bCAD 2.0H Prerelease bCAD 2.0 is fully functional 2D draufting, 3D modelling and rendering middle/low price package. For present time 386/DOS version is released, version for Windows95 ( WindowsNT too ) is in ALPHA stage, and will be released right after launch of Windows95 itself. Note that complete version of bCAD v2.0 is not shareware or freeware or any other kind of public domain software but being distributed on commercial basis, however current DEMO release of bCAD ( which is limited by size of the drawing which is possible to save) may be used free of charge and copied for your friends or anybody else on non-commercial basis with some mention of ProProGroup. Cooordinates for contacts are shown below of the followed text. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Most ipmortant bCAD features: 32-bit native code, including Pentium optimised.. Standard multiwindow icon-driven GUI ( even withind DOS version ) Videosystem type autodetection/VESA support, HighColour and TrueColour videomodes support, resolution up to 1024x1280 Built-in universal printer/plotter drivers, families of the devices which are supported: HP LaserJet ( I, II, III, IV), HP DeskJet ( including colour ones), HP PaintJet, HPGL compatible plotters Houston Instruments plotters Epson, Epson Esc/P2 series All together over 180 devices are supported. Virtual memory manager Mouse/track-ball/pen/digitizer pointing devices support Unlimited number of the drawings loaded simultainesly. Unlimited number of the viewports opened for individual drawing. Unlimited UNDO levels for each loaded drawing. Unlimited number of the layers Compressed 3D data format Built-in Font editor ( BCAD's own format and AutoCAD SHP are supported) Compatibility with AutoCAD line styles, hatch patterns and SHP fonts libraries. Import of ready-to-render models from 3D Studio native format files including smoothing groups, material settings, textures, bumps and reflection mapping. Export/Import 3D meshes to/from Autodesk 3D Studio ASC, Sense 8 NFF Export raster images to BMP,TIFF,GIF,PCX,JPEG Export vector drawings to HPGL,EPS Import Textures from BMP/GIF/JPEG/TGA/CEL/PIC files. AutoCAD R10,11,12 DXF Export/Import Built-in Refernce Guide, context-sensitive help system, instant ToolTips, BalloonHelp facility Simplicity in use and maintaining, all stuff is built into the single executable file ( 900K size ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ bCAD provides following set of functions: 2D Draughting: lines (by six methods) circles (five methods) arcs (three methods) ellipses( three methods) rectangles ( four methods) polylines text ( different scaleable typefaces, definable italic and line slope ) right polygons ( customisable number of edges) hatching hatching existing objects, customisable scaleable patterns ( AutoCAD patterns compatible) Customisable line width in range 0..128mm (0..5"), Customisable lines pattern (AutoCAD patterns compatible) Customisable accuracy of arcs, circles and smooth curves creation. 3D Modelling: boxes spheres ( dishes, domes ) torus cylinders, cones ( truncated cones ) four corner mesh single 3D faces surfaces of revolution surface of extrusion, fractal surfaces surface created by set of slices, Customisable mesh complexity, usage of 2D shapes as basic curves for rotation, lofting, extrusion trough the path Material definition: colour shininess level transparency level roughness level selfillumination level tens of built-in solid textures rotation of texture images. textures mapping ( planar/spherical/cylinfrical/entire mesh ) reflection level and map bump map and level Select/Unselect filters: by node position OR by rectangle area OR by crossed line AND additionaly by colour by line width range by layer by line style Amendment: erase move copy copy from another drawing/window rotate mirror stretch group/ungroup change: line width line style layer colour material definition, polylines editor: move verex delete vertex add vertex cut polyline chamfer fillet smooth (spline) decurve (opposite to smooth) text: layout typeface symbols size symbols slope hatch: pattern, scale slope Dimensioning: horizontal vertical slope radius ( two methods ) diameter angular( two methods) five arrow styles, separate customisation of dimension text and arrows size and colour, tolerances setting Coordinate systems: Cartesian/polar coordinates, millimetres/inches, degrees/radians, customisable origin. customisable grid dot/lines step by x, y separately cursors step, ortho drawing mode. Entering coordinates by pointing devise or keyboard. Keyboard input compatible with AutoCAD style. Objects snap to: line segment endpoint line segment midpoint, circle tangentpoints circle centre arc centre arc endpoints 3D surface vertices, centre of gravity. Rendering: Flat/Gouraud/Phong z- bufferd methods Ray-tracing ( customizable depth of tracing ) "render selected only" option lights halo effect switch textures on/off antialiasing spot studio lights ambient light customisable background (Soloud colour, built-in textures, BMP, GIF, JPEG, TGA images), quick draft mode, auto camera adjustment, Palette optimisation within 256 colours resolution. Atmosphere haze effect Hardware requirements: Absolutely minimal: 386SX/2Mb RAM, 1MB disk space, VGA, mouse Recommended for 2D draughting: 486DX/4MB RAM, SVGA (1024x768 monitor) VESA videocard, mouse, 4..6 MB of hard disk (for standard elements libraries) free disk space at least larger than RAM. Recommended for 3D modelling and rendering: 486DX/8MB RAM, 1Mb TrueColour VLB SVGA, mouse, free disk space at least larger than RAM. NOTE: minimal installation of bCAD requires 1MB of free disk space ONLY for file bcad.exe, which does include embedded into all necessary elements such a manual text, help references, icons, system fonts, at least one draughting font, libraries of hatch patterns and line styles, set of material textures. Just make sure before running bCAD that DOS mouse driver is loaded, because bCAD is very mouse-oriented program. NOTE that current copy is demo and some features could be disbled. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are addresses of FTP and WWW sites where bCAD materials and demos are also available: international 3D Web WWW page: http://www.lightside.com/~dani/cgi/bcad/ OR contact ProPro Group ftp site: ftp@scnet.nsk.su directorey pub/bcad OR contact directly ProProGroup preferably by e-mail ppg@iis.nsk.su by surface mail ProProGroup, Inc. PO box 350, 630117 Novosibirsk 117 Russia y phone +7 383 2 329 658 (speak english, or russian :) Note that there is +6 hours time differnce form GMT to Novosibirsk. (c) ProProGroup 1995 All rights resrved