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Plasticity 2025.1
I mention Plasticity every now and then because it's also Parasolid based, and the price point puts it in either competition with Onshape or at a reasonable place to be an adjunct to Onshape. It's not parametric, it's not really a good tool for mechanical CAD, but it is interesting for surfacing, industrial design work and form finding. This latest release includes a bunch of surfacing features I'd love to see in Onshape (NUV CV editing for surfaces including proportional, "natural" surface extension, etc).
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The more in depth video which introduces this update is up now:
Pretty sweet.
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It's funny you should post this as it's one of the biggest reasons I piped up about that open sourcing the parasolid kernel bit. I had been looking for info about how solid kernels work, only to find that THE main one is mostly closed off from that kind of study. I really like this tool though. It looks great.
Thank you for sharing. Been watching Plasticity for a while. Cool stuf