Geomagic Sculpt 2017.0.93 3D Systems announce the availability of the new version of Geomagic Sculpt 2017. This software erases the boundaries of solid modeling, empowering you to create complex, organic shapes. With the included Touch haptic 3D stylus, you can physically feel your virtual creations and design functional, beautiful products. Geomagic Sculpt, Freeform, and Freeform Plus 2017 give you the power to design faster and more accurately than ever. With new capabilities and improvements to the existing tools, the industry’s best 3D hybrid modeling solution streamlines workflow processes and tasks from design to documentation. Geomagic Sculpt is a simple, fast yet sophisticated precision voxel 3D sculpting and modeling software solution. Create organic designs and edit and transform existing 3D data with sculpting, shaping and detailing tools not found in traditional CAD software. Get the sensation of clay modeling with the benefits of digital design. Streamline Mass Custom Design Workflows The new Sketch Text tool easily generates outline font profiles that can be used to create 3D part labels. Shell Cut is a new tool that enables the creation of layered text or details as independent 3D objects that match the surface contours of the underlying part. Together, these new tools make mass-customization of any design easier than ever. Improved Accuracy in Complex Designs This 2D slicing tool analysis tool not only provides a dynamically interactive cross-section inspection tool, but also provides multiple methods and modes for extracting slice-based image stacks or profile curves. These functions can be used to identify voids, avoid collisions, validate clearance specifications, or reverse engineer the shape of a volume giving you the assurance that your design is accurate and correct. Improved Documentation Capabilities Advanced documentation tools enable streamlined communication with your customers. - Easily create images for downstream documentation with the click of a button - Generate a single image or sets of images based on orthographic or turntable views - Utilize options that eliminate downstream editing time such as cropping, centering, object filtering, and background transparency (PNG) Performance Optimizations - Multi-piece Reduce-for-Export is now multi-threaded, reducing processing time as much as 50% or more based on one piece per logical core. - Reduce file sizes by as much as 95% using optional File Compression on save. - Optimizations to transparency improves framerates, increases rendering quality, and supports modes for either High or Low Resolution Clay See Through, allowing for the best balance of quality and redraw performance in any workflow situation. Promote legacy Common Solids to Solid Pieces Freeform Plus v2017 has a new option to promote legacy Common Solids to be Solid Pieces, infusing them with new capabilities. Promoting a legacy Common Solid to be a Solid Piece enables more precise positioning control, per-piece attribute assignment, higher status in the Object List, and access to a broader set of palette tools.