Upgrade from Vellum Solids 98, 99 or 2000


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Xenon is actually a cross-grade from Vellum Solids 2000 where Cobalt offers a true upgrade.

Xenon v8 offers:

Photo-rendered model-to-sheet views

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

Real-time environment maps in edit window

Courtesy license to Graphite v8

Real-time zebra, normal, curvature & 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 environment maps for stills and animations

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Enhanced Spacemouse-device support (Mac and Windows)

Multiprocessor photo-realistic rendering and animation on Mac OS X

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

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

New installer

Universal Binary Support for Intel and 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

Support for Mac OS X

No hardware key

An integrated 3D design environment of wires, surfaces and solids

Updated ACIS solid modeling kernel

Associative parametrics

Excellent precision drafting

Sophisticated shape development tools including splines, ellipses and conics

Enhanced user interface including collapsing windows and consistent tool icon layout/p>

Mass properties

Enhanced 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 ellipse tools

Dimensioning tool to calculate length along spline or curve

Translators for Adobe Illustrator, Rhino 3DM, Shockwave, Parasolids (Windows only), PTC (through ACIS)

Support for QuickTime movies

Support for text entities as profiles

Courtesy license to Graphite v7

Cobalt v8 additionally includes:

All of the features of Xenon v7

Conditional equations

Nested equations

Real-time section profiles and cutaway views in edit window (SP1)

Variables allowed in status line and edit object fields

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


Vellum Solids 98 99, 2000 upgrade to

Physical Materials

Electronic Download

Xenon v8 Commercial

US $1695.00 US $1595.00

Cobalt v8 Commercial

US $2195.00 US $2095.00

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