System Enhancements
Machining
Corner roughing
Will rough the corner areas of a contour previously roughed with a larger tool. The routine will finish the corners of a closed contour on either the side. This is not a finishing routine.
Group Leadins/outs
Leadins/outs can be applied to a group of paths by picking one of the paths. A question will ask whether to apply it to the group of paths or just the path selected.
Boundary Trim Path Group
Trim a group of paths and the result is a group of path groups. Other boundary trimming does not maintain a group structure.
Solids
Solid Edge
Synergy can now extract the Solid Model portion of a Solid Edge .PAR file.
Partitions
A partition is a self-contained collection of bodies which may be rolled back to previous states, or rolled forward to existing states independently of other partitions. A solid modeling session has as a default one partition. A solid model embedded into a synergy file will preserve the partition structure. This will allow stored files to be rolled back to previous states.
Groups
A Parasolids group describes a grouping of faces or edges. Groups allow the user to identify portions of a solid body. A group of faces can be used to describe a pocket or a hole in a solid body.
Interface Enhancements
Layer Control
The layer box control has been changed. Visible layers are marked with plus (+) or minus (-) sign next to each layer depending on the state of the Except Layer check box. The current drawing layer will have a "C" next to it.
Plot sized images to JPEG/BMP
You can now plot windows directly to JPG and BMP picture file formats. Images are also automatically placed in the clipboard for paste operations in other applications.
WIN 98/Me
Synergy screen plotting/printing has been corrected for systems running Windows '98 or Me.