Using features such as push-pull geometry editing and mesh remodeling, SpaceClaim users can sidestep the typically more arduous processes inherent in history-based modelers, recreating, modifying, or repairing parts in minutes or even seconds, Courter said. 'We want to make it as easy to use solid modeling as it is to use PowerPoint.' Those users don't need or want a complex, expensive CAD tool, said Blake Courter, director of customer development. To most engineers, SpaceClaim asserts, CAD is just a tool that documents parts for manufacturing. That, in fact, is the premise of SpaceClaim, a 3D direct-modeling solution for mechanical and product design, in its tenth release as of this week. SpaceClaim 2012+: CAD for the CAD Indifferent 11 Oct, 2012 By: Nancy Spurling Johnsonįor engineers, designers, and even managers and business owners who need access to 3D CAD to get their jobs done but don't necessarily have 'CAD user' as part of their job descriptions, a direct-modeling tool might be just the ticket.

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