formZ 6.1

formZ is a powerful, general purpose, solid and surface modeler with an extensive set of 2D/3D form manipulating and sculpting capabilities, many of which are unique.
It is an effective design tool for architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, animators and illustrators, industrial and interior designers, and all design fields that deal with the articulation of 3D spaces and forms.
formZ is highly responsive to the needs of mature designers and, at the same time, novices can use it with ease.
Main features:
Modeling
- Primitives
- Spherical objects
- Metaballs
- 3D solids and 2D shapes
- Patterned polygons
- Derivative surfaces, extrusions, enclosures
- Parallel objects
- Projection objects
- Unfolding
- Terrain models
- Revolved objects
- Helixes
- Screws and bolts
- Stairs
- Sweeps
- Skinning
- Lofting
- Meshed objects
- Subdivisions
- Moving and disturbing meshes
- Deformations
- Image based displacements
- Rounding
- Blending and filleting
- Draft angles
- Splines and c-curves
- C-Meshes
- Nurbz
- Patches
- Metaformz
- Boolean operations
- Trimming, splitting, and stitching
- 2D and 3D sections
- Deriving contours
- Cages
- Joining and separating
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Placing and editing text
- Symbols
- Editing 3D lines
- Adjusting topological attributes
- Converting representations of objects
- Surfacing wires
- Extracting controls
- Inquiring and measuring
- Moving, rotating, resizing, and mirroring
- Attaching
- Aligning and distributing
- Extending segments
- Placing
- Ghosting and unghosting
- Inserting
- Deleting
Drafting
Rendering
Special features
- Extensive import/export
- Panoramic views
- Straight up perspectives
- View matching
- Walk through animation
- Rapid prototyping
- 2D/3D digitizing.