The Parasolid Designer package enables development, distribution and support of Parasolid-powered applications using the full functionality of Parasolid for creation and manipulation of solid models. Over 700 object-oriented functions are available to create real life, complex models with great accuracy, reliability and speed:

• Reading and writing of Parasolid XT files
• Creation of solid primitives: blocks, cones, cylinders, tori, spheres
• Solids creation using swept, spun and lofted profiles
• Solids creation using sewing and knitting of trimmed surfaces
• Fully integrated NURBS curves and surfaces as well as exact representations for analytic curves and surfaces
• Support for generalized topology: non-manifold, cellular and mixed dimension modeling
• Booleans, local booleans and instancing - to support feature modeling applications
• Complex blending and chamfering
• Hollowing and offsetting of solids
• Sheet modeling including thickening surfaces
• Model editing via local operations: move or delete face, sweep, swing
• Tapering faces to apply draft
• Non-uniform scale
• Tolerant Modeling enables reliable modeling with imported data and B-rep import tools
• Geometry and topology inquiries
• Clash detection and minimum-distance calculations
• Mass and inertia properties
• Foreign geometry interface to allow import from proprietary geometric systems
• Full range of geometric output formats including trimmed surface
• Graphical data output for wire-frame, silhouettes, hidden line
• Facetting and STL output
• Symmetric multi-processing support

To facilitate easy integration into new and existing applications, Parasolid Designer includes the following tools:

• PS/Workshop rapid prototyping development environment for Windows NT
• Resource library - sample, annotated code for all the integration tasks
• Extremely thorough, on-line documentation in HTML format
• Attributes and groups functionality to attach data to solid models and their entities
• Bulletin board to track details of model changes
• Session rollback for permit unlimited undo and redo operations in a session
• Feature history management using partitioned rollback
• Frustrum for file handling and memory management
• Part storage in text and machine-independent binary format

The diagram below shows how Parasolid (green) interacts with an application (black):