What is solidThinking?
From your sketches to the final surfaces, solidThinking is a comprehensive modeling, and rendering environment that delivers all the necessary tools for the creation of high-quality, manufacturable 3D models and the power to render them with unsurpassed photo-realism.
Based on a revolutionary industry-leading Construction History technology, the modeling process in solidThinking grants you the greatest freedom to experiment with shapes and innovate.
Unique ConstructionTree™ gives real-time updates when modifications are made to points, curves, parameters or entire objects. This way you can easily evaluate more design alternatives, thanks to this ease of manipulation at the core of every model built in solidThinking.
Manipulate both the parameters and points of all objects freely. And never forget the steps involved in construction - the entire tree is saved inside the file and is accessible at any time.
solidThinking offers the most comprehensive set of surface creation tools of any modeling program available for both Win and Mac platforms, including sophisticated tools like curves networks, Multisweep and Railsweep , n-sided patching, blending, fillets, surface intersections in history, automatic boolean operations, interactive trimming of surfaces and solids, trim conversions, rebuilding of curves and surfaces and many others.
The seamless integration of solid modeling tools and technology into a surfacing suite further distinguishes solidThinking. Combining the best of both modeling worlds allows designers to create complex, multi-surface shapes in new and innovative ways.
Once you’ve created your models, you can take advantage of a truly comprehensive rendering system that will satisfy the most advanced graphics professional. It integrates all the industry-leading rendering techniques, including wireframe, hidden-line, flat, Gouraud and Phong shaded, scanline, and ray-tracing. The efficient memory management functions, unlimited output resolution, and multi-threaded/multi-processor rendering ensure the highest productivity.
Thanks to the open architecture, solidThinking supports other rendering systems - including PhotoRealisticRenderMan and Maxwell Render - that can be seamlessly integrated in the environment for added power and flexibility.
The keyframe animation environment brings motion to your images by introducing Construction Tree-independent manipulations over time.
The continuously updated import/export plug-ins include IGES, STEP, VDA-FS, DWG, DXF, DWG, 3DS, 3DStudio Max, Lightwave, Maya, Rhino, RIB, SolidWorks, STL, VET, VRML and many others.
Applications
Designers across the world use solidThinking software to design furniture, electronic devices, car prototypes, lighting, shoes, jewelry, timepieces, sports equipment, yachts, consumer packaging, interiors and other products.