RiscCAD Release 10 gains important new
features
The new Existing fonts dialogue box allows
users to easily and quickly pick fonts already in use on the drawing
without the need to refer to a long font menu. Fonts are shown
graphically in the dialogue box.
In addition, when placing fonts users have the option to create the font outline as a series of objects. This allows character outlines to be used within drawings. As the character outline is a series of CAD objects, it can be filled with any pattern fill from the fill library.
Bezier curves
Bezier curves are a long time request of
RiscCAD users, having been on the 'wish list' for the last 10 years!
Curves may be up to 120 sections long and nodes may be added or removed at any time. Curves may be edited by picking either a node or control point. Control points may be displayed or hidden from the Display control dialogue box.
Curves can be subject to the same editing tools as other objects, meaning they can be filled, stretched, scaled, rotated etc.
Click here to find out more about RiscCAD Professional Release 10.
Click here for the full list of Release 10 additions.
RiscDXF
RiscCAD
development continues with important new features designed to make
drafting easier, and to improve the appearance of the RiscCAD drawing.
All five of the top five user requests have been added.
1. Bezier curves
2. Outline fonts
3. Draw file export
4. Better DXF transfer
5. Improved cursor/object colour rendering.
Recent additions allow RiscCAD to integrate more closely with RISC OS and to become the drafting program of choice for discerning CAD users.
Outline fonts
Each RiscCAD drawing can utilise up to 255
different
outline fonts. The standard
RiscCAD vector font is still available, allowing legacy drawings to
retain
their original appearance. As RiscCAD users
would expect, the addition of outline fonts is seamless within the text
and dimension tools. Modified dialogue boxes allow the selection of
font name from the standard RISC OS font menu.
A graphical example of the font style can be previewed before the font is used. Fonts which are no longer used on the drawing are automatically purged from the drawing database.
1. Bezier curves
2. Outline fonts
3. Draw file export
4. Better DXF transfer
5. Improved cursor/object colour rendering.
Recent additions allow RiscCAD to integrate more closely with RISC OS and to become the drafting program of choice for discerning CAD users.
Outline fonts
Each RiscCAD drawing can utilise up to 255
different
outline fonts. The standard
RiscCAD vector font is still available, allowing legacy drawings to
retain
their original appearance. As RiscCAD users
would expect, the addition of outline fonts is seamless within the text
and dimension tools. Modified dialogue boxes allow the selection of
font name from the standard RISC OS font menu. A graphical example of the font style can be previewed before the font is used. Fonts which are no longer used on the drawing are automatically purged from the drawing database.
The new Existing fonts dialogue box allows
users to easily and quickly pick fonts already in use on the drawing
without the need to refer to a long font menu. Fonts are shown
graphically in the dialogue box.In addition, when placing fonts users have the option to create the font outline as a series of objects. This allows character outlines to be used within drawings. As the character outline is a series of CAD objects, it can be filled with any pattern fill from the fill library.
Bezier curves
Bezier curves are a long time request of
RiscCAD users, having been on the 'wish list' for the last 10 years! Curves may be up to 120 sections long and nodes may be added or removed at any time. Curves may be edited by picking either a node or control point. Control points may be displayed or hidden from the Display control dialogue box.
Curves can be subject to the same editing tools as other objects, meaning they can be filled, stretched, scaled, rotated etc.
Click here to find out more about RiscCAD Professional Release 10.
Click here for the full list of Release 10 additions.
Recent
RiscCAD developments are designed to offer improved compatibility
with PC CAD systems, and this has been extended to RiscDXF. RiscDXF now scans the DXF file prior
to loading and suggests a suitable ISO scale factor. Furthermore,
RiscDXF is
able to scale paper space and model space correctly, ensuring objects
in either co-ordinate model are displayed in their correct position.
AutoCAD and Windows fonts can be mapped to suitable RISC OS fonts when
convertinf from DXF, and RISC OS fonts mapped to suitable AutoCAD and
Windows fonts when saving DXF files.
Click here to find out more.
RiscDRAW
RISC OS users also
benefit from full draw file export, directly from
RiscDRAW, without the need to rely on
!Draw's DXF import feature, which often does not cope with modern DXF
files. Draw files
look exactly the same as the original RiscCAD drawing, including
outline fonts,
colours, line styles and line widths. The draw file is suitable for
dropping directly into a word processor or other artwork program with
no further editing required.
Click here to find out more.