Overview

DesignCAD 3D Max v20 combines easy to learn and use 2D drafting with powerful and precise 3D modeling to unleash your imagination and creativity.

DesignCAD 3D Max v20 combines easy to learn and use 2D drafting with powerful and precise 3D modeling to unleash your imagination and creativity. Easily design anything from complex architectural and mechanical drawings to simple everyday projects and hobbies including furniture, decks, floorplans, toys and 3D models. Use a complete set of 2D drafting and design tools, including drawing layers, hatch patterns and full dimensioning capability - or render 3D models with materials or textures for added impact. Easily import/export editable DXF/DWG files without the risk of data loss or corruption. 2D drafting and 3D modeling have never been easier.

Features

Unleash Your Imagination
DesignCAD 3D MAX is an easy-to-use, versatile CAD tool that's perfect for novice designers, but powerful enough to create high-quality 2D/3D designs, models and animations. The intuitive interface and extensive online help make it easy to design anything, from simple hobby projects to professional precision drawings. It's everything you need to get started:

• Precision 2D Drafting Tool
• 3D Solid Modeling Tools
• Mechanical Design Tools
• Architectural Design Tools
• Realistic Rendering
• Intuitive User Interface
• Online Help

Easy to Learn & Use 2D/3D Design
Design 2D drawings fast and easy, then create complex 3D shapes simply by extruding (pulling) them from your 2D shapes

Powerful New Drawing Compare Technology
Drawing Compare is an invaluable aid when working collaboratively on a project, or when picking up an older project and looking to see the status of updates. Use it to compare a design and an ‘As Built' drawing to see where changes have been implemented.

Beautiful Rendering
Apply a variety of materials, textures, colors, brush styles, and light effects to create stunning images. Customize material textures to further enhance the realism.

Animations & Walkthroughs
Enjoy user-friendly tools for creating professional level animations and walkthroughs of your finished drawings

Over 10,000 CAD Symbols
Save time with access to over 10,000 2D/3D symbols to quickly drag and drop into your design. Retrieve millions more mechanical and architectural symbols with a free, 3-Month subscription to CADsymbols.com®!

AutoCAD® DWG/DXF Compatible & More
Read and write AutoCAD® files through 2009 and enjoy excellent compatibility with AutoCAD® layouts and PaperSpace, plus support for AutoCAD® layers, linestyles, views, and blocks in both DXF and DWG file formats.

• DesignCAD imports DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL and XYZ files and exports to DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL, RIB, VRML, WPG and PDF.
• DesignCAD also supports several image formats including .BMP, .TIF, .JPG, .TGA, .WMF, .PSD, .AWD, .EPS, .WPG, .TIF, .PCX, and .PNG

Versatile, Easy to Learn & Use
DesignCAD 3D MAX is the definitive tool for easily creating precise, high-quality drafting, modeling and animation. 2D drafting and 3D modeling have never been easier. Design everything from furniture, decks, floorplans and architectural drawings to engineering layouts, electronic schematics, plats, maps, elevations and even toys for hobbies.

Easy to Use 2D Drafting & Design
Intuitive yet sophisticated editing tools, advanced geometric construction capabilities, drawing short cut keys and complete layer management make 2D drafting a breeze.

• Usability Tools
• Workspace Tools
• Macros
• Image Tools
• Drawing Tools
• Editing and Measuring
• Dimension Tools
• Groups, Blocks, Symbols and more!

Precision 3D Modeling
Access a full range of powerful 3D modeling primitives, including box, sphere, hemisphere, pyramid, cylinder, cone and torus. Utilize Boolean operations, including solid add, solid subtract, and slice, to shape your 3D parts. Add materials to your model to create presentation ready designs.

• 3D View Settings
• 3D Primitives
• 3D (Solid) Editing Operations
• 3D Visualization

Realistic Visualization and Lighting
Render your 3D models with applied materials or texture maps or use transparency and fogging for added impact.

• Shadow Tool - smooth the edges of rendered shadows
• Procedural Textures - add marble, wood, cement, grain, patch, perlin noise, brick, cells or wood
• extended textures to your designs.
• Image Fills - Use an image as a fill pattern.
• Symbols and 3D Images
  

New Features

Improved Layer Options
An option has been added to Layer Options to "Automatically toggle by-layer settings". When this option is off, moving to a layer with a preset linestyle or color updates the current linestyle and/or color, but doesn't automatically turn on the Linestyle by Layer or Color by Layer flags.

Improved Grouping
A group entity's layer no longer affects the visibility of group contents.

Improved Trimming of a line against a circle, arc, or closed shape
Now when "Trim Picked Segments Only" is selected, the line will trim to the intersection closest to the point selected on the trimming shape rather than to the intersection closest to the original end of the line. If not selected, users can still trim against the closest segment of a polyline

Requirements

PC :
Minimum: 110+ megabytes of hard drive space for a compact installation • 256 Mb RAM (512 Mb on Windows Vista) • Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Recommended: A Pentium 4 (or equivalent, or better) processor • 512 Mb RAM (1024 Mb on Windows Vista) • A graphics card with OpenGL support • A monitor capable of at least 1024 x 768 resolution