A CAD model read into Cadkey behaves as if it were created natively, and is not regarded as foreign geometry, which can only be referenced. In many applications, not every component of an assembly, or every element of a design can be accomplished with one modeling technique. The smooth, aerodynamic contours of automobiles, aircraft, consumer products and machined molds are best described with a surface model for complete definition. FastSURF is perfect for applications such as reverse engineering, moldmaking, product design, and photorealistic rendering. FastSURF generates swept and lofted surfaces, surfaces of revolution, offset surfaces, fillet blends, variable radius fillets, tabulated cylinders and much more.
Users can easily trim surfaces with splines, curves, solid models and other surfaces.
FastSURF also performs valuable operations such as surface intersections and entity projection to solve difficult design challenges. The program s unwrap feature can develop flat patterns from 3D surface models. Draft-Pak drastically accelerates the creation of an extensive range of mechanical components, which normally takes multiple steps in the design process. The product s one-step solutions automatically create solid or wireframe assembly parts such as pipe threads and pockets, gears and bushings, and more than 100 types of fasteners. Solid features, which are usually holes, can be automatically subtracted from other solid models.