Hybrid modeling program

By Design News Staff -- Design News, August 17, 1998

Vellum Solids is a hybrid modeling program based on the ACIS solids modeling engine 4.0 and employs the company's user interface. The program combines the power of wireframe, surface, and solids modeling. Vellum Solids integrates Drafting Assistant and augments its power to identify faces, edges, work planes, and holes, in addition to endpoints, midpoints, center points, tangencies, and real and extended intersections. Drafting Assistant contributes to the consistent user experience across all Vellum products.

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