LWCAD 5.0 new features

LWCAD 5.0 key features

Smart Mesh

• • new unified geometry system based on polygons and NURBS surfaces

  • shared edges between polygons and nurbs surfaces are defined by new curves

  • curve version 2 - new version of nurbs curve with variable knot vector (backward compatible)

  • - closed segments

  • - improved editing options

  • flat surface - flat nurbs polygon based on new nurbs curves

  • - compatible with polygons

  • nurbs surface - standard nurbs surface with 2,3, or 4 edges

  • - open-closed along U or V direction

Smart Selection

• • new in-built selection system

  • fully integrated into smart edit tools

Smart Edit

• • minimalistic set of editing tools

  • complete set of editing operations compressed into few tools

  • works with smart mesh and nurbs curves

Multilingual support

All menu items, panels and messages are translated into:

German, French,Italian and Japan languages

Automatic installer

professional installation, LWCAD is set up automatically for specified LightWave

LWCAD 5.0 updates

Primitives

• • all curve primitive tools support curve 2

  • all surface primitive tools support polygons and nurbs surfaces

  • Point Tool - can divide new curves and smart mesh

  • Line Tool - new spline mode which creates an interpolated curve

Convert

• • Curvs To Surfs - converts curves to polygons or flat surfaces

  • Surf To Curvs - converts smart mesh to curves

  • Quads To NURBS - new tool, converts quad polygons to nurbs surfaces

  • Freeze NURBS - converts smart mesh to polygons

Modify & Clone

• • all tools upgraded to work with smart mesh

  • Drag & Weight - updated to be able to drag smart mesh and curves

Edit

• • Join-Explode - updated to work with smart mesh, new auto corrections

  • Divide - new tool for dividing smart mesh and curves

  • Reduce - updated to reduce flat nurbs surfaces as well as polygons

  • Flip - new tool for flipping orientation of smart mesh and curves

Smart Edit

• • Offset - Mass Offset upgraded to support smart mesh and smart selection

  • Extrude - Mass Extrude upgraded to support smart mesh and smart selection

  • Round - Mass Round upgraded to support smart mesh and smart selection

  • Loft - new skinning tool, creates blended surfaces on smart mesh

  • Patch - new patch tool, creates nurbs and flat patches

  • Profile - Profiler upgraded to support smart mesh and smart selection

Shape Library

• • Export Instance Data - new tool for exporting LWCAD instance positions into text file

  • Export Instance Lwo - new tool for exporting LWCAD instances as LWO objects

Snapping

• • all snap modes updated to also work with Smart Mesh

  • NEAR - disabled pol snap on ucs in perspective viewport

  • INT - intersections between polygons, edges, curves, lines, axis and projections

  • UCS grid - visualization of grid snapping

  • UCS grid - works on pol edges, curves, constraints, axis, and projections

  • - visualize ruler on ucs axis

  • RULER - works on nurbs segments, pol edges, and nurbs surface edges

  • PROJ - visualize all nearest and possible projections

  • AUTO UCS - new intuitive automatic mode, aligned to left corner