• Checking the System Status

You can view the System Status of the app running in the browser tab widget.

Benefits: If experiencing problems in the app, you can view the System Status to see what might be causing the issue. The System Status provides information on the network and server connections, as well as browser and server memory resources.

For more information, see Checking the System Status.

• Selective Save

Selective Save helps you manage unsavable sessions by allowing you to save only the savable changes you have made in an active session.

Benefits: Earlier, you could not save your changes when the Save failed in an active session. But, now you can retain all your savable changes.

For more information, see Saving Components.

• Hiding Components during Measure

You can now hide components using the new Hide Components option in the Measure dialog box. You can also adjust the translucency of hidden components using Translucency Manager in the work area when the Measure command is active.

Benefits: You can temporarily hide components to exclude them from the work area when you measure entities.

For more information, see Measure.

• Removing Instances in Sketch Patterns

The Linear Sketch Pattern and Circular Sketch Pattern commands now provide the option to skip the creation of a specific instance in a pattern.

Benefits: This enhancement provides the flexibility to remove one or more instances of a patterned entity. When you enable the Skip instances option, white dots appear on each instance. Click a dot to skip a particular instance in the pattern.

For more information, see Creating Linear Sketch Patterns and Creating Circular Sketch Patterns.

• Creating a Volumetric Section View

You can display the product cut by a specified volume, showing the internal space.

Benefits: You can specify a 3D space inside your product by customizing a volume area and the origin of that volume area to view. The geometry outside that volume area disappears from the view.

For more information, see Creating a Volumetric Section View.

• Using Your HomeByMe Project as Design Context

You can now insert your HomeByMe project into your model design.

Benefits: When designing items intended for a particular space, such as the room of a house, having the larger context of your HomeByMe project to work within provides several benefits:

• You can ensure that your design physically fits into the intended space.
• You can measure, detect interferences, validate ranges of motion, and perform other operations to ensure your design is right the first time.
• You can match aesthetics, visualize proportions, and more.

For more information, see Design in the Context of Your HomeByMe Project.

• Sketching in the Context of HomeByMe

You can now create sketches on an imported HomeByMe reference geometry.

You can also:

Assign dimensions and constraints to the sketches created from the HomeByMe geometry.

Select faces in the imported HomeByMe model to use them as references to create or edit sketch planes.

Benefits: Using the HomeByMe reference model, you can draw sketch entities and model them.

For more information, see Design in the Context of Your HomeByMe Project.

• Publish to HomeByMe

When you finish adding designing features to the imported HomeByMe geometry, you can publish your model back to the HomeByMe app. During publish, a redundant HomeByMe data is now excluded from the export and specific components can be selected.

Benefits: You can avoid publishing repetitive data.

For more information, see Sharing 3D Files with 3DSwym Communities.

• Creating Features in the Context of HomeByMe

You can now add xDesign features in an imported HomeByMe model by using HomeByMe reference entities such as planar surfaces and vertices. The reference features that you use to create designing features are known as isolated features.

Note the supporting features:

• Extrude and Extrude Cut
• Revolve and Revolve Cut
• Sweep and Sweep Cut
• Linear Pattern
• Through Point Curve
• Reference Axis, Reference Plane, Axis System, and Points

Benefits: You can add more features to your HomeByMe model.

For more information, see Design in the Context of Your HomeByMe Project.

• Creating Section View

You can create a section view, which displays the product cut by a plane, showing the internal structure.

Benefits: 3D section views illustrate internal structures clearly.

For more information, see Creating a Section View.

• Structure Pattern Enhancements

Note the following enhancements in the structural Linear Pattern and Circular Pattern features.

You can:

• Create instances in a symmetrical pattern using the new Symmetry option.
• Exclude specific instances from patterns using the new Skip instances option.
• You can arrange instances along the two primary directions, perimeter, or in a rectangular form using the new Primary, Perimeter, and Array options.
• Automatically trim the corners of member instances using the Automatic corner trims option.

Benefits: You can create patterns more efficiently.

For more information, see Structure Patterns.

• Plates Enhancements

During plates creation, you can now select multiple members to add plates to them.

You can also:

• Add plates to all the member instances of a pattern at time.
• Select an individual member from the Plate dialog box to edit its properties.

Benefits: This enhancement helps you save time and improve efficiency. Previously, you could select only one member at a time to add plates to.

For more information, see Plates, Gussets, and End Caps.

• Improving the Bending of Subdivision Objects

You can now bend features without selecting a plane first, and use a horizontal handle instead of a vertical one. It is also possible to bend only the selected features, and not the surrounding ones.

Benefits: It is possible to bend specific features of the model in a more efficient way.

For more information, see Creating an Arc Bend.

• Improving the Flexing of Subdivision Objects

You can now flex features using an improved handle (not overlapping with the Robot handle, and that remains normal to the view).

Benefits: It is easier to flex features in the 3D area.

For more information, see Translate or Scale Subdivision Objects.

• Modifying Subdivision Entities and Retaining the Selection

If you crease one or more edges of a subdivision object, the edges remain selected in the 3D area following the manipulation.

Benefits: It is possible to work more efficiently on a specific set of entities by not having to select them again between two manipulations.

 For more information, see Creasing Edges on a Subdivision Face.

• Locking Files in the Save with Options Dialog Box

When you right-click a file in MySession and select the Save with Options command, you can click and expand Lock  at the bottom right of the Save to 3DEXPERIENCE dialog box to Lock All objects or Lock Selected objects in a part or assembly.

It is also easier to find the Lock control. It has moved next to the Save control at the bottom of the dialog box.

Benefits: You can lock selected files in a part or assembly.

For more information, see Save Dialog Box.

• Adding Revision Comments to a File

In the Save to 3DEXPERIENCE dialog box, you can add a Revision Comment for individual objects when you click the Save or New Revision checkbox.

To enter a comment, click your cursor in the cell that appears in the corresponding row under the Revision Comment column. You can also edit the revision comment from the properties page of the object.

In earlier releases, you could only add revision comments for an entire part or assembly.

Benefits: You can easily add and find comments related to revisions for individual objects.

• Accessing 3DDrive in the Task Pane

You can open 3DDrive, drag files from 3DDrive or upload files to 3DDrive directly from the Task Pane. Before you can use 3DDrive in the Task Pane, you must install the 3DEXPERIENCE Drive Sync Client.

Benefits: You can access 3DDrive more easily.

• Bookmarking Objects

You can use the Add to Bookmark and Open Bookmark Editor commands to quickly open the Bookmark app and add files to Bookmarks. Access these commands from the Lifecycle and Collaboration toolbar, CommandManager tab, or shortcut menu. You can also customize keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, and the S-key for these commands.

Benefits: You have more flexible ways to add files to your Bookmarks app.

• Platform Connection Indicators

When you connect to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a progress bar at the top of the window informs you about the status of the connection. In the Recent Documents list, cloud icons  indicate documents that are saved to the platform. The reorganized Save menu shows Save to This PC on top.

Benefits: You can easily see the state of your connection to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and know which documents are saved there.

• Fix and Float Options When Inserting a Component

In the Insert Component Property Manager, you can specify the position of a component as Only fix first component, Fix, or Float.

You can select Float when inserting the first component. Previously, the default behavior positioned the first component as fixed. You can use Only fix first component to position only the first component as fixed in the model.

Benefits: You have more control over the component position when inserting components in to your model.

For more information, see Insert Component/Begin Assembly Property Manager.

• Selecting Flexible Subassemblies and Components

In the Advanced Component Selection dialog box, you can specify Flexible, Envelope, and Excluded from BOM for Component Status.

From the Select flyout , you can use Select Flexible Subassembly to select flexible subassemblies in the model.

Benefits: From a top-level assembly, you can select the highlighted flexible subassemblies in the Feature Manager design tree. You can easily find assembly envelopes, flexible components, and components that are excluded from the BOM.

• Working with the Toolbox and Part Supply Components

The Administrator can choose in which Collaborative Space and Maturity state, the toolbox and part supply components are created. It is also possible to delete these external components from the Collaborative Lifecycle app.

The Administrator can define the values of Collaborative Space and Maturity state, in the Standard Libraries Management app.

Benefits: You have flexibility to manage the external components imported on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

For more information, see Configuring Standard Libraries Management.

• Enhance productivity with Sorting

Filter your content more efficiently with distinct icons for each filtering option (Relevancy, Most Recent, Oldest, Sort by title A>Z, Sort by title Z>A, Sort by Type)

• Search tags locally

This enhancement provides you with the ability to search Tags if values are not found in the search panel. You can use the search button from 6wTags panel to look for desired tags

• 6W Search Experience is activated by default

Previously there was an option to activate it if needed, now it is active by default to enhance productivity.

• Get access to your default dashboard every time you log in.

You can now mark one Dashboard as a ‘Home’ Dashboard, so it will be displayed upon connecting to the platform by default

•  New Scheduling Methodology 

Enrich Project scheduling strategies with 'As late as possible' to allow user flexibility with their preferred scheduling methodology. Best practices capitalization and corporate methodologies are facilitated with  Project Planning Template that captures project schedules and associated content.

Please view below video for more information:

• Best experience for any device

3DPlay widget adopts the home page to allow you to browse and load your content easily and access to useful links

• Widget Topbar Introduction

Introduction of a topbar in 3DPlay widget to improve the user experience and keep it unified in all applications of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The topbar contains global functionality like Publish, Information, Share as Comment…

• Users interaction and information sharing

Share comments and annotation made on images-  On top of collaborating and sharing comments on documents and 3D content, you can now also do so for images whatever the source: 3DDrive, 3DSwym or 3DSpace.
Session-related information such as viewpoint, annotations… are stored in the comment.
When you click the comment, all information is retrieved and loaded with the 3D content.

• Search in Text Annotation

Access specific information quickly, by using search not only in document text, but also in text annotations.

• Improved Visualization

The default visualization for 3D content changes to Material and No Edge in order to bring you the best rendering instantly.

• Improved Loading times for DXF and DWG Files in 3DDrive and 3DXML for Authoring Files in 3DDrive

A Lattice is a simple shape pattern replicated in different directions. A designer can fill certain regions of the design with a Lattice to improve the performance of the design.
A conventionally manufactured design may have simple big holes in some regions of the part. 100% of material in these holes may be removed; But if a Lattice is created, designer can define a certain percentage of material removal, and the material that is kept on the part is the lattice that helps in maintaining strength. Manufacturing this is made possible because of additive manufacturing technology.

Lattice Designer Role is available with Engineering Exper role (U2D)

Lattice Design app will enable the adoption of lattice structure in high performance parts, providing conceptual and detailed 3D Lattice modeling capacities seamlessly integrated with structural validation, and outputting 3D Printers and readable formats. 

The Lattice Design Assistant in the app guides you through the process of the lattice design. It helps you navigate through all different steps from defining the body to lattice, the cavities, launching lattice conceptual design, and validating the design.

Please view DETAILED WEBINAR below for more information:

• Improved shape control on Blend Corner operations with splines tension specification.​​​​​​​

• Generate less material around frozen areas for lighter parts

Produce automatically lighter parts or assemblies, thanks to an enhanced Generate Shape command for topology optimization on solids adding less material around frozen areas

• Save time and improve the quality of your shape with the vertices alignment command.
• Take benefit of higher precision and better effectiveness during your exploration and creative shape sculpting workflow, with a new Modifier for Symmetry/Asymmetry
• Reach greater accuracy and work faster with the new snapping feature during primitive creation: focus on design while avoiding tedious manual adjustments to increase your productivity
• Improve the precision of your design with an enhanced Detail Modeling feature.