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New Features & Enhancements
NEW Performance Enhacements!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Split Mesh!	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Improved Multi-threading Support!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Interoperability Support!	✓	✓	✓	✓*	✓
NEW Import PDF & Adobe Illustrator!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW DWG 2020 Import/Export!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW SketchUp 2020 Import/Export!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW COLLADA Support!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Mesh Booleans!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Save Layers with Views!	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Photorender Spot Light!	✓	✓	✓
NEW Repeat Previous Command	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Angular Tolerance Updates	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Best Fit Line and Circle	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Weight and Volume Tables	✓	✓	✓	✓
NEW Wrap (Imprint, Emboss, Engrave)	✓	✓	✓
NEW Show/Hide Face	✓	✓	✓	✓
Performance - Professional Grade
64-bit Compatible	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multi-threading Support	✓	✓	✓
2D Drafting & Annotations
26 Dimension Types	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
250+ Drafting Tools	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
2D Dimensional and Geometric Constraints	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Angular Tolerance (Improved)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Best Fit Line and Circle (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Bill of Materials	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CutList BOMs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Conic Tools	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Duplicate Layer Command	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save Layers with Views (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Precise Model to Sheet - Automatic 2D Drawing Generation	✓
Advance Drafting
Auto 3D to 2D (Polylines)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Auto 3D to 2D (Precise)	✓	✓
Curves	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Section/Detail/Auxiliary Views	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
File Referencing	✓	✓
GD&T	✓	✓	✓
Markup and Redline	✓	✓	✓
Simplify Curve Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
UI/Usability
Part Tree	✓	✓	✓
Gripper Tool – Transforming Objects	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Inspector Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Navigator Tool	✓	✓
Customizable Tool Palettes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Customizable Grids	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Video Tutorials	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
3D Connexion Mouse Support	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Draw View Type - Easily Scaled Prints	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Drawing Wizard	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Open Backup	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Print by Layer Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Print Window	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Print Large Plot Sizes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Repeat Previous Command (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save for Review	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Selection Tools - Lasso, Feature, Mesh	✓	✓	✓	✓	Lasso Only
Tool Icon Sizing	✓	✓	✓
User Guides	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Viewport Layouts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Architectural Tools
Doors	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Make 3D	✓	✓	✓	✓
Roofs Designer	✓	✓	✓	✓
Slabs	✓	✓	✓	✓
Walls, Multi-Walls Designer	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Windows Designer	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
3D Modeling Tools
ACIS® Solid Modeling Kernel	✓	✓	✓	✓
Basic Solids	✓	✓	✓	✓
Basic Surfaces	✓	✓	✓	✓
Feature Based History Tree	✓	✓	✓
Mesh Booleans (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Move Face	✓	✓	✓	✓
Push/Pull Modeling	✓	✓	✓	✓
Shelling, Blending	✓	✓	✓	✓
Show/Hide Face (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Split Mesh (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Weight and Volume Tables	✓	✓	✓	✓
Advanced 3D Modeling Tools
Add Loop Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓
Advanced Surface Tools	✓	✓	✓
Bending Along Curve	✓	✓	✓	✓
Boolean Edge Treatments	✓
Bridge Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cover Surface with Guides	✓
Cylinder SubD Primitive	✓	✓	✓	✓
Deformations	✓
Draft Surfaces	✓	✓	✓	✓
Feature Patterns	✓	✓	✓
Fill Hole	✓	✓	✓	✓
Flanges	✓
G2 Continuous Edge Blending	✓
Infinite Plane Objects	✓	✓	✓	✓
Inset Quad Mesh Modifier	✓	✓	✓
Lofting with Guides	✓
Magnet Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mesh Symmetry	✓	✓	✓	✓
MicroScribe Digitizer	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pocket Hole for Woodworking	✓	✓	✓
PowerPack Design and 3D Printing Tools (New)	✓	✓
Quad Mesh Tools	✓	✓	✓	✓
Repair Curves	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rib/Lip Feature	✓
Skin Surface with Guides	✓
Subdivision Tool	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Booleans	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Extend	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Analysis	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Lofting	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Utilities – Cut Section, Curved Surface and Explode Curve	✓	✓	✓	✓
Tangent Covers	✓	✓	✓	✓
Three Face Blends	✓
Thumbweight Blending	✓
Trim/Join Surface	✓	✓	✓	✓
Woodworking Joint Tools	✓	✓	✓
Wrap - Imprint, Emboss, Engrave (New)	✓	✓	✓
Rendering, Presentation and Visualization
Data Display	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ligthworks™ Photorealistic Enhancements	✓	✓	✓	✓
Environment Maps	✓	✓	✓
HDRI Support	✓	✓	✓
KeyShot Rendering Live Linking	✓	✓	✓	✓
OpenGL Rendering				✓
Photorender Spot Light (New)	✓	✓	✓
Poster Size File Export	✓	✓	✓
QuickTime Video Recorder	✓	✓	✓
Rapid Render Tool for Woods	✓	✓	✓
Ray Tracing, Shadows, Transparency	✓	✓	✓
Sketch Rendering	✓
Special Lighting Effects	✓	✓	✓
Strip, Dome and Area lights	✓
Animation
Object Time Lines/Paths	✓	✓	✓
Panoramic & Object Virtual Reality	✓	✓	✓
Walk Through, Flyby	✓	✓	✓
Translators
Advanced MCAD Native Translators*	✓
2D PDF Import (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
3D PDF Export	✓	✓	✓	✓
3MF Import/Export	✓	✓	✓	✓
ACIS® R26 Kernel	✓	✓	✓	✓
Adobe Illustrator™ (Improved Import Support)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Batch File Converter	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
BMP Import	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Collada (DAE) Import (New)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
DXF/DWG R12-2020 (Improved Support)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
IGES, STEP, SAT	✓	✓	✓	✓
OBJ Import/Export - with Texture support	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rhino™ 3D Import	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
SAB Export	✓	✓	✓	✓
SketchUp Import/Export (Improved Support)	✓	✓	✓	✓
STL Import/Export	✓	✓	✓	✓
SVG Import/Export	✓	✓	✓	✓
3D Printing
Auto Position	✓	✓	✓	✓
Overhang Analysis	✓	✓	✓	✓
Preview Slices	✓	✓	✓	✓
Printer Definitions	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sample STL files	✓	✓	✓	✓
Show Printer Volume	✓	✓	✓	✓
Support Structure	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surface Normals Check	✓	✓	✓	✓
Wall Thickness	✓	✓	✓	✓
Other Features
2D/3D Part Library: 26,000	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multiple ViewPorts (Draw Views)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
OpenGL Materials/Textures					✓