- The Basic and Advanced
versions of 3D-Tool have all the same features;
except the Advanced version provides 4 additional
import options: STEP, IGES, VDA, SAT
- The intuitive user interface gives quick access to the
various functions of 3D-Tool.
- Models can be easily rotated in 3D
space or panned with the left and right mouse buttons.
- Within 2D-Drawings lines can be represented either in
the original color or black-and-white.
- Individual Shells or parts can be hidden or shown.
- Use dynamically positioned cross sections with cap surface
to examine the inside of your models.
- The View can be easily printed or saved
as BMP or JPG-Files.
- Models can be displayed shaded, as
wire frame or as points.
- Files or Shells can be made transparent.
- Assign new colors to the details, or simply use the
Autocolor function to assign different colors to each
file, shell or surfaces with only one click.
- The light position can be dynamically
changed, in order to emphasize details more clearly.
- The color of the background is freely
selectable. An adjustable gradient background provides
a more realistic backdrop for your virtual prototype models.
- 3D-Tool provides various functions
to move, rotate, scale or mirror individual Shells or
complete parts.
- With placement functions you orient
parts relative to other part's geometry or the coordinate
system.
- The elements of a model can be displayed exploded, and
moved within the explode. (New in
v8)
- 3D-Tool automatically computes smooth surface information
(if missing) to improve the display quality.
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Operating
Systems
- WINDOWS 95/98/Me
- WINDOWS NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
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Ease of Use
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Communication
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- The 3D-Tool Viewer and the data produced by you can
be passed as a compact and directly executable file
(*.exe) - no burden of downloading and installing a
viewer program in order to view your files.
- The bundled viewer is free - no licensing costs.
- The size of the Viewer is only about 500 KB.
- Create Custom Views.... Save all the display attributes
of the current state and also the component status (Shown/Hidden).
You can then play a Slideshow to successively display
the Custom Views. With this ability you can purposely
highlight certain details of your project to the person
viewing your data.
- Animations can be created for presentations within
3D-Tool, and exported as an AVI-video. For example,
to show the assembling of parts. (New
in v8)
- Data can be exported from 3D-Tool as STL, 3DS (3D-Studio),
POV Ray (* INC with color and smooth information) or
Ansys macro (* mac).
- Any detail can be annotated with 3D-Notes... providing
clear and concise feedback to your vendors and customers
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- Distances, angles, radii or wall thickness
can be measured by simple selection with the mouse, without
any special CAD knowledge.
- Volumes and Dimensions of the parts
or Shells can be determined.
- 3D-Tool has different analysis
functions:
- Check the wall thickness of parts
- Check the draft angles of parts
- Analysis of parting in 2 cavities
- 3D-Tool provides rapidly prototyping
functions, in order to check, modify, and re-save STL
files:
- Highlighting of non-connected –bad-
edges
- Repair functions for incorrect
STL files
- Automatic positioning of the parts
on a platform for RP systems
- Shifting and rotation of parts
on the platform by DragNTrans
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