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3D Manipulator
  • All in one tool to do translation / rotation / scale
  • Universal mode
  • Translation only mode
  • Rotation only mode
  • Scale only mode
  • Works on Objects / Faces / Edges / Vertices
  • Works in absolute mode or relatively to the selection or to the object Bounding box
  • Support per object pivot point for rotation and scale
Selections
  • Advanced selection tools
  • Selection mode: Objects / Faces / Edges / Vertices / auto
  • Double-click selection mode switch
  • Soft selection (Influence radius, roughness)
  • Several selection methods: Paint, Drag, Rectangle lasso, Polygon Lasso
  • Many selection accessories (Loop / Ring / Select between / Grow / Shrink / Boundary / Convert / 1/n / Invert / Select All / Unselect All)
Dynamic Geometry
  • Keeps the construction history of complex operations
  • Available for many tools including surface tools, Boolean operations, thickness, Smoothing, Chamfer, Bend, etc.
  • Three Dynamic Geometry Modes: Full DG (advanced) , Restricted DG (normal) , No DG (beginners)
  • Dynamic Geometry Tree (Select construction level, collapse Dynamic operations, Remove the last dynamic operation)
3D Primitives
  • Cube / block
  • Sphere / Geodesic Sphere / Control vertical/horizontal pucker and bloat
  • Cone / Truncated Cone
    Cylinder
  • Platonic shapes (Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, Dodecahedron)
  • 3D Grid
    3D Text (TrueType Font, Bold, Italic, Alignment, Depth, Scale, Tessellation, Bevel)
Vertex Modeling
  • Edge Tools (Extract Around / Extract Along / Fillet)
  • Fast Extrude
  • Move Along
  • Symmetry
  • Tesselate
  • Tesselate by segment
  • Tesselate by slice
  • Connect by edge
  • Smooth more/less
  • Close surface/volume
  • Weld points
  • Average weld
  • Target weld
  • Sweep surface
  • Extrude surface
  • Facet
  • Tweak
  • Extract Faces
Lines
  • Polyline
  • Bézier
  • Interpolated Curve
  • Curve
  • Composite Curves
  • Rectangle
  • Square
  • Circle
  • Circle from the center
  • Circle from the basis
  • Circle from diameter
  • Circle from three points
  • Arc
  • Center - Start/Radius - Angle
  • Start - Center/Radius - Angle
  • Start - End - Middle
  • Start - End - Center/Radius
  • Start - End - Tangent
  • 2D Text
  • Helix
  • 2D Symmetry
  • Curve Extraction
  • Curve Offset
  • Insert Points
  • Close Line
Surface Modeling
  • Ruled surface
  • Double sweep
  • Coons surface
  • Gordon surfaces
  • Extrude line
  • Sweep line
  • Boolean operations
  • Thickness
  • Offset
  • Smoothing
  • Chamfer

Utilities
  • Stretch
  • Lay on
  • Snap/Align
  • Taper, Bender and Twister Deformers
  • Bend
  • Copy
  • Multiple Copies
  • Copy on a support
  • Weld objects
  • Cut into Slices
  • Hide / Show
  • Group / Ungroup
  • Decimate
  • Extract openings
  • Triangulate non planar facets
  • Triangulate n-gons
  • Merge duplicate points
  • Merge coplanar facets
Display and Views
  • Fast accelerated OpenGL render
  • Multi views or single view mode
  • 6 drawing styles
  • 5 Light map drawing modes
  • Back face culling
  • Transparency during object edition
  • Dynamic highlight of entities in 3D
  • Highly customizable display of 3D entities, selection, highlight
  • Line anti aliasing
  • Multi texturing support
  • Predefined hardware accelerated lighting
Scene Properties Palette
  • Scene tree: hide/show, lock/unlock, unclone, etc.
  • Scene properties: absolute/relative mode, grid control, set image on grid plane
Object Properties Palette
  • Move, scale selection numerically in absolute or relative mode
  • Rotate selection numerically in relative mode
  • Display number of points edges and faces
  • Change color
  • Edit dynamic geometry
Editing Tools
  • Copy/Paste/Cut edges, faces, objects
  • Suppress/Dissolve points, edges, faces and objects
  • Clone/Unclone
  • Undo/Redo
  • New working plane
  • Automatic or manual selection of the current working plane
  • Snapping and axis constraints
View Navigation
  • Mouse navigation
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Full navigation mode using control panel
  • View all
  • View selection
  • View detail
  • Change viewpoint
  • Change field of view
Materials, Texturing and UVs
  • Material Palette
  • Create new material
  • Shading domains
  • Create Shading domain on a selection of faces
  • Using Domain names to recall a selection
  • Renaming a domain
  • Deleting a domain
  • Texture mapping
  • Apply material to Shading domains
  • Stretch UV on points edges or faces globally or by domain
Imports / Exports
  • Import file into current scene
  • Open, Save, Save as
  • Incremental saving
  • Import OBJ, 3DS, A3D, DXF, DWG, Illustrator
  • Export CAR, A3D, OBJ, 3DS, DXF, DWG, STL
  • Import/Export parameters
  • Shortcut and Preference editors
  • All commands can have a keyboard shortcut
User Interface
  • Immersive user interface organized around the 3D workspace
  • Three predefined layout (immersive, normal, custom)
  • Full screen or window mode
  • Custom tool palette
  • Detailed tool tips
  • Access commands by menu, icons or keyboard shortcuts