What's New in GMSWorks V4.2

New state of the art Graphics enhancements:

• Enhanced performance of entity selection
  
• User control of the OpenGL lighting model
  
• Display Properties dialog
  
• Display element toggle for material properties
  
• Material property assignment to solid faces
  
• Color property assignment to solid faces
  
• Major new Surface/Solid Modeler revision featuring the new DESIGNBASE Surface Innovation 2002 Meta-Modeling kernel
  
• Attribute naming support for Body, Face, Edge, Parameter & Vertex entities
  
• Assemly Implementations:
  
• Recreate Previous Solid Assemblies with attribute support
  
• Explode Solid Assembly attributes to individual bodies
  
• Enhanced surface and blending stability
  

Surface & Curve tweaking:

• Curve Shape modification. Commands to alter the shape of an edge by moving the control points that define the shape of the underlying curve. Selection of a control point, a translation vector and a distance allows the altering of the curve
  
• Surface Shape modification. Commands to alter the shape of a face by moving a vertex point that defines the shape of the underlying surface. Selection of the shape faces, vertex, a translation vector and a distance allows moving sections of the surface
  
• Surface smoothing
  
• Convert Edges to lines/arcs
  

Implementation of a Visual History Tree

• Improved History Dialog with increased functionality
  
• State-specific actions using right mouse button
  
• Delete a single node
• Trim (all but current branch)
  
• Display/name/rename/delete Named States
  
• Checkboxes control display of stage/step, label and named states
  
• Ability to retrieve State information from a solids face
  

New Implementaion of Solid FEATURES

• Represent abstract shapes of the part model, such as a hole, boss, rib, etc
  
• Allows for the quick and convenient addition, removal and replacement of feature besed shapes to your part models
  
• GMSWorks comes standard with an extensive library of predefined features that can be applied to your designs
  
• Can also be extended using FEATURES->CREATE option, which allows you to draw cutom shapes and save their "recipes" for use as features when creating other models
  

Wire Modeling

• IGESIN of curves to wires
  

Surface Modeling

• Sweep curve along an angle into a surface sheet
  
• Draft of open curve set
  
• Fillet surface between:
  
  - 2 facesets
  - faceset and edgheset
  - edgeseq and edgeseq
  
  
• Body Slice that intersects a curve projection, a plane or a surface shell with a body, creating a sheet body from the intersection
  

Solid Modeling

• Improved conversion of 4.0 solid model parts based upon ACIS
  
• Sweep curve along an angle into a solid body.
  
• IGESOUT of surface shells or solid bodies
  
• Transfer of auxiliary GMSWorks wireframe surfaces into solid sheets that can be welded later into a solid model
  

New advanced blending/chamfering features

• Complex global chamfering
  

GMS Error Handling enhancements

• ACIS to DESIGNBASE conversion improvements
  

New advanced drawing creation from Solid Models

• Easily create drawings directly from Solid Models by HLR creations and / or creation of arbitrary sections with automatic crosshatching (SOL2DRAW)
  

Advanced Machining Applications Improvements

• Automatic roughing, z-level and surface milling direct from Solid Models
  
• Enhanced surface milling cut direction options to allow flow line machining, spiral cut strategy, cut along any curve, offset from a curve and vector from a curve
  
• Constraint menu for multi-surface machining (MSURF), including minimum and maximum Z depth and maximum cut angle to leave steep surfaces for z-level strategy
  
• By Region or By Level strategies for roughing ans z-level machining
  
• Both constant and variable z-step increments supported in z-roughing (ZRUFF) and z-level machining (ZSLICE)
  

Internationalization

• AGILE functions to support multi-languages