Windows and Mac OS XViaCAD 2D/3D is available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The Mac OS X version is a universal binary natively supporting PPC and Intel based Macs and runs on OS 10.4 and higher. The Windows version works with both Windows XP and Windows Vista
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The underlying modeling kernel was updated providing improvements to blending, chamfering, shelling, booleans, and direct face editing.
The 2D architectural tools provides fast
drafting tools for creating walls, windows, and
doors. Features associated with these tools
include:
--Automatic healing with neighboring walls
--Auto-dimensions
--Attach doors, windows, and custom symbols
--Support for custom wall styles (user
patterns & colors for multiple material regions)
Significant boosts in visualization including:
--200X Faster Hidden Line (Mac & PC)
--6X Faster Dynamic Repaints (Mac & PC)
--2X Faster Static Repaints
--Level of Detail for even faster performance
The SpaceNavigator device drivers are now recognized by ViaCAD. This includes support for Mac OSX (Universal Binary), Windows XP, and Vista. Use the SpaceNavigator to dynamically zoom, rotate, and pan views into your data models.
Viewports provide a graphical user interface to display the same drawing in multiple views. Each view may have a different orientation, which provides the ability to see an object simultaneously in an isometric, side, front, and top views.
The preference dialog box now provides features to specify two and four color gradients. You can also specify a JPEG or BMP file as a background.
Users can now apply colors per face. Use the deep select tool to select a face and then pick a color from the pen menu.
The New Using Wizard dialog box provides the ability to create a new drawing file from a collection of custom settings or selection of a existing file from a template. Quickly set up a drawing for mechanical or architectural layouts.
Click in a region of trimmed or untrimmed curves to hatch or fill. Resultant hatch is auto trimmed and remains associative to the neighboring untrimmed curves.
Use the new bounding box tool to determine the rectangular bounding volume of an object. Or verify the curvature circle at any location of a curve.