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• Welcome
• New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 16
  • New Tools for Parametric Drafting
  • Working with Assemblies
  • 3D Geometry
  • Modeling
  • Drawing Creation
  • Variable Editor
  • Improvements in Interface and Usability
  • Other Improvements
  • T-FLEX Electrical
  • Virtual Reality
• New Capabilities of previos Version T-FLEX CAD
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 15
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 14
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 12
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 10
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 11
  • New Capabilities of T-FLEX CAD Version 9
• Introduction
• System Fundamentals. Customization
  • Getting Started
  • Main Concepts of System Operation
    • Document Management
      • Status Bar
      • System Toolbar
      • Property Window
      • Model Elements Window
      • Main Toolbar
      • Bird's Eye View
      • Rulers
    • Active Drawing Window
    • Creating and Editing Drawing Elements
    • Setting Common Parameters of System Elements
    • Layer, Level, Priority
    • User Element Coordinate System
    • Controlling Element Visibility
    • Diagnostics Window
    • Checking Spelling for Drawing
  • Customizing System
    • "User" Tab
    • "Startup" Tab
    • “2D” Tab
    • “3D” Tab
      • “Graphics Settings” Tab 
    • “Windows” Tab
    • “Folders” Tab
    • “Bill of Materials” Tab
    • “Files” Tab
    • “Fragments” Tab
    • “Snap” Tab
      • "Priority" Tab
    • "Constraints and Dimensions" Tab
    • "Dynamic Toolbar" Tab
    • “Colors” Tab
    • “Additional Options” Tab
    • “Performance” Tab
    • “Save” Tab
    • "T-FLEX DOCs" Tab
    • “Electrical” Tab
    • “All” Tab
  • Document Parameters
    • “3D” Tab
    • “Annotations” Tab
    • “View” Tab
    •  “2D Fragment” Tab
    • “3D Fragment” Tab
    • “Sections” Tab
    •  “Large Assembly Management” Tab
    • “Performance” Tab
    • “External Variables” Tab
    • “Naming rules” Tab
    • “Save” Tab
    • “Paper” Tab
    • “Zones” Tab
    • “Font” Tab
    • “Dimensions” Tab
    • “Alternative Dimensions” Tab
    • “Lines” Tab
    • “View” Tab
    • “Fragments” Tab
    • “Symbols” Tab
    • “Detailing elements“ Tab
    • “Colors” Tab
    • “All” Tabs
  • Customizing Toolbars and Keyboard
    • “Options” tab
    • “Ribbon” Tab
    • “Toolbars” Tab
    • “Commands” Tab
    • “Keyboard” Tab
    • “3D Input Device” Tab
    • “Environment” Tab
    •  “Main toolbar” tab
  • Saving User Settings. Environments
  • Adding user's Commands
  • Main window design styles
  • Libraries
  • Pages
• Drawing Creation
  • Construction Entities
    • Lines
    • Circles
    • Ellipses
    • Nodes
    • Splines
    • Offset Curves
    • Functions
    • Path
  • Graphic Lines
  • Sketch
  • Constraints
  • Drawing Entities
    • Hatches and Fills
    • Dimensions
    • Text
    • Leader Notes
    • GD&T Formlimits
    • Roughness Symbols
    • Section View
    • Axes Creation
    • Chamfers
  • Drawing Views. Detail Views
  • Pictures
  • Drawing Title Block
  • Groups of Elements
• Drawing Editing
  • Moving and Copying Drawing Elements. Arrays. Use of Clipboard
  • Element Replacement
  • Drawing Modification via Dimensions
  • Recalculate Dimensions to Middle of Tolerance Field
• Variables and Related Parametric Tools
  • Variables
    • Functions for Working with Variables
    • Examples of Using Some Functions
  • Measure Elements and Relations between Them
  • Global Variables
  • Databases
  • Control Elements
  • Optimization
• Assembly Drawings
  • Introduction of Assembly Drawings
  • Specifics of Handling Assembly Drawings
  • Bottom-up Design
  • Inserting Fragments into a Drawing
  • Top-down Design
  • Editing Fragments
  • Composition Document. Embedded Fragments
  • List of Commands Used in Assembly Design
• Product Structure, Reports, Bill of Material
  • Product Structure Window
  • Product Structure Types
  • Create Report / BOM
  • Variant Report / BOM Creation
  • Creation of Callouts on the Drawing
  • Include in Product Structure
  • Editing BOM Sections
  • Example of Report Template Creation
    • Report Template Structure
  • Working with BOM on Prototypes
  • BOM Properties
  • Export BOM
  • Editing BOM
  • Deleting BOM
  • Creating and Editing BOM Prototype
• Printing Documents
  • Printing a Single Document
  • Printing Several Documents
  • Print 3D
• Macros
  • Working with Macros
  • Creating Macros, Macro Editor
  • Compiling and Running Macros
  • Creating Macros with Screen Forms
• Service Commands and Tools
  • Animation
  • Model Animation Command
  • Animation Screenplay Application
  • Preview. Slide
  • Icon
  • Annotation
  • Saving Textual Drawing Information
  • Exporting Documents
    • AutoCAD system formats: DXF, DXB, DWG
    • Raster Image (*.bmp, *.jpg, *.gif, *.tif, *.tiff, *.png, *.tga)
    •  PDF (*.pdf)
    • Parasolid (*.xmt_txt, *.xmt_bin) Formats
    • Rhino Model (*.3dm)
    • STEP (*.stp, *.step) format
    • JT, ACIS, PRC Formats
    • IGES (*.igs, *.iges) formats
    • X3D, U3D, IV, 3D PDF3D, VRML 2.0, TF3D Formats
    • 3D PDF, U3D Formats
    • POV format
    • PLY, OBJ Formats
    • STL (Stereolitography) Format
    • DXF 3D format
    • 3MF Format
    • IFC Format
  • Importing Documents
    • AutoCAD formats
    • Parasolid Format
    • IGES, STEP, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Rhino, Revit, Autodesk Inventor, ACIS, Siemens NX (Unigraphics), Creo/ProE, Catia V5, Catia V4, I-Deas, JT, PRC, 3DXML, CGR, U3D, VDA-FS (*.igs, *.iges) Formats
    • IFC format
  • Creating Custom Lines and Hatches
  • Creating Libraries of Parametric Elements
  • Links Management
  • Moving Assemblies
  • Document Protection in T-FLEX CAD
  • Macros
  • Element Relations
  • Converting Documents from Earlier Versions
• Basic Terms and Concepts of 3D Modeling
  • Introduction to 3D Modeling
  • 3D Entities and Operations
  • Approaching Solid Modeling with T-FLEX CAD 3D
  • T-FLEX CAD 3D System Operation Tips
  • Element Selection
  • Opening New Windows
  • 3D Model Window
  • Diagnostics Window
  • Working with the 3D View Window
  • General Parameters of 3D Elements
  • Setting up Parameters of a New Element
• 3D Construction Entities
  • Workplanes
  • Worksurfaces
  • 3D Nodes
  • 3D Profiles
  • Local Coordinate Systems
  • 3D Paths
  • Helix 3D Path
  • Route
  • 3D Axis
  • Sections
  • Project Elements
• Basic Operations of 3D Modeling
  • Extrusion
  • Rotation
  • Blending Edges
  • Blending Faces
  • Three-Face Blend
  • Boolean Operation
  • Loft
  • Sweep
  • By Parameters
  • Routing
    • Pipeline Creation
    • Fittings
    • Typing of Routings
    • Harnesses
    • Connection Points
    • Automatic Laying of Routes
    • Routing Styles
    • Updating Routing Models
  • External Model
  • 3D Picture
  • Copy
  • Symmetry
  • Arrays
    • Array Types
    • Array Classes
    • Limitations and Exclusions
    • Creating 3D Arrays
    • Defining Optional Array Parameters
  • Spiral
  • Spring
  • Cut by Section
  • Shell
  • Holes
  • Deformation
    • Skew
    • Sculpt Deformation
    • Scaling/Twisting
    • Bending
    • Deformation by Surface
    • Deformation by Curve
  • Face Taper
  • Body Taper
  • Primitives
  • Rib
  • Thread
  • Division into Bodies
  • Model Simplification
  • Welding
    • General Information
    • "Welded Seam" Window
    • Creating Welded Seam
    • Welds in 3D Model
    • Creating Welded Seam Caption
    • Creating Weld Table
• 3D Assemblies
  • General Information
  • How 3D Fragments Work
  • Inserting 3D Fragments. Bottom-up Design
  • Top-down Assembly Design
  • 3D Fragment Supplement
  • Fragment Geometry Check
  • Saving Geometry from Assembly to Separate File
  • 3D Placement
  • Mechanism «Smart Fragment»
  • Mates and Degrees of Freedom
  • Techniques of Handling Existing Mates
  • Manipulators of External Variables
  • Model configurations and variations
  • Exploded View
  • Exploded View Scenario
  • Adaptive 3D Fragments
  • Large Assembly Management Tools
• 3D Model Editing
  • Before You Edit
  • Identifying Failing Elements
  • Editing Techniques
• 2D Drawings of 3D Models
  • 2D Projections
  • Parameters of 2D Projection
  • Editing and Moving 2D Projection
  • Use of 2D Projections
• Sheet Metal Operations
  • Prototype for Sheet Metal Part Creation
  • Sheet Metal Interface
  • General Sheet Metal Commands Parameters
  • Creating Part
  • Flange Group (Bending Operation)
    • Flange
    • Hem
    • Countur Flange
    • Bend
    • Cut and Bend
  • Bridge Bend
  • Jog
  • Corner
  • Lofted Bend
  • Forming Feature
  • Gusset
  • Normal Cutout
  • Convert Solid to Sheet Metal
  • Unbending
  • Re-bend
  • Sheet parts and its Unfolding Drawing
  • Bend Table
• Face Processing Operations
  • Sew
  • Imprint Elements
  • Delete Faces
  • Separate Faces
  • Replace Faces
  • Change Faces
  • Transform Faces
  • Extending Surfaces
  • Fill Hole
• Service 3D Tools and Entities
  • Assigning Transformations to 3D Entities
  • 3D Annotations
  • Graphs
  • Materials
  • Light Sources
  • Cameras
  • Photorealistic Images
  • Custom Elements For Sheet Metal and Holes Libraries
• Model Geometry Analysis
  • Mass-Inertia Properties
  • Model Check
  • Intersection Check
  • Measuring Curvature of Curves
  • Measuring Curvature of Surfaces
  • Surface Deviation
  • Surface Gap
  • Deviation of Normals
  • Surface Smoothness
  • Model Separation Check
  • Checking Model Changes
• The Groups of T-FLEX CAD 3D Commands
  • Workplane and Worksurface Management
  • Commands for Auxiliary 3D Element
  • 3D Modeling Commands
  • 3D Model Visualization Commands
  • Geometry Analysis Commands
  • 3D Model Management Commands