SolidThinking 7.5为工业设计者提供了参数曲面调整的建模方法，solidThinking VANTAGE 7.5同时支持Windows和Mac OS X系统。并提供了OpenGl编程接口，新发布的7.5版本增加了很多美感很强的渲染效果。
SolidThinking是高端的CAID解决方案，能用来完成工业设计的多数工程要求。最高版本的solidThinking VANTAGE能够提供所有的建模和渲染功能，在DESIGN版本里，还加入了一些扩展功能，例如突伸、放样、表层处理、注塑孔、修正、贯穿和混合等功能。solidThinking 产品系列包括三个部分，旨在提供给不同的目标客户。
For complete control in a concept to production workflow, solidThinking MODELER XL provides a comprehensive modeling, analysis, reverse engineering environment for the most demanding industrial designer with engineering needs, or
for the engineer seeking a matchless surfacing suite to work
in harmony with other tools.
“Versatility and immediacy in any modeling phase and the powerful handling of complex surfaces are the main reasons that led us to adopt solidThinking”.
Aurora Alessandrini, Senior Designer, ARIETE
solidThinking MODELER XL includes everything found in solidThinking MODELER plus:
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Make Manifold, Shelling, Solid Offset, Associative Dimensioning, Plotting, and advanced control
of Tangency, Curvature, and higher order continuity. With robust file I/O and interactive, crack-free tessellation for rapid prototyping, solidThinking MODELER XL provides all of the tools necessary for seamless production while retaining the industry leading advantage of solidThinking’s interactive ConstructionTree.
Matchless NURBS surface and solid power in the most complete modeling environment for Win/Mac
Exclusive tools
The Curve to Arcs tool allows you to obtain a new curve made up of a series of accurate arcs approximating the original planar curve.
Useful for exporting to a CAM solution, where a
succession of joined arcs is preferred to a generic curve.
Extend curve and Extend surface allow you to extend a curve/surface for a user-defined distance or to a given curve/surface.
Make Manifold
Showing the true range of unique and powerful tools in solidThinking MODELER XL, the Make Manifold tool seamlessly bridges the gap between a high-end surface MODELER XL and advanced solids creation, while maintaining the highest level of interactivity for the designer and engineer.
In a non-manifold environment, the intermediate stages in a construction process do not have to be a closed solid (as with a manifold solid MODELER XL). The Make Manifold command produces a manifold solid or cellular topology from a non-manifold topology. This tool automatically deletes excess faces, edges and vertices to get to achieve a manifold topology, and maintains the interactive history connections of the Construction Tree, granting the designer the power to evaluate any design alternatives.
The Make Manifold power and flexibility can best be explained by following how surfaces can be combined to construct a simple mouse starting from few curves.
Shelling
The Shelling command is a new feature
for the advanced solid modeling of physical enclosures. This allows the MODELER XL user to create a shell and define its thickness by just selecting the faces you need to remove.
Wall thickness can be easily changed in the Modeling Tool panel, and includes full support for positive or negative offsets.
Solid Offset
The Solid offset command allows you to offset or inset a solid on all of its faces, or just an interactively selected few. With robust options for automatically rounding edges to maintain offset distances, and precise control of solid enclosure tolerances, the Solid Offset provides yet another advanced solid modeling tool to insure easy tooling, molding and manufacturing across a range of design requirements.
Analyze and improve the quality of your design
solidThinking MODELER XL introduces a new advanced analysis tool to interactively control Tangency and Curvature Continuity.
The program examines the selected adjacent edges, relatively to the characteristics of continuity of affiliate surfaces. Checks point to point possible openings, not parallelism among tangent plans and differences of curvatures. Edges where continuity is respected (G0, G1, or G2 depending on the check type you set in the Modeling Tool panel) are displayed in green.
Associative Dimensioning and Plotting
2D/3D dimensioning system for the automatic creation of horizontal, vertical, aligned linear dimensions, arcs and circle radii, curvature radii of NURBS curves at any given point, diameters, edges, angular dimensions. Leader command for quickly creating leaders (text annotations).
The power of the Dynamic Associative Dimensioning is realized when a revision to a drawing comes through, or a design changes.
With Associative Dimensioning on your model, you can edit your entities and have the dimensioning change as well, in real time.
Connection from Design to Documentation.
You can now compose drawings and pictures on a virtual sheet of paper and configure plot scale, paper size, plot area, paper orientation. Multiple drawing layouts are possible.
