What's New?

New Functionalities

Activating and Displaying a View/Annotation Plane: The Display View contextual menu command allows you to display selected view/annotation plane.
Analyzing Display Mode: The Analysis Display Mode option allows you to display and customize the color display for true dimensions, dimensions and annotations on deleted geometry, dimensions and annotations on unloaded geometry and invalid dimensions and annotations.
Creating an Annotation Set from an Existing One: The new New Annotation Set From... command allows you to create a new annotation set from an existing one in another CATPart document with certain rules.
Displaying a Tolerancing Capture: The Display and Set Current Capture command allows you to display the capture and to associate from now new created annotations, views, annotation planes with the capture.
Dimensioning Chamfers: The Chamfer Dimension command displayed in the Tolerancing Advisor on selecting a chamfered surface allows you to create chamfer dimensions and tolerances.
DS ISO 1 Open Type Font: This font allows you to represent annotations that follow the ISO norms defining text representation (ISO 3098 norms). Four new standards (ISO_DS, ISO_3D_DS, JIS_DS, JIS_3D_DS) are available that use DS ISO 1 as the default font.
Basic Review Capabilities of 3D XML Features Within 3D XML Player and 3D Live: Functional Tolerancing & Annotations features in 3D XML can be reviewed within 3D XML Player and 3D Live (without requiring the Live FTA Review license).
Reordering Features in the Specification Tree: Reordering of view/annotation planes, datums, datum targets and tolerancing captures is possible in the specification tree.

Tolerancing of User Features

Tolerancing User Features Automatically: The User Feature Tolerance command displayed in the Tolerancing Advisor on selecting an user feature or technological result of user feature for which a tolerancing schema has been defined allows you to automatically tolerance user features or technological result of user feature.
Tolerancing Schema Catalog: The administrator can define the tolerancing schema catalog for automatic tolerancing of user features or technological result of user feature.
User Feature Tolerances Administration Toolbar: This new toolbar is available for tolerancing schema creation.

View Orientation Management

View/Annotation Planes: The new View Creation command for plane creation replaces the previous commands: Front View, Section View and Section Cut View.
View Creation dialog box: The View Creation dialog box enables you to create View/Annotation planes.
Change View Support dialog box: The Change View Support dialog box allows you to change the orientation of views by changing the definition plane of a view.
Views/Annotation Planes Toolbar: The new View Creation command for plane creation has been added in this toolbar and replaces the previous commands: Front View, Section View and Section Cut View.

Enhanced Functionalities

All Possible Types Option in Semantic Tolerancing Advisor dialog box: The All Possible Types option in the Semantic Tolerancing Advisor dialog box displays all the possible commands in the Commands frame and automatically updates the Geometry feature type list to All possible types option.
Clipping Annotation Plane: The clipping is displayed for Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View when using the Clipping Plane or Select command (with the 3D-Annotation-Query Switch On/Switch Off option command active).
Creating an Automatic Default Annotation: The fillet radius criteria can now be taken into account in the fillet faces selection.
Creating Framed Basic Dimensions: A localization geometrical tolerance without datum reference frame and applied to a circular or rectangular pattern of constructed geometries for thread representations, can now be taken into account for automatic creation of framed/basic dimensions.
Font Linking Mechanism and True Type Collection Fonts: The support for the font linking mechanism and TrueType Collection fonts is available.
Managing 3D Annotations in Result Annotation Set: The contextual menu command Delete_Result_Feature allows the individual deletion of features in the Result Annotation Set.
Managing Hide/Show in Captures: The Show/Hide status of external part instances whose geometries are referenced by annotations in the Assembly Annotation Set can be managed in capture.
Mirroring Annotations: The mirroring of annotations can be controlled using the Mirror annotations option.
Propagating Geometry Selection for Feature Creation: The All same diameter, same pitch, parallel CG thread Cylinders option allows you to propagate the selection to the threads in the 3D part with the same diameter and pitch, and parallel axis with the selected Constructed Geometry Thread.
Text, Flag Note and Note Object Attribute Creation: Text, Flag Note and Note Object Attribute can be created on PartBody and Body features, some Part Design features, Axis systems, User Features and Technological Result features of Part Design Hole feature and User Features.
Using the Scope Range: The contextual menu command Geometry Connection Management allows you to see the last geometrical element to which the annotation was linked to in case of broken links.

Creating an Automatic Constructed Geometry

Constructed Geometry Circle: A constructed geometry circle can be created from cone-plane, cone-cylinder or cone-cone intersection.
Highlighting Represented Geometry for Constructed Geometry: Selecting a constructed geometry (generated automatically or managed manually) highlights the represented geometry.

Introducing the Tolerancing Advisor

Annotations Attached to First Selected Feature: The dimension or annotation created using propagation commands is attached to the first selected geometrical feature.
Runout Tolerances in Revolute Surface: The following commands are available for single and multiple revolute surface selection: Circular Runout Specification and Total Runout Specification.

Managing 3D Annotations in 3D XML Files

Support of Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View 3D Clipping: The 3D clipping is displayed on selecting the Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View in the specification tree or geometry. It is also displayed when selecting a capture that has a component of Aligned/Offset Section Cut/View.
Support of Text, Flag Note and Note Object Attribute: The geometrical element is highlighted when Text, Flag Note or Note Object Attribute is selected and vice-versa.
Support of Show/Hide of Part Bodies and Geometrical Sets When Displaying Capture: The Show/Hide status of part bodies and geometrical sets is respected when displaying a capture.
Support of Tolerance Schema Applied to User Features: The geometric features, dimensions, tolerances and annotations that are linked to the tolerancing schema are highlighted when the Nx text is highlighted.

Customizing Settings

Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > Dimension tab > Analysis Display Mode area: The Activate analysis display mode option allows you to customize 3D annotations using different colors according to their types and status.
Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > Display tab > Capture display area: The Mirror annotations option defines whether the annotations are automatically mirrored when displaying a capture.
Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > Tolerances tab > Chamfer Size area: This option defines the tolerance options for chamfer size.
Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > View/Annotation Plane tab > Dimension And Annotation Default Position Along Normal View area: The Try to create in the annotation plane (Z=0) option defines whether the application always tries to create dimension or annotation in the plane of the current annotation plane when its definition allows to do it. Thus this option defines the dimension and annotation position at creation.
Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > Tolerances tab > New Size Tolerances Creation area: The Propose the last created tolerance values option defines whether the last tolerance type and values defined in a command should be proposed as default for the next command.
Tool > Options > Mechanical Design > Functional Tolerancing & Annotation > Tolerancing tab > User Features Tolerancing Schemas Catalog area: This option allows you to define the path to the tolerancing schema catalog that is to be used for automatic tolerancing of user feature or technological result of user feature.