AutoCAD LT at half the price

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DoubleCAD Spring 2010 Newsletter

Here’s the official information from IMSI:

Familiar But Improved
If you are an AutoCAD LT® user, DoubleCAD™ XT will immediately feel familiar.  Familiar menu, menu items, tools, icons, command line, keystrokes… even a familiar intelligent cursor.

But — maybe more importantly — you will feel welcomed improvements as well.

More Than A Free DWG Viewer
There are lots of free .DWG viewers on the market — like Autodesk’s TrueView and Design Review, Informative Graphics’ Free DWG Viewer, and SolidWorks’ eDrawings viewer. DoubleCAD XT is more than a free .DWG viewer… it is a full-powered CAD application that lets you open a variety of file formats and, most importantly, edit those files. DoubleCAD XT even has a smaller footprint than the Autodesk products, too.

Focus on Drafting & Detailing
Effective drafting and detailing are the heart of CAD productivity.  DoubleCAD™ XT employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, so that no matter the situation you have got the right tool for the job.  When used with DoubleCAD™ XT snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids, you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.

Powerful tools such as custom brush styles, transparencies, and smart dimensions also greatly enhance detailing.  No need to buy a separate hatch pattern creator, DoubleCAD™ XT even comes with its own.

Features You’ve Been Waiting For

Surprise, DoubleCAD™ XT has the features you’ve been waiting for… things like transparent fills, draw order by layer, bezier curves, flatten 3D to 2D views, hatch pattern editor, advanced polyline editing, automatically scale units between drawings, parametric variable palette, embed/bind image files in a drawing, input multiple unit types on-the-fly, and more.  The stuff you want… today… for free.

Architectural Power

Architectural users will like intelligent self-healing walls that are ADT compatible (a considerable improvement over AutoCAD LT®’s double-line tool).

Any block can be used as a custom architectural element that will automatically align to self-healing walls when inserted.

Advanced handle-based editing of selected objects gives you instant access to sizing, scaling, moving, rotating, and positioning without selecting multiple tools.

Brush styles, including hatch patterns, can be created using bitmaps, transparency, and full color. Hatch patterns can even be used in layered combination for a better expression of your design concept.

Unique and Compelling Tools

DoubleCAD™ XT also has productivity tools not found in AutoCAD LT® that can accelerate the drawing experience.

Special line, arc, and circle tools automatically create tangent, parallel, and perpendicular entities without snaps, allowing the user to proceed without resetting their snap modes.

Tools such as multiline, bezier curves, and fixed ratio ellipses extend the types of entities you can create, expediting drawing production.

And modify tools, such as meet-two-lines and convert-to-curve, eliminate the use of cumbersome tools found in other CAD applications.

Compatible… Especially Workflow Compatible

DoubleCAD™ XT is .DWG compatible, as you would expect.

What you may not expect is a DoubleCAD™ .DWG file, containing ADT-compatible walls and self-aligning blocks, can be brought into AutoCAD® or AutoCAD LT® and designs retain their self-healing properties.

This intelligent behavior can save hours of adjustment and iteration within AutoCAD® products and is yet another reason why DoubleCAD™ XT a great AutoCAD® companion.  With all the time and effort you will save, DoubleCAD™ XT is a no-brainer way to kick-start an AutoCAD® project.

You may not expect DoubleCAD™ XT to enhance workflow with Google™ SketchUp™, either, but it will.

For example, DoubleCAD™ XT:

• Imports all visible geometry, layers, and components
• Converts all SketchUp™ components to DoubleCAD™ blocks to optimize drawing performance
• Creates a paper space from each SketchUp™ scene, thereby saving time by automatically creating viewports with the correct layer visibility and 2D or perspective view propoerties.  These paperspace views are also immediately ready for dimensioning and annotation

DoubleCAD™ lets you develop construction documents quickly from SketchUp™ models.  AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® don’t come close.

No Catches

We’re trying to shake up the CAD world. We won’t do that unless we have something special.

DoubleCAD™ XT is a full-powered 2D CAD application — one that you already know how to use — and is free with none of the usual limitations:

We’re not constraining printing, saving, file sizes… we’re not including untimely time-outs… we’re not even constraining the software license — our free DoubleCAD™ XT can be used for unlimited personal and commercial use.

Our hope is that as you need even more power, you’ll consider upgrading to our enhanced DoubleCAD™ XT Pro product or DoubleCAD™ plug-ins as available.

Based On Award-Winning CAD Code

DoubleCAD™ XT is based on IMSI/Design’s award-winning CAD code with over two million copies sold worldwide.

A great companion to AutoCAD® in .DWG shops.  And the CAD of choice for Google™ SketchUp™ users.

DoubleCAD, like Google SketchUP, comes in two lines, a free version and a professional version at about half the price of AutoCAD LT. Both are ESD versions, i.e. no physical disks or training manuals, everything is on line and downloaded. A link below will take you to a page where you can download the free version. If you like what you see, then there is a 14 day trail version of the professional version and then if you wish buy the pro version there is another link. Call me if you have any problems. Personally I’d download the free one, get the hang of that and then, if you like it, download the pro trial, before buying.

Training CDs are available at £30 if you give me a call, prices may vary a little on the web. The training is extensive. It is divided up into 14 sessions describing how all the tools work, two detailed tutorials taking you through projects and about 160 video tutorials, about half of them audio.

For the DoubleCAD official UK site go to http://www.doublecad.co.uk/

To bypass the site and buy:

Here for pro: http://www.softwareparadise.co.uk/products/DoubleCAD_XT_Pro

Here for standard: http://www.softwareparadise.co.uk/pages/DoubleCAD_XT_Free

Here for trial: http://www.softwareparadise.co.uk/pages/DoubleCAD_XT_Pro_Trial

Review of DoubleCAD  http://zikkir.com/business/68332

Paul

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