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- TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW Version 2.1 - Specification Sheet
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- TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW runs under Windows 3.1 and supports its graphical
- user interface through a user-friendly and easily understood program layout.
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- The program has an extensive, context-sensitive help function.
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- Commands can be chosen by menu, keyboard, or icons.
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- These icons are located in a window, the popup menu, which appears after
- pressing the right mouse button and disappears after choosing the command. In
- this way you can easily and quickly choose commands without wasting precious
- space on the drawing area. The assignment of the popup menu can be changed, so
- that you are able to create your personal popup menu.
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- The assignment of the keyboard can also be configured according to your
- personal needs. For that you have the possibility to assign every letter key
- or numeric key with up to 3 commands.
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- TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW provides extensive configuration possibilities,
- which enables you to adapt the program to your personal workplace. The program
- has an undo/redo function, i.e. the last operation can be undone. You can
- choose out of various sheet formats complying with DIN/ISO standard and
- several US formats. In addition you have the possibilty to enter a value for
- the sheet size in millimeter or inch respectively.
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- Possible length units are: micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, meter,
- kilometer, inch, foot, yard, mile, dezipoint, point, didot, and cicero. There
- are three possible angle units: degree, gon, and radian. The current unit
- determines the scale and all other settings and commands which base on length
- or angle units respectively, e.g. the measure command.
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- The program supports up to 256 drawing layers. Every layer can be individually
- faded out, frozen, or displayed in a certain color. Further it is possible to
- define a pen for each layer, which defines the line width, line color, and
- line pattern of all objects that will be drawn in this layer.
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- All input is done with the mouse or by the keyboard through a context-
- sensitive direct input, i.e. at any time a dialog box can be opened which
- refers to the current command and enables you to input data.
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- Important information, like the current coordinates, are being permanently
- displayed in the status window. Extensive drawing functions guarantee
- efficient working even if the task is rather special, e.g.: line, polyline,
- triangle, quadrangle, rectangle, trapezium, parallelogram, polyeder, circle,
- circle arc, circle ring, ellipse, ellipse arc, ellipse ring, parabola, zigzag
- line, circle arc chain, Bezier chain, spline, and outline.
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- Various manipulation functions, e.g. copy, move, scale, rotate, reflect,
- sheer, center, lock, release, foreground and background are also available.
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- TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW provides numerous construction functions:
- Construction line: perpendicular on line, perpendicular on circle, parallel
- variable, and parallel fixed. Construction tangent: circle - point, circle -
- circle outside, and circle - circle inside. Construction circle: circumcircle,
- incircle, perpendicular on line, and perpendicular on circle.
- Division: distance, circle, and array. Multiple copy: rotation, distance,
- circle, and array.
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- The freely configurable hatch function allows hatching with lines of which
- attributes (line width, line color, and line pattern), distance and slope are
- editable. Further it is possible to use a symbol which is automatically
- resolved into lines previously as a hatch pattern.
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- Measure lines and associative measure functions comply with DIN 406.
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- If you want to choose an object in order to manipulate it, you do this by
- selecting it. You can select or deselect individual objects or whole areas of
- your drawing. In addition it is possible to select an object by means of its
- attributes (e.g. line width, color, or layer membership). The selection has a
- central meaning, because only selected objects can be manipulated. Of course
- the selection is still valid after a manipulation. This makes it possible to
- do several manipulations one after the other without selecting them each time.
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- By means of the outlines you can create any form of area. These outlines
- consist of a sequence of lines and Bezier curves and can also be changed
- later.
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- Several grid settings (cartesian, isometric, and dimetric) allow the exact
- positioning of points. The distance between grid lines can be chosen
- arbitrarily.
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- The library functions are able to handle up to 900 symbols in one library. The
- creation of your own libraries is possible. Part of the program package are 4
- vector fonts. Because the vector fonts in TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW are merely
- specially handled libraries you can change these fonts or create completely
- new ones.
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- The current drawing detail can be moved with the arrow keys and the scroll
- bars. Several zoom commands allow you to zoom and pan. It is also possible to
- save certain zooms to choose them later if necessary.
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- Via the Windows clipboard you can either import or export graphic data. In
- this way you can for example insert a drawing created with TommySoftware«
- CAD/DRAW into a document which you created with a word processing program.
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- The import and export of foreign formats, like for example DXF files, is done
- by special import/export converters. These converters are independent from
- TommySoftware« CAD/DRAW and can either be started by a program function or
- as an independent Windows application.
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