FastCAD32 Range

FastCAD Is Not Just a Name, It's a Fact.

FastCAD 32 is a full-featured precision 2D CAD program, the newest product in Evolution Computing's line of award-winning PC-based CAD software. FastCAD's unique design and wealth of features shorten the learning curve and enable you to create professional quality drawings in just a few hours.

Though FastCAD 32 is written to harness the power and flexibility of the Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and XP operating systems, it still retains the unique qualities that made our DOS software the choice for many power users in the CAD community...

Speed

FastCAD 32 is the one of the fastest CAD products in the PC market today. FastCAD's unique CAD engine is crafted in assembly language, designed to work directly with today's powerful processors. Nothing is more efficient and speed isn't the only payoff. FastCAD 32's economical management of resources results in a program size that is absurdly small by today's software standards - yet nothing is compromised in FastCAD's design and capabilities.

Ease of Use

FastCAD has paved the way in making CAD accessible to anyone who could use a mouse. That still hasn't changed. From the CAD Operator or Engineer who uses FastCAD eight hours a day, every day, to the casual user who spends only a few hours a week with it, getting up and running and producing is seldom easier. You won't need a six week class learning to use our program, and refreshing your knowledge after a hiatus will take minutes, not hours or days.

Ability to Customise

What you get "out of the box" can be tailored by you to make your work easier. You can rearrange or add items to the pull-down menu, create new commands with FastCAD's powerful macro language, and create new icons and add them to any toolbar. You can easily create new hatch patterns and line types. With the XP Toolkit (available only in C or assembly language), you can even create new entity types and custom commands that run at the same speed as FastCAD itself!

New with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and XP

• Windows interface and true 32-bit compatibility
• True Type, Vector and SHX fonts
• Clipboard images out to other Windows applications
• Clipboard text bodies into FastCAD 32
• Greatly expanded device compatibility
• Scaled print preview
• Comprehensive context-sensitive on-line help
• Optional scroll bars for easy panning
• Long file names
• Bookmark and search facility
• Text search multiple drawings for a piece of text
• Dynamic pan and zoom
• Open multiple drawings

Interface

• Up to 24 overlapping drawing windows
• Dynamic panning and zooming
• Windows can be saved in view sets
• Status Bar shows current drawing properties
• Up to four customisable icon bars can be displayed
• Attach mode with configurable modifiers
• Right-click on buttons to change settings
• 256 simultaneous colours
• Custom user palette

File Compatibility

• Open .FCD drawings created in FastCAD/EasyCAD DOS
• Convert to/from AutoCAD DWG and DXF (releases 2 - 2004+) selectable
• Save drawings as bitmap files
• Convert files in batch mode
• Drawing templates simplify drawing set-up
• Option to save/open compressed files

New Commands

• Multi-line text
• Dynamic scaling, rotation, and placement of many entities
• Built-in macro editing and debugging
• Print in portrait orientation
• Trim to Intersection
• Trim to Entity
• Trim to Length
• Offset
• Offset Chain
• Draw Double Line
• Draw Circle Tangent to 3 Entities
• Draw Donut
• Draw Chained Arcs
• Draw Wedge (Pie Chart)
• Draw Parabolic Spline
• Draw Parabolic SPoly
• Draw Bezier
• Dynamic Edit
• Split
• Define and extract symbol attributes
• Thumbnail symbol browser
• Automatic dimensional centre lines and centre marks
• Dimension tolerances
• Copy, Cut and Paste - transfer between FastCAD and e.g. word processing/fax/email documents

Layers and Styles

• Unlimited named layers
• Unlimited named line styles
• Line styles are metric (scale with drawing)
• Entities can have line width
• Map line width to colour
• Suppress on-screen display on line widths
• Create or edit any number of fill styles
• Scaleable hatching fill styles
• Bitmap files can be used as fill styles
• Symbols can be used as fill styles

Supported file formats:

• Import:
  	.fcd	EasyCAD/FastCAD 2D DOS drawing files, v2.30 - v2.73.
  	.ecw	EasyCAD for Windows v4.0 - v4.55
  	.fcw	EasyCAD 32/FastCAD 32 drawing file, v5.21+ and v6
  	.fct	EasyCAD 32/FastCAD 32 v5 and v6 template files
  	.fsc	EasyCAD 32/FastCAD 32 v5 and v6 catalogue files
  	.dwg	AutoCAD drawing file 2D v2.5 - v2004+ (FastCAD v7)
  	.dxf	AutoCAD drawing file 2D v2.5 - v2004+ (FastCAD v7)
  	.dgn	Microstation drawing files (EasyCAD v7)
  	.bmp	Bitmap image
  	.fc7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Drawing files (FastCAD v7)
  	.ft7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Template files (FastCAD v7)
  	.fs7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Catalogue files (FastCAD v7)
  	.fg7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Gallery files (FastCAD v7)
  Export:
  	.fcw	EasyCAD 32/FastCAD 32 drawing file, 5.21+ (v6 only)
  	.dwg	AutoCAD native format 2.5-14 (selectable)
  	.dxf	Drawing Interchange Format v2.5 - v2004+ (selectable)
  	.emf	Enhanced Metafile
  	.bmp	Bitmap image
  	.dib	Device independent Bitmap image (FastCAD v7)
  	.wmf	16 bit metafile(EasyCAD v7)
  	.fc7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Drawing files (FastCAD v7)
  	.ft7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Template files (FastCAD v7)
  	.fs7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Catalogue files (FastCAD v7)
  	.fg7	FastCAD/EasyCAD v7 Gallery files (FastCAD v7)

  
  

System requirements:

486DX or faster processor
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 Workstation, 2000 or XP operating system
8 MB RAM (16+ MB recommended)
VGA display card

Support and Upgrades

• All support free of charge for life, call Cad ltd on 01427 873163
• All upgrades in any current version free, call Cad ltd on 01427 873163 or log onto www.cad.ltd.uk for free updates and up to the minute product information.

Add on's

With a complete range of add on products FastCAD 32 will give you every drawing tool required for complex Architectural design to Electrical schematic layout drawings. Choose the add on that best suits you knowing that with our free customization service you will have the system moulded to suit you personally. Customisation free call Cad ltd on 01427 873163.