AutoSolids Updated for 2006

AutoCAD's 3D solids were last updated in v2000 with the addition of the SolEdit command. The lack of subsequent enhancements has given third-party developers a niche, such as AutoSolids (US$495). It features:

- Constraint-free parametric creation and editing of solids
- Realtime previews of all solid modeling operations.
- Cutting solids with open or closed 2D profiles, direct extrusion of text objects into solids, retraction of boolean operations, and more.
- Automatic generation of multiview 2D drawings.
- Exclusive 3D command center

A demo version can be downloaded from autosolids.com. AutoSolids v3.13 supports AutoCAD Release 14.01 through 2006, as well as all versions of Mechanical Desktop and Architectural Desktop.

Comments

[Saud Handy]

Why doesn't Autodesk just buy AutoSolids like they have just done with Alias and incorporate it into the standard AutoCAD software. This will give a big boost to 3D AutoCAD without Autodesk having to do anymore development or enhancement on there own. Also this would perhaps stem the tide of small to mid-size companies abandoning AutoCAD for other higher price mid-range CAD software such as SolidWorks or Solid Edge. This could effect Inventor of course however Inventor would be offered to these small to mid-size companies if they needed a stronger parametrically based solid modeler instead of the boolean based AutoSolids.