LATEST FEATURES

• 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)

• 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 and Data 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

• 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”. 

• 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. 

• 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

• Feet, inches, metric, and other units.
• Cartesian and polar coordinate input.
• Parallel lines for walls.
• Automatic intersection clean-up
• Automatic symbol insertion into walls or lines.
• Architectural building grids.

• Parallel offsets for lines and arcs.
• ANSI/ISO dimensioning.
• Chamfers, fillets, tangents, and perpendiculars.
• Distances, sizes, areas, and volumes.
• Symbol scaling and rotation.

• 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.

• 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

• 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).

• 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.

• Macro run
• Macro key.
• Dynamically load Menus and Toolbars
• Customizable toolbar.

(Programming is only available in the full version of CADVANCE)

• 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.

• 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

• Symbol text attributes

• Drawing management information access.

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.

• Automatic file locking.
• Record locking.
• File contention prevention.
• Reference files.
• Built-insecurity functions, including drawing passwords.

• Default and user-definable configuration files.
• (Optional) Site License Manager - helps manage your workgroup CAD operations

• Intel Pentium-compatible PC

• 64MB memory minimum; 128MB recommended

• Minimum 100MB free hard disk space

• Graphics board and monitor supported by Microsoft Windows-SVGA or better recommended

• Mouse or digitizer supported by Microsoft Windows

• Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, NT 4.0

• (Optional) Printer or plotter supported by Microsoft Windows