CAD Features

Microvellum's 2D drawing suite includes a range of tools for creating precise designs:

• Line, Polyline: Essential for drafting straight lines and connected segments.

• Circle, Arc, Ellipse: Create perfect curves and circular shapes.

• Rectangle, Polygon: Easily draw regular shapes with specified dimensions.

• Spline: Generate smooth, freeform curves for complex shapes.

Refine your designs with advanced editing functionalities:

• Trim, Extend: Modify existing lines and curves to meet your design requirements.

• Move, Copy: Relocate and duplicate elements within your drawing.

• Rotate, Scale: Adjust the orientation and size of your design components.

• Mirror, Offset: Create symmetrical designs and parallel elements effortlessly.

• Fillet, Chamfer: Add rounded or beveled edges to your geometry.

• Stretch: Alter the shape and size of objects by stretching their vertices.

Enhance communication with detailed annotations:

• Text, Multiline Text: Add single-line or multi-line text to your drawings.

• Dimensioning (Linear, Aligned, Angular, Radial, Diameter): Provide precise measurements for all elements of your design.

• Leaders, Multileaders: Use leaders to point out specific details with accompanying notes.

• Hatching, Gradient Fill: Apply patterns and gradients to distinguish different areas and materials.

Efficiently manage complex projects with dynamic layer management:

• Create, Delete Layers: Organize elements by creating and removing layers as needed.

• Layer Properties (Color, Linetype, Lineweight): Customize layers to improve drawing clarity.

• Layer States and Filters: Save and apply different layer configurations and filters to streamline your workflow.

Simplify repetitive tasks with blocks and references:

• Create, Insert Blocks: Define reusable components and insert them into your drawings.

• Edit Block Definitions: Modify block definitions to update all instances in your drawing.

• External References (Xrefs): Link external files to your drawing for collaborative projects.

Manage different views and layouts effectively:

• Sheet Set Manager: View, access, manage, and plot multiple drawings as sheet sets.

• Model Space and Paper Space: Work in model space for design and paper space for layout and printing.

• Create and Edit Viewports: Define areas of your drawing to display in different scales and perspectives.

• Set Viewport Scale: Control the scale of viewports to ensure accurate representation.

Maintain and optimize your drawings:

• Purge, Audit, Recover: Clean up, audit, and recover your drawings to maintain integrity.

• DWG Compare: Compare different versions of drawings to identify changes.

• Distance, Area, Volume: Measure distances, areas, and volumes within your drawing.

• Quick Measure: Hover over your design and see dynamic readouts for distances and angles, making on-the-fly adjustments a breeze.

• Dynamic Input: Toolbox keeps you informed with real-time measurements displayed right next to your cursor as you draw.

• List Properties: View detailed information about selected objects.

• ID Point, Coordinates: Identify specific points and their coordinates in your design.

• Set Your Units: Toolbox allows you to define your preferred units (inches, millimeters, etc.) to ensure all measurements match your project requirements.

Achieve precision with snap and grid tools:

• Object Snap (OSNAP): Snap to key points on objects for accurate drawing.

• Grid and Snap Settings: Utilize grid and snap settings to align objects precisely.

• Polar Tracking: Draw at specific angles using polar tracking.

Microvellum’s 3D tools allow for the creation of detailed and complex models with ease:

• Box, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Torus, Wedge: Quickly generate basic 3D shapes to serve as the foundation of your design.

• Extrude, Revolve: Transform 2D shapes into 3D models with extrusion and revolution tools.

• Sweep, Loft: Create advanced 3D forms by sweeping profiles along paths or lofting between multiple shapes.

Refine your models with robust editing functionalities:

• Union, Subtract, Intersect: Combine, subtract, or intersect 3D solids to achieve complex geometries.

• Presspull, Fillet Edge, Chamfer Edge: Modify surfaces and edges for precise detailing.

• Slice, Thicken, Shell: Manipulate solid objects by slicing them into parts, thickening surfaces, or hollowing out models.

Leverage mesh tools for flexible modeling:

• Mesh Box, Mesh Sphere, Mesh Cylinder: Create and manipulate mesh-based geometries.

• Convert Mesh to Solid, Convert Mesh to Surface: Easily switch between mesh and solid or surface representations for various design needs.

Enhance your models with advanced surface tools:

• Planar Surface, Extrude Surface: Generate surfaces from closed shapes and curves.

• Revolve Surface, Sweep Surface, Loft Surface: Create complex surface models using revolution, sweeping, and lofting techniques.

• Blend Surface, Network Surface, Patch Surface: Develop smooth and continuous surfaces by blending, networking, and patching.

Navigate your models effortlessly:

• Orbit, Pan, Zoom: Easily view and manipulate models in 3D space.

• ViewCube, SteeringWheels: Utilize intuitive navigation aids for precise model orientation.

• 3D Navigation Bar: Access essential navigation tools from a single interface.

Present your models with professional-quality visuals:

• Visual Style Manager: Customize the display of your models with various visual styles.

• Materials and Textures: Apply realistic materials and textures to your 3D models.

• Lights and Shadows: Enhance model realism with advanced lighting and shadow options.

• Rendering and Render Presets: Generate high-quality renders with predefined settings.

Analyze and present model cross-sections:

• Section Planes: Create dynamic section views to examine internal model details.

• Live Sectioning: Interactively section models to view different slices in real-time.

• Slice Tool: Cut models into distinct parts for detailed analysis and presentation.

• Multi-user Project Access: Stay organized and complete project drawings faster by inviting multiple drafters to simultaneously work in different areas of the same project.

• Import and Export 3D Models: Work with a variety of 3D file formats, including STL, STEP, and IGES.

• Import Files from Third Party Software: Adobe, CATIA, Inventor, Pro/Engineer, Rhino, SolidWorks, and others.

• BIM Collaboration (Revit Interoperability): Integrate with BIM workflows for seamless project coordination.

• 3D Printing (STL Export): Export models for 3D printing with ease.