SpaceClaim 2011 Release Notes

General
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SpaceClaim 2011 Release Notes
Several improvements were made, including lightweight assembly components, better control of visibility
in custom views, and flex license borrowing.
There is now a Purge button in the Undo drop-down menu. This allows you to save on memory use by
clearing all previous actions during the SpaceClaim session.
When you tile multiple windows, the active window is now indicated with a yellow border.
There is now a new icon in the Structure tree that represents whether an external part is an assembly.
Old icon: New icon:
When you right-click a named solid in the Structure tree and select Move to New Component, the new
component now has the same name as the solid.
You can set the visibility of an individual curve in the Structure tree even when the curve is within a
dependent copy of a component.
Lightweight assembly components
There is now a Make Lightweight option for external assembly components. This option is not available
for internal components. To make an external component lightweight, right-click the component in the
Structure tree and select Make Lightweight from the context menu. Making an assembly component
lightweight uses less memory than when the geometry information is fully loaded and able to be modified
by the user. To return the component to a fully loaded state, right-click the component and select Load
Component.
Visibility control in custom views
When you create a view using the View tab in the Structure panel, new functionality allows you to save
object visibility states with the view. When you create the view, you can enter a Name, Shortcut, and
information to be stored with the view including Orientation, Object Visibility and Visibility behavior for
new objects. The following is how to use each section of the dialog box:
� Name – enter a unique name for the view state, which will appear in the Structure panel.
� Shortcut – (optional) select hotkeys (Ctrl+ a number 0-9) to apply the view via the keyboard.
� Orientation – specify whether the current window orientation should be saved with the view
state.
� Object Visibility – checking this box stores what is visible currently in the design window. For
example, if two out of three objects are hidden/unchecked in the Structure tree at creation of
this view state, selecting this view state in the future will show you the view with two out of
three objects hidden. Visibility is applicable to all types of geometry, planes, and curves.
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