solidThinking user interface is a carefully designed environment where you work in luxurious comfort. In fact, not only does it have clear and self-explicative icons but it also reduces the number of commands required to specify operations. The program console guides you through the creation process prompting you on steps to follow. The perfect OpenGL integration grants you the best interaction with your models.
Views
- Standard orthographic views (Top, Front, Right, Left, Rear, Bottom) plus an unlimited number of independent perspective views.
- Interactive editing with full-shaded, texture mapped real time visualization.
- Transparent drawing mode. It is a variant of the Shaded and Textured modes.
- Texture management options to exploit hardware texture mapping of accelerated graphic cards. Three textures formats supported: RGBA, RGB and BGR.
- High quality NURBS tessellation.
Camera
- Dolly, field of view, focal length, roll, track, rectangular zoom, and cursor zoom.
- Numerical input of the camera coordinates.
- True colors or selection/deselection colors visualization.
Construction Aids
- Units of measure.
- Advanced grid settings for defining up to four different grids, each with its own origin and spacing, grid type, color.
- Snaps to grid, angle, scale%, translate, point, midpoint, center, curve, tangent. Snap to 3D and Snap disabled options.
- Unlimited number of Construction Planes.
- Axes Align to 3 Points. Align the local axes of a construction plane/object to three points.
- Axes Align to Object. Align the local axes of a construction plane/object to another object local axes.
- Axes Align to NURBS surface. Align the local axes of a construction plane/ object to be tangent to a NURBS surface.
- NEW Align to axis. Align a set of objects along X, Y, or Z directions with spacing options.
- NEW Align to curve. Align a set of objects along a curve with spacing options.
- Global/local modeling tolerance.
Objects Hierarchy Browser
- Advanced hierarchical browser.
- Unlimited number of layers.
- Select/deselect, toggle, delete, group/ungroup, show/hide objects and groups of objects, on/off bounding box, and cast/receive shadows options.
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