DesignCAD 3D MAX 21

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 Tool
• 3D Solid Modeling Tools
• Mechanical Design Tools
• Architectural Design Tools
• Realistic Rendering
• Intuitive User Interface
• Online help

Versatile, Easy to Learn & Use
DesignCAD 3D MAX is a general purpose CAD tool for easily creating precise, high-quality images, models and animations. 2D drafting and 3D modeling have never been easier. Design everything from furniture, decks, floorplans and architectural drawings to engineering layouts, electronic schematics, plats, maps, elevations and even toys for hobbies.

Easy to Use 2D Drafting & Design
Intuitive yet sophisticated editing tools, advanced geometric construction capabilities, drawing short cut keys and complete layer management make 2D drafting a breeze.

• Usability Tools
• Workspace Tools
• Macros
• Image Tools
• Drawing Tools
• Editing and Measuring
• Dimension Tools
• Groups, Blocks, Symbols and more!

Precision 3D Modeling
Access a full range of powerful 3D modeling primitives, including box, sphere, hemisphere, pyramid, cylinder, cone and torus. Utilize Boolean operations, including solid add, solid subtract, and slice, to shape your 3D parts. Add materials to your model to create presentation ready designs.

• 3D View Settings
• 3D Primitives
• 3D (Solid) Editing Operations
• 3D Visualization

Realistic Visualization and Lighting
Render your 3D models with applied materials or texture maps or use transparency and fogging for added impact.

• Shadow Tool - smooth the edges of rendered shadows
• Procedural Textures - add marble, wood, cement, grain, patch, perlin noise, brick, cells or wood extended textures to your designs.
• Image Fills - Use an image as a fill pattern.

Layers

• DesignCAD utilizes layers that can be independently switched on and off in order for users to have a better visibility of the drawing. For example, if one just needs to see the outline of the component, he or she can switch off other layers containing center lines, dimensions, etc. 
• DesignCAD can also lock layers, so that they are visible but not editable, in order to prevent accidental changes to the locked layer. Some features of objects, such as color or linestyle, can also be controlled on a per-layer basis, so for example objects drawn in a particular layer can automatically have a certain color and/or linestyle applied. DesignCAD allows users to switch these by-layer settings on or off at will, or allow the settings to change automatically as they switch to and from layers with color or linestyle presets.

Symbols and 3D Images

• Choose from more than 10,000 2D/3D symbols to quickly drag and drop into your design. Plus, get access to millions of additional mechanical and architectural symbols with a free 3-month subscription to CADSymbols.com!

Animation & Walkthroughs
Create stunning animated presentations with a moving view of your 3D model.

Drawing Compare
Select two DesignCAD drawings or .BMP images, and Drawing Compare will perform a visual comparison of the two.

• There are options to switch from one to the other, to show only the differences, or to have the differences blink, quickly highlighting where changes have been made. Zoom In or select to Zoom to Differences to quickly spot any updates.
• The drawing comparison 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.

Added Flexibility when Sharing Your Work

• User Notes – Add notes to any drawing
• Save for Sharing - When you save a drawing, all files referenced externally (textures, symbols, images) are
  saved to a subfolder with the host drawing’s name.
• Paper Space Mode – Create a view frame and choose a specific scale or enter a custom view frame scale.
• Print Scale Options - Select from a standard set of print scale options or create your own.

AutoCAD® DWG/DXF Compatible
Read and write AutoCAD® files through 2011 and enjoy excellent compatibility with AutoCAD® layouts and PaperSpace, plus support for AutoCAD® layers, linestyles, views, and blocks in both DXF and DWG file formats.

DesignCAD imports DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL and XYZ files and exports to DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL, RIB, VRML, WPG and PDF.

DesignCAD also supports several image formats including .BMP, .TIF, .JPG, .TGA, .WMF, .PSD, .AWD, .EPS, .WPG, .TIF, .PCX, and .PNG

Extensible
Use the built-in BasicCAD scripting language, or OLE Automation, or both, to add new tools and enhancements to DesignCAD.

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.