| Press Releases :
January 09, 2007
Marlborough, MA - January 09, 2007 - Kubotek USA,
creators of geometry-based CAD software, today unveiled new direct
modeling capabilities that are redefining the ability to design, edit
and reuse 3D solid models. The company has extended its advanced face
selection technology to support dimension editing capabilities that
drive real-time changes to geometry, providing CAD professionals with
intelligent new tools for design flexibility.
A New Twist on an Old
Standby
The CAD industry is very familiar
with editing solid models by driving dimensions. However, today Kubotek
is debuting its ability to allow users to change solid model geometry by
selecting and editing dimensions in real-time without pre-defined
constraints. Benefiting from advanced face selection technology that
powers Kubotek’s direct modeling approach, users are no longer required
to define relationships and specify constraints in advance in order to
use dimensions when editing models.
Direct Dimension-driven Editing
allows a user to quickly create then select any dimension on a 3D solid
model, insert a different value, and watch the geometry automatically
update. The introduction of Direct Dimension-driven Editing
capabilities from Kubotek means changing solid model geometry just got a
lot faster and much more intuitive.
“Kubotek’s introduction of Direct
Dimension-driven Editing allows users to work with models the way they
naturally want to design,” said James Gordon, Deputy Vice President of
Development at Kubotek
USA.
“Traditional CAD tools tie dimension-driven changes to sketches, which
can be complex to decipher and use depending on the original design
intent. Kubotek technology isn’t limited by constraints or a dependency
on the sketch. In fact, even our newest direct dimension-driven
capabilities can be used with any CAD model, regardless of file format –
providing unprecedented technical and market leadership.”
Similar to history-based programs,
dimension-driven functionality is used to edit 3D solid models, but
that’s where the similarity ends. The difference is that Kubotek’s
Direct Dimension-driven Editing requires no fixed relationships be built
into the dimensions or any special data or entity types. This
flexibility allows users to decide at the time of an edit how the change
should take place as well as what features or faces should be included
in the change. Underlying face selection technology, called Face Logic™,
allows users the freedom to quickly add driving dimensions to any 3D
solid at any time, regardless of how the model was originally defined.
Face Logic technology never requires constraints on the model, nor is
the model constrained by rigid design intent or subsequent model edits.
Instead, the technology enables users to make any edits they want to
make whenever they want to make them.
Face Logic™ – the Foundation for Design
Freedom
Kubotek’s Face Logic technology is comprised of powerful face selection
techniques that discover features and patterns in real time. More
specifically, the underlying technology assesses a face identified as
the cursor passes over while simultaneously analyzing adjacent faces for
certain geometry and topology conditions. Based on the conditions
identified, the faces may be part of a “feature” or multiple features.
Since there can be more than one option, users are able to cycle through
the solutions or mask on particular features. Kubotek’s Face Logic
technology is unique in its ability to allow users to manipulate very
high level “super” features – i.e. a “cavity” in a molded design, the
“side” of a sheet metal part or a pattern of complex holes.
“Kubotek’s advanced Face Logic
technology produces a dynamic design environment that allows users to
create without concern for future changes or modifications,” said
John McCullough, Product
Manager at Kubotek
USA.
“Our introduction today represents only a fraction of the potential this
technology offers. Users are already getting addicted to this approach
to design.”
“The future of CAD is becoming
clearer every day,” continues Gordon. “Direct modeling advancements are
making their way into a broad range of CAD systems – even those using
parametric design methodologies – because users are demanding more
productive design tools. Kubotek continues to pioneer ground-breaking
technology that is shaping the direction of CAD.”
Availability
Face Logic, Kubotek’s advanced face
selection technology, powers many of the next-generation tools available
in Kubotek products today. The technology has been extended to support
the use of geometry-based dimensional editing. The first implementation
of Kubotek’s Direct Dimension-driven Editing capabilities will be
available in the company’s KeyCreator® and REALyze™
products on January 29, 2007.
About Kubotek
Kubotek USA, Inc., headquartered in Marlborough, MA, is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation. Kubotek USA develops and manufactures
KeyCreator software (formerly CADKEY) and is responsible for sales,
marketing, distribution and support for the Americas, Europe, Australia
and New Zealand. More than 20,000 global customers use Kubotek design
and manufacturing software.
Kubotek Corporation was founded in 1985 in Osaka, Japan, and has been
publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2001. Kubotek
Corporation is a worldwide leader in creation engineering - the
development of technologies for modeling, measuring and machining in
industrial businesses large and small.
Visit Kubotek at:
www.kubotekusa.com.
Kubotek USA, Inc. Press Contact:
M. Gloria Martel, Tel: (508) 229-2020
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