SpaceClaim 2011 Release Notes

SpaceClaim 2011 Release Notes
When sketching on a drawing sheet, you can create sketch curves that appear only in the active view by
selecting the Create curves shown only in current view sketch tool option. This function is useful if you
want to show multiple design possibilities using the views on your drawing sheet. If you want to work with
the sketch curves as design elements, make them visible in your design document.
Sketch curves outside the current sketch plane appear faded if the Fade Scene Under Grid option tool in
the Grid ribbon group is selected. Selecting this option has no affect on layout curves.
Mesh objects
You can now import STL files in such a way that they are lightweight (facets only), with the ability to snap
to the facets, as shown in the figure. To display the facet edges, select the Mesh option in the Edges dropdown
menu in the Style group on the Display tab.
A new icon in the Structure tree identifies a mesh object. You can drag and drop a mesh object into a
component and move a mesh object with the Move tool. You can also change the color, layer
membership, and visibility.
You can sketch lines, splines, and points on mesh objects in 3D mode. Click the sketch tool, switch to 3D
mode, then sketch on the STL model. The cursor snaps to the facet vertices, edges, and faces on the
model, as shown in the figure below.
You can sketch on a cross section plane of a mesh object, which allows snapping
to facets that intersect the plane.
You can use the line, rectangles, circles, splines, ellipse, 3 point arc, polygon,
sweep arc, and point sketch tools to create curves that snap to geometry
intersecting the plane, as shown in the figure on the right. Other sketch tools do
not snap to the geometry intersecting the plane, but you can use these tools to
create geometry off of newly drawn curves.
When you select placement points on a mesh object, a circle around the point of
the cursor helps you to identify facet faces, edges, and points. The following
images show the types of selections you can make:
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