SIGGRAPH: form.Z 4.5 to add many new features

auto.des.sys Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will release form.Z 4.5 inSeptember. The new version of the company’s 2D/3D modeling tool will add awide variety of new features and drop support for Mac OS 9, making form.Zfully Mac OS X native. The added features come in the form of plug-ins,scripts or direct extensions and include 3D connexion’s 3D motion controllerSpaceBall 5000, a plug-in called Doodle that mimics pencil drawings, theability to clone objects, support for Unicode fonts and more. auto.des.sysdid not offer upgrade pricing and asks that you contact the company topurchase the software. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.1, 64MB RAMand 50MB hard drive space.