GraphiteOne is available as two different products:
2D Drafting
3D Design
Please see the following sections for more information about each product.
2D Drafting
The 2D drafting product is a feature rich solution for creating and editing 2D drawings.
Sketching
The 2D Drafting product provides many sketching elements.Availabe sketchinh elements range from simple line geometry including splines to fully associative dimensions or hatches. Picture elements allow the usage of legacy images from scanned paper drawings. Many powerfull snap functions makes the drawing process easier. Further drawing aids include for example dynamic constructions lines for parallel, perpendicular or tangential construction.
Tools
For editing drawings many tools are available. Fillets and chamfer allow the modification of sharp edges. Powerfull trimming allows to cut lines in many different variants, for example inside limits, outside limits or up to intersections points. Lines can be automatically extended to the next nearest line. For the best usage of constructive geometry, a overdraw function is available.
3D Design
The following sections provide you with a overview of GraphiteOne 3D Design and its functionality.
Core Modeling
GraphiteOne provides a rich set of functions to create 3D solid and sheet 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.
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.
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