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UG/Shape Studio.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
Industrial design module for UG V17 offers new capabilities
Unigraphics Solutions is now shipping Version 17 of its Unigraphics (UG) CAID/CAD/CAM/CAE software, which includes UG/Shape Studio, a product targeted at industrial designers. The UG software has always had strong freeform modeling capabilities for building complex shapes, but it was focused on the engineering rather than aesthetic aspects of design. Therefore, industrial designers created their conceptual work in packages such as Alias Studio, or they imported UG designs into such packages (and dealt with possible data translation problems) in order to visually communicate design ideas with colleagues and customers.
UG/Shape Studio, first released with UG V16, overcomes this drawback by offering visualization and rendering tools that cater to industrial designers. Shape Studio also features embedded associativity--meaning that design changes are automatically propagated to downstream applications--and it provides real-time evaluation of curves and surfaces during the design process.
To appreciate the enhancements in the latest version of Shape Studio, it's important to understand the general benefits the product brings to users. Although the Unigraphics software provides designers with a plethora of features for building complex models, Shape Studio (which can be used on Unigraphics designs and on data imported from other systems) adds to UG's utility in several ways.
For example, users can work in wireframe, shaded (with or without transparency), or face analysis mode. Face analysis mode graphically displays distance, radius, and curvature measurements on an object's surface, making it easy to spot areas that might be distorted or cause aerodynamic disturbances.
Shape Studio adds to these capabilities a display mode that enables users to work interactively with materials, textures, and lights turned on. Users also can map images onto surfaces or onto the background of a scene.
UG users also can create primitive solids, linear sweeps, and revolves, and the software includes several blend and form features including holes, bosses, slots, and chamfers.
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