Create M-view from Dynamic Section

Dynamic Section is a unique and useful tool to view areas of a part or project using a visual cutting plane. Often a particularly good section is something that you might wish to come back to at another time. For this reason you can now save a dynamic section as an M-view.

• The screen orientation at the time of save will be used for the M-view.

• The saved dynamic section creates an M-view section. This is a special M-view that contains a section line.

• There is no confirm step, just a message that the M-view was successfully created.

• M-views made by dynamic section are automatically named. They function like any other M-view and follow the existing M-view preference of inclusion.

• A slight variance in the section opacity may exist between the dynamic section and the M-view section, as they have different abilities to show the cut models.

• Section M-views made in this fashion are able to be placed in Drafting documents like any other M-view.

A new icon was created to save the dynamic section as an M-view section.

The new M-view will be shown on the M-view tree. Normal M-view editing is allowed.

Export image as .png file

The Save image function has added a new format for creating pictures from the screen - .png. Save Image is useful because unlike Print, it works at any time, even when other functions are open. The .png file format has some advantages over other formats like .jpeg. For example, they have a fixed number of pixels and retain their quality even when compressed.

The Save Image command now includes .png format.

Lightbulb consistency

Cimatron 2026 furthers interface consistency and 4K monitor support by implementing newer light bulbs for the Sets pane. These match those used in assembly, motion groups, and all other areas of the product.

• Sets also make use of a new bulb status to indicate an empty set or folder. These appear as a white bulb, as opposed to the gray bulb commonly used for hidden display

Empty sets are differentiated for hidden sets by the use of the non-filled in light bulb.

File to File transfer of Set folders

Folders for sets were newly introduced in Cimatron 2025. Additional functionality for set folders has now been added in Cimatron 2026. Folders are now transferred, along with the sets and geometry, in all the following scenarios:

• Exporting geometry from one part to another part or NC file.

• Exporting geometry from an active part of assembly to another part or NC file.

• Exporting an assembly to another part or NC file.

• Loading a model, either part or assembly, into an existing NC file.

• Exporting geometry from an NC file to a part.

• Importing a part or assembly to an existing part file.

• Parametric Import to an existing part.

Running updates between the source file and the child file will also update the set folders, following some reasonable rules. For example, duplicate folders are not needed, so if the update finds a folder with the same name, it will merge the sets contents into the existing folder.

Folders removed from a source file will not be removed in the child file.

For all cases of file to file data transfer, including the Sets will also include the Set folders.

New criteria choices for Assembly Sets

A wide range of new criteria have been made available for the creation of assembly level sets. The option of the single attribute ‘Sub-category’ has been replaced by the ability to select almost any part based attribute, including any custom attributes you may define.

• For each attribute you must also select a relation, such as equal, not equal, contains, etc. Then enter the value.

• Special attributes, like those that are list based or true/false, offer appropriate limited value choices.

An important choice for attribute based sets is whether or not to consider the attribute at the sub-assembly level.

• If sub-assemblies are considered, then every part in the sub-assembly will also belong to that criteria, even without the matching attribute.
• If sub-assemblies are ignored, then only the individual parts that match the attribute criteria will belong to the set.

When using multiple criteria, it is recommended to expand the dialog to view the complete list.

Any attribute can now be used as a base criteria for an assembly set.

Ignoring sub-assemblies means that each part in the sub-assembly must have the matching attribute value in order to belong in the set.

Large Spin boxes (increment arrows)

Spin boxes are those little arrows displayed next to certain parameters to change the value, increasing or reducing it by a fixed increment.

For many, these arrows are small and hard to click on.

In Cimatron 2026 we’ve added a preference option to make the arrows much larger.

At the bottom of the General > On Screen Controls page, you’ll find the new option Spinbox Arrow Size. If you turn it from Small to Large, you’ll see that the arrows have become much larger.

The new preference option to change the size of spin boxes.

Extrude parameters with the new large spin boxes.

Improved communication with SpaceMouse

Control over the system display via a SpaceMouse device has been dramatically improved. Cimatron is now an official partner with 3DConnexion and uses a direct link with their newest API to make sure the response is smooth and immediate.

Programming the SpaceMouse buttons to Cimatron is now entirely handled within the device driver itself.

• When Cimatron is recognized you can adjust the device settings or the button assignments.
• Every Cimatron environment – Part, Assembly, NC, Drafting, and Sketcher – allows a separate range of button assignments that are relevant to your most common tasks.

The driver for the SpaceMouse equipment you use will recognize the Cimatron application.

Button assignment per module is set by simply browsing through the organized command list to find the desired function.

Note that Cimatron now only supports 3D navigation devices that are supported by the new 3DConnexion driver. A list of devices that are no longer supported or about to lose support may be found here.
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