Sketcher Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Adding Equivalent Dimension (IMP)

You can now add new equivalent dimension constraints to the existing equivalent dimensions
group of the same type.
Benefits: The new equivalent dimension constraint can be added with minimum steps.

2. Hide or Show Outputs (IMP)

You can now hide or show the output elements each time you hide or show the sketch
corresponding to the output elements, in Me > Preferences>App Preferences > 3D Modeling >
Sketcher > Sketcher, under Sketch Plane select Hide or show outputs at the same time as the
sketch check box.
Benefits: The need to explicitly hide or show the outputs is eliminated.

3. Curvilinear Distance Constraint Preview (IMP)

A preview of the direction of curvilinear distance constraint on a periodic curve is displayed
when you create it using Constraints Defined in Dialog Box command.
Benefits: The overall user experience is enhanced.

4. Support of Libraries (IMP)

You can now generate a library of geometries groups classified automatically from sketches of
the part, and reuse these groups by re-instantiating them in another sketch.
Benefits: The productivity is improved.

Part Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Support for Polyhedral Geometries (IMP)

You can now apply commands on polyhedral objects, or use polyhedral geometry as inputs.
Benefits: The app is more efficient and robust.

2. Pattern Analysis (IMP)

This functionality provides brief analysis of all the patterns in the part.
Benefits: Pattern analysis enhances the reviewing process for the 3D object.

3. Hole Analysis (IMP)

This functionality provides brief analysis of all the holes in the part.
Benefits: Hole analysis enhances the reviewing process for the 3D object.

4. Chamfer Orientation Management (IMP)

You can now invert the orientation of the edges of a chamfer independently.
Benefits: The chamfer orientation management is enhanced.
Generative Shape Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. New Types in Surfacic Curvature Analysis (IMP)

You can now access new analysis types:
a. The Flat Region type lets you indicate areas that are too flat.
b. The Curvedness type lets you quickly see the strength of the curvature continuously
distributed over a shaded surface.
c. The Shape Index type lets you get more detailed shape information compared to a
simple shaded convex-concave analysis.

You can now directly access the new Specialized Tessellation command.
Benefits: You have more options to assess the curvature of a surface.

Assembly Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Engineering Connection (IMP)

The structure of the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box has been modified, with a
new presentation of the engineering connection options.
New commands are available from the action bar to create typed engineering connection
directly.
Benefits: The navigation inside the dialog box is more immersive, and the creation or
modification of engineering connections is facilitated.

2. Assembly Symmetry (IMP)

When a material is applied on the original instances in an Assembly Symmetry, you can now
keep the same material to the symmetrized instances.
Benefits: The user do have no more to apply material on symmetrized instances manually.

Drafting Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Subscription of Drawings (IMP)

You can now subscribe drawings to get notifications related to the modifications in the
drawings.
Benefits: After subscribing to a drawing, you are notified whenever the maturity of the drawing
is changed or a new revision is created.

2. Copying a View to Another Drawing (IMP)

You can now copy a view with links from a drawing to another drawing.
Benefits: Using the new command, Copy View with Links, you can now reuse a view from a
drawing.

3. Bill of Materials (BOM) and Balloon Enhancements (IMP)

The following BOM capabilities are now enhanced:
a. BOM table update now reflects the replacement of the product instances.
 b. BOM table update isolates the rows of removed products using the Do not display
product option.
c. Engineering connections, having the definition of assembly annotations, can be
customized.
d. Balloons corresponding to the replaced instances are created according to the BOM
row, even if the BOM table is not up to date.

Benefits:

a. Using the Do not display product option, you can maintain the numbering of the items
as it is, even if some products are removed.
b. The balloons and the BOM tables are now synchronous.

4. Defining Depth for Breakouts (IMP)

While creating breakouts, the breakout view is now associative to the selected 3D point.
Benefits: You can now have associativity between the breakout view and the selected 3D point.

5. Volume Clippings (IMP)

You can now select any part body to clip the view.
Benefits: You have more freedom to choose objects while clipping a view using the volume
clipping option.

6. Section View Creation Using Sketch (IMP)

You can now create multiple section views by selecting a 2D sketch that is copied as result with
link.
Benefits: You can now create a sketch and copy it as result with link under the required part
body, and reuse it to quickly create section views.

7. 3D Polyhedral Data (IMP)

You can now create distance dimensions and angle dimensions between edges.
Benefits: It is now possible to create distance dimensions and angle dimensions in the views
created from a 3D polyhedral data.

Sheet Metal Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Ability to Calculate Unfolded Length Using Bend Allowance and Bend Deduction (IMP)

You can now use the bend allowance or bend deduction as methods for calculating the sheet
metal unfolded length.
You can specify the unfold method in the Sheet Metal parameters. For more information, see
Editing the Sheet Metal Parameters.

You can also select the unfold method when doing the following:
a. Creating walls from edges. For more information, see Creating Walls from Edges..
 b. Creating bends (cylindrical, conical, from flat). For more information, see Creating Bends
from Walls, Creating Conical Bends, and Creating Bends from a Line.
c. Creating extrusions. For more information, see Extruding.
d. Recognizing features.

Benefits: Previously, you could only use the K-factor as the method for calculating the sheet
metal unfolded length. You could use bend deduction only if it was defined through the
standards. Now, you can choose between the K-factor, bend allowance, bend deduction, or
in some cases, the bend deduction table defined in the standards (if any).

2. Limiting Geometry Enhancements for All Swept Walls Commands (IMP)

When creating any kind of swept wall (flanges, hems, tear drops, and user flanges), you have
more options when defining relimitations:
a. Define different offsets to the left and to the right side of the input spine.
b. Swap the left and right sides of the input spine.
c. Specify one limit only.

Benefits: Points, planes, or surfaces are no longer your only options to define the left and right
limits of the input spine. Furthermore, both limits are no longer mandatory. This improves the
user experience.

3. New Option for the Standard Cutout and Pocket Cutout (IMP)

You can now select the Optimize Geometry option when creating standard cutouts or pocket
cutouts.
Benefits: Optimizing the geometry improves the result of the cutout or pocket, by taking into
consideration impacts on both the top and bottom faces. Let's take the example of a pipe going
through the sheet metal body, and let's consider that the extrusion for the pipe is based on the
sketch used as profile for the cutout.
Without the Optimize Geometry option, you may encounter overlapping issues when creating
the cutout with only the Top or Bottom option.

Cutout with an impact on the top face, without Optimize Geometry selected
 With the Optimize Geometry option, you can avoid overlapping.

Same cutout with Optimize Geometry selected

When you select Optimize Geometry, you can also specify a gap between the input surface and
the cutout result.

Same cutout with Optimize Geometry selected, and Gap specified

4. Recognize Command (IMP)

You can now recognize surfaces and non-constant thickness solids as sheet metal features. To
do so, the Recognize dialog box now offers three recognition modes.
a. Recognize 3D shape of constant thickness: Converts a 3D shape that has a constant
thickness into a sheet metal shape. Also works with ordered geometrical sets.
Note: This mode corresponds to the Recognize command that was available in earlier
releases.
Input Shape

Resulting Sheet Metal Feature

b. Create sheet metal shape from selected faces : Creates a sheet metal shape from
selected faces of a 3D shape that does not have a constant thickness.
Input Shape

Resulting Sheet Metal Feature

c. Recognize Surface: Converts a surface into a sheet metal shape.
Input Surface

Resulting Sheet Metal Feature

Benefits: You can now recognize additional elements as sheet metal features.
2D Layout for 3D Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Volume Clippings (IMP)

You can now select any part body to clip the view background.
Benefits: You have more freedom to choose objects while clipping a view background using the
volume clipping option.

2. 3D Polyhedral Data (IMP)

You can now create distance and angle dimensions between edges.
Benefits: It is now possible to create distance and angle dimensions in the views created from a
3D polyhedral data.

3D Tolerancing and Annotation Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Browsing Attributes of the Technological Features (IMP)

A new command, Attribute Browser, lets you browse the attributes for the technological
features.
Benefits: Different types of attributes can now be seen are once place.

2. Displaying Non-Semantic Annotations without Red Marking (IMP)

The weld annotations, surface texture, and edge of undefined shape annotations can now be
excluded from the red underline (non-semantic features). To do so, you can specify the
preferences under Non-Semantic at Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling >
Mechanical Systems > 3D Tolerancing & Annotation > Display.
Benefits: You can now quickly select all the faces or the edges of the required geometries
selecting its single face or edge.

3. Propagating the Selection While Using Tolerancing Advisor (IMP)

While using tolerancing advisor, you can now propagate the selection to all the faces or edges
based on the selected geometry using the following new commands:
All same diameter parallel circle
All the elongated, rectangular or rectangular round pin/hole elements
All the in between edges with tangent continuity
Benefits: You can now quickly select all the faces or the edges of the required geometries
selecting its single face or edge.

4. Upgrading the Annotation Set (IMP)

You can now upgrade the annotation set if the standard version of the annotation set is lower
than the standards (ASME/ISO) supported on the current release.
Benefits: You can upgrade the annotation set standard version to be compatible with the
created one.
 5. Using Find and Replace for Annotations (IMP)
You can now find the text string from the annotations and replace all the occurrences with the
required text string. You can also search for the string in the selected the annotations or all
annotations of the selected views.
Benefits: Replacing the text in the annotation is now possible.

6. Reframing a Capture (IMP)

You can now specify the margin area percentage while reframing the capture display.
Benefits: Reframing the captures considering the margin area.

7. Positioning the Annotation Leader (IMP)

You can now position the annotation leader while creating the annotation.
Benefits: This enhancement helps to place annotation body at the required position during
annotation creation.

8. Enhanced User Interface for Defining Engineering Connections (IMP)

The user interface of the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box is now improved.
Benefits: You can now perform actions quickly with less number of clicks. The dialog box is now
simple to interact and has immersive capability, and it is fully compliant with touch devices.

9. Edge of Undefined Shape (IMP)

You can now select external geometries that are out of the current context, and also create
annotations in the assembly context.
Benefits: Using the Edge of Undefined Shape command, you can now create an engineering
connection for the edge of undefined shape symbols.

Mechanical Systems Design Work Bench Recent Changes

1. Visualizing Topology Map Elements (IMP)

You can now visualize the mechanism elements using a grid layout, a spring layout, or a
reference layout. The topology map is also updated whenever an element is added to or
removed from the mechanism.
 Benefits: The selection of a layout increases the readability of the topology map with a
clear visualization of the machine elements. The automatic update of the topology map
also improves the definition process of a mechanism and of its elements.

2. Using Polyhedral Geometries (IMP)

You can now apply commands on polyhedral objects, or use polyhedral geometry as
inputs.

Benefits: The app is more efficient and robust.

3. Accessing the New Engineering Connection Definition Dialog Box (IMP)

The structure of the Engineering Connection Definition dialog box has been modified, with a
new presentation of the engineering connection options.

Benefits: The navigation inside the dialog box is more immersive, and the creation or
modification of engineering connections is facilitated.