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AllyCAD

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From now on, the most exciting part of a project is not the end – but the beginning. Make AllyCAD your first choice for all your draughting needs. Its intuitive interface has earned it the reputation as one of the most user-friendly packages on the market. AllyCAD places all the draughting functionality that you need at your fingertips, allowing you to design the way you want to. Its industrial strength and specialized toolkits ensure that previously time consuming tasks now take only seconds to complete.




The AllyCAD Advantage
  • 3D and lightweight polylines, blocks, Xrefs, multiline text
  • 3D functionality, meshes, faces, solid shapes & rendering
  • Extended modify functions such as stretch, mirror, cut/rub
  • Multiple parallel lines with definable styles, line-arc-line
  • Database attributes linked to entities, replace text items
  • Convert geometry into drawing entities for complex shapes
  • Powerful selection filters select entities based on attributes
  • Specialised Toolkits that greatly enhance your productivity:
  • Survey - SG diagram, general and sectional plans, COGO
  • Architectural - makes drawing houses and buildings faster
  • Mechanical - includes fasteners, shafts, gears, parts list
  • Structural - hot / cold rolled steel sections & building grid
  • Enhanced bitmap capability loads multiple large images
  • Maximum compatibility with the latest DWG/DXF formats
 
 
   THE ALLYCAD ADVANTAGE  OUR PROMISE TO YOU  INCLUDED TOOLKITS  VERSIONS & SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS  
  
 

The AllyCAD Advantage

AllyCAD has been completely rewritten to allow for both 2D and 3D draughting and is even faster and more powerful. We have added and improved many features and functionality to give you the AllyCAD Advantage, allowing you to design the way you want to.

FULL DWG COMPATIBILITY
AllyCAD allows you to work with DWG files easily and with no loss of data. The data structure has been completely re-designed for DWG compatibility and includes XRefs, drawing space and layouts, multiple viewports and various line, text, dimension and table styles. AllyCAD can also read DGN, CEX, UCX, DRG and SHP files.

IMAGE HANDLING ABILITY & SPEED
AllyCAD is known for its lightning speed in handling huge images as well as its compatibility with geo-referenced data. We currently support the JPG, BMP, SID (MrSID), ECW (ERMapper), PNG and TIF image formats among others. In fact, we can cover just about any image you may have. Easily rotate, clip, and adjust the brightness and contrast of your images with the built-in image controls and the Image Manager.

GEOMETRY LINES
Geometry lines are a superset of construction lines and are now enhanced to give better visual feedback when you are busy drawing, making them more intuitive and easier to use. They allow you to position lines and arcs tangential to each other, and to define the basic layout of the drawing elements. You can then fill in with solid lines to create the objects. In short, geometry lines allow you to focus on your design.

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COORDINATES
AllyCAD supports both Northern and Southern hemisphere survey coordinates to ensure that you maintain data integrity with astounding accuracy.

MULTIPLE VIEWS AND VIEWPORTS
You may now split the drawing window into multiple views, each with its own view direction (including isometric views). You can even draw from one view to another. In addition you may create named viewports so you can identify key parts of the drawing and switch between the views easily.

AUTO UPDATING LAYOUTS
AllyCAD now has layouts that contain viewports into the drawing space and will also automatically generate all your final plans as dynamically updating layouts which will reflect all drafting changes instantly. If your drawing changes, so do your layouts, so that your design and your production drawings are always in sync.

EMBEDDED DRAWINGS (XREFS)
Multiple drawings may now be embedded in the working drawing allowing multiple designers to work on different aspects of a project while allowing the rest of the project team to see the latest changes. The XRef’s layers, linestyles, text styles, dimension styles and blocks will be merged into the current drawing.

OLE OBJECTS
The new OLE function allows you to embed other objects such as documents, spreadsheets and illustrations in your drawing. To edit these objects simply double click to activate the host application for the object.

ENHANCED SYMBOLS (Blocks)
An extensive symbols library (blocks) is supplied. The new Block Manager allows you to visually browse symbol files and drawings for blocks.

MOUSE WHEEL ZOOMING & PANNING
You may now zoom in and out of the drawing by rotating the mouse wheel. This helps you to quickly get to the part of the design that you need to work on.

VISUAL SNAPS
Visual snaps allow you to see where a snap will be applied as you move the cursor. The screen will be dynamically updated to indicate where the nearest snap point is and in GrabAll snap mode, it will also indicate what type of snap point is nearest.

DIMENSIONING
Dynamic dimension preview shows you exactly what the dimension will look like before it becomes part of the drawing. You can also have different dimension styles per drawing.

ANNOTATIVE SCALING
AllyCAD once again allows you to specify text, dimensions, arrows and block inserts as "mm on paper" regardless of scale. When you add a viewport to a layout, AllyCAD will automatically configure the viewport so that annotative objects in the viewport are drawn at the same size in 'mm on paper'.

ADVANCED HATCH PERIMETER TRACKING
Hatches and solid fills are so much easier with vastly improved auto perimeter tracking including island detection and multiple perimeters.

3D CAPABILITIES (Objects, Surfaces and Rendering)
We have added full 3D with hidden line removal, rendering with light sources and shading, and perspective views. You can define your own lighting and view your design in multiple named viewports or in different perspective views and work on any view (top/side/iso) at the same time.

NEW 3D ENTITIES
The following are just some of the new 3D entities that have been added:
  • 3D Face
  • Polygon Mesh
  • Ruled Surface
  • Evolved Surface
  • Box
  • Cone
  • Sphere
  • 3D Polyline
  • Lights
  • Extruded Surface
  • Tesselated Surface
  • Pyramid
  • Tube
  • Dome

  • NEW CAD ENTITIES
    In addition to the 3D entities we have also added the following new CAD entities:
    • Helix
    • Arc-aligned text
    • Spline
    • MLeader
    • Tolerance
    • OLE Frame
  • Ray
  • Rtext
  • Table
  • Multiline
  • Wipeout

  • TABLE EDITOR
    The Table function makes it a lot faster to draw tables with definable column widths, text styles and colours. Table styles can be defined to simplify table formatting.



     


    TOLERANCE EDITOR
    Annotate your drawing with tolerances through the simple interface of the Tolerance Editor which also allows you to include finishing symbols

    TEXT STYLES
    Text styles allow you to apply multiple text attributes to one or more text items by simply editing the associated text style or applying a different text style.

    MULTILINE TEXT EDITOR
    Add a text paragraph with multiple lines of text by defining a box that will contain the text. You can apply formatting to parts of the text using controls similar to standard word processing systems.

    ENHANCED SHEETFILE EDITOR
    Using the new powerful sheetfile concept, unique to AllyCAD, you can generate production drawings with detailed title blocks, north signs, grids, scale bars and much more so that your plotting requires minimal, if any, CAD editing. The sheetfiles can be created or edited using normal CAD functions in a vastly improved Sheetfile Editor. AllyCAD works seamlessly with older sheetfiles as well.

    FASTER REDRAWS
    We have optimized our redraw routine to make the redraws really fast which further improves your productivity.

    ADVANCED SELECTION FILTER
    A new and very powerful Advanced Selection Filter has been added in addition to the legacy selection filter, which also has been greatly streamlined for ease of use.

    EXPLODE & REPEATEDLY EXPLODE FUNCTION
    The explode function breaks a compound entity (object) into its component entities (what it is made up of), while the repeatedly explode function will explode a compound entity to its base entities so that they can be edited.

    COMPREHENSIVE PURGE FUNCTION
    This function removes unused objects from the drawing thereby reducing it’s size. You can select which entities you wish to remove.

    DATABASE LINKAGE
    Link drawing entities to external database records containing attributes. You can therefore store your data in an external database and display up to date data on your drawings without editing the drawings.

    DRAWINGS FROM TEMPLATES
    You can create template drawings with your preferred settings, styles and title blocks and then use them as a starting point when creating a new drawing.

    PLOTTING
    New plotting function uses the powerful sheet file system, but generates layouts with viewports. Your production drawings will therefore automatically update as you change your design.

    GRAPHICAL EDITING
    AllyCAD gives you easy graphical editing of all selected entities by either selection handles or nodes. This includes hatches, elliptical arcs and splines.

    ADD ON TOOLS
    AllyCAD offers the following tools and editors that work outside of the program:
    • Accelerator Editor
    • Batch BBF
    • BMP Geo LO
    • Digitiser Editor
    • Linestyle Editor
  • Menu Editor
  • Palette Editor
  • Registry Reset
  • Settings Transfer
  • Toolbar editor

  • USER INTERFACE & EASE OF USE
    AllyCAD's user-interface has been made much more intuitive, consistent and user-friendly in the latest version with improved toolbars, mouse -zooming and context sensitive menus.

    CONTROL CENTRE
    The Control Centre gives you quick and easy access to view and interact with blocks, line types, text styles, layers and objects in a drawing through a central interface.

    OUTPUT BAR
    The Output Bar displays information such as the measurements and properties of entities when you measure or query an entity or polygon area. The Output Bar will be displayed automatically when results need to be presented to the user. Output can also be printed or written to file.

    PROPERTY BAR
    All entities can now be easily edited in the same place through the Properties Bar. One can quickly select a set of entities and then edit properties common to them.

    FLYOUT TOOLBARS
    Flyout toolbars contain multiple nested toolbars without sacrificing screen space. The nested toolbars are displayed only when activated and are otherwise not visible.

    STYLE IMPORTER
    The Style Importer allows you to import styles from external drawings. This is much quicker than trying to recreate the styles from scratch for every new drawing.

    EASY CUSTOMISATION
    AllyCAD includes superb customization of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and drawing standards.

    You can easily edit menus, toolbars, palettes, linestyles, through visual editors. You don't have to edit text files to customize these anymore.

    Company standards can easily be enforced by placing standardized pallets, pen mappings, line styles, menus etc on a network drive for all workstations to use seamlessly.

    Visual indicators, skins, prompt colours, geometry colours and messages can also be customized.

    All this and so much more...
     


     
     

     

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