ICEM Design eXperience enables a significant number of improvements with this release, providing more methods to control fillet outputs (now also handling closed ribbons situations), and now featuring "re-tesselation" as a very accurate visualization tools, benefiting to any close-up situation where visual judgement is critical and must be fully trusted. Last but not least, geometry outputs from CATIA Visual Scripting application are now compliant with IDX Organizer.
User Experience Value
ICEM Design eXperience provides additional accelerators and secured workflows (overloaded continuities, U-laws interface, warp mouse sliding blend curve extremities) while sculpting curves or surfaces through control points.
Two new wireframe display modes are available allowing to quickly distinguish the type of geometry (beziers/nurbs/procedural) which were used to describe the current shape on screen. Default colors are similar to ICEM Surf legacy solution, but can obviously be customized through user preferences
Sculpting geometry through control points now prevents explicit continuities to betray features expectations, forbidding inconsistencies which would later on become an update problem.
At the same time, asking to modify a geometry face (or edge if we consider curve here) automatically leads the user to the original generated geometry modification. The Modify commands is skipping intermediate transformations within parent/children hstory such as cut/extrapol/offset, making sure that displayed control points are sculpting the relevant shape (aka 'root feature') against user intent.
OmniFillet command now addressed closed ribbon situatiuons, and provides several output nuances, depending on user remodeling intent afterward. User can choose to output one single nurbs, or multiple nurbs inheritating from inputs topology, or even demand a strictly beziers-patches-based result.
