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v5 Toolkit Features

File Previews:

Zoom and pan in the Save dialogs to create a custom Preview (Visual CADD previews only allow a zoom all view).
Easily batch your older, pre Visual CADD 4 files to add a file Preview thumbnail in just a couple steps.
Edit Vector Font files (vcf extension) directly in a Visual CADD drawing. For example, you could modify the spacing of a character, create custom characters --even design a new font. A Screen Shot.

Drawing Tools:

A Persistent Single Line (LI) tool, so that if you are working in Selection Tool or Continuous Line mode, you can draw any number of single lines and then return to your default tool with a Pen Up. There are also persistent tools for Continuous Lines and Linear Dimensions.
A GCADD Line (LN) tool, that works exactly like the VCADD Continuous Line tool, with an important difference: you can "Undo" individual line segments with our tool after you've placed it --an undo in VCADD with Continuous Line erases the whole thing.
A New Double Line (DN) tool that offers an alternate to VCADD's double line tool. With ours you can "Undo" individual line segments after you've finished the command --an undo in VCADD with Double Line erases the whole thing. And the VCADD Double Line tool doesn't let you "Undo Vertex" - erase the last line segment(s) while drawing. Our double line does. The VCADD tool allows you to fill the double line and autofillet it --ours does not.

Editing Tools:

Break Multiple lines. We offer two new break tools: FenceTrim (NT) lets you draw a "fence" around an entity and break objects to the fence. Here's a Screen Shot. BreakTo (BT) breaks one or several entities to two objects you pick as a cutting edge; neither the break lines or the cutting edges need to be perpendicular to each other (this is a limitation with Break and MultiBreak in Visual CADD). Here's a Screen Shot.
Quickly change Ortho Angle by typing a 2 letter command for OrthoMatch (OT) and picking an angle to match. The angle match can be a line, arc, text, dim, leader, symbol --even a reference frame. This is a nested command so you can change the angle "on the fly", even after you've started another command.
Copy and Rotate an object(s) with one 2L command --no need to copy it and then reselect the object and start a separate command to rotate it.
Move and Rotate an object(s) with one 2L command --no need to move it and then reselect the object and start a separate command to rotate it.
JoinCorner (JC) lets you trim two lines to a common intersection with two mouse clicks instead of the four required using the VCADD Trim command. Lines can be crossing each other and extended beyond, or short of each other and not touching. Each line can be 90 degrees perpendicular or any other angle.

Dimension Tools:

You can quickly dimension a floor plan or other drawing that uses Linear Dimensions with our Multiple Dimensions (MM) tool. Draw a selection window around the plan and start the tool. You'll be prompted to place the first dim --the only decision to make is how far the dimline will be placed from the object you are dimensioning. Once you mouse click to set the dim, the next dimline will automatically pop up, waiting for placement. This will continue until all dims are placed around the plan.
Persistent Dimensioning (DP) lets you quickly place individual or strings of dimensions for as long as needed, and then returns to your default tool with a PenUp or Escape. No need to double click in the toolbars to change between default tools if you are doing a lot of dimensioning.

Text & Leader Tools:

Type text right onto your screen with our RealText (RT) tool. It's a slight variation from the Text Line tool in v5. If you select an existing text line and type RT, you can edit the text either right on the screen or in a custom dialog box which takes up a lot less screen "real estate" than the Visual CADD text editor dialog.
Type leader text right onto your screen with our RealLeader (RL) tool. It works just a bit differently than the VCADD Leader tool. You can also select an existing leader, type RL, and edit the leader text either onscreen or in a custom dialog.
A Leader Flip (LF) tool lets you flip the text and shoulder of leaders that have already been placed in a drawing.
Justify text to Left, Center or Right with a 2L command before placement.

Offset Tools:

Assign Leaders, Hatches, Fills, and Points to a specific layer, or Offset them from your current layer by any number you choose (within the 1024 layers available in Visual CADD).
Assign properties to some of these entities. For example, you can assign a color and/or a linewidth to a RealLeader or Point so that these objects will always be placed with these properties.

Dimension Display Toggles:

Toggle on and off the display of each part of a dimension --extensions, arrows, text and dim lines. These toolkit commands let you toggle the dimension display of any part of a dimension before or after it is placed. In other words, you can set the display prior to placement, or edit the display of a dimension already in the drawing.

File Editing Tools:

Customize Visual CADD by editing ASCII files from right within the drawing window. Open cmdext.def, Alias.def, Custom.mnu and other files in an editor on top of your drawing. We include our own editor that lets you open multiple ASCII files, cut and paste between them, search and replace --features not available in Notepad.

Help File:

A detailed Help file documenting each tool. There is a section on how to customize Visual CADD to fully use our tools --a primer on Custom Commands, how to change 2L shortcuts, and how to add any of our commands to your menus and toolbars.