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Overview
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GraphiteOne contains a comprehensive set of tools for the 2D drawing process as well as many tools for 3D modeling. Many creation, editing, dimensioning and viewing functions help you to effectively create new or modify existing drawings or models.
A variety of helpful utilities exist to assist you to work with drawings more efficiently. Layers and Styles can be used control the visual appearance. Smart cursor snap functions simplify the drawing process. Associative dimensions reduce the effort of modifying drawings.
All drawings can be viewed in multiple independent views. Predefined templates with commonly used layouts can be defined to eliminate repetitive tasks.
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More complex drawings can be composed out of several single parts. Parts can be stored externally to be used in multiple drawings. Shadow parts can be used to independently and consistently display multiple occurrences of the same part in a drawing. Parts assemblies can use constraints for efficiant part arrangement.
For application programmers, many interfaces exist to develop additional functions or integrate GraphiteOne into existing legacy software.
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Key Benefits
Comprehensive Functionality: GraphiteOne has a rich set of functions ranging from 2D elements to complex 3D operations to provide a solid foundation for your drawing and modeling tasks.
Affordability: GraphiteOne is available at a comsumer grade pricing level. This makes GraphiteOne very well suited for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Affordability: GraphiteOne is available at a comsumer grade pricing level. This makes GraphiteOne very well suited for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Open Architecture: Integration with legacy software, adding specific functionality or 3rd party software product, changing the user interface? GraphiteOne handles all these tasks with it's usage of poven components and it's extensible and open interfaces.
Multiple Platform Support: As one of few CAD systems, GraphiteOne lets you the freedom of choice for your operating system. GraphiteOne runs equally well on Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux environments
Functional Areas
Core Modeling
GraphiteOne provides a rich set of functions to create3D solid parts. This includes among others basic shapes and mechanical features like fillets, chamfers, offsets, or hollow. With feature-based CAD modeling, designers can more quickly create solid models by starting with a base shape and applying common mechanical product features like holes, bosses, cutouts, and fillets. The feature-based approach automatically performs the detailed geometric operations to model the component, based on the designer's selection of feature parameter values.
High Level Features
In addition to basic shapes and features, GraphiteOne provides process specific high level features to increase productivity. High level features allow to design a 3D model faster by representing industrial workflows and functions like drills, milling, or webnets.
Surface & Sheet Modeling
GraphiteOnes fully integrated surface modeling functions allow the creation of complex and demanding 3D models, either based on existing solid models or based on standalone surfaces. There are a wide range of powerful surface construction methods like basic, ruled, swept, fillet, chamfer or profile based surfaces. Swept surfaces can be defined by guide curves, giving designer high control of the shape of the resulting surface. When attaching blends, the radius definition of fillet surfaces is highly flexible. Options available include variable radius, two sided radius definition, conic or curvature continuous fillet surface generation or tangential hold line definition.
Hybrid 2D/3D
With increasing complexity of product development, 3D CAD usage is continuously increasing. On the other side, 2D can be a helpful and efficient method for some parts of a development process. GraphiteOne fully supports a combined 2D/3D development process by integrating both, efficient 2D and 3D in a single product. Designer can reuse existing 2D drawings or start new 2D drawings. In both cases, it is possible to use 2D data at any point in the development cycle to change to 3D. GraphiteOne not only allow 3D model to be based on 2D drawings, the 3D model is also updated when changing 2D data. Also possible is the other way around, to let GraphiteOne create a 2D drawing based on a 3D model. Detail views or section views can be added to a generated drawing with only a few mouse clicks.
Constraint based Sketching and Assembly
You can add dimensions and constraints to sketches and parts of a assembly. GraphiteOne solves in 3D space dimensions and constraint schemes for the purpose of positioning parts and controlling the shape of sketches. When adding dimensions and constraints to sketches, you are not limited to 2D. GraphiteOne allows fully constraint 3D sketches to be created. GraphiteOne offers a range of methods that enable you to choose how geometry should behave when interactively dragging geometry. Different solving modes influence which geometry should move and how they move. When desired, GraphiteOne can automatically add appropriate dimensions and constraints to newly created geometry, depending on the way the geometry is created.
Open Component Architecture
GraphiteOnes unique Open Component Architecture provides customers with interfaces that allow GraphiteOne to be highly customized and extended. Utilizing this functionality, GraphiteOne can be integrated in virtually any existing IT infrastructure to work together with existing workflow management systems, product lifecycle systems or database systems. This flexibility does not tie you the a single software or software vendor leaving you the choice for your IT infrastructure.
Interoperability
GraphiteOnes provides a range of file formats for the import and export of existing CAD data. This includes formats like DXF, STEP, IGES, and most notably the Parasolid XT format. You can import single parts to be assembed in GraphiteOne as well as importing complete existing assemblies. For exchanging data with users not running GraphiteOne or even any other CAD system, GraphiteOne can export data in the TechSoft 3D HSF format or in the PDF format.
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