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- CAD
- (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. A graphics tablet is used for drawing, and a...
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- PowerShape-e 2010 (Windows)
- 3D CAD for everyone. Full hybrid modeling using surfaces and solids. Intelligent Cursor for fast, easy wireframe. Simple to use, easy to learn, with all the power of CAD systems costing thousands but free. Now with Parasolid, for even better solid modelling. PowerSHAPE allows to design complex parts and assemblies...
- Tags: 3D, Delcam Plc., PowerSHAPE, CAD, Microsoft Windows, Research & Development, Software, Operating Systems, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-12-03
- RasterVect 15.4 (Windows)
- If you want to edit a raster file in your CAD program, you first have to convert it to a vector file. RasterVect does just that, transforming paper drawings or raster images into a vector format. Raster images can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. There is TWAIN and...
- Tags: Raster, Microsoft Windows, RasterVect Software, CAD, Scanners, Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-12-02
- EWDraw 3D ActiveX 7.2.5 (Windows)
- EWDraw 3D ActiveX is a vector graphics ActiveX for 3D and 2D visualization and animation. You can use it for CAD, CAM, and GIS. The EWDraw 3D ActiveX is based on open cascade geometric kernel and openGL. The library is realized as a run-time Windows 32 bit ActiveX control. Either...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, ActiveX, East Wind Software, EWDraw 3D ActiveX, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Programming Languages, GIS, CAD, Microsoft Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools
- Software downloads 2009-12-01
- Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 2.0.0.2 (Windows)
- Design family homes, shopping malls, high-rise buildings or just an apartment within a real 2D/3D environment using all the available tools for planning and visualizing buildings. With its simple usability, exact results and yet reasonable price tag the software clearly stands out of the crowd. Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 2...
- Tags: Usability, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Ashampoo, Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 2, CAD, Productivity, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-22
- Easy CAD Converter 1.03 (Windows)
- Easy CAD Converter, previously known as DXF DWG DWF Converter, is capable of converting your CAD drawings from DWG to DXF, from DWG to DWF, from DXF to DWG, from DXF to DWF, from DWF to DXF, from DWF to DWG without the need for AutoCAD-based products. Easy CAD Converter...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Benzsoft, DWG, DWF, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Easy CAD Solution Suite 1.03 (Windows)
- Convert your CAD drawings to various image and graphics formats without the need for AutoCAD-based products. Review CAD drawings in DWG, DXF, DWF format with a feature-rich viewer. Edit, modify design drawing and its internal objects attributes and properties. Convert between DWG, DXF, DWF, PDF, and various image formats without...
- Tags: AutoCAD, Microsoft Windows, Benzsoft, DXF, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Easy CAD to Image Converter 1.03 (Windows)
- Easy CAD to Image Converter supports conversion from DWG, DXF, DWF to BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and TGA file types. Easy CAD to Image Converter is more than a file format converter, and you can even batch render your DWG, DXF, DWF drawing files to image files of any...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Benzsoft, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Easy CAD to PDF Converter 1.03 (Windows)
- Easy CAD to PDF Converter features DWG to PDF conversion, DXF to PDF conversion, and DWF to PDF conversion without Autodesk AutoCAD or Adobe Acrobat. You can even batch publish your DWG, DXF, DWF drawing files to PDF files of any size to answer your specific needs, such as to...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Benzsoft, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Easy CAD Viewer 1.03 (Windows)
- Easy CAD Viewer allows you to view and print various AutoCAD drawings on your PC easily and quickly. It also enables you to manage 2D and 3D CAD drawings. Easy CAD Viewer works with AutoCAD DWG, DXF, DWF files of all versions as early as AutoCAD Release 9 and as...
- Tags: AutoCAD, Microsoft Windows, Benzsoft, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Live Webcast: High Performance Workstations that Rock for Engineering and Entertainment!
- High performance workstations are important tools of the trade for a growing number of businesses and industries that rely on specialized programs and applications. Nowhere is this more the case perhaps than the two very different worlds of engineering and entertainment. In both industries, the most important factors...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Webcast, Industry, High-performance, Hardware, Entertainment, Digital Content, High-Performance Workstations, Workstations, Advertising & Promotion, CAD, Marketing, Software
- Webcasts 2009-11-16
- Easy CAD to SVG Converter 1.02 (Windows)
- This CAD2SVG converter allows you to publish your CAD drawings as SVG Scalable Vector Graphics, an open-standard W3C standard for the presentation of compact and high-quality graphics on the web. You can input any DWF, DWG, or DXF drawing, specify the output width and height, scale the line weight, choose...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SVG, Benzsoft, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- progeCAD 2009 Smart 9.0.28.8 (Windows)
- AutoCAD functionality for free personal use only. DWG 2009 DXF read and write. Similar icons, commands and interface. IntelliCAD AutoLISP interpreter, temporary point snap like oSnap, layers, blocks. Hatch, block and xref editing. 3D shading and rendering options. Optional approx. 10000 Symbols ALE library. This is the long-awaited free successor...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, CADDIT, progeCAD Smart, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- Brava Reader 3.3.0.18 (Windows)
- The free Brava Reader views and prints TIFF, PDF, XPS, and JPG files, as well as the secure CSF content sealed format files by Brava Desktop and Enterprise and Net-It publishing products. CSF is a compressed format that encompasses our Visual Rights persistent security, including password protection, onscreen and print...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, TIFF, Informative Graphics, Brava Reader, CSF, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- SharpCam 1.0 (Windows)
- SharpCam is a full-featured standalone CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing) system used to create NC code for CNC machine tools. Features integrated CAD creation tools with powerful context snapping. Toolpath creation by pocketing, profiling and drilling, with on the fly NC code generation. Create and edit post processors with...
- Tags: Network Computer, Microsoft Windows, Tool, SharpCam, Thin Clients, CAD, Productivity, Microsoft Development Tools, Hardware, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- VTK Export for KeyCreator 1.0 (Windows)
- VTK Export for KeyCreator is a Visualization Toolkit (.vtk) file export add-in for KeyCreator. This add-in gives KeyCreator the ability to export geometric data from KeyCreator to ASCII and Binary VTK files. VTK Export for KeyCreator tessellates solid bodies in a KeyCreator document into a set of triangular meshes. These...
- Tags: File, SYCODE, CAD, Microsoft Windows, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- 3DM Export for KeyCreator 1.0 (Windows)
- 3DM Export for KeyCreator is a Rhinoceros 3DM file export add-in for KeyCreator. This add-in gives KeyCreator the ability to export 3D solid and surface data from a KeyCreator part or assembly document to 3D polygon meshes in a 3DM file. 3DM Export for KeyCreator tessellates solid bodies in a...
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, File, SYCODE, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- AVAX-CAD 1.0 (Windows)
- Avax-CAD is a stand alone 2D drawing program, which addresses Architects, Civil Engineers, Electrician Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Topographers, Designers, Students and generally everyone who is occupied with geometrical drawing. It constitutes an alternative solution to all these expensive and inconvenient market s CAD programs. It is a program simple to...
- Tags: AVAX-Software, Avax-CAD, CAD, Microsoft Windows, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Lightwright 5.0.6 (Mac)
- Lightwright manages lighting design paperwork, storing the information for each instrument in a show as well as general things such as dimmer capacities, color frame dimensions, and stock equipment. It organizes all the standard paperwork, counts instruments, templates, stock equipment, and both frames and sheets of color, and it offers...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stock, John McKernon Software, Lightwright, CAD, Investment, Software, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- GGCad 1.4.0.1 (Windows)
- GGCad is a software that generates g-code. It is designed as an intuitive CAD application. Its philosophy which differs from classical tools that you can find, makes it as the indispensable software for both new users and experts. You will be able to use it rapidly, in the CAD mode...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tool, GGSoft, GGCad, CAD, Productivity, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- VectorWorks 2010 SP1 (Mac)
- VectorWorks is the ideal CAD program for firms that don't have unlimited IT budgets. Precision 2D drafting. Powerful 3D modeling. Spectacular presentation capabilities. Cost and materials tracking. Automatically generated schedules. Short learning curve. Free technical support. Painless upgrades. All in one easy-to-use, cross-platform application that costs less than half the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Nemetschek North America, VectorWorks, CAD, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
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