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(continued...) Construction plane options have been expanded to include a perpendicular to surface option, useful in situations such as tangential to a cylinder.
Of particular interest for visible external forms is the ability to create curvature continuous face fillets to avoid harsh highlights where faces transition immediately to full radius with normal fillets.
Of course as modelling tools offer greater scope for improving surface quality, so the need for analysis tools increase.
In addition to a coloured curvature contour map, zebra stripes can be superimposed onto the model to identify any discontinuities.
A new draft analysis tool enables coloured faces or a gradual contour map to indicate areas of positive, neutral or negative draft.
Face colours can be retained to aid subsequent modelling or communication.
Fillets can be applied to specific existing features and variable fillets are enhanced with the ability to add and manipulate control points that can each be assigned their own fillet radii.
Lofts and sweeps now display shaded previews and additional sections can be extracted from a lofted form to allow subsequent editing.
In addition to specifying tangency to existing geometry at the start and end of a loft, side tangency can also be set to achieve excellent fitting of new features.
The migration of users from 2D is aided with a suite of new tools.