Dec 29, 2012 Tutor for TurboCad or DeltaCad Stunt Hangar Hobby. I was thinking of something not too hard, like starting with a Ringmaster plan or something and making it a CAD plan. With Auto Cad and it's native.dwg file format, at a reasonable price to the user. One of the first was Turbo CAD. It is a full function program, and still a good.
DeltaCad
Developer:Midnight Software
Current Version: 8.0.21
Last Updated: 1 year ago
Download Size: 16.9 MB - Download
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Description:
DeltaCad® - World's easiest CAD program!!!
DeltaCad® is a powerful, easy to learn CAD (Computer Aided Design) program designed to meet all of your CAD needs. It can produce accurately scaled architectural or mechanical drawings, or just pretty pictures to paste into your favorite word processor. DeltaCad is more than just a paint program, because you can edit, scale, move, rotate, copy, etc. individual objects, not just paint pixels. DeltaCad allows you to zoom in to draw fine details or zoom out to see the whole drawing.
DeltaCad can be extended, by writing your own custom macros in the AppleScript programming language. You can use macros to automatically create objects, or to read in data, which you have drawn.
DeltaCad can be used for Drafting, House plans, Decks, Landscape design, Newsletters, Brochures, Flyers, Graphs & Charts, Presentations, Instructions, Office or Furniture Layouts, Technical Illustrations, Business Cards, Forms, Signs, Labels, Organization Charts, Flow Charts, Home or School projects, Maps, Schematics, Pretty Pictures, etc.
DeltaCad includes the following features:
1. Simplified user interface makes it easy to learn and use.
2. On-Screen instructions help guide the user.
3. Draws accurately scaled pictures with absolute precision.
4. Draws points, lines, circles, ellipses, arcs, splines, text, curved text, spline text, dimensions, squares, rectangles, triangles, or any misc. shape (Filled or Empty).
5. Reads and writes .DWG, .DXF, and .DXB files for compatibility with other CAD programs.
6. Pastes pictures into your favorite word processor.
7. Create your own symbols.
8. Calculate length and area.
9. Contains a full featured AppleScript macro programming language.
10.Creates solid, hidden, center, phantom, cutting, break, stitch, arrow, or double arrow lines, or many different cross-hatch patterns.
11.Easily Zoom in and out and move to any part of the drawing.
12.Automatic object snapping makes it easy to create drawings exactly to scale.
13.Edit, move, copy, mirror, rotate, scale, change color, change line type, change cross-hatch pattern, change line weight of any object.
14.Undo or Redo the last 50 operations.
15.Edits any two lines to create a corner, radius, or chamfer.
16.Draws on up to 256 layers.
17.Comes complete with many sample drawings and symbol libraries.
18.Supports Metric or English units in decimal or fractions.
19.True 64 bit program for improved performance.
20.Print Preview shows what the print will look like.
21.Rubber banding helps show how objects will look as they are being drawn.
22.Objects may be grouped into a single object to save memory, and simplify the drawing. Groups may be easily edited, ungrouped, or copied to other parts of the drawing.
23.Create Bill-of-Materials from grouped objects.
DeltaCad® is a powerful, easy to learn CAD (Computer Aided Design) program designed to meet all of your CAD needs. It can produce accurately scaled architectural or mechanical drawings, or just pretty pictures to paste into your favorite word processor. DeltaCad is more than just a paint program, because you can edit, scale, move, rotate, copy, etc. individual objects, not just paint pixels. DeltaCad allows you to zoom in to draw fine details or zoom out to see the whole drawing.
DeltaCad can be extended, by writing your own custom macros in the AppleScript programming language. You can use macros to automatically create objects, or to read in data, which you have drawn.
DeltaCad can be used for Drafting, House plans, Decks, Landscape design, Newsletters, Brochures, Flyers, Graphs & Charts, Presentations, Instructions, Office or Furniture Layouts, Technical Illustrations, Business Cards, Forms, Signs, Labels, Organization Charts, Flow Charts, Home or School projects, Maps, Schematics, Pretty Pictures, etc.
DeltaCad includes the following features:
1. Simplified user interface makes it easy to learn and use.
2. On-Screen instructions help guide the user.
3. Draws accurately scaled pictures with absolute precision.
4. Draws points, lines, circles, ellipses, arcs, splines, text, curved text, spline text, dimensions, squares, rectangles, triangles, or any misc. shape (Filled or Empty).
5. Reads and writes .DWG, .DXF, and .DXB files for compatibility with other CAD programs.
6. Pastes pictures into your favorite word processor.
7. Create your own symbols.
8. Calculate length and area.
9. Contains a full featured AppleScript macro programming language.
10.Creates solid, hidden, center, phantom, cutting, break, stitch, arrow, or double arrow lines, or many different cross-hatch patterns.
11.Easily Zoom in and out and move to any part of the drawing.
12.Automatic object snapping makes it easy to create drawings exactly to scale.
13.Edit, move, copy, mirror, rotate, scale, change color, change line type, change cross-hatch pattern, change line weight of any object.
14.Undo or Redo the last 50 operations.
15.Edits any two lines to create a corner, radius, or chamfer.
16.Draws on up to 256 layers.
17.Comes complete with many sample drawings and symbol libraries.
18.Supports Metric or English units in decimal or fractions.
19.True 64 bit program for improved performance.
20.Print Preview shows what the print will look like.
21.Rubber banding helps show how objects will look as they are being drawn.
22.Objects may be grouped into a single object to save memory, and simplify the drawing. Groups may be easily edited, ungrouped, or copied to other parts of the drawing.
23.Create Bill-of-Materials from grouped objects.
Release Notes:
•The internal precision for x/y drawing coordinates has been increased to an almost unlimited size. You are no longer limited to +/- 100000.0000.
•Unicode text is now supported, so you can enter virtually any character in any language.
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•Color has been increased to 24 bit. You can now enter almost any color.
•Units have been added to drawing scale to make it very easy to draw in any units (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, etc.). You can change the units of a drawing, without having to re-draw anything.
•You can now adjust the brightness and color saturation of imported images, or make them Black and White. This makes it easy to have a light colored background image.
•A misc button has been added to the Select toolbar tab with the following new functions:
Change precision of selected dimensions.
Move selected objects from the select base point to the origin.
Move selected objects to bottom of Z-order.
Move selected objects to top of Z-order.
Ungroup all groups.
Ungroup selected groups.
•A 'Find Drawing' button has been added to the View toolbar tab to help find the drawing if you have accidentally zoomed out too far, and you can't find the drawing.
•If the drawing units (inches, millimeters, etc.) are changed, dimension text will automatically be re-calculated.
•Added an option for a leading zero on dimensions, so .05 would be displayed as 0.05.
•If you set a Selected objects base point, it is now visible on the drawing.
•You can now change the color, size and shape of the snap mode indicator.
•There is an option for an isometric grid.
•Drawing forms for metric drawings have been added (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4_P, A4_L, A5, A6).
•Several more macro examples have been added.
•Newer .dxf and .dwg file formats are supported.
•Numerous misc. small improvements.
•Unicode text is now supported, so you can enter virtually any character in any language.
®½ßƷȻېḂ
•Color has been increased to 24 bit. You can now enter almost any color.
•Units have been added to drawing scale to make it very easy to draw in any units (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, etc.). You can change the units of a drawing, without having to re-draw anything.
•You can now adjust the brightness and color saturation of imported images, or make them Black and White. This makes it easy to have a light colored background image.
•A misc button has been added to the Select toolbar tab with the following new functions:
Change precision of selected dimensions.
Move selected objects from the select base point to the origin.
Move selected objects to bottom of Z-order.
Move selected objects to top of Z-order.
Ungroup all groups.
Ungroup selected groups.
•A 'Find Drawing' button has been added to the View toolbar tab to help find the drawing if you have accidentally zoomed out too far, and you can't find the drawing.
•If the drawing units (inches, millimeters, etc.) are changed, dimension text will automatically be re-calculated.
•Added an option for a leading zero on dimensions, so .05 would be displayed as 0.05.
•If you set a Selected objects base point, it is now visible on the drawing.
•You can now change the color, size and shape of the snap mode indicator.
•There is an option for an isometric grid.
•Drawing forms for metric drawings have been added (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4_P, A4_L, A5, A6).
•Several more macro examples have been added.
•Newer .dxf and .dwg file formats are supported.
•Numerous misc. small improvements.
Most Helpful Reviews
Version 8.0.6
Impressed - I am impressed with what I received for $40.00 , If you need all the features of autocad then go pay $800.00 but this suits my needs well. It seems to be stable and quick to figure out. It also comes with good documentation. All the buttons are well designed and tool tips pop up quick to explain their function. I hope this developer makes millions because they offer a great product for a fair cost.Thanks
Version 7.0.4
Will not open .DWG files... - According to the description, DeltaCad, 'Reads and writes .DWG, .DXF, and .DXB files for compatiblity with other CAD programs.' Not the case…can't get a single .DWG file to open without error.
More Reviews for Current Version
Version 8.0.21
DO NOT Purchase - NO REFUNDS from App Store - This software is mostly unusable. Apple WILL NOT give you a REFUND.DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY $$$$ as you are stuck with junk-ware. Sorry, but that's what has happened.Why APPLE does this? Who knows. BUY junk software...and you're just stuck with it! I never write reviews...very very unhappy with getting stuck with this purchase. $40 in the toilet.ALL THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS ARE ***CORRECT***
Version 8.0.21
Mr - SERIOUSLY disappointed in this app! Knew going into it that I could not expect it to be as intuitive as a lot of Mac apps and that would have to focus on the tutorial with an open mind. But … after several days of working with the tutorial, it wouldn’t respond according to the directions beyond creating the first four buttons. Next step …. contact them for customer support with no reply for several days so I sent them another … with no response to that one either. A bit of digging this morning resulted in learning that there was another Midnight Software that was NOT the DeltaCadcompany. A little more digging told me that the DeltaCad company’s domain name was for sale for $50K. Bottom line … it looks like I wasted $39.99 … with an outside chance that I might be able to do simple house floor plans with this app. BUYER BEWARE!!! Oh … for the simpler days of MacDrawII.
Version 8.0.21
Don't bother - I bought today and spent about 10 minutes trying to use it before giving up. Looks easy and intuitive but it doesn't seem to work as it should.
Version 8.0.21
Don't buy - I've used many cad programs over the years and needed to use a quick program while traveling. This program is not intuitive, clearly not designed by a engineer or draftperson .
Version 8.0.21
Great value - When I first purchased DeltaCad I was frustrated with it and wished I had not purchased it. But, after using it for awhile and getting used to its odd and unintuative interface, this software has grown on me. For the price you really can’t beat this as a personal CAD program. It is really powerful, you just have to think different to use it effectivly. If you look around at other software of this type, they can be quite expensive, and they have a learning curve too. So I can recommend this software strongly IF you are willing to put the time in to figure out how it works.
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