Updated AutoCAD visualisation tools
An
AutoSolids product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 20, 2007
AutoSolids 2007 and AutoSolids Express 2007 add parametric 3D solid modelling, advanced visualisation,and 3D to 2D automation tools to AutoCAD 2007
AutoSolids (ASI) has released AutoSolids 2007 and AutoSolids Express 2007.
Both products add parametric 3D solid modelling, advanced visualisation, and 3D to 2D automation tools to AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2007-based products.
AutoSolids now supports AutoCAD versions 2007 to 14.01 and all versions of Mechanical Desktop and Architectural Desktop.
Since its introduction in 2000, AutoSolids has increased the 3D productivity of thousands of AutoCAD users with advanced solid modelling, viewing, and 3D to 2D automation tools.
AutoSolids 2007 now brings the same tools to AutoCAD 2007, turning it into a powerful yet easy to use production-ready 2D/3D CAD system.
The updated visualisation tools and additional 3D shape definitions introduced with AutoCAD 2007 improved AutoCAD's conceptual design capabilities.
Dimensionally accurate production design remains a painfully tedious process with stock out of the box AutoCAD.
AutoSolids solves this problem with simple, user-friendly creation tools that allow accurate, detailed solids to be rapidly constructed.
And unlike native AutoCAD's limited face and grip editing tools, AutoSolids' parametric editing tools provide complete access to the solids' construction history, allowing solids to be quickly and easily changed in the same way they were created.
Extrusion heights are easily changed, sweep paths and profiles are quickly reshaped or replaced, and Boolean operations are easily undone.
"AutoCAD users in need of greater 3D capabilities are currently faced with abandoning significant investments in AutoCAD and starting over with an entirely new CAD system" say ASI's Scott Slavik.
"The resulting expense, increased complexity, long learning curves, decreased 2D capabilities, and data incompatibilities are rarely warranted".
"With AutoSolids, AutoCAD users gain 'production-grade' solid modelling and automated 3D to 2D drawing tools without giving up anything".
Unlike traditional constraint-based products, AutoSolids' constraint-free architecture provides flexibility when designs move in unanticipated directions.
Extensive changes are easily implemented at any stage of the design process without the frequent backtracking required by constraint-based systems or the "start over" approach of AutoCAD alone.
Once the design is complete, AutoSolids' QuickDraw feature instantly creates multiview 2D geometry for fast, accurate detail drawings.
It also maintains existing AutoCAD skills, investments, and native .dwg file format.
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