Since the company’s founding in 2005, SpaceClaim has been committed to Microsoft’s technology. By working in the Microsoft development environment, SpaceClaim developers are able to focus on what they do best: driving 3D design innovation by creating fast, flexible, and intuitive direct modelers for engineers and industrial designers.

SpaceClaim is able to leverage the advantages of the Microsoft development environment to achieve benefits that include:

• Spending less time coding lower-level code – C# is a higher level code than C++, enabling SpaceClaim developers to spend less time trying to figure out how to combine lower-level tasks and be able to concentrate on their tasks and algorithms to achieve programming goals.  For example, even simple data types such as integers and text strings are objects that include a variety of native methods to manipulate them.
• Spending less time worrying about memory -- C# and .NET have built-in “garbage collection,” which frees up memory once it is no longer referenced. This capability enables developers to code without worrying about freeing up memory, which prevents memory leaks, and eliminates the need to complicate the code to manually deal with “garbage collection.”
• Spending less time tracking down certain types of bugs – C# and its compiler prevent the use of uninitialized variables, which eliminates a whole class of bugs that can result from manipulating data that was never initialized. C# will generate an error when an array is referenced beyond its limit, eliminating potential data corruption associated with this type of bug. 
• Benefiting from Windows .NET Framework – The Windows .NET libraries provide a rich productivity platform, with high-level simplified access to common tasks such as building Windows forms, creating graphics, accessing and managing data, and interfacing to the Internet. 
• Utilizing a Modern API – Thanks to .NET cross language capabilities, SpaceClaim’s thread-safe API can be called from any .NET language, such as C#, J#, C++/CRL, Visual Basic, .NET, etc. SpaceClaim supports .NET remoting, so SpaceClaim can even be automated across the network.

Windows 7

The next generation Microsoft platform, Windows 7, standarizes the look and feel of the Ribbon toolbar and includes support for multi-touch technology, which will ensure SpaceClaim retains its natural and easy-to-learn user interface, delivering a robust and intuitive direct modeler that for anyone can use.  In addition, the Microsoft and Windows 7 development environment will ensure that SpaceClaim retains its stability, which is guaranteed and augmented with the .NET environment running native on Windows 7.

Watch a video of SpaceClaim working with Windows Touch technology. See a list of supported Multi-touch hardware.

Visit the Microsoft Windows 7 web page to learn more.

Microsoft Certification

To ensure SpaceClaim is modern and leading edge, as well as completely Windows compliant, SpaceClaim Engineer and SpaceClaim Style are certified on Microsoft Vista, and will be certified as “Designed for Win 7” upon its release.