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(continued...) The delete and fill command option enables multiple faces to be replaced with a single face with tangency to surrounding faces if required.
New diagnostic tools include shell error diagnostics to identify problems caused by minimum radius or incompatible thickness.
The Utilities bundle also includes a thickness analysis tool that displays a colour contour over the part.
A brand new deform feature allows the shape of a model to be altered locally or globally.
Deformation can be between points or an existing and target curve with control over the extent and area of influence.
This tool offers great potential to create complex forms but care must be taken that the desired result is achieved.
Alternatively complex splines can be readily generated using a fit spline tool that can fill gaps between sketch or model edges and remains parametrically linked.
Variable radius fillets can be applied to surfaces as well as solids and data points can now be created as reference geometry for an arc centre, centre of face, intersection of sketch entities or model edges, projection of a point onto a plane or distance along an entity.
Mould making tools have been rationalised so that a sequence of tools can be employed to define the parting line, create shut-off surfaces, radiate parting surfaces from the part line and generate the core and cavity solids.
The draft analysis tool is joined by an undercut detection tool.