RiscCAD Release 10 released at the
South East Show on 22nd October 2005
RiscCAD Professional
Release 10 was unveiled at the South East RISC OS Show. The venue for
the show was Guildford College.
RiscCAD author David Buck was on-hand to demonstrate the new release and give a presentation in the show theatre. Initial reaction to Release 10 was extremely positive, with many new users signing up on the day and showing their support for this important piece of RISC OS software.
What will an existing RiscCAD users see in Release 10. David Buck, RiscCAD developer talks about Release 10.
"Over the last few months I have been trying to gauge what users want from a CAD system. Some users do not require many of the construction tools RiscCAD is equiped with, but they do want is similar functionality to existing programs, whether it be Draw or some other design/CAD program they are using. As RISC OS is the sum of its parts, communicating with other RISC OS programs is essential."
"RiscCAD
Professional Release 10 will provide much more in terms of
integration with RISC OS. For example, it is now possible to output
Draw files which look exactly the same as the RiscCAD drawing. There is
no need to edit line styles, thickness or change the system font to an
outline font before loading the drawing into a word processor. When
converting draw files to RiscCAD, line thickness and style are imported
on separate layers. Text is imported exactly as in the draw file,
including all font information."
"Release 10 allows the use of outline fonts for both normal text and dimensions. This gives drawings a much more professional appearance. Bezier curves can also be used to create non-circular shapes. As expected, the Bezier tool integrates seamlessly with the rest of the RiscCAD tools so, for example, you can fill a Bezier curve, or use the snap tools to snap to the curve control points and nodes, and you can stretch a Bezier curve."
"Whilst it was important to ensure RiscCAD operated better with the RISC OS world, one is always painfully aware that CAD systems must be able to integrate with the PC world. PC CAD users need high quality DXF transfer between RiscCAD and the PC system. Improvements to RiscDXF mean that this is now possible. RiscDXF can load all variants of DXF file from early versions of AutoCAD up to the very latest DXF files."
David added "Most of all I want RISC OS users to take a look at RiscCAD, they may find more uses for it than they thought, from form design to planning and landscape design."
Click here to learn more about RiscCAD Professional Release 10.
RiscCAD author David Buck was on-hand to demonstrate the new release and give a presentation in the show theatre. Initial reaction to Release 10 was extremely positive, with many new users signing up on the day and showing their support for this important piece of RISC OS software.
What will an existing RiscCAD users see in Release 10. David Buck, RiscCAD developer talks about Release 10.
"Over the last few months I have been trying to gauge what users want from a CAD system. Some users do not require many of the construction tools RiscCAD is equiped with, but they do want is similar functionality to existing programs, whether it be Draw or some other design/CAD program they are using. As RISC OS is the sum of its parts, communicating with other RISC OS programs is essential."
"RiscCAD
Professional Release 10 will provide much more in terms of
integration with RISC OS. For example, it is now possible to output
Draw files which look exactly the same as the RiscCAD drawing. There is
no need to edit line styles, thickness or change the system font to an
outline font before loading the drawing into a word processor. When
converting draw files to RiscCAD, line thickness and style are imported
on separate layers. Text is imported exactly as in the draw file,
including all font information." "Release 10 allows the use of outline fonts for both normal text and dimensions. This gives drawings a much more professional appearance. Bezier curves can also be used to create non-circular shapes. As expected, the Bezier tool integrates seamlessly with the rest of the RiscCAD tools so, for example, you can fill a Bezier curve, or use the snap tools to snap to the curve control points and nodes, and you can stretch a Bezier curve."
"Whilst it was important to ensure RiscCAD operated better with the RISC OS world, one is always painfully aware that CAD systems must be able to integrate with the PC world. PC CAD users need high quality DXF transfer between RiscCAD and the PC system. Improvements to RiscDXF mean that this is now possible. RiscDXF can load all variants of DXF file from early versions of AutoCAD up to the very latest DXF files."
David added "Most of all I want RISC OS users to take a look at RiscCAD, they may find more uses for it than they thought, from form design to planning and landscape design."
Click here to learn more about RiscCAD Professional Release 10.