Cobalt 7 review

The most impressive upgrade to the award winning Ashlar Vellum Solids since its introduction, Cobalt will help take your designs to a new level of creativity.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 14K Developer: Ashlar-Vellum Buy Now Price: $3995.00 Updated: 25 Oct 2005

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The most impressive upgrade to the award winning Ashlar Vellum Solids since its introduction, Cobalt will help take your designs to a new level of creativity. Cobalt powerfully integrates advanced parametric free-form Wireframe, organic Class-A NURBS Surfacing, and advanced ACIS feature-based Solid modeling. Everything in Cobalt is fully history-driven with advanced associativity and powerful 2D equation-driven parametrics* and constraints. Cobalt allows the easy creation of virtually any form without limit, and allows quick, effortless design changes and iterations. Cobalt offers an enhanced interface, powerful new surfacing tools, advanced new mold design tools, improved detailing, and powerful new engineering features.

Here are some key features of "Cobalt":
On-demand parametrics facilitate design variations and product families.
Full associativity and Design Explorer(TM) history tracking speed design revisions, updating models and drawing sheets.
Class-A NURBS surfaces, ACIS solids and intuitive wireframe are in one seamless package.
Non-modal interface lets you switch between modeling techniques and approaches on the fly.
Classic Vellum 2D/3D product included.
Professional drafting with true associative dimensioning and basic model analysis speeds manufacturing.
More than 30 professional translators included FREE.

Limitations:
2-week trial.
The trial version is identical in every way to the licensed software.
What's New:
Native MAC OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) compatiblity added
ACIS upgraded to 8.0.