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Cadvance Productivity Features:
Drafting and Editing
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Single lines and linesets, rectangles, arcs,
circles, and bitmaps
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Polygons, ellipses,
splines, unlimited length contour curves, and points
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Object alignment
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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
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256 colors
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255 layers with
user-defined selection and visibility
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32767 kinds accessible
through CDI
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Industry-standard
layering
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View/Define Layer: Name,
Active, Visible, Selectable, Color, Line Style, Line Weight, Locked, Data
and 3D Extrusion in the layer configuration
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Window selection –
Inclusive and Exclusive
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Rectangular and circular
arrays
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Stretch objects
(including rooms)
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Copy, rotate, delete, and
scale
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Mirror, trim, extend, and
break
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Hatching and Associative
hatching
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Line weight on screen
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16 line styles
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Auto Snap to Grid,
Vertex, Intersection, Midpoint, Center, Pie Angle, Node, Line, Arc,
Circle, Object, Text, Endpoint, Tangent, Perpendicular
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Customizable Auto Snap.
Object type(s) for auto snap is selectable.
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Dynamic Pan and Zoom
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Drawing preview
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Symbol preview
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Unlimited Undo and Redo
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Multiple object selection
modes
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Property selection filter
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Edit Find
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Area Fill
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Spell check
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Key input command
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Right mouse button to
shortcut menu
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Movable, dockable and
user configurable menu bar and tool bar
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Unlimited number of menu
bars and tool bars
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Toolbar and Status bar
Tooltips
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Reference file with bit
map data. Image data must be an embedded bit map.
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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.
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Euro symbol (€) added to
all fonts
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Isometric Line - Draws
line segments with fixed angles that create an Isometric Layout. The
angles are 30,90,150,210,270, & 330
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New search - searches
objects by many filters. It finds objects within groups or symbols by
layer, kind and object types.
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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.
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Key map - jumps to a
specified drawing.
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Virtual Tablet - acts
like a digitizer tablet. Originally sold as a stand-alone tool, it is now
included with CADVANCE 2002.
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DWG/DXF 2D and 3D imports
are improved to allow import of both at the same time.
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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.
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Dimension setup has been
divided into several sections for easier understanding and operation, and
allows easier settings according to your needs.
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Text attributes has been
enhanced to manage multiple entries with one dialog box rather than many
dialog boxes popping up per entry.
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Multiple object selection
by “window with a right mouse button”. A pop-up menu will be displayed
for editing.
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Multi-line CAD Text
editing.
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DWG symbol to CADVANCE
symbol translator
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Set default properties -
when an object is selected, the drawing properties are set to the object.
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Utility/Query/Size shows
a diameter for circle and arc.
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Draw/Fillet and
Draw/Chamfer inherit properties of the first object selected.
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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
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| Symbol scaling and rotation |
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Presentation and 3D
Windows Features
| Windows compliant user interface.
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| 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.
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| Create compound documents. |
| Client and server for OLE. |
| Rich Text Format (RTF) support.
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| 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
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| 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.).
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| Plot logging
– facilitates
management of plotting
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| CAD text plotting with line weight
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| Input from mouse or digitizer.
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| Supports any Windows compatible
printer/plotter. |
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Customization
| Program in
BASIC, C, C++, and
Delphi using CDI (CADVANCE Development Interface) libraries
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| Macro editor, debugger, compiler
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| 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.
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| 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
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| Reference Layer File |
| View-only reference files |
| Supports 255 layers. |
| Reference file placement and rotation.
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| 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.
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| Symbol text attributes |
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| Drawing management information access.
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| 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
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| (Optional) Printer or plotter supported by
Microsoft Windows |
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