form-Z Pro version 8.6.3.1 Build 10163

AutoDesSys product team is pleased to announce the availability of form·Z 8.6.3 pro, is a powerful 3D design application featuring a variety of modeling personalities and tools with an easy to use interface to express and communicate your imagination. It is based on advanced 3D solid and surface modeling methods that maintain accurate representations as you progress from design to visualization, layout, animation and fabrication.

Highlights of enhancements in 8.6.3:

- Large STEP files now open properly on OS X.
- Selecting “Group/Component Complete” while editing a group or component no longer crashes on certain systems.
- Performance of switching between graphic windows has been improved.
- Performance of switching between form-Z and other applications has been improved.
- Image files used as textures are now updated in the graphics window and material parameters when the texture is externally edited while the form-Z project is opened.
- Auto save is no longer initiated immediately when a file is opened or a new file is created.
- Animation using RenderZone on scenes where the camera (view) do not change no work properly.
- The mouse scroll wheel no works properly on certain Windows versions.
- Group override materials are now copied properly between projects with "Copy & Paste”.
- Components that contain layers with override materials or groups with override materials now work properly.
- Printing with extents selected now properly fits the page for non-perspective views.
- Printing Notes and dimensions is more accurate.
- Picking/pre-picking certain geometry no longer crashes.
- A new option “Remove Duplicate Materials” has been added to the materials palette context menu. This will remove materials with identical parameters (except name). All objects/faces that reference the duplicate material will use the remaining material.
- Selecting "Purge Unused Materials" from the materials palette context menu no longer removes materials used in Group overrides.
- Snapping/picking of arcs or objects with circular/elliptical edges much faster. (Most noticeable in files with a significant number of these shapes, specially ellipses.)
- Texture image files that are 65K in size now properly work with distributed rendering.
- Subdivision objects now inherit face colors from the original mesh/cage.
- Collada (DAE) import now loads the materials and UV’s properly.
- Notes now import from DXF/DWG files with the proper placement.
- Other various optimizations and stability improvements.

build 10163 (aka 8.6.3.1) Has a correction for import of DXF/DWG files that contain references to certain image files.

About form•Z. form•Z pro is a powerful 3D design application featuring a variety of modeling personalities and tools with an easy to use interface to express and communicate your imagination. It is based on advanced 3D solid and surface modeling methods that maintain accurate representations as you progress from design to visualization, layout, animation and fabrication.

form•Z pro includes all of the features found in form•Z Jr plus many advanced modeling tools, STEP and IGES translators, animation, layout, network rendering and interface customization.

form•Z pro 8 is the latest version that introduces subdivision modeling as yet another modeling personality that enables the quick design and exploration of organic forms that originate from basic shapes. These forms are easily manipulated using a suite of subdivision tools that empower this new personality.

About AutoDesSys. AutoDesSys, Inc. introduced 3D modeling software in the late 1980s. It aimed to offer advanced 3D modeling technology on the personal computer at a time when the technology was only available on large computers and research laboratories. With this in mind, form•Z was launched in 1991. It arrived at a time when design was ruled by 2D drawings and has defined the 3D industry ever since.

Product: form•Z
Version: Pro version 8.6.3.1 Build 10163
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.formz.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 376.9 mb