TopSolid 2008 has been designed to specifically provide solutions for our customers needs. This new 2008 release offers new features for design and manufacturing in mechanical engineering, tool making and wood industry. Just watch them and enjoy!

Minimum requirements
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Strip Design
Create part: Unstamping with Projection Surface	Part Importation: Duplicate Imported Part	New option “Invert Strip Direction”
Rebuilt boundaries” mode is now available (only “Rough boundaries” mode was available). “Generate Shape” option is now available.	Imported part is created from duplication and transformation of an existing imported part. Available transformations are translation, rotation and symmetry.
Punching Operation	New Operation: Transform a piece of part	Leading Surface
New “Keep Loss” Option Manual Punching Depth. Half punching - Create only punching curves.	Split, and transform. Unbending Bending. Free Transformation Always succeeds. Part preparation Manual bending on strip.	New option for direction of extension.
New option “Import 3D Only” 1/3	New option “Import 3D Only”2/3	New option “Import 3D Only” 3/3
Imports the part without unfold it. Strip is created from 3D geometry.	Use 3D importation and inverted strip to create intermediate unstamping or unbending geometries. Use unstamping with projection surface. Use “Split and Transform” function … and any other useful ones! Use last stage to produce unfolded imported part.	Create classical strip. Make cuttings Re insert intermediate geometries with unit on stations function.
Others
Favorites Components	Punches and Dies: Composite Surface	Visualisation
Use of Progress document is possible to store favorite components. Call of a favorite component launches standard Progress components insertion function.	Create a surface by copying a set of faces on different shapes. Very useful to define trimming surfaces of forming punches and dies.	Parts with same designation can be grouped in the same node New function. Rebuild tools sets: Rebuild Progress set (strip, die, punches holder and stripper). To be used when the Progress document is coming from a *.top one and “read as” Progress.
Team Design
Share the strip and common elements between different documents. Make sub parts of die tool on different documents. Re assembly it into a final document. Add final operations.