What's New for Everyone

Quick Introduction

General Enhancements

Documentation Enhancements
Symmetry Planes
View Panel
Layer Categories
Place Primitive Manipulator
Proportional Mod Control Window
Move CV Normal Can Pick Hulls
Three Point Construction Planes
Specify the Major and Minor Radii of a Torus Primitive
Substantial Improvements to the Plotting Interface
Align Hull
What's New for Designers

Modeling

Direct Modeling Control Panel
Diagnostic Shading
Surfacing Tools
Automatically Fit Quality NURBS Curves to Scan Lines
Deviation Table
Dynamic Section
Break Curve at Inflections
"Explicit control" in Birail, Square, Draft and Align
Build From Corners in Square
New Blend Curves Functionality
Draft Properties Locator Shows Parting Lines
Curve Curvature Improvements
Faster "Visual" Option for Evaluation Lines
"Knee Radius" Control for Circular Fillets
Other Improvements

EvalViewer

Improved Studio Integration
More Data Transfer Options
More Transformation Tools
New Alignment Capabilities
New View Commands
Enhanced Cloud Tools
Curve Fitting Tools
Line Data Management Tools
Subsetting Enhancements
Surface Construction and Line Evaluation
Edit Menu
Run Remote Sessions
Replay Previous Sessions
Sharing JPEG Images Over the Internet
EvalViewer Limitations Fixed
What's New for Animators

Animation

Improved Performance
Mirroring Animation
Defining a Constraint Target
Editing UV Constraints
Counting Animation-Related Attributes
Counting Attributes in a Scene
Action Window Enhancements
Animating While in the Camera Editor
Improvements for Your Particle Workflow
Naming Selection Handles
Motion Blur Compensation in Bake Plug-in

Rendering

Direct Render
Limitations Fixed
Other Improvements

Games

Display of Normals
RTG Translator Update
PlayStation HMD Translator Update
VRML2 Translator Update
Metacycle Bug Fixes

Data Transfer, Open Model, and Utilities

Note on the CAI Translator
Unigraphics Translator
New Batch Application
New Alias API Classes
New Alias API Methods on Existing Classes




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