Unleash Your Imagination!
DesignCAD 3D MAX is an easy-to-use, versatile CAD tool that’s perfect for novice designers, but powerful enough to create high-quality 2D/3D designs, models and animations. The intuitive interface and extensive online help make it easy to design anything, from simple hobby projects to professional precision drawings. It’s everything you need to get started:
- Precision 2D Drafting Tool
- 3D Solid Modeling Tools
- Mechanical Design Tools
- Architectural Design Tools
- Realistic Rendering
- Intuitive User Interface
- Online Help
Easy to Learn & Use 2D/3D Design
Design 2D drawings fast and easy, then create complex 3D shapes simply by extruding (pulling) them from your 2D shapes
Powerful New Drawing Compare Technology
Drawing Compare is an invaluable aid when working collaboratively on a project, or when picking up an older project and looking to see the status of updates. Use it to compare a design and an ‘As Built’ drawing to see where changes have been implemented.
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Beautiful Rendering
Apply a variety of materials, textures, colors, brush styles, and light effects to create stunning images. Customize material textures to further enhance the realism.
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Enjoy user-friendly tools for creating professional level animations and walkthroughs of your finished drawings.
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Over 10,000 CAD Symbols
Save time with access to over 10,000 2D/3D symbols to quickly drag and drop into your design. Retrieve millions more mechanical and architectural symbols with a free, 3-Month subscription to CADsymbols.com®!
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AutoCAD® DWG/DXF Compatible & More
Read and write AutoCAD® files through 2009 and enjoy excellent compatibility with AutoCAD® layouts and PaperSpace, plus support for AutoCAD® layers, linestyles, views, and blocks in both DXF and DWG file formats.
DesignCAD imports DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL and XYZ files and exports to DWG, DXF, WMF, HPGL, RIB, VRML, WPG and PDF.
DesignCAD also supports several image formats including .BMP, .TIF, .JPG, .TGA, .WMF, .PSD, .AWD, .EPS, .WPG, .TIF, .PCX, and .PNG
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DesignCAD 3D Max v16 - 3D modeling priced for beginners, worth buying just
for its raster-to-vector conversion tool, Mike Hudspeth, Cadalyst Manufacturing,
May 9, 2006
Bargain Buys-7 CAD Packages to Stretch the Budget - reviews of CAD programs
that deliver impressive capabilities for less than $600: AutoSketch 9, DataCAD
11, General CADD v3.1, PowerCAD Professional 6, DesignCAD 3D MAX v15, IntelliCAD
5 Standard and Vdraft CAD System, Ron LaFon, Cadalyst, January 1, 2005
CAD on a Budget - a roundup of low-cost CAD programs: ConceptDraw V
Professional, General CADD Pro v2.1.04, DesignCAD 3D MAX 14, TurboCAD Deluxe
v9.2, TurboCAD Professional Competitive Upgrade v9.2 and VDraft v2.22, Ron
LaFon, Cadalyst, January 1, 2004
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