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Form*Z 5.0: solid modeling for design visualization and animation.(Product/Service Evaluation)

The modeling program form*Z occupies a useful niche between industrial modeling tools and conventional CAD. It doesn't provide the drafting tools and materials sense of solid modelers like SolidWorks and Inventor for industrial design or Revit, a building information modeler with mechanical versions coming. And form*Z lacks the drafting and drawing output tools of mainstream CAD packages such as AutoCAD, AllPlan and MicroStation--all of which are adding solid modeling features. But mainstream CAD is still best at drawing surfaces, albeit 3D assemblies of surfaces, and not solids.

What's it like being in the middle? Delightful. Form*Z has always been a joy to draw solids ...

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