Shark CAD LT V5

Shark CAD LT V5 Review

Shark CAD LT V5 Feature

• Shark LT provides a comprehensive yet intuitive collection of 2D drafting tools for architects, engineers, drafters, and other design-related personnel needing to create professional drawings
• Create precise 3D digital prototypes suitable for concept-to-manufacturing solutions; Shark LT maintains precision NURB/analytic forms needed in demanding tasks such as manufacturing or engineering analysis
• Shark LT supports an integrated collection of 2D, 3D, surface, and solid modeling tools--choose the tools or combination of tools you need for the task at hand
• Supports over 25 file formats, allowing you to share data with numerous design, analysis, rendering, documentation, and manufacturing solutions, including SAT, IGES, STEP, STL, OBJ, VRML, and DXF/DWG formats
• Available for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms; the Mac OS X version is a universal binary natively supporting PPC and Intel based Macs

Shark LT provides a comprehensive, yet intuitive collection of 2D drafting tools for architects, engineers, drafters, and other design-related personnel needing to create professional drawings.

a comprehensive, yet intuitive collection of 2D drafting tools for architects, engineers, drafters, and other design-related personnel needing to create professional drawings. Click to enlarge.

Professional Drafting, Annotation, and Markups
Choose from over 26 dimension types and a variety of industry standards to annotate drawing data. Shark LT includes support for ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerances (GD&T) as well as adhering to ISO standards. Mechanical as well as architectural designers will appreciate the breadth of formatting options for annotating drawings.

Accelerate your drawing generation with Shark LT's model to sheet functionality. Create precision 2D drawings from 3D parts based upon technology licensed from Dassault's CATIA including auxiliary, detail, and section views.

Review and redline drawings using Shark LT's markup tools. Add labels, comments, and revision clouds while tracking changes using markup tables.

Precision Digital Models
Use Shark LT as your foundation to create precise 3D digital prototypes suitable for concept-to-manufacturing solutions. Based on Dassault's ACIS modeling kernel, Shark LT maintains precision NURB/analytic forms needed in demanding tasks such as manufacturing or engineering analysis.

Shark LT supports an integrated collection of 2D, 3D, surface, and solid modeling tools. You choose the tools or combination of tools you need for the task at hand. Notable tools include numerous spline creation and modification commands, seventeen surface construction methods, blending, chamfering, shelling, stretching, twisting, bending, and foreign part editing tools. All surface and solid modeling operations transparently support associativity and a history tree for rapid design modifications.

Ease of Use
While many packages claim ease of use, few actually deliver. Shark LT not only delivers unprecedented usability, but provides an uncompromised, extensive set of 2D/3D design tools. Shark LT has been designed, from the ground up, to be intuitive for the casual user as well as the professional designer. Keys to the innovative user interface include smart prompting and tips, intelligent snapping through LogiCursor, and over 80 minutes of training videos.

Share Data with Other Solutions
With support for 25+ file formats, Shark LT allows you to share data with numerous design, analysis, rendering, documentation, and manufacturing solutions. Notable among these formats include SAT, IGES, STEP, STL, OBJ, VRML, and DXF/DWG.

Windows and Mac OS X Compatible
Shark LT is available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The Mac OS X version is a universal binary natively supporting PPC and Intel based Macs. The Windows version works with both Windows XP and Windows Vista

Technical Features

Usability Concept Explorer to examine and modify relationships and construction history Prompt Window for prompting designer through commands Data Entry Window for explicit creation and modification Object Info Window Tool Tips & Hints Tool Help & Tool Cursors Multiple Monitor Savvy Customize background colors Small or large tool palette option User defined views & work planes Unlimited Undo & Redo User Defined Working Units LogiCursor Intelligent Snaps Mid Points, End Points & Centers Intersections (Real and Extended) Dynamic Axis Locking Along Axis Alignments Snap Filters Tangents and Perpendiculars Works in 3D as well as 2D Data Management Layers and Sub Layers Isolate Layer Increment/Decrement Layer Layer Locking Layer Color Override Object show/hide tools Automated File Backups Group and Ungroup Lock and UnLock 2D Creation Point & Line Tools Arc & Circle Tools Conic Arcs & Ellipse Tools Polygon Tools Spline Tools (Through, Bezier, CV) 2D Editing & Utilities Dynamic modification of shapes Fillet & Spline Fill Chamfering Trim, Extend & Segment Region Trim, Divide & Break At Connect, Join Offset By Value or To Location Transformations Annotation/Detailing Pen Weights, Patterns, Styles 26 Dimension Tools Hatching Fill Patterns Bill of Materials Text Tools GD&T Datums Feature Control Frames GD&T True Type Font Markup Tools Pencil and Markers Revision Clouds Markup Tables

Automated 3D to 2D Automatically generate 2D drawings from 3D models Scalable Draw Views Section & Detail Views Auxiliary Views Predefined Drawing Templates Part Library 30,000+ Part Library Drag and Drop Parts Dynamically Position Data Exchange SketchUp DXF/DWG ACIS SAT, IGES & STEP Adobe Illustrator (V6) Rhino 3DM (Import Only) STL (ASCII and Binary) SketchUp Import PICT (Mac Only) CGM (Import Only) 3D Studio (Import Only) TurboCAD Mac Verification Tools 2 Point Distance & Angles Lengths & Minimum Distance Interference Detection 2D Planar Properties (Area, Centroid, Principle Moments) Dynamic Curvature Plots Visualization Standard Top, Bottom, Front, Side, Back, Isometric & Trimetric Views User defined views Zoom Tools Lights Distant, Point, Spot Surfacing Modeling Infinite Planes Nets (MxN curve networks) Skin Surface Draft angles and magnitude Perpendicular take offs Simplify Option Ruled Surface Cover Surface Planar and Non Planar N-Sided Edges Revolve Surface 2 Pt Revolve About curve revolve Extrude by Vector One Rail Sweep In place sweeping Perpendicular sweeping Two Rail Sweep Maintain height option Tube/Pipe Surface Thicken Surface to Solid Associativity for rapid design modifications Surface Utilities Plane/Surface Intersection Project Curve to Surface Imprint Option Surface/Surface Intersection Curve/Surface Intersection Silhouette Curve Calculation Explode Surface Edge Project curve to plane

Solid Modeling Solids from Primitives Lathe & Extrude Profile One & Two Rail Sweep Cutout from profile Protrusion from profile Solid from sections Pipe Solid Branched Solid Associativity between curves and resultant solids for rapid design modifications. Feature Operations Feature based modeling Parametric Features Feature/History Tree Shelling Constant Wall Thickness Editable multi wall thickness Option to keep shelled core Holes Simple, counterbore, countersink Through body To face, To depth Bosses Shelling Constant Radius Blends Vertex Blends Elliptical Section Blends Multi-Edge Blending Variable Radius Blends Linear Blends By position By curve map Fixed Width Blends Constant Length Chamfers One Length Two Length Length/Angle Vertex Variable Length Chamfers Two Lengths Two Length Chamfer Four Length Chamfer Lengths and Angles By position Fixed width Bending 2 Point bend axis Center line bend Bend angle and radius Solid Modeling Utilities Boolean Operations Add, Subtract, Intersect Trim & Split Thicken Thicken surface to solid Thicken existing solid Thin existing solid Stitching Surfaces to Solids User defined tolerances Healing & Repair Tolerant Edges NURB to Analytic Simplify Local Face Editing Use local face tools to modify imported files which do not have history or feature parameters Draft & Match Face Move & Offset Face Remove & Replace Face

Punch! Shark™ LT provides a comprehensive, yet intuitive collection of 2D drafting tools for architects, engineers, drafters, and other design-related personnel needing to create professional drawings.