# Welcome to CrownCAD 2025 R3
CrownCAD 2025 R3 extensively incorporates real-time user feedback and maximizes the fulfillment of customer needs. In terms of usability, we are committed to enhancing the customer experience; in functionality, we continuously add commands that customers urgently require, helping you quickly complete product design and development work.
Key Enhanced Features:
Sketch | Enhance the “Trim” function to control whether it affects Construction. |
Add the “Centerline” function to facilitate quick drawing of reference lines. | |
Optimize “Symmetry Constraint” logic using Construction or Plane as symmetry axes, enabling users to add symmetry constraints for three symmetric elements; simultaneously support constraints involving elements outside the sketch. | |
The sketch text supports custom fonts and additional settings. | |
Feature | The “Extruded Boss” ‘Merged Results’option has been optimized to better suit weldment design scenarios." |
Supports creating multiple solid via feature operations at once. | |
Assembly | A new 'Mate Folder' feature allows viewing and organizing mates added by each component within the parent assembly, accessed via the Assembly Features panel in folder format. |
Interaction during mate editing has been optimized; clicking Ok without modifying any parameters no longer displays a prompt. | |
A new 'Edit Feature' function enables users to directly enter the part edit mode and either open the feature dialog box for modification or access the sketch that needs editing. | |
A new quick display feature for triple axes enables users to rapidly show components' triple axes and utilize them for movement/rotation instances. | |
A new “Component Preview Window” feature allows users to view selected componentswithin the assembly window without opening separate documents. | |
The enhanced “Insert Component” command now supports setting whether to display the shortcut menu for rotated components. Additionally, a new 'Open Document' page makes it easy to quickly insert documents currently open in the project. | |
A new 'Dissolve Sub-Assembly' feature lets you dissolve existing sub-assemblies. | |
The 'Show Hidden Components' feature now supports rectangular box selection, making it easier to batch select and view hidden components. | |
The Mirror/Pattern functionality has been enhanced, enabling the created components to be mated with other existing components. | |
A new “Flexible Assembly” feature has been introduced, allowing individual components of a sub-assembly to be moved freely within the main assembly. | |
The new “View Component Material” feature enables you to expand components in the assembly instance list to view their material properties, making it easier to check and manage different materials used across your design. | |
Annotation | The Break View command has been enhanced with drag support to adjust the break position. Additionally, when projecting from a parent break view, child views now automatically inherit identical break features. |
A new “Caterpillar” feature has been introduced, allowing users to create annotations that clearly identify and outline weld bead in their designs. | |
The “Smart Dimensions” function has been expanded to include dimensioning of center marks on both circular and linear connections, streamlining the documentation process. | |
Enhanced engineering drawing tables now allow users to save their data in various local file formats, such as Excel (.xlsx), for improved flexibility and seamless integration with external software. | |
Enhancements and optimizations for “Geometric Tolerance” commands, supporting the combination of frames with similar geometric tolerances; supports adding text before and after geometric tolerances; introduces a new symbol library to enable the insertion of a wider variety of symbols; optimizes frame alignment effects. | |
Enhancements to hole table commands, supporting the ability to jump to tags in the hole table for quick determination of hole positions; supports simultaneous selection of X and Y axis directions to generate the hole table; supports re-editing of coordinate directions in the hole table. | |
A new “End Treatment” function has been added to generate markings for weld cross-sectional views. | |
A new ”Dowel Pin Symbol” function has been added to add dowel pin symbol annotations to round holes. | |
Sheet Metal | A new feature for “Export To DWG/DXF” files has been added, enabling one-click export of drawings containing views of the sheet metal unfolding model's outer contours. |
Enhancements to the “Extruded Cut” functionality include an added “orthogonal removal” option when removing sheet metal solids, enabling the quick creation of models that conform to sheet metal characteristics. | |
Optimization of the Edge Flange command. When using the Edge Flange, the parameters under "Method" will default to the previously used options. | |
A new Corner Relief command has been added, which allows for processing of existing sheet metal corners. | |
Weldments | A new Weldment command has been added, which allows ordinary part documents without structural members to be converted into Weldment parts. |
A new "Insert into New Part" feature has been added, which allows the solids/surfaces from the current document to be inserted into a new part for further operations. | |
Data Conversion | Import formats have been increased, and a new feature allowing the import of Emp, emn, and vda formats has been added. |
Enhanced import functionality now supports reading spatial points from Creo\UG\CATIA\SW models during the import process, and these spatial points are imported as "reference points" into Crown CAD. | |
A new "Export Curves" feature has been added, allowing simultaneous curve export during model export while providing detailed settings for the exported curves. | |
A new "Export" function has been added, enabling support for the "STEP AP242 (*.step)" format. This format includes options to specify whether to export MBD (Model-Based Definition) and hidden MBD within the file. | |
A new 'Export Rename' feature has been added, enabling users to rename files during the export process. | |
MBD | A new 'View Orientation' feature has been added to the assembly, enabling users to choose projection views based on specific orientations in the engineering drawing. |
Settings | A new “lineType” option has been added to the settings, which allows users to configure specific line styles for different edge types within engineering drawings. |
A new “lineWidth” option has been added to the settings, allowing users to manage line width in engineering drawing configurations. | |
A new “Model Display” option has been added to the settings, which supports coloring and surface color settings. | |
A new option has been added to the sketch settings: 'Auto-rotate view to be vertical with respect to the sketch plane when creating or editing a sketch. | |
A new 'Use shaded face highlighting' option has been added to the display settings. | |
The 'Enable picking objects through transparent faces' setting has been optimized for better interaction, allowing temporary toggling of its state with the Shift key. | |
In the drawing colors section, new configurable color types have been added to provide enhanced flexibility in selecting appropriate colors. | |
Library | Engineering drawings can now reference content from a sketch library and support inserting sketches saved in any location within the knowledge base. |
For assemblies, the 'Standard Part Library' functionality has been enhanced to allow customizing the length of standard parts during insertion. | |
Rendering | The rendering effect of the Sectional View has been optimized so that when the 'show cutting line' option is selected and the 'show section cap' option is deselected, the cut surface displays the actual color of the part. |
Project Documentation | Project management has been optimized, supporting drag-and-drop to move projects and folders; additionally, it also supports setting the arrangement of account settings lists. |
Optimize the help manual, after enabling the help, update default command to target the first tab page. | |
Added a function to transfer the ownership of an entire folder while maintaining its internal file hierarchy. | |
Synergia | The "create activity" function has been enhanced to include a feature for statistics on participant information. |
Add a new restriction when adding to the activity to prevent a single participant from entering through multiple channels. | |
Support submitting works via folder import, optimize the status of individual/team folders when imported into the activity module. | |
Add a tagging feature to projects and teams, enabling tag assignment for team-created projects and quick project retrieval via tag-based filtering. | |
Optimize permission controls for different roles (such as creators, members) when operating on multiple projects or folders in multi-select scenarios. | |
Add functionality to view individual/team project creator information. | |
Add functionality transferring team project ownership, including top-level folders during the transition. |
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