Manufacturer: AutoDesSys
Product: form•Z
Version: 7
Language: English
Platform: Win or Mac
Packaging: Retail Box
Suggested Retail Price: Please contact us for pricing
Demo Version: http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzTrial.html
Local Instructor-led Training: Please contact us for further details
Introduction:
General purpose 3D solids and surface modeler form•Z, the 3D form synthesizer, is above all a 3D modeling program, even though it also includes drafting, rendering and animation. Additional photorealistic rendering is offered by form•Z RenderZone Plus.
It is a general purpose modeler that designers from a variety of different
fields can use to create and visualize 3D forms. A few samples of what users
from distinctly different fields are doing are shown above. For a more extensive
exhibition of form·Z users' work. It combines solids and surface modeling. It also combines faceted (boundary) representations with parametric spline representations, NURBS, patches, and metaballs. This unique mixture of modeling personalities allows you to create any form, existing or imaginary, while working in a single package. It is a design oriented program that, not only allows you to visualize existing forms, but also to create new ones, which remain soft and tentative while they are generated. form•Z is above all a 3D form synthesizer. |
Gallery: http://www.formz.com/gallery2/gallery.php
Features:
Interface
A graphic interface with associated multiple windows
form·Z features a highly interactive graphic interface that allows you to use the mouse both to select operations and to draw as if it were a pencil. At the same time, if you prefer, you can also select all of the operations through key commands, and you can create your objects by entering their dimensions and other parameters through the keyboard. As a matter of fact, you can even mix the two methods, and generate part of an object graphically and another part through numeric input.
Interactivity means that, when you generate objects, they are typically soft and are rubber banded, and you can manipulate them as they are being created. In other words, "you get what you see." The final results of your operations appear on your screen as soon as an operation is executed. Even after you create objects, they are never absolutely final, and you can still edit and change them through graphic interaction.
When you create objects graphically, you can work directly in 3D space through axonometric, perspective, isometric, panoramic, or oblique views. Objects are created (edited and transformed) relative to one of the three Cartesian planes (XY, YX, or ZX) or to a user defined and arbitrarily positioned reference plane. In addition, objects can also be drawn relative to a surface of a previously generated object.
You can also work on an orthographic projection view, which feels like you are working in 2D space while you are actually creating entities in 3D space. Or you can work in the traditional engineering fashion, by combining three different orthographic views from the top, the front, and the side, together with a 3D view. The latter is done through four tiled windows which are associated: what you draw in one of them is also reflected in the others. Needless to say, the multiple windows that you can open for a form·Z project are always associated, even when they are not tiled. Each of these windows can be set to a different view, which can be a 3D or an orthographic view, they are all continuously updated as an object is being created or edited, and taken together they can be used to look at a modeling scene from different sides and viewing angles.
Modeling
For details, please visit http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzFeatures.php
- Primitives
- Spherical objects
- Metaballs and metaformz™
- 3D solids and 2D shapes
- Patterned polygons
- Derive surfaces, extrusions, enclosures
- Parallel objects
- Frames
- Projection objects
- Unfolding
- Terrain models
- Revolved objects
- Helices
- Screws and bolts
- Stairs
- Sweeps
- Draft Sweeps
- Skinning
- Lofting
- S-lofts
- Meshed objects
- Subdivisions
- Moving and disturbing meshes
- Deformations
- Bending along curves
- Morphing
- Image based displacements
- Rounding
- Blending and filleting
- Draft angles
- Splines and c-curves
- C-Meshes
- Nurbz
- Formula curves and surfaces
- Patches
- Boolean operations
- Trimming, splitting, and stitching
- 2D and 3D sections
- Deriving contours
- Lines of intersection
- Grouping and ungrouping/Joining and separating
- Placing and editing text
- Symbols
- Editing 3D lines
- Converting types of objects
- Extracting controls
- Inquiring and measuring
- Repairing objects and projects
- Moving, rotating, resizing, and mirroring
- Clones
- Attachments
- Replacing
- Insertions
- Deleting
- Drafting Module
Special Features
For details, please visit http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzFeatures.php
- Extensive import/export
- Panoramic views
- Straight up perspectives
- View matching
- Walk through animation
- Rapid prototyping
- 2D/3D digitizing
System Requirements
Memory:Minimum: 1 GB * Note that complex models or large texture maps may require additional memory.
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Hard Disk Space:Minimum: 2 GB * Note that complex models or large texture maps may require additional hard disk space. | ||||
Internet Connection:Required for product activation, software updates and access to on line manuals and tutorial videos. DVD Drive:Required for software installation for orders delivered on DVD disc. |
Supplementary Information:
Documentations: http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzDocumentation.html
Videos:
- Manufacturers’ Website: http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzVideo_320.php?startMovie=formZ_intro_p1
- Manufacturer’s YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/formz3D/
- Mad Macs’ Youku Channel: http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_16797158.html or go to http://u.youku.com/madmacs/ and look for the FormZ album
Version History: http://www.formz.com/products/formz/versionHistory/fz_History.html
For More Information:
Please come back to mmhk.com for more information, contact us or visit the manufacturer’s website at www.formz.com.