Engineering Drawings
Technical Tool Set (upper left):
This
is a tool set for technical drawing. It
includes an old favorite, the Autoline, a simple
line with its length shown in a dimension format.
Other tools are for drawing orthogonal paths, which
may have square, rounded, or 45 deg. corners.
Connectors attach to other graphics at precise (1/4,
1/2, etc) locations. Easily create drawings
with full dimensions as are shown on the sample
drawing of the familiar hand held Apple product.
Draw to Scale (lower left):
Select units (cm, mm, inches, points, miles,...) and
Scale (1:1, 1/4", 2", ...) for precise convenient
drawing. And if you need to change the scale
of drawing in progress - all objects are redrawn at
their "physical" size, a feature not common to
popular priced CAD drawing packages. Each layer may
have it's own drawing scale allowing detail views
and showing "plan" and "elevation" on the same
drawing. When objects are to or from drawings
or layers with different scales, the "physical" size
of the graphic is correctly maintained. When
applying a scale change, you may elect to scale just
the drawing or scale all graphics (maintaining their
physical dimensions) and the drawing. Check
out the screen shot for the
Measuring Tape
for an example of a map drawn to scale.
Dimension Palette (upper right):
Fully control the style and content of each
dimension. Set the decimal precision, or chose
fraction representation, show units/abbreviations or
not, even add your own text to either side of the
reported dimension. Use the Comment Dimension
(lower right on tool set) to report relevant
parametric data (radius, length, perimeter, center,
slope, ...). Or modernize the look of your
drawings, all the capability of our Annotated Text
formatting are available to dimensions, rotated
text, any font/style/color, contour typeset layout,
background color, any arrow style, ...
