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solidThinking Evolve
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What is solidThinking Evolve?
Evolve is a Hybrid Modeling and Rendering environment that enables industrial designers to evaluate, research and visualize various designs faster than ever before.
Evolve runs on both Mac OS X and Windows.
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solidThinking founded in Italy
1991 1992
First release on NeXT platform
ConstructionTree™ technology Released for Windows
Released for Mac
Acquired by Altair Engineering
solidThinking Inc. announced as
a U.S. Corporation
solidThinking 8.0 solidThinking 8.0 Inspired
1998 2000 2008 2009 2012 2016
Evolve product re-branded
Evolve 2016 Introduced
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Who uses Evolve?
solidThinking Evolve is the software of choice among leading brands in many industries
• Design firms • Consumer products • Furniture • Fashion/jewelry • Exhibit/display • Packaging
• Electronics • Eyewear • Transportation • Marine • Architecture • Interiors
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Who uses Evolve?
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Evolve in the Design Process
Ideation Sketches
Concept development
Concept refinement Marketing Manufacturing
Evolve is used from the ideation phase through marketing phase and in some cases through manufacturing.
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Do more in one place
Hybrid Modeling
Ultimate modeling freedom and flexibility combining polygonal, surface, and solid modeling.
Construction History Photorealistic Rendering
Create beautiful images and animations with integrated
rendering
Explore and edit multiple iterations quickly and easily
Evolve
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Hybrid Modeling
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Experience Hybrid Modeling
+ Organic design + Flexible workflow + Additive modeling
+ Mechanical design + Parametric + Subtractive modeling
Solid Modeling Surface Modeling + Organic design + Simple workflow + Additive modeling
Polygonal Modeling
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Experience Hybrid Modeling
Add detail with Surface modeling tools like Rounds and Trims.
Easily create complex, organic shapes with PolyNURBS and Nurbify
Maintain technical precision with Solid modeling tools like
Booleans and Shelling.
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Compatibility
Languages Operating Systems Export Import
3ds
ACIS
Adobe Illustrator
CATIA(V4, V5 & V6)
DWG
DXF
H3D
I-DEAS
IGES
Inventor
NX
OBJ
Parasolid
Point Cloud
Pro/E
Rhinoceros
SOLIDWORKS
STEP
STL
VDAFS
3ds
ACIS SAT
DXF
IGES
KeyShot
LightWave
Maya ASCII
OBJ
Parasolid
Rhinoceros
STEP
STL
VDAFS
VRML
Windows - 64 bit; 10, 8, 7 Mac - 10.11, 10.10, 10.9
Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Portuguese
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Experience Hybrid Modeling
Facilitate design review and validation and speed up decision making
Improve collaboration with engineering and reduce downstream changes
Improve product efficiency and quality Liberate creativity and facilitate innovation
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What's new in Evolve?
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Whats new in Evolve 2016
Advanced Selection: PolyNURBS
Quickly select or deselect edge loops and adjacent rows of faces and edges when modeling with PolyNURBS.
Native Snapshot
Easily capture snapshots of your model using the new Snapshot icon on the right side of each modeling window
Pause/Restart Renderings
Decide when to run renderings for greater computing performance while working in Evolve.
Extensive Materials Library
An updated materials library is packed with new realistic materials and the option to add metallic flakes.
Automated Ground Plane
For added convenience, users can add a ground plane to their model with the click of a button.
New Edge Controls
Bridge and crease edges with new tools available for editing PolyBURBS.
Draft Analysis
Improve the design of models that will be produced using injection molding. This tool will identify areas that may be incompatible with the process.
Create Custom Environments
Design a custom environment using Evolve’s modeling tools, then save it as an HDRI to use in future renderings.
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Our Customers
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“With solidThinking Evolve, while you develop one project, you can find ideas for many others.”
Luca Palmini Product Design Manager
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“The Evolve modeling tools allow us to be fast and flexible in our work.”
Ivan Favro Style and Graphic Specialist
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“Thanks to Evolve, Korg Italy has achieved a substantial increase in the design department productivity.”
Paolo Capeci Head of Design
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“Evolve’s ConstructionTree feature is essential in the exploration of different style alternatives.”
Silvano Cuzzi Head of Design
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“Evolve is a beautiful product. It allows us to explore in real time possible shapes for the object.”
Piero Pifferi Designer
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“Typically after sketching out initial designs, I jump right into solidThinking Evolve where I can quickly and effortlessly turn my initial pencil sketches into a real 3D model.”
Ron Mendell Concept Artist
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“The detailed control over surfaces in Evolve allows me enormous modeling freedom without complexity.”
Michal Hrk Creative Director
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“It’s hard to put a value on this software as without it we would not be where we are, so it’s priceless to us.”
Brent Car CEO
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“Evolve’s ConstructionTree history allows us to seamlessly go back and edit our models without having to start the process over; this is key to help expedite our timeline.”
Jared Boyd Product Design Manager
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“Evolve is a perfect conceptual design tool for us. It is very easy to learn and helps us generate many ideas efficiently.”
Wang Bufei Creative Director
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Design for the longest part produced with additive manufacturing in space.
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Computational Mechanics Laboratory, LLC (CompMechLab®) – solidThinking Evolve official distributor in Russia, CIS and Baltic States
CompMechLab® sells Evolve licenses to enterprises, R&D centers and Universities, as well as provides maintenance and supports to customers.
Our contacts Address: 195220, Gzhatskaya str., 21 build. 2А, of. 615, St. Petersburg, Russia Phone/Fax: +7 (812) 309-18-88; Mobile: +7 (921) 881-41-30 Web: www.CompMechLab.ru, www.HyperWorks.CompMechLab.ru E-mail: [email protected]