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Let Your Imagination Take Flight
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DesignCAD 3D MAX is an
easy-to-use, versatile CAD tool that’s perfect for novice
designers, but powerful enough to create high-quality 2D/3D
designs, models and animations. The intuitive interface and
extensive online help make it easy to design anything, from
simple hobby projects to professional precision drawings.
It’s everything you need!
- Precision 2D Drafting
Tools
- 3D Solid Modeling Tools
- Mechanical Design Tools
- Architectural Design
Tools
- Realistic Rendering
- Intuitive User Interface
- Online Help
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Easy to Learn & Use 2D/3D Design
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Design 2D drawings fast and easy, then create complex 3D
shapes simply by extruding (pulling) them from your 2D
shapes.
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Powerful Drawing Compare Technology
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Drawing Compare is an invaluable aid when working
collaboratively on a project, or when picking up an older
project and looking to see the status of updates. Use it to
compare a design and an ‘As Built’ drawing to see where
changes have been implemented.
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Beautiful Rendering
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Apply a variety of materials, textures, colors, brush
styles, and light effects to create stunning images.
Customize material textures to further enhance the realism.
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Animations & Walkthroughs
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Create animations and walkthroughs of your finished
drawings.
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Valuable Content
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New DesignCAD 3D MAX version 21 includes 600 colorful,
texture-mapped 3D models for easier architectural design. In
addition, access over 10,000 2D/3D symbols and speed design
as you quickly drag and drop them into your design. Retrieve
millions more mechanical and architectural symbols with a
free, 3-Month subscription to CADsymbols.com®!
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AutoCAD® DWG/DXF Compatible
& More
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Share files with built in file
filters for dozens of popular CAD and graphic formats,
including AutoCAD®. Import DWG, DXF, WMF, and HPGL files and
many more formats for editing in DesignCAD. Just as easily
export to DWG, DXF, RIB, VRML, WMF, WPG, PDF and more to
share your work.
Perfect For:
- Architects
- Engineers
- Illustrators
- Builders
- Contractors
- Hobbyists
- Educators
- Students
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 System Requirements
Minimum:
- Windows® XP, Vista or Windows 7
- Pentium III class processor
- Microsoft ® Windows XP 512 MB RAM, Microsoft ® Vista 1 GB RAM
- 110 MB of free hard disk space
- 256+ MB of swap space
- Super VGA display 1024x768
- High Color (16bit) graphics card
- CD-ROM Drive
- Mouse
Recommended:
- 2.0+ GHz Pentium 4 or better processor
- 2 GB RAM
- 1GB or more of free hard disk space on your primary system drive (C:)
- 3D Graphics accelerator card with TrueColor (32-bit) graphics capability
- Wheel mouse
- Internet Connection
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer ™ installation required for Internet activation.
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Get Started in CAD with DesignCAD
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DesignCAD is a versatile and easy-to-use
2D CAD program. Access hundreds of 2D drafting and design tools
through an intuitive interface to quickly and easily produce
accurately scaled, precision designs! It’s perfect for:
- Architectural Drawings – Draw
professional-quality floorplans, elevations, and plot plans with
ease
- Engineering Layouts –
Double-precision accuracy allows the highest degree of tolerance
and design control
- Shop Drawings – Entering
specific values for dimensions, diameter and radius allows you
to draw accurate mechanical parts.
- Home Projects – Create
do-it-yourself landscaping designs and indoor/outdoor home
improvements
- Other CAD Needs – Create
electronic schematics, plats, mapping, flow charts and more
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Easy to Use
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DesignCAD offers simple operations,
intuitive drawing tools and editing commands, and extensive online
help to make it easy for you to quickly get started using CAD. |
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Fast, Powerful Commands
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Drawing shortcuts, horizontal and
vertical cursor mode, and cursor step size enable you to make faster
and more accurate drawings. Shortcut keys and dynamic toolbars can
make commonly used commands a snap – literally! |
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Full Featured 2D Drafting
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You can draw virtually anything with
DesignCAD’s extensive text manipulation functions, dimensioning and
annotation features. You have sophisticated editing features,
advanced geometric construction capability, complete layer
management and editing tools.
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NEW AutoCAD® 2011 .DWG/.DXF
Compatibility and more
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Read and write AutoCAD® files through
2011 with support for AutoCAD® layouts, PaperSpace, layers,
linestyles, views, and blocks in both DXF and DWG file formats. Plus
work with files from many other popular CAD and graphic programs. |
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Extensible
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Use the built-in BasicCAD scripting
language, or OLE Automation, or both, to add new tools to the
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Also Available – DesignCAD 3D MAX
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Enter the world of 3D design with
DesignCAD 3D MAX. This easy-to-use, versatile CAD tool that’s
perfect for novice designers, but powerful enough to create
high-quality 2D/3D designs, rendered 3D models and animations.
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 System Requirements
Minimum:
- Windows® XP, Vista or Windows 7
- Pentium III class processor
- Microsoft ® Windows XP 512 MB RAM, Microsoft ® Vista 1 GB RAM
- 110 MB of free hard disk space
- 256+ MB of swap space
- Super VGA display 1024x768
- High Color (16bit) graphics card
- CD-ROM Drive
- Mouse
Recommended:
- 2.0+ GHz Pentium 4 or better processor
- 2 GB RAM
- 1GB or more of free hard disk space on your primary system drive (C:)
- 3D Graphics accelerator card with TrueColor (32-bit) graphics capability
- Wheel mouse
- Internet Connection
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer ™ installation required for Internet activation.
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