New Features and Enhancements in SpaceClaim 2009+ SP1

• A new assembly mechanism solving option supports sliding and multi-bar linkages.  
• The new Enclosure tool automatically creates volumes that surround a given body. Uses include:
  • Modeling enclosure volumes for external CFD studies.
  • De-featuring highly detailed models, such as circuit boards, into blockier models.
  • Calculating bounding boxes.
• The Midsurface tool has been enhanced to calculate midsurfaces on drafted geometry.   
• Sheet metal designs can be created by folding flat patterns into 3D shapes.
• The License Options panel now directly supports changing SpaceClaim’s serial number.  
• JT export now includes faceting options
• SketchUp translators now work on 64 bit environments.

Model Preparation (SpaceClaim Engineer only)

• Conceptual beam elements facilitate structural design.
• A beam library provides easy beam creation with standard sections.
• Beam extraction converts imported beams to conceptual beams.
• Enhanced geometry checking and repair makes it easy to diagnose common geometry problems.
• De-featuring is faster than ever with new round slicing tools.
• New Check Clearance tool finds volumes of small clearance between bodies, facilitating volume extraction and merging assemblies.
• Several ANSYS add-in enhancements, including the ability to transfer beams and pattern count dimensions, make it more convenient to optimize models from within ANSYS® Workbench™ 2.0.
• The new Isolate command provides the ability to hide all but a selection of bodies.
• The Extend and Stitch tools include many enhancements for model repair.
• Sheet metal unfold supports sheet metal bend.

Watch the new Beams functionality in action.

Watch the new Model Preparation features in action.

Direct Modeling

• Bodies can be locked to prevent unintentional modification.
• New round creation techniques allow rounds to be placed in more complicated situations, including edge-to-face and face-to-face placement, improved variable round creation, and simultaneous inside and outside rounds on thin geometry.
• Curves imprinted on faces can be easily manipulated, facilitating conceptual sketching in 3D.
• Numerous other enhancements to surfacing, patterning, and construction geometry maintain SpaceClaim’s lead in direct modeling.
• Pull and Rotate Up To now work on edges as well as faces.
• Blending a set of points can now create line chains, and points can be extruded, rotated, and swept into curves.
• Advanced highly-curved sweeps can be created with multiple trajectories
• Patterns now directly support sketches, planes, axes, origins, and assembly components along a curve.
• Pattern recognition supports more cases and has an improved user interface.
• 3D curves now support scaling, trimming, splitting, and filleting.
• Groups in components can appear in higher-level assemblies.
• Sheet metal walls can be created across bodies.

Watch new Design enhancements in action.

Multi-touch and User Interaction

• Windows 7 support, 32 and 64 bit.
• Hands-on interactive solid modeling using up to four fingers provides a more immersive user experience.
• New selection techniques such as four-finger box select and lasso select make the most common 3D interactions faster than possible with a mouse.
• Multi-touch view rotation and gesture support provide straightforward access to commands that would normally be hidden behind toggle keys and shortcuts.

   

Watch SpaceClaim working in multi-touch mode seamlessly.

Watch the new User Interface features in action.

  Documentation

• Dual-unit dimensions can show both metric and imperial values simultaneously.
• Bounding dimensions can show overall dimension of entire bodies.
• BOM tables can now display bounding size, volume, mass, and density (SpaceClaim Engineer).
• Data exchange enhancements include SketchUp, ACIS V20, RealDWG2010, IGES JAMA options, AutoCAD Inventor 2010 support (with Data Exchange Package 1), Parasolid V21(with Data Exchange Package 2).

Watch new Detailing features in action.

Watch the new SketchUp integration in action.