by Bill Genc | Nov 6, 2017 | Design
A small improvement for TopSolid 2017 introduces the ability to maintain the colors of a face when you are unsewing the solid (or composite surface model). This can be very useful to future steps that need to be done only to faces of a specific color. Check out the...
by Bill Genc | Nov 2, 2017 | Design
TopSolid 7 includes an important improvement to the face copy command. In past versions of TopSolid, you could copy any face, but we’ve now given you the new complimentary face section option. This ability copies and trims the face to fill holes using the exact face...
by Bill Genc | Oct 31, 2017 | Design
A new surfacing command called matrix was introduced with TopSolid 7. The power of this command comes into play when creating complex surfaces such as for use with wire EDM or die design. For example, when building complex die reliefs, you often need to create...
by Bill Genc | Oct 25, 2017 | Sketcher
TopSolid 7’s sketcher has been improved and now provides the ability to create a silhouette profile at the solving level of the TopSolid sketcher. Within this demonstration video, you will see dynamically the silhouette of the part we are working on based on the plane...
by Bill Genc | Oct 16, 2017 | Sketcher
Knowing where you are at-a-glance within an engineering sketch and what it means is critical for efficient engineering design. TopSolid 7’s sketcher improvements allow you to create a default color for elements hooked to basic elements when creating bottom-up...
by Bill Genc | Oct 12, 2017 | Symbols
Building, maintaining and growing your organization’s collection of custom engineering symbols will go a long way toward advancing efficiency within your team. TopSolid 7 allows you to build and define as many custom symbols as you need, then parametrize the drivers...
