TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW Version 2.2 - Specification Sheet
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TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW runs under Windows 3.1 and supports its graphical
user interface through a user-friendly and easily understood program layout.

The program has an extensive, context-sensitive help function.

Commands can be chosen by menu, keyboard, or icons.

These icons are located in a window, the popup menu, which appears after
pressing the right mouse button and disappears after choosing the command. In
this way you can easily and quickly choose commands without wasting precious
space on the drawing area. The assignment of the popup menu can be changed, so
that you are able to create your personal popup menu.

The assignment of the keyboard can also be configured according to your
personal needs. For that you have the possibility to assign every letter key
or numeric key with up to 3 commands.

TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW provides extensive configuration possibilities,
which enables you to adapt the program to your personal workplace. The program
has an undo/redo function, i.e. the last operation can be undone. You can
choose out of various sheet formats complying with DIN/ISO standard and
several US formats. In addition you have the possibilty to enter a value for
the sheet size in millimeter or inch respectively.

Possible length units are: micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, meter,
kilometer, inch, foot, yard, mile, dezipoint, point, didot, and cicero. There
are three possible angle units: degree, gon, and radian. The current unit
determines the scale and all other settings and commands which base on length
or angle units respectively, e.g. the measure command.

The program supports up to 256 drawing layers. Every layer can be individually
faded out, frozen, or displayed in a certain color. Further it is possible to
define a pen for each layer, which defines the line width, line color, and
line pattern of all objects that will be drawn in this layer.

All input is done with the mouse or by the keyboard through a context-
sensitive direct input, i.e. at any time a dialog box can be opened which
refers to the current command and enables you to input data.

Important information, like the current coordinates, are being permanently
displayed in the status window. Extensive drawing functions guarantee
efficient working even if the task is rather special, e.g.: line, polyline,
triangle, quadrangle, rectangle, trapezium, parallelogram, polyeder, circle,
circle arc, circle ring, ellipse, ellipse arc, ellipse ring, parabola, zigzag
line, circle arc chain, Bezier chain, spline, and outline.

Various manipulation functions, e.g. copy, move, scale, rotate, reflect,
sheer, center, lock, release, foreground and background are also available.

TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW provides numerous construction functions:
Construction line: perpendicular on line, perpendicular on circle, parallel
variable, and parallel fixed. Construction tangent: circle - point, circle -
circle outside, and circle - circle inside. Construction circle: circumcircle,
incircle, perpendicular on line, and perpendicular on circle.
Division: distance, circle, and array. Multiple copy: rotation, distance,
circle, and array.

The freely configurable hatch function allows hatching with lines of which
attributes (line width, line color, and line pattern), distance and slope are
editable. Further it is possible to use a symbol which is automatically
resolved into lines previously as a hatch pattern.

Measure lines and associative measure functions comply with DIN 406.

If you want to choose an object in order to manipulate it, you do this by
selecting it. You can select or deselect individual objects or whole areas of
your drawing. In addition it is possible to select an object by means of its
attributes (e.g. line width, color, or layer membership). The selection has a
central meaning, because only selected objects can be manipulated. Of course
the selection is still valid after a manipulation. This makes it possible to
do several manipulations one after the other without selecting them each time.

By means of the outlines you can create any form of area. These outlines
consist of a sequence of lines and Bezier curves and can also be changed
later.

Several grid settings (cartesian, isometric, and dimetric) allow the exact
positioning of points. The distance between grid lines can be chosen
arbitrarily.

The library functions are able to handle up to 900 symbols in one library. The
creation of your own libraries is possible. Part of the program package are 4
vector fonts. Because the vector fonts in TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW are merely
specially handled libraries you can change these fonts or create completely
new ones.

The current drawing detail can be moved with the arrow keys and the scroll
bars. Several zoom commands allow you to zoom and pan. It is also possible to
save certain zooms to choose them later if necessary.

Via the Windows clipboard you can either import or export graphic data. In
this way you can for example insert a drawing created with TommySoftwareŽ
CAD/DRAW into a document which you created with a word processing program.

The import and export of foreign formats, like for example DXF files, is done
by special import/export converters. These converters are independent from
TommySoftwareŽ CAD/DRAW and can either be started by a program function or
as an independent Windows application.

