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Shark FX and Shark Features

Highlighted items are only available in Shark FX-AP.

Usability:

  • Snaps for intelligently locating x y z coordinates, tangents, and perpendiculars
  • Concept Explorer to examine and modify associative relationships and construction history
  • Customizable key short cuts
  • Prompt Window for prompting designer through commands
  • Data Entry Window for explicit creation and modification of geometry
  • Object show/hide tools
  • Object Info Window
  • Layers and Sub Layers
  • Tool Tips
  • User defined views, work planes, and pen styles
  • Dual Monitor Support

Precision Kernel:

  • Precise kernel serves as foundation for NURB and analytic based geometry definitions

2D and 3D Wireframe:

  • Points, Lines, Arcs, Circles, Ellipses and Conics
  • Double Line Tool
  • Splines construction methods of Fit through point, Control Point, Bezier, On Surface, and Sketch
  • Add, remove, elevate, smooth spline control points
  • Dynamic modification of position and tangencies
  • Smart Polygons
  • Dynamic curvature plots
  • Project curve to plane
  • Best in class offset, trim and relimit curve tools
  • Offset, trim and relimit curve tools
  • Connect and Join
  • 2D Fillet, Chamfer and Corner
  • 3D Curve Fill
  • Text (Horizontal, At Angle, Within Box, Along Curve)

Utilities:

  • Group, Lock
  • Transformations: Translate, Rotate, Mirror, Scale (and Non Uniform), Linear and Polar Duplicate, Align, Stretch, Twist
  • Verify (2 Point Distance and Angles, Lengths and Minimum Distance, Interference Detection, 2D Planar Properties (Area, Centroid, Principle Moments), Dynamic Curvature Plots)

Surfacing:

  • 1 and 2 Rail Sweep
  • Extrude by Vector
  • Cover (Coon's and N-Sided)
  • Skin, Skin with Guides, and Skin with Draft
  • Nets (MxN curve networks)
  • Offset
  • Blend with user defined takeoff magnitudes
  • Fillet
  • Rebuild, Elevate, and Join
  • Thicken
  • Capping and Filling
  • Match G1 or G2
  • Trim and Untrim
  • Associativity for all creation and modifications
  • Gaussian, Zebra, Draft Analysis

Solid Modeling:

  • Constant and Variable Filleting and Chamfering
  • Shelling, Holes. Bosses
  • Extrude, Sweep, Lathe
  • 1 and 2 Rail Sweeps
  • Protrusions and Cutouts
  • Booleans (Add, Subtract, Union).
  • Trim and Split
  • Thicken To Solid
  • Stitching and Healing with user defined tolerances
  • Primitives
  • Holes
  • Bosses
  • Lofting between Faces
  • Inflate/Deflate Face
  • Feature Patterns
  • Pipes
  • IBranched Solids

Solid Editing:

  • Parametric Features
  • Associative History Tree
  • Deform Face
  • Remove, Offset, Move, Replace, Match Face
  • Bend and Bend Along Curve
  • Draft Faces
  • Stretch, Twist, Bend, Bend Along Curve
  • Mate, Align, Insert Faces

Annotation/Detailing:

  • Generate side, front, top, and isometric views automatically from 3D models and templates
  • Easily Create Section, Detail, and Auxiliary Views
  • Pen Weights, Patterns, Styles
  • Horizontal, Vertical, Radial, Diametric, Center Marks, Leaders, Callouts, Angular Dimensions
  • Tolerances and User Settings for Dimension Attributes
  • Stacked, Dual, Fractions
  • Hatching and Fill Patterns
  • Bill of Materials
  • Text (Normal, Angle, Path)

Photo Rendering:

  • Raytracing with Anti-Aliasing
  • Unlimited Point, Spot, and distant lights
  • Adjustable soft and hard shadows
  • Drag and Drop from Material Library
  • Backgrounds and Foregrounds
  • Environment Maps
  • Rapid Render Presets for Glass, Metal, Mirror, and Plastic Materials
  • Material Editor for controlling reflectance, color, displacement, transparency, and texture space

Animation:

  • Walk Through, Fly By
  • QuickTime Object VR
  • QuickTime Panoramic VR
  • QuickTime Event Recording
  • Object Based Animation

Data Exchange:

  • DXF/DWG
  • SAT, IGES, STEP
  • CATIA® v4
  • Pro/E® (Import Only)
  • Adobe Illustrator® (up to v9)
  • 3DS, COB, Rhino (Import Only)
  • STLSTL (ASCII and Binary)

Part Library:

  • 26,000+ Part Library Electrical, HVAC, Mechanical Construction, Bathroom, Kitchen LAN, CMOS, Fasteners Doors, Windows, Counters
  • Drag and Drop

2D Constraints:

  • Coincident, Tangent
  • Perpendicular, Parallel
  • Offset, Collinear
  • Auto Constrain
  • Variables and Equations
  • Dimension Driving
  • Animate Dimensions

AeroPack Tools:

  • Perimeter Curve
  • Polyconic Surfaces
  • Airfoil Generation
  • Lifting Surfaces Planform Generation
  • Area/CG Curve
  • Sum Curves
  • Mean Geometric Chord
  • Space Spline
  • Obscuration Plot
  • Curve Integration
  • Import Airplane
  • Replace Curve
  • Export Curve
  • Plot Curve

Other Features:

  • MicroScribe® Support
  • 3DConnexion® Support

System Requirements:

  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Vista, or Windows 2000
  • Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon class processor
  • 512 MG RAM or greater
  • Mouse Point Device
  • DVD Drive
  • Mac OSX 10.4
  • Open GL
  • G4 or G5
  • 512 MB RAM
  • DVD Drive
  • Mouse (recommend 2 button mouse