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What's New 3.0

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Productivity Enhancements

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Visualization

Interoperability

• Automatic basic feature discovery• Bounding Box measurements• Modal Thickness measurements• Improved tooltip information• New Delete function• New Undo/Redo functions• Improved performance in Draft Angle analysis

& Hide/Unhide • Improved STL export

• Consistent Zoom functions • Improved Zoom Fit & rendering• Improved Cutting Plane Display

• Read STEP AP242 • Read/Write Compressed STEP files• Read all Solidworks configurations• Read PMI• Updated and supported reader formats

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Interface• Tree & context menus cleaned-up &

streamlined• New “Hide All But This” context function• Finish/Cancel icon buttons for multi-entity

selection• Call to Action Blurring

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Benefits

K-Display Convert 3.0 has significant improvements for productivity, interoperability, user interface (UI) and visualization over the previous major release.

The automatic feature discovery, using our new technology, provides quicker access to model information by identifying common model features. The automatic Bounding Box measurements, with moveable text, and a more efficient Thickness function allows for faster measurements and clearer screen captures. Enhanced tooltips make interrogating the model easier and faster. Exporting a multi-body file into individual STL files can be performed in a quick single step.

New Delete capability can improve focus on specific model geometry by reducing clutter and confusion. The ability to Undo/Redo user actions of hiding, deleting, measurements and bounding box creation improves user productivity for undoing states and mistakes.

For continued interoperability, new support for STEP 242 to take advantage of Model-based Definition (MBD), reading/exporting compressed STEP files, reading multiple part variants, and reading PMI have been added. Other readers have also been updated to their latest versions.

The UI and Tree structure has been streamlined with consistent context menus, behavior and enhanced tree entity status for improved user navigation and experience. The user now gets notification of required call to action, with background blurring, when certain function dialogs are opened.

Visualization capabilities have also been enhanced to take advantage of more screen space for better viewing of complex 3D parts. The model graphics were improved with crisper, brighter rendering for screen captures. Finally, the Cutting Plane display is cleaned up by removing the cutaway wireframe display for clarity.

Productivity Enhancements

Automatic Feature DiscoveryAutomatic feature discovery of holes, fillets, chamfers and faces during read. Features are grouped in tree and by graphic selection for faster model interrogation.

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New Bounding Box Measurement Option New Bounding Box option allows user quick measurements for stock, work envelope, packaging sizes, volume, etc. Measurements appear in the tree.

Modal Thickness FunctionQuickly measure multiple thickness locations with modal thickness function.

The bounding box measurement text can be moved for clarity when screen captures are required. All measurements use 4 place decimal format.

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Improved Tooltip InformationTooltips include feature holes, fillets, chamfer and Radius of Curvature information where applicable. Consistent diameter vs. radius measurements are based on entity type.

New Delete FunctionNew Delete function can reduce geometric clutter and isolate the geometry of interest. Simplified file can be exported as .KCM file for continued viewing later.

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Interoperability

Export STLA time saving option is available for STL export of multiple solids into separate files with a single export.

New Undo/Redo FunctionNew Undo/Redo allows quick undo of mistakes allowing for quickly going back and forth between previous states.

Improved Processing Speed3.0 includes speed improvements for processing of Draft Angle, Hide and Unhide functions.

STEP AP242New support to read STEP AP242 (Assemblies, B-Rep, Graphical PMI, Meshes) takes advantage of the MBD technology used in industry.

Compressed STEP FilesNew support to read Compressed STEP files (.stpZ).

Multiple Part VariantsNew support to read part variants when option set. Each CAD system may use a different name (configurations, scenes, catalogs, etc.) for this concept.

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Read PMINew support for reading and displaying Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) entities found in the CAD file.

Updated Readers

Spatial ACISRead extended up to 2020

Dassault CATIA V5Reads from R10 up to R30

Dassault CATIA V6/3DEXPERIENCEReads 2D up to R2020xReads 3D up to R2020x

Autodesk InventorReads 3D up to 2021

PTC Creo (Pro/E)Reads 2D up to Creo 7.0Reads 3D up to Creo 7.0

Siemens NXRead 2D extended up to 1919Read 3D extended up to 1919

User Interface (UI) & Tree StructureArrow keys now work in the tree window for navigation.

Tree structure streamlined to remove unnecessary entity elements such as Vertices.

Improved tree highlighting for hoover vs. select and entity display status with bolded text and hidden icon to help user understand and navigate quicker and easier.

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Context Menus & BehaviorContext menus are consistent across entity types and parent/child relations.

New “Hide All But This“ FunctionNew Hide function added to context menu to hide all entity types in tree, but selected children, in single step for visualization and clarity.

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Finish/Cancel IconsFinish/Cancel selectable buttons are presented for functions from Main menu that allow multiple entity selections.

Call to Action BlurringThe background blurring brings attention to required action by the user for certain opened dialogs.

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Visualization

Consistent Zoom Functions & Improved RenderingConsistent Zoom behavior across 3D and 2D drawings.Zoom Fit takes advantage of more of graphic window.Model edges in Shaded render mode have been set to black for clearer edge display.Lighting for shaded rendering, axis indicator, and DynaHandle has been adjusted for improved display.X, Y, and Z labels have been added to 3D axis indicators.

Improved Cutting Plane DisplayFor better clarity and clutter removal, the cutaway wireframe portion is no longer displayed.