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Color
standard/encapsulated Postscript now supported |
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New
Tablet and VersaCAD Overlays |
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Create
multilines of a specific length |
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Automatic
recalculation of dimensions |
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Scaleable
extension lines |
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Ability
to change marker types |
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Capability
to remove or include extension lines |
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Object
manipulation facilities for inside/outside of window definition |
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Exchange/add
copied objects with current group |
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Convert
current group into local symbol without having to save drawing |
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Support
of multiple references to a drawing |
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Dimensioning
setting/insertion at any angle |
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Angular,
diameter, and radial dimension text easily definable |
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Automatic
adjustment of breaks in dimension lines |
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Symbol
selection capabilities by name |
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Built-in
drawing objects include:
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lines |
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multilines |
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arcs |
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circles |
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ellipses |
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rectangles |
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polygons |
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curves
(Beziers, fillets, splines, and free-hand sketch) |
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points |
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text |
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Eight
built-in linestyles, plus user-definable styles |
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Edit
any drawing object or group of objects:
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move |
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copy |
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scale |
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rotate |
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stretch |
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mirror
image at any angle |
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explode
into component parts |
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delete
and undelete |
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Group
drawing objects:
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by
common properties (color, level, etc.) |
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by
type (arc, circle, etc.) |
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by
user-defined name |
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by
enclosing in a fence |
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or
any combination of these methods |
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Create
drawing objects with user-definable properties:
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line
style |
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line
width |
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line
density |
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level/layer |
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plotter
pen number |
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screen
color |
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Z-coordinate |
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optional
grouping name |
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Change
properties individually or globally |
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Place
drawing objects on up to 250 levels or layers |
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Drawing
may include virtually limitless number of objects |
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Display
and modify object data such as:
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location |
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length |
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radius |
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rotation |
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area |
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cross-sectional
calculations (center of gravity, movement of inertia,
etc.) |
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Geometry
construction utilities for extending or trimming lines/circles/arcs
to a common point, and constructing fillets, chamfers, tangent
lines, isometric views and cross-hatching (more than 40 patterns
included) |
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Create
Bezier curves parallel to a specified Bezier curve |
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Isometric
views automatically projected from orthographic views |
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Locked
Levels option prevents unintentional modification to a drawing
on specified layers |
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Save
any drawing or drawing portion as a symbol; up to 1,000 symbols
per library |
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Symbols
can be automatically cut into existing objects (such as a door
into a wall) as well as scaled, rotated, and broken back into
component parts |
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Attributes
for attaching non-graphic information (such as part name, cost,
size, and material type) to drawing objects |
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Reference
drawings capability merges copy of one or more previously saved
drawings into the workfile |
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Auto-dimension:
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true linear |
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angular |
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radial |
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diametrical |
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datum
dimensioning |
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along with baseline and chain alignment, tolerances, and
limits |
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Associative
linear dimensions dynamically link drawing objects and its dimensions |
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Change
geometry and the dimensions update automatically, and vice versa |
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Dual
dimensioning to display in two different sets of units |
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Ten
built-in units of measure (feet, inches, millimeters, etc.)
plus user-definable units |
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Snap
modes lock objects to:
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grid
intersections |
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user-defined
spacing increments |
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pre-set
object points |
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object
surfaces |
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object
intersections |
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Drawing
aids including center markers and template lines |
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Built-in
or customized proportional fonts and special characters |
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Create
reports of attributes attached to object on the drawing |