set by mesh type:

57 Simple Gray Connected SpaceClaim Blue Mesh objects can now be copied with CTRL+Drag. Connected meshes have their own icon in the Structure Tree. The Cylinder tool now works on a selected cylindrical area of a mesh. Select facets in a cylindrical area of the mesh and then click the Cylinder tool. In SpaceClaim Options, there is a new UI for changing custom color highlighting of Mesh objects. You can change the back face color, highlight, and select scheme. You can now use color to differentiate the back-facing side of mesh facets. In the image below, the back-facing side is shown in orange (by default), same as the inside faces when using Clip by Sphere or Clip by Plane. Paintbrush selection now works for selection on Mesh objects. The brush size can be changed in the Filter menu. Options have been added to the Filter menu for face selection. Automatic Visible Through

58 The following table summarizes the facet selection scheme in terms of area select and paint select in combination with Visible, Through, and Automatic. Area Select Paint Select Automatic Visible Through Through Through Forward facing facets All facets only Through Forward facing facets only Through All facets All visible facets Through All facets Also, the selection area of the Status Bar now shows the number of selected facets. There is a new STL import option Simple mesh. It allows you to import the mesh as an un-selectable, lightweight object. The context menu for Mesh objects now has a new Move Each to New Component command. Its function is the same as for solids. Pick-box selection of mesh facets now works properly with the Ctrl and Shift keys. Ctrl toggles selection and Shift will add to the selection. Meshes can now be split smoothly. When split, they temporarily highlight the split pieces in the same way as these solid and surface pieces are highlighted in the Split Body tool. You can now create an axis by picking 3 points on faces of a mesh and you can create a plane by selecting one point on a face of a Mesh object.

59 Creating a plane: Click any point on the Mesh object Click the Plane tool in the Insert group on the Design tab. Creating an Axis: Click any 3 points on the Mesh object Click the Axis tool in the Insert group on the Design tab. Sketch curves are now the first priority in the selection hit-list, so if you have Sketch curves over Mesh curves, the Sketch curves will pre-highlight first and then you can query-select to pre-highlight and select the Mesh curves. There is a new RMB option for Origins called Snap to Origin which allows you to snap a selected Origin and selected object to the World Origin. For a selected origin, the Snap to origin menu item is enabled by default. To snap an object to the World Origin: 1. Display the World Origin 2. Place an Origin on the object you want to snap to the World Origin 3. Select the object and the Origin 4. RMB-click on the selected Origin 5. Select the Snap to Origin from the RMB context menu; make sure you are right clicking on the entire coordinate system and not just one direction; otherwise the context menu option will not appear. You can now create a coordinate system by selecting either two intersecting linear objects (axes, edges, sketch curves, etc.) or by selecting two intersecting planar objects (faces, planes, etc.).

60 You can now Move datum axes Up To linear targets and maintain orientation. The functionality has been modified so that axes are translated to intersect the target.

61 You can now Move datum axes Up To planar targets and any axis that is perpendicular to the plane normal is translated to lie on the plane. Any axis that is not perpendicular to the plane normal is snapped around the original intersection point with the plane.

62 You can now Pull a planar surface Up To a point on a Mesh object and the original plane s orientation is maintained. Previously the plane was pulled up to a Mesh object point but the angle of the plane was also modified based on the Mesh Face selected. For a particularly dirty STL file, any small gaps that are found in a planar section view are now filled in. Previously, curves were only fit to geometry in the section plane which caused gaps and therefore a clean surface could not be created.

63 The Up To option in the Pull tool can now snap to a pick point on a mesh that represents a round radius. This works for both convex and concave cases. The selected edge (as well as the two neighboring faces of the edge) is filtered out of the Up To target list. This makes it easier to select a mesh point, for example, in a rounded area of the mesh. Similarly, a selected face is filtered in Up To for the round being modified. Fit curve previews are displayed for a mesh in Sketch or Section mode. The preview can be referenced when sketching and can be projected to sketches. Dynamic grid placement now works with mesh points. As you mouse over facets, edges, and points, the grid placement dynamically updates.

64 Deviation has been added to the Quality group of the Measure tab. It shows the distance from a selected solid or surface body to a selected mesh body. There are options for: Maximum distance inside and outside the mesh. Displaying the results as Shading or Porcupine. Changing the colors of the display as well as the transition between colors. Setting an overall tolerance. Mesh triangles can be selected with all selection tools in the Default, Classic, and Custom color schemes. Partial pick-box of mesh triangles selects triangles if any edge is in the pick-box rectangle. Can use pick-box (box, lasso, and polygon) selection of mesh cross-section fit curve. Journal Tab You can now record video from the Journal tab. To create a video: Click Create Video in the Journal tab. Specify an output video file (.avi) by browsing to a location and entering a name for the file. Select a video codec. (Optional) Adjust the video settings Pixel depth Frame rate Compression Press the Start button. Perform the operations you want to record. Press the Stop button. You can also play an existing journal file by checking the Journal checkbox and browsing to a file. The journal can be played with delay.

65 ANSYS For groups with multiple objects, the RMB context menu contains an Explode option to explode each item into its own group. The new groups are named based on the parent group. For example, a group named Group would explode into Group. 1, Group. 2, etc. In the Enclosure tool, face ID s are preserved when updating enclosures which correspond to the original bodies. Points now transfer from SpaceClaim to ANSYS Workbench. Welcome Screen Customized Welcome screen content will no longer be overwritten by automatic updates.. To override the Welcome screen with a custom XML file: 1. Create a welcome.xml file. 2. Place the file in %PROGRAMDATA%\SpaceClaim\Welcome. 3. Place any additional support files that are specific to the custom welcome.xml file (images, videos, PDF documents, etc.) into %PROGRAMDATA%\SpaceClaim\Welcome.

66 Multi-touch Windows-API-supported Multi-touch is now supported on Windows 7 and 8. For HID-supported devices (per our website) SpaceClaim will use the faster HID signal For non-supported hardware, SpaceClaim will use the Windows 7 and 8 built-in Multi-touch API Users still have the choice to use Timing vs. Gizmo-based Multi-touch interaction In the SpaceClaim Viewer App: o Added multi-touch navigation commands to SpaceClaim Viewer Application o Added "supported files *.scdoc;*.stl" filter o Added Zoom Extents on touch double-tap Show Touch Spots is now ON by default when a Multi-touch device is present. The new Gizmo implementation now allows simultaneous pen and touch input on PPI devices.

67 Add-ins There is now a MasterCAM plugin for Import/Export. The MasterCam Plug-in allows the user to install a SpaceClaim button in MasterCAM that can export MasterCAM models into SpaceClaim and import SpaceClaim models directly into MasterCAM. This is similar to the Rhino plugin. The version supported is Mastercam X6 ( ). Follow these steps to set up your machine for the MasterCAM plugin: 1. Right click on the MCAM_Installer.zip file downloaded from the SpaceClaim website and go to Properties. At the bottom of the General tab, click on the Unblock button, if it is present, and then click OK. 2. Extract the files from this zip and navigate to the folder containing the correct files for 32 or 64 bit installation. 3. Copy the three dlls, config and ft file shown below into the following locations: {mastercam install directory}\chooks\spaceclaim\mastercamspaceclaimplugin.6.0.dll {mastercam install directory}\chooks\spaceclaim\spaceclaimaddinbridge.dll {mastercam install directory}\chooks\spaceclaim\spaceclaimpluginbase.dll {mastercam install directory}\chooks\spaceclaim\spaceclaimaddinbridge.dll.config {mastercam install directory}\chooks\mastercamspaceclaimplugin.6.0.ft You will need to manually create the SpaceClaim folder in the Mastercam chooks directory. 4. Right click on each of the above files and select Properties. Double check that they are not blocked. If they are, unblock them using the same method as in Step Launch Mastercam> Go to Settings>Customize> Toolbars: New Toolbar. Category: NETHook 6. Drag the SpaceClaim import/export icons onto the new toolbar

68 7. Close and re-launch Mastercam. The new toolbar should appear with the SpaceClaim tools on it. Configuring the MasterCAM plugin: By default, models will be transferred from Mastercam to SpaceClaim using the SAB format. The import and export formats can be controlled using the SpaceClaimAddInBridge.dll.config file. The possible configuration option values are as follows: Option Name Option value Required SpaceClaim Translator License FromSpaceClaimFormat / AcisBinary Engineer ToSpaceClaimFormat ParasolidBinary Data Exchange II STEP Engineer Open the configuration file in a text editor and change the value as desired. See the example below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <configuration> <configsections> <sectiongroup name="usersettings" type="system.configuration.usersettingsgroup, System, Version= , Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" >

69 <section name="spaceclaimaddinbridge.properties.settings" type="system.configuration.clientsettingssection, System, Version= , Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" allowexedefinition="machinetolocaluser" requirepermission="false" /> </sectiongroup> </configsections> <usersettings> <SpaceClaimAddInBridge.Properties.Settings> <setting name="setting" serializeas="string"> <value /> </setting> <setting name="fromspaceclaimformat" serializeas="string"> <value>acisbinary</value> </setting> <setting name="tospaceclaimformat" serializeas="string"> <value>acisbinary</value> </setting> </SpaceClaimAddInBridge.Properties.Settings> </usersettings> </configuration> Note 1. ACIS and STEP formats transfer Solids and Surfaces between Mastercam and SpaceClaim. 2. Parasolid translator offers higher quality of data transfer but limited to solids only.

70 There is now an ESPRIT plugin for Import/Export. The ESPRIT Plug-in allows the user to install a SpaceClaim button in ESPRIT that can export ESPRIT models into SpaceClaim and import SpaceClaim models directly into ESPRIT. This is similar to the MasterCAM and Rhino plugins. The version supported is ESPRIT Follow these steps to set up your machine for the ESPRIT plugin: 1. Save the following ESPRIT plugin files in Esprit>AddIn directory. 32 Bit --OR-- 64Bit 2. Right click on each of the above files and select Properties. At the bottom of the Properties window, click on the Unblock button under Security. 1. When installing on 32bit OS, edit the RegisterOn32bitOS.bat file in the SpaceClaim install directory. a. set ESPRITSpaceClaimPlugInDllFilePath={ SpaceClaim install directory}\espritspaceclaimplugin.dll 2. Save and run the batch file. The batch file will first register the plugin to the system using RegAsm.exe, and secondly call RegisterAddinToESPRITon32bitOS.reg to register the ESPRIT software to find and load the SpaceClaim plugin. 3. Launch ESPRIT. 4. To verify the plugin installation > Go to Tools>Add-in> Add-in Manager

71 1. When installing on 64bit OS, edit the RegisterOn64bitOS.bat file in the SpaceClaim install directory. a. set ESPRITSpaceClaimPlugInDllFilePath={ SpaceClaim install directory}\espritspaceclaimplugin.dll 2. Save and run the batch file. The batch file will first register the plugin to the system using RegAsm.exe, and secondly call RegisterAddinToESPRITon64bitOS.reg to register the ESPRIT software to find and load the SpaceClaim plugin. 3. Launch ESPRIT. 4. To verify the plugin installation > Go to Tools>Add-in> Add-in Manager