Upgrading from Xenon v7


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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 (SP1)

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 objects, 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

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

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)

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 (SP1)

Layers optionally override pen properties

User-definable Interface skins

User-definable texture library locations

New installer

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

Compatible with ACIS 16 & 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 (SP1)

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


Cobalt v8 adds to Xenon v8:

All of the features of Xenon v8

Conditional equations

Nested Equations

Variables allowed in status line and edit object fields

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

Enhanced rib tool

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

Xenon v7 upgrade to:

Electronic Download

Physical Materials

Xenon v8 Commercial

US $995.00 US $1095.00

Cobalt v8 Commercial

US $1495.00 US $1595.00

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