http://www.antoniuskoester.de/ Antonius Köster GmbH & Co. KG

 

 

Products

 

 

Date: May 22, 2012 - Time: 08:39


          

Confrontation FreeForm® Modeling plus™
and FreeForm® Modeling™

Product Name

FreeForm®
Modeling™

FreeForm®
Modeling Plus™

Software version number

V9.1

V9.1.2

 

Haptic Device

 

PHANTOM® Desktop™

 

PHANTOM® Omni™

 
32-bit edition

64-bit edition - designed to run on Windows® XP x64 OS

 
New User Interface

 
Voxel Modeling Tools
  Curve Tools
    Extend Curve

    Copy Curve from Parasolid Edge

    Surface to Clay Intersection Curve

    Flatten Curve

    Automated Split (Updated: Parametric splitting) or Join Curve (including ability to heal curves)

   

Project Curve to Plane, Intersect Sketches, Copy Curve from
Sketch Plane, Offset Curve, Curve Helix, Sub-divide Curve Loop

    Select, Draw Curve (Updated: Cyclic curves), Project Sketch, Fit Curve (Updated: Adaptive fit option), Split Curve, Join Curve, Mirror Curve, Slive Curve, Smooth Curve, Copy from Reference Group

  Plane Tools
    Orient Plane Through Three Points, Orient Plane to Curve, Copy Profil

    Create Plane, Reposition Plane, Orient Plane Flat to View, Import 2D Art to Plane

  Sketch Tools
    Pencil, Erase Pencil, Rectangular Array

    Select, Line, Arc, Round Corner, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Freehand Curve (Updated: Cyclic curves), Curve by Control Points, Trim, Mirror, Offset, Move, Rotate, Scale, View Flat to Sketch Plane

  Construct Clay Tools
    Basic Shapes

    Loft Clay, Sweep Clay, Toothpaste, Pipe

    Offset Piece

    Edit Reference Piece Selection

    Edit Reference Piece with Curve Loop

    Revolve, Inflate, Connected Spheres (Add Clay), Mirror, Wire Cut

  Sculpt Clay Tools
    Carve with Cube, Carve with Angle, Carve with Loop, Carve with Razor, Carve with Knife

    Custom Tool

    Carve with Ball, Corndog (Updated; Axis lock and Draft support), Scraper, Smudge, Attract, Spike

    Smooth (Updated: Blend with mask option), Smooth Area (Updated: Feathering option)

  Detail Clay Tools
    Variable Round Edge, Bevel Edge

    Groove, Emboss with Curve, Emboss Area, Emboss with Image, Emboss with Wrapped Image

 

 

  Deform Clay Tools
    Shape Tool (Updated: Tangency falloff control), Deform Box
(
Updated: Four way symmetry, Align to view, Falloff control)

    Tug, Tug area

 

Select and Move Tools

    Select Clay with Plane, Select Clay with Box

    Select with Ball, Lump Select, Select with Profile, Separate with Curve, Mask

    Reposition Selection (Object list entities)

    Paste 3D Pattern

 

Object List Functionality

   

Fill Voids

   

Group Booleans (combine into / remove from)

   

Match Origin

   

Object List Notes

  Utility Tools
    Hide Show Patches and Solids

    Hide Show Curves, Hide / Show Planes, Hide / Show Clay, Fit to View, Perspective View

    Favorites Palette

    Custom Color Schemes

    Incremental Backup File Saving

    Pop Through Force Control

    Toggle Touchable Reference Pieces

    Toggle Touchable Patches and Solids

NURBS Surfacing Tools (patches can be created in 3D space or fit to clay)
  SensAble Auto Surfacer v1.0

  Semi-automatic Patch Creation

  Select All Patches

  Find Folded Patches

  Measure Fit of Patches to Clay

  Refit Curves and Patches

  Copy Patches from Piece

  Shape, Trim, and Mirror Patch

  Extend Patch

  Split Mesh

  Creation of Voxel Solids from Nurbs Patches

  Environment and Zebra Mapping

NURBS Solids Tools
  Wire Cut, Spin, Loft and Sweep Solids

  Mirror Solid

  Creation of Voxel Solids from NURBS Solids

  Stitch Patches into NURBS Solids    
Impor/Export File Formats
  Native Parasolid® Solids and Patches

  STEP Solids and Patches

  IGES Solids and Patches

  Buck Support

  IGES Curves

  STL, OBJ, PLY, ZCP

  Export TextureKiln™

Polygon Support
  Import, Convert to Clay, Decimated Export

Dimensional Control
  Dimension Parasolid Edges

  Tug with Ruler

  Piece Density

  Mass Properties

  Show Center of Gravity

  Ruler

  Haptic Guides

Evaluation Views
  Parting Line Color, Rainbow Color Draft Display

  Cutaway View, Scalable Secondary Views

  Flat Shade Clay

  Flat Shade Reference Pieces

Paint and Render
  Project Texture

  Wrap TextureVoxel

  Voxel Paint (Paint Brush, Air Brush)

  mental ray® Rendering Engine

Moldable Part
  Blocking

  Parting Line Color

  Parting Line Exploration

  Parting Line Definition

  Parting Line Smoothness & Curvature Evaluation

  Automatic Smoothing of Parting Line

  Automatic Draft Fixing

  Shelling

  Split Line Curve Definition

  Split Joint Design

  Referencing Import Geometry from CAD

  Tug To Smooth Parting Line

  Smooth & Smudge

  Holes & Cutout Design

  Previewing & Preparing Parts For Mold Design

Mold Insert Design for Tooling
  Pull Direction

  Insert Block Extents

  Planar Parting Line Sections

  Extruded Parting Surface Creation

  3D Offset Parting Surface

  Simple Parting Surfaces

 

Multiple Component Creation

 

Previewing & Creating Core & Cavity Inserts

* All red points are news in version 9.1 & version 9.1.2.

 


© 2004-2012 Antonius Koester GmbH & Co. KG - Imprint AGB