Upgrade Vellum Pro

Professional drafting capabilities

Dimensioning

Translators

Support for Mac OS X, Windows NT, 2000, XP

Full 2D and 3D drafting capabilities in 16 digits

Mid-point line tool

Updated user interface

Resizable dialog boxes

Tear off tool palettes

Dockable tool palettes

New icons

Spacebar pan

Universal Binary support for the Intel Mac

Support for File names over 32 characters long

AutoCAD 2007 DWG/DXF support

Direct, multi-sheet PDF creation with optional imbedded DXF export

New installer

Pen Style Palette

Eyedropper Tool

Support for Mac OS X

32-bit color interface

No hardware key

Support for long file names

Right mouse click support

Spell checker

Select by line or polygon command

Define line patterns command

Nudge, pan and orbit tools

32,000 ANSI and DIN built-in symbols with preview panel

Enhanced translators

Enhanced copying and pasting between documents

Object rotation

Circle center lines

Auto dimensioning

Snap options settings

234 user-definable colors from a palette of 16.7 million

Support for dual English/metric dimensions

Improved text object handling

Selection mask for grouped objects with various colors

An integrated 3D design environment of free-form wires, ACIS solid modeling and Class-A NURBs surfaces

Non-photo-realistic “sketch ” rendering for stills and animations (SP1)

Real-time zebra, normal, curvature and draft check in edit window

Real-time display in 3D of imported scanned hand sketches or other images

Direct support for imprinting profile sketches onto surfaces and solids to create surface subdivisions

Advanced control of anti-aliasing for object, edges, shadows and reflections

Independent control of reflections and refractions

Accelerated Phong and Gouraud shading options for fly-by and walk-through animations

Accelerated Phong and Gouraud shading options for render to file

Enhanced Shade Now shortcut

Photo-realistic material changes displayed in real time in the edit window

Optionally include wireframe geometry in photo-realistically rendered stills and animations

Photo-realistic environment maps for stills and animations

Photo-realistic florescent lights and area lights for stills and animations

Photo-realistic sunlight (from location and date/time) for stills and animations

Enhanced select and transform tools that directly move faces and edges in solids without using the specialized local face tools

Photo-realistic material changes displayed in real time in the edit window

Import and export of bitmap images

Imported bitmaps support alpha channel

Spherical, Cylindrical and enhanced Polar Duplicate tools

Enhanced Spacemouse-device support (Mac and Windows) (SP1)

Optional automatic view scale indicator

Updated ACIS, STEP, IGES and Catia translators

Batch convert tool

AutoCAD 2007 DXF/DWG support

Updated interface with tear-off and dockable tools and palettes

Layers optionally override pen properties

User-definable interface skins

User-definable texture library locations

Multiprocessor photo-realistic rendering and animation on Mac OS X

Direct, multi-sheet PDF creation with optionally embedded source and exported files

Updated interface with dockable tools and palettes

New installer

Universal Binary Support for Intel & Power PC Macs (SP1)

Compatible with ACIS 16 and Parasolids 12 for import and export

Model to Sheet View automatically draws scale as text element

Simplified menus for Text and Dimensions font and size selection

Enhanced import/export dialog box featuring target and source software by product name

Direct-input associative parametrics

Associativity so that changes to wireframe, solids, surfaces and curves are updated automatically with each other and with the drafting views

History Tree for more efficient design revisions

Excellent precision drafting

Precision 2D drawings with section, detail, auxiliary and perspective views

Bill of materials function

Sophisticated shape development tools including splines, ellipses and conics

Section Views

Mass properties

Design Explorer Feature Tree for streamlined model management and conveying design intent

Bill of materials

3D CAM/PRT output

Support for conics

Show/hide menu

More sophisticated spline and elipse tools

Dimensioning tool to calculate length along spline or curve

Adobe Illustrator translator

Support for QuickTime movies

Native Mac OS X support

Increased program stability

Better visual selection tools

Faster modeling operations

Improved blending

Improved shelling

Enhanced Design Explorer Feature Tree for streamlined model management and conveying design intent

Enhanced undo feature for improved reliability and speed

Revised options for displaying dimensional tolerances

Support for 3dconnexion's motion control devices (Windows only)  for greater productivity and comfort

Improved translations for STEP, IGES, Catia and Rhino

Automatic Crash Catcher to save files and operating state before gracefully shutting down

Enhanced Drafting Assistant eliminating drop-outs

All of the enhancements to Argon v8

Non-photo-realistic “sketch” rendering for stills and animations

Real-time environment maps in edit window

Courtesy license to Graphite v8

Photo-rendered model-to-sheet views

All of the features of Xenon v8

Nested equations

Variables allowed in status line and edit object fields

Real-time section profiles and cutaway views in edit window

Enhanced rib tool

Conditional equation parametrics

Relationship- and equation-driven parametrics for more efficient design iteration and greater productivity

Assembly tools to easily maintain relationships among parts

Mechanical parts library for greater time savings

Geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)

Rib and lip design tools