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Windows Productivity Features:
Drafting
and Editing
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Single
lines and linesets, rectangles, arcs, circles, and bitmaps
- Polygons, ellipses, splines, unlimited
length contour curves,
and points
- Object alignment
- 4 types of nodes (the size is consistent
regardless of changing drawing scales)
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TrueType
mini-word processor and vector text with adjustable parameters
- 256 colors
- 255 layers with user-defined selection and
visibility
- 32767 kinds accessible through CDI
- Industry-standard layering
- View/Define Layer: Name, Active, Visible,
Selectable, Color, Line Style, Line Weight, Locked, Data and 3D
Extrusion in the layer configuration
- Window selection – Inclusive and Exclusive
- Rectangular and circular arrays
- Stretch objects (including rooms)
- Copy, rotate, delete, and scale
- Mirror, trim, extend, and break
- Hatching and Associative hatching
- Line weight on screen
- 16 line styles
- Auto Snap to Grid, Vertex, Intersection,
Midpoint, Center, Pie Angle, Node, Line, Arc, Circle, Object,
Text, Endpoint, Tangent, Perpendicular
- Customizable Auto Snap. Object type(s) for auto snap
is selectable.
- Dynamic Pan and Zoom
- Drawing preview
- Symbol preview
- Unlimited Undo and Redo
- Multiple object selection modes
- Property selection filter
- Edit Find
- Area Fill
- Spell check
- Key input command
- Right mouse button to shortcut menu
- Movable, dockable and user configurable
menu bar and tool bar
- Unlimited number of menu bars and tool bars
- Toolbar and Status bar Tooltips
- Reference file with bit map data. Image data must be an
embedded bit map.
- Ortho Move – Move, Copy and Move Vertex
functions operate in accordance to the specified “line angle”.
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- Query Object - Show the type of OLE2
Auxiliary object.
- Euro symbol (€) added to all fonts
- Isometric Line - Draws line segments with
fixed angles that create an Isometric Layout. The angles are
30,90,150,210,270, & 330
- New search - searches objects by many
filters. It finds objects
within groups or symbols by layer, kind and object types.
- Edit Symbol/Group - edits objects within
symbol or group. It
allows you to edit objects within a symbol or group, and
reflects the changes to other instances of the same symbol in
the drawing.
- Key map - jumps to a specified drawing.
- Virtual Tablet - acts like a digitizer
tablet. Originally sold
as a stand-alone tool, it is now included with CADVANCE
2002.
- DWG/DXF 2D and 3D imports are improved to
allow import of both at the same time.
- All "Utility / Query" queries
(except Query/Object) have been given dialogs that offer text
that can be copied to the clipboard. These text items are
numeric type values.
- Dimension setup has been divided into
several sections for easier understanding and operation, and
allows easier settings according to your needs.
- Text attributes has been enhanced to
manage multiple entries with one dialog box rather than many
dialog boxes popping up per entry.
- Multiple object selection by “window with
a right mouse button”. A
pop-up menu will be displayed for editing.
- Multi-line CAD Text editing.
- DWG symbol to CADVANCE symbol translator
- Set default properties - when an object is
selected, the drawing properties are set to the object.
- Utility/Query/Size shows a diameter for
circle and arc.
- Draw/Fillet
and Draw/Chamfer inherit properties of the first object selected.
- New
CADVANCE Texture Symbols
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Architectural/Engineering
Application
Specific
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Feet, inches,
metric and other units
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Cartesian
and polar coordinate input
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Parallel
lines for walls
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Automatic
intersection clean-up
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Automatic
symbol insertion into walls or lines
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Architectural
building grids
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Parallel
offsets for lines and arcs
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ANSI/ISO dimensioning
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Associative
dimensioning
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Chamfers,
fillets, tangents and perpendiculars
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Distances,
sizes, areas and volumes
- Symbol scaling and rotation
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Presentation
and 3D
- VGS
(Visual Guidance System) interface.
- Extrusion
from 2D to3D.
- 3D
symbols can be nested, rotated, scaled.
- Adjustable
3D grid.
- 3D
hidden line removal.
- Isometric
and orthographic views.
- Walk-through
and fly-around.
- 3D
cursor snapping and selection.
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- 3D
rendering using 255 CADVANCE colors
- Perspective,
axonometric and oblique views.
- Output
in .BMP and .DIP format
- In addition to the standard CADVANCE 3D,
an industry standard OpenGL module is included
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Windows
Features
- Windows
compliant user interface.
- Full
two-way support for Clipboard, DDE, and OLE.
- Place
spreadsheets, graphics, audio clips, and other documents into
drawings and instantly update them with a click of a mouse, with
Microsoft Windows Object Linking Embedding (OLE).
- Create
dynamic two-way DDE "hot links" with Microsoft Excel.
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- Work
in several views of a single drawing or several different
drawings at once.
- Programmable
Windows toolbar.
- Create
compound documents.
- Client
and server for OLE.
- Rich
Text Format (RTF) support.
- Integrate
raster and scanned images such as clip art, logos, blueprints
and photographs.
- MouseWheel
Zoom and Middle Button Pan, View Fit
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Input/Output
- Drawing
auto-save.
- HPGL
PLT file input.
- Mosaic
plotting.
- Line
weight plotting.
- Export to .DWF
- Reads
and writes .DWG and .DXF files. (to R15)
- Integrated
E-mail support has been incorporated for use with mail systems
that support the MAPI standard (such as Windows for Workgroups).
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- Input,
rotate, scale raster images (Support for over 20 raster images;RLC, TIFF, PCX, BMP,etc.).
- Plot
logging – facilitates
management of plotting
- CAD
text plotting with line weight
- Input
from mouse or digitizer.
- Supports
any Windows compatible printer/plotter.
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Customization
- Program
in BASIC, C, C++, and Delphi using
CDI (CADVANCE Development Interface)
libraries
- Macro
editor, debugger, compiler
- SDK
and all users' manuals are in electronic format
- Dynamically
load Menus and Toolbars
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- Customizable
toolbar.
- User
defined macro keys, line styles, line
and area textures, symbols.
- 32-bit
CBL Macro language supports DDE OLE2 and ODBC
- CDI
Query functions and Unique ID
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Reference
File Management
- Reference
File Window
- Automatic
Reference File translation to DWG/DXF format
- DWG/DXF
as well as VWF files supported as Reference Files
- Snap-to
objects on reference files.
- Snap-to
intersection of lines on two different reference files.
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- Support
of Reference Files containing bitmap images
- Unlimited
number of Reference Files
- Reference
Layer File
- View-only
reference files
- Supports
255 layers.
- Reference
file placement and rotation.
- Reference
file Load/Save Setup information
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Every drawing file
includes:
- Filename,
date/time originally created, date/time of last update,
original
creator name, elapsed time spent on drawing, project/account
name,
name of person who updated it last, editing time spent on
current session.
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Information
Management
- Direct
two-way link with dBase compatible databases.
- Attach
attributes to all drawing objects.
- Variable
instance information access.
- Symbol
text attributes
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- Drawing
management information access.
- Support
ODBC-compliant databases, including SQL selection.
- Compatible
with Oracle
- Macro
access to attributes
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Networking
- Automatic
file locking.
- Record
locking.
- File
contention prevention.
- Reference
files.
- Built-insecurity
functions, including drawing passwords.
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- Default
and user-definable configuration files.
- (Optional)
Site License Manager - helps manage your workgroup CAD
operations
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System
Requirements
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Intel
Pentium-compatible PC
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64MB
memory minimum; 128MB recommended
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Minimum
100MB free hard disk space
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Graphics
board and monitor supported by Microsoft Windows-SVGA or better
recommended
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Mouse or
digitizer supported by Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft
Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, NT 4.0
- (Optional) Printer or plotter
supported by Microsoft Windows
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