Product Releases

ICEM DDN Release 3.4

ICEM DDN Version 3.4 is available on UNIX and NT. This is a major release with extensive enhancements, new entity types, and many modifications including:

Design

• Dynamic entity manipulation, with independent axis scaling
• Dynamic Recorder module (produces, displays and manages recorded animation sequences created with dynamic entity manipulation)
• Dynamic viewing enhanced to support geometry tracking
• Dynamic point interrupt, based on recent Track Plane technology
• TIFF background image editing, with new scale/zoom options (TIFF input)
• Output of hybrid background image/DDN geometry TIFF images (TIFF output)
• Extended part/pattern file names (longer names, no appended hash code)
• Easy rename of current view
• FLIP option for parallel lines
• FLIP option for offset curves
• Entity names in Constraint Sets (merge components from one part to another)
• Repeat added to Duplicate/Independent Axis Scaling
• Maximum ICEM part size increased
• Maximum number of named entities increased
• User-defined entity selection method
• User-defined point interrupt
• Information Bar enhancements
• List handling improvements (font lists and tables, modals lists)
• GPL program selection improvement (wildcard processing from dynamic list)
• Reference manuals released in PDF format

Drafting

• DIN dimension new arrowhead types
• DIN balloon new arrowhead types
• DIN diameter dimension witness line suppression
• DIN and ANSI modify arrowhead size at end of curve
• ANSI feature frame new modifiers (ANSI '94)

Advanced Design (Curves and Surfaces)

• Surface fillet user interface and functionality improvements
• New metacurve entity, with fewer restrictions than composite curve and with disband option
• Metacurve Editor builds parametrically connected entities with dimensions and control points
• Profiling user interface and functionality improvements
• Volume calculation user interface and functionality improvements
• Order modification during B-Spline curve/surface control point modification
• OPTIONS for KEEP/BLANK/DELETE generation curves of contour surface

Numerical Control

• NC point cloud milling of facet and STL data
• NC 3-D boundary of a facet model in ASM Finishing
• NC offset boundary of a facet model in ASM Finishing
• NC facet model display in ASM Finishing
• NC list tools referenced by toolpaths
• NC surface milling of trimmed surfaces
• NC Profiling improvement
• NC improved trim surface support in PowerMill

Solids

• New sweep solid primitive: sweep profile cross section along 3-D path
• Improved solid cross section slice (options for silhouette lines, section lining, font)
• Metacurve Editor for solid primitive slab and rev creation
• Improved solids tablet pages: create, modify, modals, and display modes
• Edit enhancements
• Blend enhancements
• New solids modals
• Improved control over faceting of unsurfaced solids
• Upgrade to ACIS 4.2

Translators

• IGES directive to translate DDN trimmed surface entities to IGES type 143 bounded surface
• IGES support for new DDN metacurve entity
• TVDA support for new DDN metacurve entity
• Update to CADDS direct translator 2.0.002
• Update to CATIA dire