It supports milling, multisurface machining, rotary milling, and turning. ZoomOn showed its Vizit Web-based viewer designed for use by end users with limited CAD knowledge. It supports DWG, DXF, DGN, IGES, PDF, and various 2D raster formats. AutoPlant 2D Piping from Rebis creates 2D piping and section drawings. Symbol libraries include ductile iron pipe, welded steel pipe, socket welded steel pipe, threaded steel pipe, HDPE, and other pipe types.
Symbols are parametric and scale to the correct size based on the current pipe diameter.
MSC.Software announced visualNastran 4D for Autodesk Invendor and Mechanical Desktop. It combines motion and FEA analysis capabilities. You can analyze an entire assembly. The company also announced that its online analysis software is now available through Autodesk's PointA Web site. Quickpen showed its PipeDesigner 3D piping application for AutoCAD 14.01 and 2000.