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DenebaCAD Competitive Comparison



Decimal Precision 16 digits 9 digits 16+ digits
Maximum # of Pens/document Unlimited 256 256
Import and Edit Pattern Fills Yes Yes Yes
Maximum # of Pattern Fills/document Unlimited 72 Unlimited
Maximum # of Displayable Pen Weights/document Unlimited 6 256
Multiple Pen Weights in Hatch Fills Yes Yes Yes
Editable Surface Materials Yes No No
Maximum Surface Materials/document Unlimited 0 0
Linear and Polar Arrays Yes Yes Yes
Fillet, Chamfer, Chain and Trim tools Yes Yes Yes
Join, Extend, Offset, Smooth and Nudge commands Yes Yes Yes
Object Area, Perimeter and Volume calculations Yes Yes Yes
Automatic Dimensioning Yes Yes Yes
Custom Arrowheads Yes Yes Yes

Reshapable Straight Walls Yes Yes Yes
Reshapable Curved Walls Yes No Yes
Line and Object Offsets Yes No Yes
Definable Line Eccentricity Yes No No
Auto-Combinable Walls Yes Yes Yes
Intelligent Boolean Libraries Yes Yes No
Surface Addition, Subtractions and Intersection Yes Yes Yes
Intelligent and Editable Subtracted 2D Primitives Yes Yes Yes
Reshapable & Non-destructive Boolean Groups Yes No No

Intersections between Objects in Hidden Line View Yes Yes Yes
Reshapable Walkthroughs with Directional Cameras Yes Yes Yes
Linear, Planar and Sweep Extrusions Yes Yes Yes
Free-Angled Extrusion Planes Yes No Yes
Point-by-Point Volume Editing Yes Yes Yes
Linkable 2D/3D Libraries Yes Yes Yes
Linkable 2D and 3D Libraries Yes Yes Yes
Multiple Volume Intersections Yes Yes Yes
Multiple Volume Intersections Yes Yes Yes
Reshapable & Non-destructive Boolean Groups Yes No No
True 3D Holes Yes Yes Yes

Object Classes with Custom Data Fields Yes Yes No
Hierarchical Selection Criteria Yes Yes Yes
Exportable Bill of Materials Yes Yes No

Photo-realistic Ray Trace Renderings Yes No No
Texture Mapping Yes No No
Location-specific Sun Positioning and Shadow Casting Yes Yes No
Reflectivity and Transparency controls Yes No No
Dynamic What-if Rendered Scene Updates Yes No No
Variable Anti-aliasing of Rendered Output Yes No No
User-selectable Resolution and Rendering Size Yes No No
Unlimited Lighting Objects (directional & Omni-directional) Yes Yes No

Reshapable Hatched Objects Yes Yes Yes
Multi-Origin System Yes No Yes
Multi-Tangential Circles Yes No Yes
Absolute and Relative Numeric Input Yes Yes Yes
Multiple and Cutomizable number of Snaps in a Segment Yes No Yes
Directional-Restrictable Snaps Yes Yes Yes
Floating Layers Palette Yes No No
Layer Sets Yes No No
Password-Protected Layers Yes No No
Transportable Attributes Yes Yes Yes
Multiple Open Windows/document Yes No Yes

 
Import/Export
 
Import/Export
 
Import/Export 
DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Formate) Yes/Yes Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
DWG (AutoCAD Native Drawing Format r14) Yes/No Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
CGM Yes/Yes No/No Yes/Yes
EPSF Yes/Yes Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
GIF No/Yes No/No Yes/Yes
HPGL Yes/Yes No/No Yes/Yes
IGES Yes/Yes No/No Yes/Yes
JPEG No/Yes No/No No/No
PICT Yes/Yes Yes/Yes No/No
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) No/Yes No/No Yes/No
PTF (Parametric Text) Yes/Yes No/No No/No
Text Yes/Yes Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
3DMF (QuickDraw 3D Metafile) Yes/Yes No/Yes No/No
QuickTime No/Yes No/Yes No/No
QuickTime VR No/Yes No/No No/No
Stereoscopic QuickTime No/Yes No/No No/No
Stereoscopic QuickTime VR No/Yes No/No No/No

Power PC processor Yes Yes N/A
Mac OS System 7.5 or Later Yes Yes N/A
CD-ROM Yes Yes Yes
Recommended Video Card 24-bit 24-bit 24-bit
Minimum RAM required for Application 16MB 8MB 32MB
Recommended RAM for Application 32MB 16MB 64MB
Hard Disk Space for Installation 20MB 30MB 65MB

Suggested Retail Price $799.95 $795 $3,995
Competitive Upgrade Price
(limited time offer until 9/30/97 - $399.95 Thereafter)
$295.95 $495 N/A

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