hsCADCreator is a new CAD editor that offers a wide range of features that allow quick and intuitive design of technical, architectural, and engineering drawings.
At the simplest level, hsCADCreator is a viewer, an editor, and a converter.
The following industry-standard CAD drawing file types are supported in hsCADCreator 2.0.3.49 through the use of the Open DWG standard:
- DXF - Drawing eXchange Format
Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18)
- DWG - DraWinG
Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18)
- DXB - Drawing eXchange Binary
Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18)
- DWF - Design Web Format
Versions (v4.2, v5.5, v6.0)
Formats (3D, Compressed Binary, Uncompressed Binary, Zipped ASCII Encoded 2D Stream, ASCII)
In addition, hsCADCreator 2.0.3.49 also provides the ability to convert both between these formats and between different versions and types of these formats.
The following file formats may also be generated from a drawing:
- BMP - Windows Bitmap File
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
Here are some key features of “hsCadCreator”:
View Drawings
- Import from most standard CAD File Formats
- Display 2D and/or 3D information
- Render with a variety of 3D Viewing modes
- Zoom, Rotate, Pan, and Snap within a Drawing
- Manage multiple views of a Drawing with Viewports
- Preview both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace
Print Drawings
- Map difficult to print colors with Plotstyles
- Preview a print job before you waste your ink
- Print both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace
Create Drawings
- Build new Entities from scratch with intuitive Creation Tools
- Use Blocks to simplify the generation of repeated Drawing elements (and reduce Drawing Size!)
- Decorate your entities with Linestyles, Lineweights, Textstyles, Hatch Styles, and Colors
- Take advantage of Dimension Entities to simplify the details of relating a Drawing to the real world
- Choose a Drawing unit, and painlessly enter distances in any related unit without a calculator in hand
Edit Drawings
- Choose one or more Entities of interest with crossing, containment, and single click selection
- View and modify the properties of the currently selected Entities (or Entities!)
- Effortlessly manipulate or delete existing Entities with Modification Tools
- Benefit from Drawing Aids to speed up common tasks and improve their accuracy
- Easily manipulate User Coordinate Systems with simple tools and a UCS-aware data entry system
- Manage Named Views, Viewports, and Layouts for custom presentations of your Drawing
- Copy and paste your current selection in both “Standard” and “As Block” modes
Convert Drawings
- To any supported Drawing file types (and all versions!). Make an old Drawing new, or a new Drawing old.
- To web formats as PDF, DWF, SVG, and Images
- To an email attachment
Convenience
- Autosave feature keeps saving even when you don’t or can’t
- Maximize screen space with tabbed viewing and editing
- Copy and paste entities/blocks between open drawings
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