Xenon™ is actually a cross-grade from Vellum® Solids 2000 where Cobalt™ offers a true upgrade.
Xenon v8 3D Modeling 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
- Real-time zebra, normal, curvature & draft check in edit window
- 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 object, 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
- 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) (SP1)
- Photo-realistic material changes displayed in real time in the edit window
- 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
- Layers optionally override pen properties
- User-definable interface skins
- User-definable texture library locations
- New installer
- Universal Binary Support for Intel and Power PC Macs (SP1)
- Compatible with ACIS 16 and 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
- Enhanced import/export dialog box featuring target and source software by product name
- Support for Mac OS X
- No hardware key
- An integrated 3D design environment of wires, surfaces and solids
- Updated ACIS solid modeling kernel
- Associative parametrics
- Excellent precision drafting
- Sophisticated shape development tools including splines, ellipses and conics
- Enhanced user interface including collapsing windows and consistent tool icon layout
- Mass properties
- Enhanced Design Explorer Feature Tree for streamlined model management and conveying design intent
- Bill of materials
- 3D CAM/PRT output
- Support for conics
- Show/hide menu
- More sophisticated spline and ellipse tools
- Dimensioning tool to calculate length along spline or curve
- Translators for Adobe Illustrator, Rhino 3DM, Shockwave, Parasolids (Windows only), PTC (through ACIS)
- Support for QuickTime movies
- Support for text entities as profiles
- Courtesy license to Graphite v7
Cobalt v8 3D Modeling Additionally Includes:
- All of the features of Xenon v8
- Conditional equations
- Nested equations
- Real-time section profiles and cutaway views in edit window (SP1)
- Variables allowed in status line and edit object fields
- 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