Software delivers computational inspiration to facilitate and exploration of design themes
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solidThinking, Inc. today announced the release of morphogenesis, a new technology dedicated to providing industrial designers and architects with the capability to explore virtually countless design options.
This innovative morphogenesis form generation technology is included with the launch of solidThinking 8.0 Inspired, solidThinking's latest software version for the design community. solidThinking 8.0 Inspired adds unique computational capabilities to the newly released solidThinking 8.0 design tools suite for advanced 3D modeling and rendering available on both Windows and Mac operating systems.
Using solidThinking 8.0 Inspired, designers can create design space models or import them from other systems. After defining environments around the models, designers can run the software's morphogenesis feature to grow efficient shapes in response to these environments and form controls. Results can be used as loosely or literally as users wish while formalizing their designs. The morphogenesis feature ultimately acts as a complementary idea generator and inspiration for form.
In addition, solidThinking 8.0 Inspired provides users NURBS-based surface and solid modeling, best-in-class ConstructionTree technology, fast and high-quality photorealistic real-time rendering capabilities and bi-directional functionality. It presents a highly efficient and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and is compatible with CAD/CAM/CAE systems. Using solidThinking 8.0 Inspired, designers can enhance geometric 3D CAD data from virtually any CAD environment and visually explore, apply and style the results of the software's morphogenesis functionality.
It also features simultaneous parameter editing and control-point editing functionalities, a streamlined user interface and a fast rendering engine that produces rich photorealistic images with a wide array of color options, finishes and global illumination. solidThinking is available on both Windows and Mac platforms, and is compatible with computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) software, encouraging collaboration between industrial designers and engineers during the product development cycle.
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