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Cadvance LiTe
 

 

 

A complete 2D CAD system that has all the functionality of Cadvance and is economical and easy-to-use. For your less complex CAD requirements, Cadvance LiTe  maximizes your potential speed and power.  Combining all the sophisticated features of CAD together with the ease and flexibility of Windows

Cadvance LiTe Productivity Features:

Drafting and Editing Architectural/Engineering
Input/Output Windows Features
Reference File Management Customization
Drawing Management Networking
System Requirements

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 and Data 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

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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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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

 

 

Architectural/Engineering
Application Specific

bulletFeet, inches, metric, and other units.
bulletCartesian and polar coordinate input.
bulletParallel lines for walls.
bulletAutomatic intersection clean-up
bulletAutomatic symbol insertion into walls or lines.
bulletArchitectural building grids.
bulletParallel offsets for lines and arcs.
bulletANSI/ISO dimensioning.
bulletChamfers, fillets, tangents, and perpendiculars.
bulletDistances, sizes, areas, and volumes.
bulletSymbol scaling and rotation.

Windows Features

bulletWindows compliant user interface.
bulletFull two-way support for Clipboard, DDE, and OLE.
bulletPlace 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).
bulletCreate dynamic two-way DDE "hot links" with Microsoft Excel.
bulletWork in several views of a single drawing or several different drawings at once.
bulletProgrammable Windows toolbar.
bulletCreate compound documents.
bulletClient and server for OLE.
bulletRich Text Format (RTF) support.
bulletIntegrate raster and scanned images such as clip art, logos, blueprints and photographs.
bulletMouseWheel Zoom and Middle Button Pan, View Fit

Input/Output

bulletDrawing auto-save.
bulletHPGL PLT file input.
bulletMosaic plotting.
bulletLine weight plotting.
bulletExport to .DWF
bulletReads and writes .DWG and .DXF files. (to R15)
bulletIntegrated E-mail support has been incorporated for use with mail systems that support the MAPI standard (such as Windows for Workgroups).
bulletInput, rotate, scale raster images (Support for over 20 raster images;RLC, TIFF, PCX, BMP,etc.).
bulletPlot logging – facilitates management of plotting
bulletCAD text plotting with line weight
bulletInput from mouse or digitizer.
bulletSupports any Windows compatible printer/plotter.

Customization

bulletMacro run
bulletMacro key.
bulletDynamically load Menus and Toolbars
bulletCustomizable toolbar.

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

Reference File Management

bulletReference File Window
bulletAutomatic Reference File translation to DWG/DXF format
bulletDWG/DXF as well as VWF files supported as Reference Files
bulletSnap-to objects on reference files.
bulletSnap-to intersection of lines on two different reference files.
bulletSupport of Reference Files containing bitmap images
bulletUnlimited number of Reference Files
bulletReference Layer File
bulletView-only reference files
bulletSupports 255 layers.
bulletReference file placement and rotation.
bulletReference file Load/Save Setup information

 

Information Management

bulletSymbol text attributes
bulletDrawing management information access.

Drawing Management

Every drawing file includes:

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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.

Networking

bulletAutomatic file locking.
bulletRecord locking.
bulletFile contention prevention.
bulletReference files.
bulletBuilt-insecurity functions, including drawing passwords.
bulletDefault and user-definable configuration files.
bullet(Optional) Site License Manager - helps manage your workgroup CAD operations

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

bullet(Optional) Printer or plotter supported by Microsoft Windows

 

 
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