We have picked three features to highlight in this issue, among the many innovative tools and operations introduced in formZ 7:
Reshaping: Labeled “how did I live without this before?” by formZ users, this tool offers amazing sculpting and form creation abilities. By pulling and pushing surfaces you actually reshape volumes that are automatically Booleaned in real time to produce true solids that can be readily fabricated. Sketching capabilities that lead to robust solids rather than simply images.
NURBS: Enhanced and new NURBS tools have made formZ 7 a state of the art NURBS modeler. There are a variety of methods to generate initial NURBS, including preset and custom provided mathematical formulas. After initial generation, these NURBS surfaces can be blended and merged or edited to reshape them through their controls. Another form of imaginative sketching with smooth surfaces that make up solid volumes that can again be fabricated without requiring any additional processing. |  |
Interactive Sections: Addressing the need to view the insides of models, 2D and 3D sections can be derived in real time and dynamically. They can be nondestructive (that is, sections derived for visualization purposes only and have no effect on the actual model) or they can become new independent objects. Given that there is absolutely no limitations as to the orientation and positions of these dynamic sections, they offer an additional sketching/sculpting tool that goes beyond the strictly visualization functions of the sectioning operation.
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