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Last Update:
October,
2011
QCAD Features
This feature list applies to the latest release of QCAD Professional (2.2).
- Multi-document interface
- Layer support
- Block support (grouping)
- Integrated part / symbol browser
- 24bit Colors
- 24 different line widths
- 19 line styles
- 35 CAD optimized fonts
- 200 undo/ redo levels
- Clipboard functions (copy, cut, paste)
- Rotate, scale, flip while pasting
- Supported units:
- Metrical: Nanometer, Millimeter, Centimeter, Decimeter, Meter,
...
- Imperial: Inch, Foot, Mile, Microinch, Mil, Yard
- Other: Angstrom, Micron, Astro, Lightyear, Parsec
- Supported file formats:
- DXF R12 and DXF 200x (reading / writing)
- BMP, JPEG, PNG, .. (import and export as bitmaps)
- SVG (export)
- High quality PDF (export)
- Printing
- Printing to scale (e.g. 1:2, 1:100, ..)
- Print preview with paper selection
- Construction
- Points
- Lines
- with two points
- given absolute angle
- horizontal / vertical
- rectangles
- parallels
- bisectors
- tangents
- orthogonal
- given relative angle
- regular polygons
- freehand lines
- Arcs
- center, radius, angles
- three points
- concentric
- adjacent to existing entity
- Circles
- center, circle line point
- center, radius
- two opposed points
- three points
- concentric
- Ellipses
- center, two points (minor and major axis)
- center, two points, start angle, end angle
- Splines (NURBS)
- degrees 2, 3
- closed, open
- Polylines
- line and arc segments
- add / delete nodes
- trim segments
- delete all nodes between two given segments
- create polylines from existing segments
- create equidistant polylines
- with rounded or sharp corners
- Texts
- fonts: ISO, ISO cursive, Courier, Romans, ... (35 CAD fonts
included)
- alignments: left, right, centered
- vertical alignments: top, bottom, middle
- unicode support (Japanese, Chinese, German umlauts, ...)
- Dimensions
- aligned
- linear
- horizontal / vertical
- radius
- diameter
- angles
- arrows (leaders)
- use arrows or architectural ticks (45 degree lines)
- Hatches
- 40 patterns (extensible by the user)
- adjustable pattern scale and angle
- solid fill (color fill)
- Raster images (bitmaps)
- insertion of bitmaps
- adjustable scale, rotation angle
- Modification
- move
- rotate
- scale
- mirror
- move and rotate
- rotate and counter-rotate
- trim to entity
- trim by amount
- bevel
- round
- divide
- divide 2 (remove segment)
- stretch
- edit geometry (numeric)
- edit attributes (color, line width, line pattern, layer)
- exploding texts / dimensions / hatches / ellipses into atomic elements
- edit texts
- delete
- move to background / foreground
- modify properties or single or multiple entities with property editor
- Element selection functions
- all / nothing
- single elements
- rectangular ranges
- connected elements (contours)
- elements intersected by a selecting line
- invert selection
- select layer
- Snapping functions
(used to position the mouse cursor to an exactly defined
location)
- free
- snap to grid
- snap to endpoints
- snap to center points
- snap to middle points
- snap to intersections
- location defined by entered co-ordinates
(relative/absolute/cartesian/angular)
- auto snap
- Measuring functions
- distance between two points
- distance between an element and a point
- angle between two lines
- total length of selected entities
- polygonal area / circumference
- Zoom functions
- redraw
- auto zoom
- zoom in / out (mouse wheel or buttons / hotkeys)
- panning (middle mouse button)
- window zoom
- zoom to selection
- Part library
- over 4800 CAD parts included (screws, nuts, symbols, ...)
- insert parts into the drawing
- adjust angle and scale
- extensible with user defined drawings and symbols
- Misc features
- adjustable dimension unit format and accuracy
- modification of existing CAD fonts and creation of new fonts
- ECMA scripting interface with integrated development environment
(IDE)
- integrated user reference manual
- isometric projections (pseudo 3d)
- User interface translations
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Punjabi
- Portuguese (BR)
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Welsh
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