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Feature
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Designer | Deluxe | Professional | Platinum |
| 64-bit Compatible | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 26 Dimension Types | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 250+ Drafting Tools | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 2D Dimensional and Geometric Constraints | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Angular Tolerance | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Best Fit Line and Circle | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Bill of Materials | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CutList BOMs | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| BOM Notes | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Conic Tools | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Duplicate Layer Command | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Precise Model to Sheet - for automatic 2D Drawing Generation | ✔️ | |||
| Save Layers with Views | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Delete Duplicates Supports Polygons | PowerPack Plug-In required | PowerPack Plug-In required | ✔️ | |
| 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 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Arc Slot Polygon Tool | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional |
| Copilot Render | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional |
| Copilot Mechanical Parts & CAD Content Library | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional |
| Part Creator (AI-Powered) | Copilot Professional | Copilot Professional | ||
| IMPROVED: Modernized User Interface | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IMPROVED: Support for Dark Theme | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Intelligent Snap Cursor | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Part Tree | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Gripper tool – for transforming objects | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Inspector | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Navigator | ✔️ | |||
| Customizable Tool Palettes | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Customizable Grids | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Redesigned Custom Tool Creation and Editing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multilingual Support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Video Tutorials | 7 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 3D Connexion Mouse Support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Draw View Type - for easily scaled Prints | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Drawing Wizard | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Open Backup | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Print by Layer tool | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Print Window | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Print Large Plot Sizes | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Repeat Previous Command | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Save for Review | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Selection Tools - Lasso, Feature, Mesh | Lasso Only | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tool Icon Sizing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| User Guide | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Viewport Layouts | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Doors | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Make 3D | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Roofs | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Slabs | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Walls, Multi-Walls | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Windows | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ACIS® Solid Modeling Kernel | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Basic Solids | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Basic Surfaces | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Feature Based/History Tree | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Mesh Booleans | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Move Face | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Push/Pull Modeling | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Shelling, Blending | ✔️ | |||
| Show/Hide Face | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Center Line Skin | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Split Mesh | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Weight and Volume Tables | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Sheet Metal Tools (Base,Flange,Contour Flange,Partial Flange,Hem,Rolled Hem,Unbend) | ✔️ | |||
| Sheet Unfold | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Clash Detection | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Compare Parts | PowerPack Plug-In required | PowerPack Plug-In required | ✔️ | |
| Gear | PowerPack Plug-In required | PowerPack Plug-In required | ✔️ | |
| Explode | PowerPack Plug-In required | PowerPack Plug-In required | ✔️ | |
| 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 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Pipe Cross Sections | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| MicroScribe Digitizer | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Pocket Hole for Woodworking | ✔️ | |||
| PowerPack Design and 3D Printing Tools | PowerPack Plug-In required | PowerPack Plug-In required | ✔️ | |
| Quad Mesh Tools | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Repair Curves | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Rib/Lip Feature | ✔️ | |||
| Skin Surface with Guides | ✔️ | |||
| Subdivision Tool | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Booleans | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Extend | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Analysis | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Lofting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Utilities – including Cut Section, Curved Surface and Explode Curve | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Tangent Covers | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Three Face Blends | ✔️ | |||
| Thumbweight Blending | ✔️ | |||
| Trim/Join Surface | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Woodworking Joint Tools | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Wrap - Imprint, Emboss, Engrave | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Data Display | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Environment Maps | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| HDRI Support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| KeyShot Rendering Live Linking | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| IMPROVED: Wood Materials | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Material, Decal Library | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| OpenGL Rendering | ✔️ | |||
| OpenGL Materials/Textures | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Carbon Fiber Textures | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Photorender Spot Light | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| 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 | ✔️ | |||
| Studio Backgrounds | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Object Time Lines/Paths | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Panoramic & Object Virtual Reality | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Walk Through, Flyby | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Auto Position | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Overhang Analysis | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Preview Slices | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Printer Definitions | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Sample STL files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Show Printer Volume | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Support Structure | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Surface Normals Check | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Wall Thickness | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Advanced MCAD Native Translators | ✔️ | |||
| 2D PDF Import | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 3D PDF Export | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| 3MF Import/Export | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| ACIS® R26 Kernel | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Adobe Illustrator | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Batch File Converter | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Batch Export Single Parts from Multi-Part Files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| BMP Import | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Collada (DAE) Import | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IMPROVED: DXF/DWG (supports latest Version) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| DXF/DWG (supports latest Version) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| IGES, STEP, SAT | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| OBJ Import/Export - with Texture support | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Rhino™ 3D Import | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SAB Export | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| IMPROVED: SketchUp Import/Export (supports latest Version) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| STL Import/Export | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| SVG Import/Export | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| IMPROVED: XREF Management | ✔️ | |||
| 2D/3D Part Library: 26,000 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| ISO Part Library | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Multiple ViewPorts (Draw Views) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
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