User Interface
– Workflow Manager for fast and easy operation
– Supporting the standard Windows user interface
– High performance and stability
– Direct data exchange via clipboard
– Identical file format in all editions
– Working in up to 5 concurrent views
– Working in multiple drawings concurrently
– Overview window
– Popup menu
– Toolbox window, scalable
– Easily accessible block window, pen list window, layer list window
– Guide window, property window
– “Least Recently Used Drawings”-list
– “Least Recently Used Commands”-list
– Multiple-monitor support
– Customizable keyboard assignment
– Key shortcut display in menus
– Entry of terms and units in edit fields
Display
– Arbitrary zoom (area / page / overview)
– Zoom undo with 50 levels
– Independent grids for positioning and display
– Support for isometric and dimetric input
– Use of Bézier curves
Output
– Scalable print-out, automatic fit-to-page, automatic page size selection
– Multiple page printing for large drawings
– Section printing
– Optional printing of markings, Construction Aid, bitmaps
– Output accuracy up to 2540 dpi
– Use of Bézier curves
Available Object Types
– Lines, tangent, polyline, polygon
– Circle, circular arc, circular sectors, circular segment
Layers
– Up to 2000 layers with hierarchical naming structure
– Options “Display”, “Print”, “Freeze”, “Ignore”,
“Darken”
– Independent properties for display and output
File Handling
– References to external drawing files
– Utilization of CSV and DBF databases
– Import of: MKD, MKL, WMF, EMF, BMP, GIF, TIF, JPG, PNG, MPG, TVG, T2G, T3G, T4G, TVL, T2L, T3L, T4L,
– Export of: MKD, MKL, WMF, EMF
– Text-based file format, editable
– Creation of high-quality PDF files with transparency, all color models, and layers using the optional
CAD6 PDF Printer
– Ellipse, elliptical arc, elliptical sector, elliptical segment
– Complex curve and surfaces with lines, Bézier curves and circular arcs
– Spline, automatic freehand line
– Eraser, marking
– Line-based and block-based hatching
Object Handling and Modification
– Object selection by clicking and via window
– Search for texts and properties
– Selection via texts and properties
– Automatic snap function with visual feedback
– Snapping of current input data
– Orthogonal mode with custom angles
– Undo with up to 1000 levels
– Copy, move, rotate, scale, distort
– Internal cut/copy/paste via system clipboard
– Multiple copies (circle, line and array)
– Moving of definition points
– Stretch, compress
– Change display order of objects
– Group / ungroup
– Trimming, round edges, chamfer edges
– Custom line end styles and line joins
– Generation of surfaces out of separate objects
– Copying of object properties
Dimensioning and Coordinate Systems
– Half-associative dimensioning (length, distance,
– Editable tolerances
– Up to 50 coordinate systems
– Different scales and units within a drawing