PREVIOUS UPDATES TO ANVIL EXPRESS

Here are some areas of ANVIL EXPRESS that have been improved and/or enhanced in version 4.1:

• New Helix construct for 3-D Splines. Allows you to create a left or right-hand helix with multiple parameters like; Radius, Z Height, Start Angle, and End Angle or Number of Coils.
• Copy and Paste entities like you copy and paste text. This function lets you copy displayed entities, then paste them into the same part or a different part with very little interaction.
• New 3D Surface Point tutorials.
• New 3D Spline tutorials, including new Helix construct.
• Reduced interaction when using Basic Modals / Set modals By Example.
• Enable repeat selection when using 2D Projected Entities.
• Enhance feedback for “K” implicit point. You can now view and edit the XYZ coordinates of the position.
• Add “Existing Line“ option to Easy Mirror. 
• Enable GRAPL-IV Delete command to delete all entities.
• Allow KEYWORD check when prompting for file names in GRAPL-IV.
• Drawing Layout modal access from the Right-Mouse-Button. These are now located at the bottom of the menu.
• Enable additional tools for Express Viewer/Converter.
• Remove 20 character limit  in data-entry dialogs.
• Enhanced and improved installation program and security tools.
• Add new product Express Viewer Lite.

Here are some areas of ANVIL EXPRESS that have been improved and/or enhanced thru version 4.0:

• Programmable macros with external macro files. These are true function macros, enabling you to combine existing icon-based functions into user-named macros, represented by user-defined graphics, and applied to existing user-defined toolbars.
• The Express Board. This is a WEB-based bulletin board system for posting technical questions and enhancements, with direct response from the ANVIL users community and MCS Technical Support staff.
• Added support for groups, and groups with attributes in Figure creation.
• Enhanced toolbar expansion control.
• Further enhancements to DXF/DWG Revisions 14 and 2000 for import and export.
• Added support for Undo in Chamfer. 
• Quick Black/White toggle for background color in File Preferences.
• Right-Mouse-Button access to toggle Select from Group modal in selection menus.
• Drawing Layout interface enhancements to Hidden Presentation - these functions are now available on the Right-Mouse-Button.
• Drawing Layout modal access from the Right-Mouse-Button.
• Enhanced interface & file control for Express Viewer.
• Nearly a dozen Express interface enhancements - making Express even easier to work in.
• CAM enhancements for 2X & 4X EDM.
• Enhanced DCS control on RMB.
• Rearranged construction icons on the main toolbar to simplify use.
• General system-wide anomaly fixes.
• User-Configured Toolbars have been enhanced. Users now have the ability to copy Express icons and group them onto a number of user toolbars. To reduce toolbar space required when docking, it also possible to remove unused function icons from Express toolbars.
• User-Defined Toolbars are now available to assign icons on a special toolbar to execute external GRAPL-IV programs.
• Autoload Toolbar Configuration provides a method to load a saved toolbar configuration each time you start Express.
• A full screen Crosshair cursor option is now available.
• The Pen Number modal is accessible from the main modal bar.
• Plot colors by pen number is now available in the Plot dialog.
• Significantly enhanced support for DXF/DWG Revisions 14 and 2000 for import and export.
• Export an Express 3-D Drawing Layout to DXF/DWG Model space only. With this option DL paperview entities are not mapped to Paper space, but to Modal space.
• Smash Express 3-D drawings (curves, surfaces, and solids) to 2-D option when exporting DXF/DWG.
• ANVIL-1000 export fully supports ANVIL trimmed surfaces and knitted models.
• New HTMLhelp with expanded content.
• New support for 256 color graphics cards and drivers.
• In addition to Easy Move, there is now Easy - Scale, Mirror, and Rotate.
• Improved Curve Analysis plots.
• File Compress now forces disk compression of part file for all backup modes.
• General enhancements to the CAM interface.
• High Speed Milling motions are now available for Pocketing and Area Clearance tool paths.
• CAM Process Interactions are now saved for each of the primary machining methods (Milling, Drilling, Turning, EDM, 5-Axis).
• New utilities have been added to Tool Management.
• CAM Output has been enhanced with additional tools for Output Lists and Work-Shifts.
• New keyboard controls when working in Display & Edit.
• New user-configurable tool bars. Users now have the ability to save and load various configurations of toolbars
• New NURB utilities: knot insertion, knot removal, and degree elevation
• New global NURB approximation for curves and surfaces
• New copy knitted-model capability
• Now allows "All Related Files" delineation in the File Open dialogue box
• Now saves the last used extensions for parts and imports
• New Get Sketch feature added to the SolidWorks® toolbar
• Retrieves SolidWorks "Get Model" a minimum of 50% faster
• Now allows single- and two-view revolved solids to snap from 2D to 3D using SNAP2-3D™
• Now allows single- and two-view skinning to snap from 2D to 3D using SNAP2-3D™
• New pocket "clean-up" tool path that allows smaller tools to be used for final pocket boundary and island cuts, while also supporting cutter compensation.
• New multiple operation drilling tool path that allows a single tool path to machine user specified multiple operation features such as "center-drilled, tap-drilled, and tapped holes".
• New "spiral step over cuts" to allow high speed pocket machining.
• Multiple surface planar slice roughing is enhanced to allow boundary and island containment.
• 5-axis swarf cutting has been enhanced to allow multiple part and/or swarf drive surfaces and swarf to the edge of the swarf surface(s). In addition, a maximum tool axis change angle has been added to swarf cutting.

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Express Updates

	Version 4.1
	Version 4.0