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News Release from: VX Corporation | Subject: QuickShapes
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 March 2004
New VX QuickShapes Speeds Design
VX QuickShapes lets designers bypass sketching and easily explore alternate design approaches
VX Corporation, the pioneering developer of advanced, integrated CAD/CAM solutions for engineers and industrial designers, introduces faster conceptual design with new VX QuickShapes function in VX Version 9 Getting Started Faster VX QuickShapes, a comprehensive set of primitive 3D shape commands, are a simple yet very useful addition to VX Version 9 for design modeling
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Industrial Designers can use QuickShapes to quickly define and explore ideas at the concept stage, developing the best of these into more detailed models at any time, as required.
Mechanical engineers can swiftly put together the building blocks of a structure or mechanism, considering component assembly layout and build, and part interaction without the unnecessary detail, which at times can be a time-consuming burden in the early stages of design.
Volumes, positioning dimensions and overall containment sizes can be explored in concept studies and to get to the answers of "what if" questions quickly and easily with QuickShapes.
Bob Fischer, VX vice president, sales and marketing said, "VX QuickShapes is simple yet powerful functionality.
With QuickShapes, users can quickly develop the essential layout of a product or go completely from beginning to end in a fraction of the time it normally takes.
Additionally, VX QuickShapes are very helpful in getting users new to 3D modeling started." Joe Greco, author of numerous CAD articles and President of the CAD Society, experimented with the commands at the recent National Design Engineering Show in Chicago and commented in Cadalyst magazine's NDES 2004 Roundup, "I had the chance to play with the 3D primitives [VX QuickShapes] now included with the system and found them fast and intuitive".
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