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Product Name: SpaceClaim Professional 2007 : 3D software

Product Description

Dynamic Modeling technology provides a highly-adaptive design environment that supports unanticipated design directions, making SpaceClaim ideal for conceptual design, design creation, and modification.

Geometric Inferencing works unobtrusively and in real time to highlight design similarities, such as equal radius holes or coplanar surfaces, during geometry creation and modification, improving user productivity.

Associations collect related geometry together and apply design intent, such as mirror or pairing of surfaces. Associations can be readily turned on or off as the design needs change.

Integrated Workspace for parts and assemblies supports top-down concept design by enabling creation and freely splitting and merging of components as the design progresses.

Open XML data format makes all design data accessible for product data management and downstream applications, ensuring long-term protection of customer data.

Sketch environment lets users create sketches and try new ideas quickly. Users can sketch to exact dimensions or create a rough layout for future modification. Sketching entities include lines, arcs, and splines. Sketching tools include trim, offset, and project to sketch. Sketches remain free of constraints, making the resulting 3D geometry completely flexible. This approach requires no advanced knowledge of final part design or detailing requirements.

Pull Tool creates and modifies geometry with a simple action. Users can pull a surface to create an extrusion, pocket, or hole. Users can also pull a surface to rotate it around an axis or to create sophisticated geometry by blending through different sections. Pulling a profile along a path creates a sweep, and pulling an edge creates a round or chamfer.

Move Tool speeds the process of moving or copying geometry in a design by providing a 3D handle to reference how geometry should be located along a specified direction or rotated about an anchor point. SpaceClaim also supports familiar Microsoft commands to move and copy geometry.

Section Tool provides a way to modify a 3D model by directly changing section geometry located at any cross section through the design. This intuitive operation is familiar to those used to working in 2D.

Associative Drawing environment enables design changes, as well as geometry creation and modification, from within drawing views. The drawing environment provides a familiar work space for those accustomed to working in 2D. Drawings support annotations, including geometric dimensioning and tolerances, notes and leaders, to JIS, ISO, and ANSI® standards.

SmartToolsTM understand the user’s modeling intent simply by recognizing what geometry is selected and in what context. By determining what operation to perform without excessive drop-down menus, dialogue boxes, and user clicks, SpaceClaim dramatically improves users’ productivity.

Hints provide helpful, real time feedback to the user as they create or modify geometry. Hints automatically present design considerations, such as maintaining same size holes or wall thickness, in the form of localized "snaps" to similar, surrounding geometry. Hints eliminate the need for the user to enter specific dimensions or interrogate the model before changing or adding geometry.

PowerSelectTM enables users to search the model for like geometry and to easily select subsets or an entire group from the resulting list in order to modify, move, or delete all at once. Additionally, previously selected geometry groups are remembered and presented to the user. Given the frequency with which users perform selection, this streamlined process accelerates user’s modeling productivity.

Tool Guides are tool specific graphical icons that appear after a major tool or operation is selected. The guides present the possible uses of each tool in a clear, graphical format and help the user in completing the selected operation. The selected graphical icon displays along side the cursor to give clear indication of the current task.

"Heads-up" Display makes use of the latest Microsoft technology, to put relevant commands and choices right where you are working, without getting in the way or requiring you to scroll through drop down menus in search of commands. Fewer mouse movements means more time working with your design.

Tool Tips and Animated Help are provided for each operation. Whenever the mouse cursor moves over a command icon, a tool tip appears with a brief description and a link to a more detailed explanation and steps for its use. The detailed descriptions include animations to clearly demonstrate the use of the tool.

Integrated Workspace provides a single design environment for working on an assembly and its individual components. The approach is ideal for top-down design because parts can be easily merged together or split into individual piece parts as the design evolves. Additionally, the assembly structure and hierarchy can readily be changed simply by dragging and dropping component designations around in the design tree.

Assembly design capabilities include mate and alignment of parts within an assembly while maintaining the design flexibility to turn those associations on or off. Assembly associations are displayed within the assembly tree structure and can be activated or removed simply by selecting the corresponding check boxes.

TraceParts Library provides a library of over 100 million standard CAD models from leading parts manufacturers. The library is accessible from within SpaceClaim and the selected component is automatically created and inserted into the assembly.

Combine provides a single tool for readily joining or splitting groups of geometry. Through the use of the combine tool, geometry can be split or merged within the part or across different parts. When there are multiple possible results, the geometry options are highlighted for the user to filter and select.

Edit as Blend provides the ultimate in design flexibility by enabling simple geometric shapes, such as a cylindrical surface, to be modified into a blended surface. The tool allows placement of 2D sections throughout the geometry and the ability to modify the 2D sections of any model, regardless of where it originated.

Mirror establishes a symmetrical association between like geometry in a part by selecting a plane that cuts through the part. The use of mirror lessons the time to create and modify symmetric parts, while maintaining design integrity. The mirror association can be turned on or off depending on the design needs.

Shell automatically removes material inside the part to a consistent wall thickness. The operation is ideal for designing plastic parts or castings. The tool automatically sets up an offset association between two paring surfaces that can easily be turned off or on, depending on the design needs.

Offset establishes an association between two surfaces so that they can be maintained as a thin wall during design modifications. Offset enables users to capture their current design intentions, yet retain the flexibility to change that association as their design evolves.

3D Mark-up is a documentation environment which includes a set of 3D annotation capabilities and highlighting tools to clearly communicate and document design changes. The environment includes mark-up dimensions, 3D annotations and comparison capabilities. 3D mark-up files can be attached to engineering change requests to clearly and unambiguously communicate the request.

"Was" Dimensions automatically show both the current dimensional value along with the original value prior to the design change as a 3D annotation on the model. This unique dimension capability removes the burden on the user to keep track of the changes and provides clear documentation of the modification.

Model Compare overlays the original model on the changed model and then automatically displays all differences in color-codes. These design differences can be communicated back to the design team using SpaceClaim Viewer or output to industry standard formats such as MS PowerPoint®, and XPS™.

2D Data Exchange includes support for DWG and DXFTM formats. 2D geometry imported from AutoCAD drawings can be used as the basis for a sketch to create 3D geometry. SpaceClaim allows you to preserve the value of your 2D data and easily convert it to 3D.

3D Data Exchange capabilities include both industry standard formats, included with SpaceClaim Professional 2007, and native CAD file formats. The complete list of supported formats and versions is as follows:

1. Data Import: CATIA® V5 R6 – R17 SP1 and V4 4.1.9 – 4.2.4, NX® versions NX1 – NX4 and UG v11 – 18, Pro/ENGINEER® 16 - Wildfire 3, SolidWorks® version 98 - 2007, Inventor® 6-11, ACIS®, Parasolid® v10.0 – 18.0.141, IGES up to v5.3, STEP AP203, AP214 (geometry), VDA FS 1.0, 2.0 and JT Open.

1. Data Export: CATIA V5 R17 SP1, ACIS, Parasolid v18.0, IGES v5.3, STEP AP203, AP214 (geometry), VDA FS 2.0 and JT Open.

SpaceClaim for the Concept Designer
Challenge:
• The ability to explore multiple design alternatives, quickly, during concept design is often limited by the constraints of the 3D model. The resulting time pressure to produce designs frequently results in the consideration of fewer design options and in less product innovation.

Solution: SpaceClaim Professional 2007
• With SpaceClaim Professional 2007, concept designers can create and explore different design alternatives quickly with a flexible design model that supports unanticipated and imaginative design directions.

• SpaceClaim supports top-down design, enabling concept designers to develop designs in a more natural and intuitive way. An integrated part and assembly workspace supports merging multiple parts, splitting a single part into many, and freely altering the assembly structure as needed.

SpaceClaim for the Manufacturing Engineer
Challenge:
• Design for manufacturability should always be considered in order to reduce costs and improve quality. However, manufacturing communication with the product design team is error-prone and inefficient because manufacturing works and communicates in 2D while the design team works in 3D.

• Manufacturing does not have sufficient access to or expertise using the designers’ CAD system to work directly with the model. Working with the 3D model would enable manufacturing to provide clear input earlier in the design process and to develop tools and fixtures in support of the design.

Solution: SpaceClaim Professional 2007
• SpaceClaim Professional 2007 enables manufacturing to import and work directly with the 3D design to explore changes that improve manufacturability and lower costs. SpaceClaim also helps manufacturing to communicate change requests clearly and accurately.

• SpaceClaim’s flexible modeling environment gives the manufacturing engineer the necessary freedom to explore design changes without needing to know how the model was built.

• SpaceClaim’s familiar 2D tools—such as a 2D section tool for changing the model and a drawing environment for 3D geometry creation and modification—shorten the learning curve.

SpaceClaim for the Analysis Engineer
Challenge:
• Engineers often receive large, complex models that require analysis. The analysis engineer must simplify such models to reduce the time needed to create a mesh for finite element analysis. However, the engineer does not have access to or is not an expert in the designer’s CAD system and, therefore, must rely on the CAD specialists to create simplified models.

Solution: SpaceClaim Professional 2007
• SpaceClaim Professional 2007 enables the analysis engineer to import and simplify 3D models by removing unnecessary geometry, such as rounds and fillets, with a single selection. This reduces the engineer’s dependency on the CAD specialist for each iteration and improves the productivity of both. 

• SpaceClaim supports export of geometry to an analysis solution through industry-standard formats including ACIS®, Parasolid®, IGES, STEP, and VDA.

SpaceClaim for Engineering Management (design review)
Challenge
• Design reviews and change requests are an important part of the design cycle. However, engineers and program managers often review designs in imprecise 3D graphical formats or in 2D. Neither option allows the reviewer to fully explore the design and validate their input prior to communicating with the design team. The result is error prone and inefficient input that leads to costly, unnecessary design iterations

Solution: SpaceClaim Professional 2007
• SpaceClaim Professional 2007 enables those reviewing a design to import and work directly with the 3D model to explore and validate their ideas prior to communicating them to the design team. Improved communication of validated change requests result in fewer design iterations, reducing time to market.

• Change requests are provided in 3D digital form, providing clear and traceable design input for improved process and product lifecycle management.

SpaceClaim for the Supplier
Challenge
• Suppliers work with multiple manufacturers, each with their own, standard CAD system. The supplier must maintain each CAD system, including multiple software versions of each, and retain expert CAD operators capable of exchanging design data and collaborating with the manufacturers on their preferred systems. This is both costly and cumbersome to maintain. 

Solution: SpaceClaim Professional 2007
• SpaceClaim Professional 2007 enables suppliers to import native file formats from many of the major CAD systems and make design modifications in a flexible modeling environment without needing to know how the model was built. 

• Suppliers can communicate design changes back to the manufacturer in a variety of formats, including a unique 3D mark-up format which highlights dimensional and geometry changes to be made on the master design.

Technology Differences
♦ Flexible Modeling technology provides a highly-adaptive design environment that supports unanticipated design directions, making SpaceClaim ideal for conceptual engineering, design creation, and modification.

♦ Geometric Inferencing works unobtrusively and in real time to highlight design similarities, such as equal radius holes or coplanar surfaces, to aid the user during geometry creation and modification.

♦ Integrated Workspace for parts and assemblies supports top-down design by enabling users to split and merge components and to alter assembly structure as needed.

♦ Open XML data format makes all design data accessible for product data and lifecycle management, ensuring long-term protection of customer data.

User Interface Advancements
♦ SmartTools™ understand the user’s modeling intent simply by recognizing what geometry is selected and in what context. By determining what operation to perform without excessive drop-down menus, dialogue boxes, and user clicks, SpaceClaim dramatically improves users’ productivity.

♦ Hints are a unique user interface advancement that automatically presents design considerations, such as maintaining same size holes or wall thickness, in the form of localized "snaps". Hints eliminate the need for the user to enter specific dimensions or interrogate the model before changing or adding geometry.

♦ Power Select enables users to search the model for like geometry and to select as a group from the resulting list in order to modify, move, or delete all at once. Given the frequency with which users perform select operations, this streamlined selection process greatly improves personal productivity and overall design efficiency.

♦ Modern GUI based on the latest Microsoft® technology enables users to focus on working with the design, rather than on working with the software.

Main Tools
♦ Sketch environment lets users sketch to exact dimensions or create a rough layout for future modification. Sketching entities include lines, arcs, and splines. Sketching tools include trim, offset, and project to sketch. Sketches remain free of constraints, which makes the resulting 3D geometry completely flexible.

♦ Pull Tool creates and modifies geometry with a simple action. Users can pull a surface to create an extrusion, pocket, or hole. Users can also pull a surface to rotate it around an axis or to create a blend by pulling the surface through different sections. Pulling a profile along a path creates a sweep, and pulling an edge creates a round or chamfer.

♦ Move Tool speeds the process of moving or copying geometry in a design by providing a 3D handle to reference how geometry should be located along a specified direction or rotated about an anchor point. SpaceClaim also supports familiar Microsoft Cut and Paste commands to move and copy geometry.

♦ Section Tool provides a way to modify a 3D model by directly changing section geometry located anywhere within the design. This intuitive operation is familiar to those used to working in 2D.

♦ Associative Drawing environment enables design changes, as well as geometry creation and modification, from within drawing views. The drawing environment provides a familiar work space for those accustomed to working in 2D. Drawings support annotations, including geometric dimensioning and tolerances, to JIS, ISO, and ANSI® standards.

Mark-up and Data Exchange Capabilities
♦ 3D Mark-up documents design changes using mark-up dimensions that automatically indicate both previous and current dimensional values.

♦ Compare function overlays the original model on the changed model and automatically displays all differences in color-coded highlights.

♦ Industry Standard Output of 3D mark-ups is available in MS PowerPoint® and XPS™. 
Data Import: CATIA® V5 and V4, NX®, Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks®, Inventor®, ACIS®, Parasolid®, IGES, STEP, DWG, DXF™, and VDA.
Data Export: CATIA V5 and V4, ACIS, Parasolid, IGES, STEP, DWG, DWG, DXF, and VDA.

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Company Details

Founded in September 2005, SpaceClaim has assembled a world-class team of prominent executives, product developers, board members, and advisors with unrivaled experience in bringing new computer-aided design software to market. 

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