SpaceClaim Engineer brings 3D solid modeling to the desktops of engineers and analysts who work in a 3D world but don’t want to become experts in traditional feature-based CAD systems. SpaceClaim helps engineers interact with CAD geometry in exciting new ways. Any engineer can make dramatic edits to models, conceptualize on-the-fly, and communicate quickly and easily with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Engineering teams can finish projects with ease, in a fraction of the time. Sales and business development groups can win more business by using SpaceClaim to communicate their proposals
in compelling and realistic 3D.

SpaceClaim’s 3D Direct Modeling technology revolutionizes the way you think about working with 3D solid models because it lets you focus on your design without the complexity of traditional CAD. For example, you can reuse data without planning and remix geometry from other designs, even those created in CAD systems. You can take a design where it needs to go, regardless of how it was built or the CAD system in which it was created.

Create new concepts and share them with other engineers before entering the detailed design phase: together, you get the concepts right and avoid expensive last-minute design changes. From a blank slate, start drawing 3D shapes as easily and freely as you would on the back of a napkin. De-feature and simplify parts for analysis or manufacturing and optimize the design without being constrained by original modeling intent.

Intuitive tools such as Pull and Move let you directly select portions of the model and move them where you want. The Combine tool slices and divides parts into pieces and lets you merge in portions from other designs. The Fill tool cleans up small features and
fills holes. Together, these direct modeling tools let you get your job done without resorting to traditional CAD.

SpaceClaim 2011 Plus SP1.0 primarily improves the quality of the 2011 Plus release, but also adds functions for wrapping sketch curves, patterning standard holes, and writing additional file formats.