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What's New in Alias 2020.3

New in Create VR tool and improvements

  • Create VR now includes a Circle tool, which you can use to create perfect circles and ellipses. This tool is curve-based, so you can modify circles and ellipses using the Move CV tool, Add CV tool, or Slice Curve tool like you can with other curves. The Extrude tool also works with circles and ellipses.

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    See Draw and sketch curves in Create VR.

  • The new Add CV Row tool lets you add rows of CVs to your surfaces. Use this tool to add CV rows is either direction. A new Remove CV Row tool lets you quickly delete rows of CVs on a surface. You can use this tool to delete the surface's original CVs in addition to CVs that you have added.

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    See Modify surfaces in Create VR.

  • Create VR now supports the Oculus Rift™ S VR device. See About Create VR.

Modeling improvements

  • We added in-canvas context menus to several tools, such as the Align, Skin, and Free Form Blend tools. To access these menus, right-click the manipulator text.

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  • The Subdivision Cut Tool now supports Snap Divisions when cutting subdivision edges. Pressing Ctrl + Alt displays the divisions that you can snap to before making the cut.

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  • The default Pick option for the Subdivision Extrude tool has changed from Both to Edges/Curves.

    Data translation improvements

  • You can now save (File > Save As > NX) or export (File > Export) files to the NX version 12 file format.

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  • A new Want Meshes option lets you save Alias objects as meshes when exporting them to the STEP AP242 file format.

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What's new in Alias learning

We've added a new Working with the Reference Manager video, which provides an overview of the Reference Manager and how you use this tool when working with reference data.

For experienced users, the video provides a detailed summary of the major reference workflow improvements and new features that were added to the Reference Manager in the Alias 2021.2 Update.

If you are new to working with reference data in Alias, the video introduces you to important reference-related concepts and Reference Manager features.

See About working with reference data.

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