form·Z Pro 10

Explore, Design, Deliver.

Everything your team needs for complex projects.

Craig Wiliams, Becker Morgan Group
John Houser

Architecture

Explore fluidly while maintaining perfect accuracy. Sketch 3D parametric walls. Insert wall-cutting door and window Components. Automated roofs and parametric stairs. Topography from contours. Maintain a lightweight project with externally Referenced files.

form•Z meets the design challenge at any scale.

Film previsualization and set design

From scenery to spacecraft, form•Z is used to develop concept art, props, and sets for major productions.

Quickly develop designs with parametric primitives and booleans. Refine with deformers. Combine free-form with precision with the extensive NURBS toolset. Model organic forms with form•Z subdivisions.

 

Robert Woodruff for The Dark Knight

Interior design

From intimate residential to multistory office, designers trust form•Z from sketch though documentation.

Import fixtures and entourage in industry standard formats. Populate assets efficiently using Components. Set up multiple design variations in a single project and present them with Scenes. Review on the go with the form•Z Viewer app for iPad, macOS, and Windows.

Gary Helfand Design

Exhibit design

Promote and persuade with form•Z.

Rapidly construct variations with parametric primitives. Propose novel yet practical-to-fab designs leveraging parametric primitives, booleans, deformers, and rounding. Flow 3D signage text between control lines. Simulate glowing LED lighting with emitter materials in the optional V-Ray and Maxwell renderers.

Montoya Design Works

Product design

Design any product you can imagine with polygonal meshes, ACIS solids, NURBS surfaces, and subdivision surfaces. Iterate quickly and precisely with parametrically controlled objects. form•Z’s solid modeling representation is ideal for fabrication and manufacturing.

Evolution Design

Animate

Animate architectural walkthroughs, product turntables, construction phasing, mechanical designs and more.

Morph objects, cue lights, dolly cameras, adjust materials– most everything in form•Z Pro can be animated.

Manage Complexity

Store and recall Scenes for rendering, presentations, or phasing. Named Objects, Groups, Layers, and Layer Groups. Component instancing, Reference Files, and Information management.

Ease and Speed

Automatic modeling plane detection.
Sophisticated snap combinations.
Temporary and persistent smart guides.
Dynamic object reshaping.

Pro Tools

From generic parametric solids to architectural specialties like switchback stairs and structural shapes, form•Z has you covered.

Creative Partner

Support you creativity with a wide array of specialized modeling approaches, from live symmetrical modeling, to formula-defined NURBS surfaces, to object morphing. form•Z Pro supports Python scripting for full creative control.

Accuracy

form•Z Pro is backed by the robust ACIS 3D modeling kernel and double-precision floating point numbers. Metric and English unit support. Enter and display values as decimal, feet and decimal inches, or even as fractions.

 

Interoperability

form•Z Pro is a team player. Seamlessly integrate with your existing pipeline with built-in importers and exporters.

Rendering

Present your project in its best light with V-ray or RenderZone. From stylized to photo-real, these optional renderers have you covered with a wide variety of visualization options.

Twinmotion Direct Link

Wait no more. With form•Z and Twinmotion, you can render and animate in real time. Incorporate thousands of assets like plants, animated vehicles and people. With Direct Link enabled, changes made in form•Z are immediately reflected in Twinmotion.

Live Sections

Clarify intent with real-time clipping planes. Make sections permanent at any time.

Documentation

Prepare drafted documentation of your 3D projects in form•Z Layout. This application has both world scale and paper scale working environments and includes a suite of predefined title blocks in standard paper sizes.

Digital Fabrication

Directly export your model in industry standard formats for use with 3D printers and CNC manufacturing equipment. Our water-tight representation ensures that your model is ready for prototyping and production.

Technology Previews

Get early access to select form•Z 11 features with a form•Z Pro Subscription.

Find the right form•Z.

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Intuitive user interface

Mesh modeling

Machining tolerances

Reshape (push/pull faces)

Powerful booleans

Fast, accurate sun studies

Dynamic, non-destructive clipping planes

2D and 3D sections

Simple Dimensioning and Callouts

3D print export

3 file exchange formats

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Intuitive user interface

Mesh modeling

Machining tolerances

Reshape (push/pull faces)

Powerful booleans

Fast, accurate sun studies

Dynamic, non-destructive clipping planes

2D and 3D sections

Dimensioning and callouts

3D print export

10+ file exchange formats

ACIS (smooth) Modeling

NURBS

Subdivision surfaces

Parametric Primitives

Architectural Tools

Deformers and Rounding

Components (block instances)

Twinmotion Directlink

V-Ray and RenderZone Support
(as optional plugins)

Python scripting

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Intuitive UI with keyword Assist

Mesh modeling

Machining tolerances

Reshape (push/pull faces)

Powerful booleans

Fast, accurate sun studies

Dynamic, non-destructive clipping planes

2D and 3D sections

Advanced Dimensioning and callouts

3D print export

20+ file exchange formats

ACIS (smooth) Modeling

Advanced NURBS

Advanced Subdivision surfaces

Advanced Parametric Primitives

Advanced Architectural tools

Advanced Deformers and Rounding

Components (block instances)

Twinmotion Directlink

V-Ray and RenderZone Support
(as optional plugins)

Python scripting

Animation

Batch and Network Rendering

Layout Application for documentation

Custom Workspaces

Hatches, line styles and weights

Lab Technology Preview Plugins
(available by subscription only)

Pairs well