Vkram Syal (100086)

1. CAD COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING/DESIGN

2. QCAD Software made by a company named RIBBON SOFT globally used by various engineers for computer aided designs/drafting in 2-D. With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interior designs, mechanical parts or we can plan anything and make diagrams of the plan.

3. QCAD QCAD works on Windows, Mac OS X and many Linux and Unix Systems. The source code of the QCAD community edition is released under the GPL (General Public License). MAIN FEATURES: Multi-document interface, Layer support, Block support (grouping) Integrated part / symbol browser 24bit Colors 24 different line widths

4. QCAD 19 line styles 35 CAD optimized fonts 200 undo/ redo levels Supported units: Metrical: Nanometer, Millimeter, Centimeter, Decimeter, Meter, ... Imperial: Inch, Foot, Mile, Microinch, Mil, Yard Other: Angstrom, Micron, Astro, Lightyear, Parsec

5. QCAD SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS: DXF R12 and DXF 200x (reading / writing),BMP, JPEG, PNG, .. (import and export as bitmaps),SVG (export),High quality PDF (export) PRINTING: Printing to scale (e.g. 1:2, 1:100, ..),Print preview with paper selection CONSTRUCTION: Points, Lines, with two points, given absolute angle, horizontal / vertical, rectangles, parallels, bisectors, tangents, orthogonal……

6. QCAD Arcs: Center, radius, angles, three points, concentric Circles, center, circle line point, center, radius, two opposed points, three points, concentric Ellipses: center, two points (minor and major axis) center, two points, start angle, end angle Splines (NURBS): degrees 2, 3 closed, open

7. QCAD Modification: Move, rotate, scale, mirror, move and rotate, rotate and counter-rotate, trim to entity. trim by amount, bevel, round, divide, divide 2 (remove segment) stretch edit geometry (numeric) edit attributes And many more………

9. QCAD Features are very similar to high cost software's like AUTOCAD. User is always concerned with the features so it can be used in every possible way. Can be downloaded anywhere from internet. So QCAD is preferable.

10. Thanks for your time……