Hello I hope Dynamo Studio can join Alias This is a magical tool that can be as interesting as styling in grasshopper   Thank You! Show More

Hi everybody,   I have a suggestion for an improvement concerning the evaluation tool:    it would be great, if the evaluation tool displays an error, if surfaces are obstructed in the drafting direction by other surfaces of the very same piece of product. This would be very helpful to detect undercuts in a fast and efficient way.   Thanks.   Cheers   Tobi Show More

It drives me crazy to have to continually look at the bottom right corner of the screen to see if a tool is demanding a button response to proceed. This becomes especially problematic when working on large screens. I currently use a 43 in 4k dispaly, and it requires a complete body movement just to see if a tool such as "Trim" is using the desired option such as; "Keep, Discard, or Split" and then carefully try to move my mouse a far distance to click the right button. There are many tools that require a click on a button in the bottom right corner; many of them simply say "Build". It's difficult to specify each one, but I think may people would agree that a simply pop-up dialog such as the X-form CV toolbox typically invoked by pressing the space-bar. Having some type of dialog that doesn't require moving the mouse a far distance which breaks focus would be a huge improvement for productivity. especially when working on a specific workflow that requires using the same tool many times over. One thought as well might be that the user might be able to grab this new pop-up dialog and position it where it's best until they are ready to push the button. A simple hotkey might work as well to toggle it. See attached image. Pardon the terrible mouse drawn example using windows snipping tool . . . Show More

We plan to integrate xNURBS with Alias, which provides super powerful surfacing capabilities. Before starting the development, we post it here and see if Alias users like xNURBS.   Key Features of xNURBS:   Unlimited capacities for solving NURBS: Its optimization algorithm can solve virtually any NURBS surface in a matter of milliseconds (regardless of how complex the constraints are.). Blending dozens of edges with one watertight G2 NURBS surface.   High-quality surfaces: For a given set of constraints, xNURBS’ optimization algorithm uses energy-minimization method to generate the smoothest NURBS surface among all possible solutions. The generated surface quality is outstanding.   xNURBS is one super powerful NURBS tool that fixes virtually all surfacing issues for existing CAD software.   Easy-to-use: It uses one simple UI for all kinds of NURBS modeling.   Super robust: xNURBS is rock solid and works flawlessly. GTR Car: Most surfaces of the GTR model are generated by xNURBS.   Native CAD surfaces: xNURBS is based on NURBS, i.e., the native CAD surfaces, which can be directly used for any CAD modeling operations without any geometry translation. Watertight Jet Ski Hull: All surfaces are generated by xNURBS with G2 continuity.   Fully support editing and rebuilding. For more information, visit https://www.xnurbs.com Show More

It would be nice to have the possibility to offset a curve on a surface respecting the arc length of the given surface. Because offsetting a curve on surface is Not really giving an acceptable quality imo. Show More

I would like to see a comprehensive video tutorial of a complex sports type car Class A work session from absolute start 1.(setup of tolerances reference pics and preferences and  file structure) to finish of the exterior only. 2.(from setup then a comprehensive video on curve generation.) and finally 3.(Primary, secondary, and tertiary surfaces.) Much like the vacuum videos which are nice, only more comprehensive on each task. The majority of videos out there are very specific to one or two commands and usually with only two surfaces, I want to see all the commands working in context with something real,what better way to show the complete work flow of your software. The individual videos of specific topics are just fine but would be great to see them all working together and hopefully from someone who has worked in the industries and not just a want to be car surfacer.   Thanks, I think there are a lot of people that would like to see that tutorial.   Thanks, Buddy Show More

Under the transform CV tool which comes up when pressing the spacebar it allows you to select between picking CVs and Hulls. Would it be possible that in addition of that feature, the software would interligently select either CV or hull depending on where the user clicks to select? For example if the user is in the transform CV tool and clicks on a CV, the cv is selected. But if the user clicks on the hull's line that hull is selected. It would save the few seconds between changing between pick CV and hull constantly.   Thanks Show More

Hallo,   I'm not sure if this is one idea or several... it affects many Tools. My collegues and me noticed, turning on "Bezier surfaces" in different Tools lead to different results. Since 2017 the Multi-Surface-Draft-tool has a very complex, yet perfectly customizable way of building the surfaces. providing the best surface-quality of all Bezier-surfacing-methodes. But its neccesary to set all individually for every draft creation. Since 2018 the Surface-Fillet-tool has a very simple way also to reduce the surface degree. So it easy to maintain minimum degree while super-fast modelling. But sometimes it uses more patches than logically needed, because it just can create perfectly even cv-distributions, and surface-Splitting. If it could be orientated to input-surfaces like the draft, the result could be better (i.e. on highly curved contoures). Other similar Tools like the symmetric-fillet, the freeform- and profile-blend, or the fillet-flanges were not updated with this useful features. still use older Bezier-Surfacing-methodes While yet other Tools still just simply give a splitted result of the "Multiple Surface"-Nurbs. That creates many non-optimized patches. So usually have to be rebuilded. Like skin- and profile-tool.   May it be possible to create one general Bezier-Surfacing-methode integrated in all Tools. We would actually really like a combination of the draft and fillet methodes. So one can switch between a super-fast automatically optimized version like in the newest surface-fillet, but if neccesary manually set to a perfect quality like the draft-tool.   Kind regards, David   Show More

Would be great to have G3 specific locators; now that we have G3 Align at our disposal. It would be nice to know if another align operation (on another edge) breaks a previous G3 Alignment. My thought is that you could make the G3 version a different color; perhaps Baby Blue. (Needs to be something easy on the eyes.) It could be a different shade of green I suppose; but I think pale blue would be better. So when a surface loses G3 alignment; it switches to the typical Green color. I guess if you don't like the color idea; you could implement new labels:   G0 = Position G1 = Tangent G2 = G2 Curvature G3 = G3 Curvature   So you could use these instead of the existing: P = Position T = Tangent C = Curvature (G2) ? = G3   While I am on this topic of G3; I would really like to see the G3 option added to the Freeform Blend tool in the Design Package. It seems like if G3 Align is available in the Design package, that it also should get the G3 Freeform blend option as well. Show More