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| Actify Announces SpinFire Professional 8.0 Actify Inc. has announced the availability of SpinFire Professional 8.0, a digital design communication tool available for the automotive, high technology, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries. New features that enhance the digital design communication process include the ability to interact with Product Manufacturing Information (PMI, also known as GD&T), a plug-in application program interface (API) to create custom solutions, a completely new user interface, improved analysis capabilities, an easier exploded assembly creation tool, and much more. SpinFire Professional 8.0 makes 2D and 3D CAD data more easily accessible to both technical and non-technical users. It provides 2D and 3D CAD visualization capabilities, without requiring a native CAD system, in a secure and user-friendly .3D format. This enables access, communication and distribution of multiple CAD formats throughout the enterprise and supply chain allowing companies to realize cost savings and productivity gains in all facets of product design, procurement, quoting & estimating, manufacturing, sales, marketing and support. Key features of SpinFire Professional 8.0 include: - The ability to view and interact with PMI annotations and is the only product on the market that has forward-reading labels during 3D dynamic camera rotation - Expanded Exploded Animation capability - new handle-based transformations allow for easy drag and drop user-view creation and animations - New Application Program Interface (API) that allows 3rd party developers and end users to create plug-in applications to leverage functions and technology within SpinFire Professional for customized uses and vertical industry applications - A new Intuitive User Interface that features a new layout, grouping, style and logic of the application user interface similar to Microsoft Office - Enhanced Markup features for notes and dimensions added to a part or assembly, now can be placed on a surface - Improved Analysis Capabilities for removing material and retaining material cross-section modes allowing users to choose between a full cross-section view and a profile view - Complete Part Comparisons between an original model and a second version to highlight added and/or removed material - Save Files to Intel's U3D format for back-end archiving of design data in PDF format SpinFire Professional 8.0 supports files created in any major CAD file format allowing users in the manufacturing industries and their supply chains to use a single software solution enabling them to view, measure, mark-up and share all major 2D and 3D data formats without needing to purchase and maintain seats of native CAD systems. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |