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TSCADRAW Tech. Info Release 9. September 1992 Page 1 of 2
TOMMYSOFTWAREr CAD/DRAW
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
TOMMYSOFTWAREr CAD/DRAW runs on Windows 3.x and supports its
graphical user interface through a user-friendly and consequent
program layout.
The program has an extensive, context-sensitive help function.
Commands can be chosen by menu, keyboard, or graphical symbols,
the so-called 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.
TOMMYSOFTWAREr 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. Through this, unintentional
changing or deleting of a drawing is being prevented. 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 of the keyboard via 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, Bzier chain, spline, and outline.
Various manipulation functions, e.g. copy, move, scale, rotate,
reflect, sheer, center, lock, release, foreground and background
are also available.
TOMMYSOFTWAREr CAD/DRAW provides several construction functions:
Construction line: perpendicular on line, perpendicular on circle,
parallel variable, and parallel fixed. Construction tangent:
circle z point, circle z circle outside, and circle z 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 the selecting it. You can select or deselect respectively
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,
because of this it is possible to do several manipulations one
after the other without selecting them each time.
By means of the so-called outlines you can create any form of
area. These outlines consist of a sequence of lines and Bzier
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 own libraries is possible. Part of the
program package are 4 vector fonts. Because the vector fonts in
TOMMYSOFTWAREr 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 TOMMYSOFTWAREr 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 TOMMYSOFTWAREr CAD/DRAW and can
either be started by a program function or as an independent
Windows application.
Technical Support is available through CompuServe 100020,3647 or
by TASS.
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