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(continued...) Solid bodies can be 'uncapped' to convert them to surfaces by deleting a face.
Surfaces can now be scaled in the same way as solids and planes can be used in addition to surfaces to cut solid bodies.
A useful addition to filleting is the option to select three face sets to which the fillet is tangent enabling an edge to be fully rounded.
Design tables have always offered powerful tools for driving configurations of family parts.
Capabilities have been extended to offer bi-directional operation so that changes made to a model propagate back to the design table.
A design table can be saved out and links created to external Excel files.
Sheet metal modelling now allows conical forms to be folded and unfolded.
Since lofted bends are likely to create deformations in the flat pattern, a bend deviation PropertyManager is available to calculate surface areas in the folded and folded conditions and resultant deviation.
There is considerably more flexibility in manipulating parts in an assembly heirarchy.
A part can be replaced by a sub assembly and vice versa with the option to replace selected or all instances in one operation.