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Advantages

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Design Productivity

  • Customizable interface to group tools and tasks
  • Comprehensive set of drafting and detailing tools
  • Dynamic Input with heads-up display
  • Intelligent and interactive snapping
  • Keyboard Position Mapping to speed productivity
  • Batch convert multiple formars to reduce manual efforts
 

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Interoperability Support

  • RealDWG support to overcome reuse challenges
  • Object enabler support to display data from AutoCAD applications
  • Aggregate and assemble multiple file formats to work faster
  • Large image file support for 50+ formats to increase flexibility 
  • Support for multi-page PDFs
  • Multiple wavelet compression formats
 

Reference Files

  • Reference 2D/3D DGN, DWG and many other vector files
  • Attach large image files as reference files
  • Attach versioned files using Design History
  • Attach PDF files as a reference
 
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3D Design Modeling

  • Curve, surface, mesh, feature, and solids modeling in a single solution
  • Intuitively push, pull, drag, cut & extrude 3D geometry
  • Create 3D print-ready models with easy to use tools
  • Parametric tools to create and edit complex geometry faster
  • Use models from Google 3D Warehouse and many other sources
 

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Photo-realistic Rendering and Animation

  • Near real-time Luxology rendering
  • Point-and-shoot physically correct materials and lighting libraries
  • Multi-core support for 32 processors
  • Rich Photo Realistic content (RPC) available online
  • Distrbuted/networked rendering
  • Luxology powered animation for speed and realism
  • Key frame and time based animation
  • Live on-screen animation preview
  • Timeline and velocity graph
 

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Printing and Plotting

  • Create, manage, and navigate plot sets with Print Organizer
  • Control print settings using Print styles
  • Batch print multiple drawings
  • Publish intelligent 2D/3D PDF's
 

CAD Standards Management

  • DGN libraries help manage corporate and project CAD standards 
  • Drawing composition content and workflow control
  • Element Templates integrate CAD standards with Tasks
  • CAD standards quality checking tools
 

Dynamic Views

  • Coordinate 3D models and 2D drawings automatically
  • Drag and drop plans, elevations, and sections to create documentation
  • Silce and filter 3D models to improve interactive visualization
  • Automated drawing updates when models change
  • Update linked annotation dynamically
 

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Geo-Coordination

  • Support for 100's of global geospatial coordinate systems
  • Geospatial Referencing using multiple coordinate systems
  • Simple AEC coordinate transformation for buildings
  • OGC Web Map Server support to overcome map import problems
  • Geospatial PDF creation and reference
  • Google Earth integration
  • Real-time GPS device support
 

Project Coordination

  • Dynamically update all annotation
  • Link Sets manage relationships between CAD and Office documents 
  • Navigate from content in one file or model to others using hyperlinks
  • Publish intelligent PDF's that retain all hyperlink intelligence
 

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Change Management

  • Design History enables revision control by recording all changes
  • Roll back design file changes from any work session
  • Compare and plot design file changes
 

Digital Security

  • Digital Signatures with 2048-bit public/private keys
  • Digital Signatures confirm file status and approvals
  • Control digital rights to view, edit, print, and copy file content
  • Pre-define content access expiration dates
 

Design Review

  • Review and mark-up designs with redline comments
  • Manage mark-ups and review workflows with mark-up dashboard
  • Publish i-models for design review workflows
 

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Workgroup Collaboration

  • ProjectWise Integration for reference file and workspace managment
  • Integrated design file versioning
  • Microsoft SharePoint integration to improve project team collaboration
 

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Graphic Performance

  • DirectX graphics to leverage Windows Operating System performance 
  • PANTONE, RAL & NCS Color books to enhance project realism
  • Element Transparency, Display Priority, and Gradient fills