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OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 offers a host of new features and improved functionality. Our most exciting additions are summarized below.
You can now create a variable blend with any number of radii: the variable N radius blend. With Var N Radius you can designate several radius values to any point on a chain of edges which will create a better-looking and smoother blend. The finished Var N Blend typically appears as a chain of faces. Users can define various radii and delete existing radii.
When modifying a Var N Blend, all faces of the blend are modified together. Variable N blends can overflow into neighboring faces. Use of the Flat Tangency option allows for a smooth transition between variable and constant radius blends.
You can now remove a blend from the top of a rib, and have the option to Redo Blends. This option allows you to recalculate blends while making modifications to a part so they fit smoothly into the part.
There are three additions to the Change Radius function: 1. You can now also change the radius of tori and spheres. For tori, you have the option to change the minor or major radius. Specify the radial face and drag the handle to the desired radius value. 2. You can now change the radius of a face using a fixed point. Change the radius of a face by specifying a new radius and a fixed point on the desired face. The point and the face normal will remain fixed at the selected point. 3. You can now change the radius of a chain of smoothly-connected radial faces by using the Chain command on the Change Radius menu. (All objects must be tangent and have the same radii to use Chain.)
In OneSpace Designer 2004, an enhancement has been included with the Clash functionality to allow you to determine whether two parts are clashing or touching and being able to save each of those results separately. If the Keep Result option is selected, OneSpace Designer will place the information in different assemblies so the results can be turned on or off separately and removed separately. When you select either "Clashing Only" or "Touching Only" only the assembly of desired result is kept when you finish the Clash command.
The coordinate system in OSDM is a right-handed Cartesian coordinate system (Origin, X, Y, and Z), where Z is defined by X and Y and the right-hand rule. There are several areas where coordinate systems can be used:
The coordinate systems are visible in the structure browser as well as the viewport. You have the option to create, position, change settings, or rename a coordinate system.
In previous versions, OneSpace Designer was not able to handle parts with different geometric resolutions within one machining operation. OneSpace Designer 2004 adjusts geometric resolutions of parts and workplanes so that the machining operation can be performed.
When working with parts that have different values for their geometric resolution, you will be prompted with the issue and must confirm the resolution change. When you confirm the change, the resulting resolution will be the lowest resolution of the parts or workplane involved. For example, in the figure below, the large block resolution is 10e-6 and the cylinder is 10e-2. When doing a Unite after the change is confirmed, the parts will be compatible and the resulting resolution between the two parts will be 10e-2.
Parts with different geometric resolutions
As an option, you can specify additional faces (Suppress Features) to be suppressed so they will not be included on the new faces of the shelled part. Use the Suppress Features option when geometric features (such as ribs or pockets) are thinner than the requested thickness and would hinder the shell creation.
To taper a planar, conic, or cylindrical face relative to a draft plane, you must specify the draft plane and draft angle or you can specify the draft direction and draft point separately, and the angle of the draft. That way it is very easy to apply the same draft on multiple faces with the same draft direction
When tapering a part use the Adjust Blend option in the Taper dialog to make
the blends fit in the modified model.
With OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004, you now have the ability to modify the
geometric resolution of a workplane to a more accurate level. OneSpace Designer
Modeling 2004 provides the ability to modify the accuracy up to 1.0E-6
mm. When modifying the accuracy of an existing workplane, users are
informed about potential 2D geometry edge matching issues. They can then double
check the geometry after changing the accuracy.
2D CoPilot allows intuitive access to 2D Profile functionality. Create exact lines, arcs, circles, and rectangles quickly and easily.
3D CoPilot features expanded and enhanced capabilities across most Machine and 3D Modify commands. New commands that employ 3D CoPilot are:
3D CoPilot enhancements include:
Using one of these new buttons you can pan, rotate and zoom the model without
holding the CTRL key.
Pan
Rotate
Zoom
Modify the view by discrete steps using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
SHIFT key - rotates the view by 3 degrees.
CTRL key - pans the view by a discrete step.
When you move your cursor over a part, edge, or blend, chamfer, or cylindrical face, the fly-by measure shows the property of an element or object as a tool tip. The property may be a length or radius measurement or a part name with path. For example, when you mouse-over a straight line you would get the property: "Length=10mm."
The new Measure Distance between two
elements command (
)
allows you to measure distance between two 3D Elements very easily and shows the
result as graphical feedback.
You can now calculate the maximum point on faces/edges in a direction and the maximum distance between faces/edges in a direction.
) and Cancel
(
) and Advanced (
) buttons now appear in the viewport
when necessary.
You can now start the system without a default part and/or workplane. Specify in System Settings.
OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 allows you to open files written by any previous version. OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 supports saving files in the current format, in the 11.0 format, or in the 11.5 format. When saving in any previous format, where applicable, new objects are converted to objects known in that previous version before saving; otherwise these new objects are suppressed.
In the past, when an owner lost a reference, the owner would be marked as "untouchable" preventing any further operation on the part/assembly. With support for open references it is now possible to continue working on such a part/assembly.
OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 handles open references, displaying a (
) icon next to the owner (part or assembly). This icon indicates that the
owner has references to currently missing objects (for example, due to partial
load) that previously resulted in owners being marked as untouchable.
STEP data exchange provides significant improvements in quality and robustness of import and export.
When exporting assemblies with selective instances, OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 allows affected instances to retain their placement information for accurate spatial location.
OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 performs a quality assessment for each solid or surface model imported from STEP files. It assigns the optimal accuracy value to each model and automatically documents this process in the logfile.
Enhancements have been made to the CATIA, I-DEAS, ProEngineer, and UG data adapters.
The supported CATIA, I-DEAS, ProEngineer and UG versions have been updated to the most recent versions.
The "healing" that OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 performs on files that are brought into from these other CAD packages has been improved.
The import of dimensions is now supported.
Pass coordinate systems from 3D to 2D. Create dimensions referencing coordinate system axis or origin.
Views of large models will update up to 3x faster without changing any settings. Using the new advanced performance options, such as the new graphical update and accelerated drawing comparison, views for many large models will update 10x faster.
3D Documentation lets you scan an assembly for information about its parts and subassemblies. A table containing the Bill of Materials (BOM) information for all parts is displayed. You can also add position flags (see below), whose numbers are included both with the flag and in the BOM table.
This BOM information and position flags created in 3D can be passed to 2D.
If you are using Design Data Management, the BOM information which is used in 3D can be obtained from the database.
In the past, sheet metal parts were created from its outline or a polyline, but not straight from the solid that the sheet metal was to encase. Now, you can create a sheet metal part from a solid. Now a sheet metal part is defined from a solid using a simple selection of bends on a given sharp-edged kernel block
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When tapering models, the user has to review the faces that need to be
tapered together with the same draft definition. Taper groups support this
process.
Taper group is a collection of silhouette faces that are
automatically filtered and are from the same part and have the same draft
definition.
When the grouping is finished, the user can taper the model very easily using the Apply command, which automatically applies the taper definition to the specified faces.
Parting line features are a collection of edges having a unique direction definition. They can be used:
OneSpace Designer 2004 provides functionality to register user-defined
components. They are handled like standard parts coming with the
catalogs.
User-defined components can be customized to work with the database like other MoldBase components.
OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 has been optimized for PA-RISC 2.0 and therefore no longer supports PA-RISC 1.x legacy systems.
Support for Microsoft NT® 4.0 has also been discontinued.
OneSpace Designer Modeling 2004 and related modules include customer-driven enhancements to improve your daily design work.
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