![]() ![]() PAD, you ask? OK, it’s an acronym of my own coinage, it stands for Pencil Aided Design, and it refers to the first-year undergraduate course I sat many years ago in which I learned technical drawing to the old British standard BS308. Don’t build this, it’s fundamentally flawed! Sometimes the front of an envelope is as effective as its back. It has helped me work on electronic projects, on furniture, on car parts, robots, and even garments, and it is likely that I will continue using it periodically for the rest of my career. The new version has improved parts of 3D kernel, including input/output of STEP files.Of all the skills that I have picked up over the years as an engineer, there is one that has stayed with me and been a constant over the last three decades. User interface contains virtual numerical pad available for values input, and rebuilt dialog panels used for definition of basic solids (like box, cylinder…). Next new features are isometric views in 3D mode and 2D objects created from data loaded from *.csv files or, generally, text files (files containing XY coordinates). ![]() VariCAD commands are available from 3D mouse keys. This version supports 3D mouse under Linux. You can draw in millimeters or in inches. ![]() Some handy features of 2D drawing include: automatic detection of objects and snap points, numerous snap modes, auxiliary construction lines, Ortho mode, rectangular grid, drawing layers, block creation, hatching with automatic border detection, advanced dimensioning, finish symbols, welding symbols, tolerance symbols, and many more. Drawing functions are optimized for easy use in engineering. ![]()
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