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Enhanced app: xDesign (available in role 3D Creator)
Customize Interface Layout
Description: Customizable Action Bar
The action bar has more options for customization. As well as resizing, pinning and unpinning tabs, they can now be detached from the bottom and attached to the top of the window or the right side.
Customer Benefits
Customization allows users to put their most used commands are where they feel they are most accessible, improving productivity.
Improved Design Manager
Description: Clearer visual feedback from Design Manager
Design Manager Search Filter, redesigned rollback bar with highlighted active feature.
Customer Benefits
Clearer user experience so it is easier and faster to make the right choices and selections.
Redesigned selection fields
Description: Clearer visual feedback from Feature Dialogs
Clearer dialogs and color coded selections to give clearer feedback to users.
Customer Benefits
Faster to see which items have been selected for each area of a command.
Touch
Description: Touch Bar improvements
Touch bar can now be moved anywhere and more easily, improved feedback for what mode users are in.
Customer Benefits
Less accidental selection and more productive working on touch devices.
Sketch Improvements
Description: Replace Sketch Entities
Any sketch entity such as a line or arc, can be replaced with any other, such as a spline or ellipse and maintain references downstream.
Customer Benefits
Easier to make major changes to sketch geometry without the rework of child features.
3D Model Colors
Description: More control over coloring 3D models
Colors can now be applied to model faces as well as entire components.
Customer Benefits
More control over coloring models enhances realism and assists visibility of model features improving productivity and clarity.
Assembly Enhancements
Description: Deactivate entire joint/connection between components in assemblies
Isolate – change visibility of everything that is not selected in one step.
Customer Benefits
- Less steps to turn off and on connections between parts, making you more productive
- Less steps to hide components
Assembly Enhancements: SOLIDWORKS files
Description: Import SOLIDWORKS/CATIA V5 assembly from 3DDrive without needing to pack and go to Zip file
- Colors of SOLIDWORKS files are supported in xDesign and xShape
- Replace component in assembly with alternative SOLIDWORKS Configuration.
Customer Benefits
Improved interoperability when working with SOLIDWORKS files.
Interference Detection
Description: Show any interferences between parts in an assembly
Show interference volume
Customer Benefits
Make sure assemblies are able to be manufactured before committing to any material or tooling costs.
Description: Replace components with a new revision or change maturity of components in an assembly.
Customer Benefits
More productive assembly environment when needing to change lifecycle status of components in an assembly.
[Video] Key xDesign enhancement for R2020x FD01
Enhanced app: xShape (available in role 3D Sculptor)
Learning Assistance
Description: Quick Tour for xShape
xShape landing page now provides a Quick Tour activation button.
Customer Benefits
Helps users get started by guiding them through their first design experience with xShape.
Community Access
Description: Link to SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE User Community
xShape landing page now provides a link to the SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE User Community.
Customer Benefits
Easier to access all the latest info on what’s happening with products that run on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Improved Switch Apps Capability
Description: Better Way to Switch Apps
Users weren’t always able to quickly and easily discover the way to switch apps. Now an action bar command is provided making the switch to other apps easy to discover and fast to execute. All apps are displayed making it easy to select the app you want. And users also receive confirmation the app was switched.
Customer Benefits
Eliminates customer frustration in trying to figure out how to switch between apps. In addition, as more roles and apps are added, this will make switching apps more clear.
Touch Mode
Description: Touch Improvements
When moving the Touchbar it now previews quickly before docking after drag. You can drag to all 4 sides of the screen and get a preview before docking place.
Customer Benefits
Useful enhancement for touch users, especially on smaller devices where moving the Touchbar can aid in model visualization and more convenient manipulation.
User Experience
Description: Robot Alignment Options
Revamped the RMB robot alignment options for clarity. The labels are easier to understand – based on feedback from customers. And “XYZ” now is now explicit thereby eliminating the need to continually re-select and lock this option.
Customer Benefits
Easier for new users to understand robot options. “XYZ” option is explicit making it a single step operation – no need to lock the orientation.
Description: Better Robot Performance
When you drag geometry using the robot, xShape completes the operation much faster than in previous versions. There is no need to wait for the system to calculate and display the geometry – this is almost instantaneous now.
Customer Benefits
In earlier versions of xShape if you moved the robot before it reset itself, it would undo your move. This enhancement will help speed design and eliminate frustration.
Description: Insert Loop Performance
The speed of the Insert Loop preview has been improved. Now just click an edge and an manipulator appears as a point that can be dragged where you decide to locate the loop.
Customer Benefits
Speeds design and eliminates the frustration of having to wait for xShape to catch up to your cursor when inserting loops.
Description: Breadcrumbs Improvements
When a node is selected in the breadcrumbs path the correct components are now highlighted. Also, breadcrumbs now supports a right mouse menu for faster access to action bars. In addition, double clicking a node, such as a feature, will prompt and action.
Customer Benefits
Visual feedback from breadcrumbs now more accurate thanks to improved component highlighting. Eliminates confusion as to what components are being selected. In addition, the ability to access a right mouse menu and double click items from breadcrumbs helps speed and simplify design.
Description: Keyboard Shortcuts
When a keyboard shortcut is typed, for example “v” for “View”, the specific options appear. If the action bar for a specific keyboard shortcut is not currently active, the options will appear next to your cursor. Keyboard shortcuts are documented in Help. In addition, if NumLock is off, arrow keys can be used to incrementally rotate the model.
Customer Benefits
Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to speed up your design session by reducing picks and clicks.
