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CADian™ Professional

In additional to all the great standard features
found in our CADian-Pro...

CADian2011

with more features, proven stability and speed...

 

Our flagship product, and the CAD-engine for all our 3rd-party applications, provides a high degree of compatibility with the AutoCAD command set, as well as AutoLISP and ADS.

CADian-PRO is a powerful Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) product for engineers, architects, designers and drafters. Anyone who creates, edits, or views professional drawings will appreciate the power and value of CADian.

CADian sets the standard for cost-effective CAD software that offers full DWG compatibility and a familiar and easy to use command set. Anyone who has used AutoCAD can easily learn CADian in no time.

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CADian™2011 – Stable. Reliable. Fast

CADian™2011 is a cost-effective CAD application, and a powerful drawing tool to design, create, and edit DWG drawing files. It’s stable, reliable, and fast.


Make the easy switch to CADian™ 2011

If you know AutoCAD, then you know CADian™2011

With a look as familiar as AutoCAD, there’s virtually a ZERO-PERCENT LEARNING CURVE

CADian™2011 supports all your AutoCAD customization, including shortcut keys and menus.

Familiar Command Line of CADian™2011


CADian™ 2011 – with ARX, ADS and AutoLISP

CADian™2011 supports LISP, SDS (similar to ADS), DRX (similar to ARX) and VBA

ADS applications run seamlessly in CADian™2011

CADian™2011 is 100% Compatible with dwg and dxf files


CADian™ 2011 is 100% “.dwg”

Create, Open, Revise, Save, Plot… all 100% “.dwg”
Share your work with AutoCAD users with bi-directional compatibility

Native “.dwg” Standard Format

CADian™2011 is fully-compatible with AutoCAD, from old to new (R11 to R2011)

CADian™ 2011 – it’s all about PRODUCTIVITY

Copy and Paste entities between multiple open drawings, with confidence and ease


CADian™Explorer – Simple Drawing Management

Similar interface with Microsoft Windows Explorer

Search within CADian™2011 with ease

Manage Layers, Linetypes, Text Styles, and Blocks

Easy to use, CADian‘Explorer

Preview Blocks

Quick and Simple Preview and manage blocks

 


Microsoft ActiveX

CADian™2011 supports Microsoft ActiveX

Insert any MS-Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file into your CADian™2011 drawing

Edit original by simply double-clicking


The very-familiar CADian™ 2011 environment

Easily create your own customization

Re-Define Menus, Function Keys and Shortcut-Keys

With CADian™2011, seamlessly transfer all your existing customization from AutoCAD

CADian™2011 supports AutoCAD MNU, DCL, SCR and Symbol libraries

[Simple and quick customization]

 

[Simple and quick Toolbar customizing]


Ribbon Menu

CADian™2011 supports the Ribbon Menu from AutoCAD

Minimize mouse-clicks with the Ribbon Menu (Faster and Easier than the Toolbar)

[Ribbon Menus]

 

 


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CADian™2011 Quick Search and Replace

Fast and easy Search and Replace of text and numbers, individual or global

Find it fast, with CADian™2011 new Find feature

[Fast and Easy, FIND Command]


3DS files

CADian™2011 opens Autodesk 3ds plug-in files


Time-saving Add-On applications for CADian™ 2011

Additional productivity tools (add-ons) for specific disciplines including:

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Civil

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Plant Design

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Interiors

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CADian™ 2011 Stunning 3D Rendering and 3D Solid Modeling

CADian™2011 offers designers stunning and realistic 3D renderings…

3D rendering, from CADian‘2011


Easily Manage Layers with CADian™ 2011 “StyleBar”

New to CADian™2011 – StyleBar to easily manage layer entities on-screen in real-time

Quickly manage On/Off, Freeze/Thaw, Lock/Unlock, Print, Color

Easily manage Color, Linetype, Lineweight and Ddmodify separately

 

 


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Affordable
For the first time ever, you can buy a heavy-duty CAD program that's compatible with the .DWG file format and AutoCAD applications at mass-market pricing. Other feature-rich, low-cost CAD programs have tried to create their own standard as opposed to leveraging the existing .DWG standard. CADian's low price makes it affordable to anyone who creates and uses .DWG files

CADian is Cost-Effective For the first time ever, you can buy a heavy-duty CAD program that's compatible with the .DWG file format and AutoCAD applications at mass-market pricing. Other low-cost CAD programs have tried to create their own standard as opposed to leveraging the existing .DWG standard. CADian's low price makes it cost-effective to anyone who creates and uses .DWG files.

Support for AutoCAD Command Line By clicking the right button of a mouse on the toolbar, the command line appears as in AutoCAD. CADian uses standard AutoCAD commands for thousands of programs coded by AutoLISP, ADS, and VBA.

Digitizer Support Many drafting departments have established routines using digitizers within their CAD workgroup. For CAD departments that utilize digitizers as input devices. CADian supports both tablet mode for tracing and the use of tablet menus for command input.

Native DWG Support, dwg files (including R14 to R2004/8). As AutoCAD, CADian uses native dwg files so that any drawings saved in AutoCAD from R 14 to R 2004/2008 can be opened, modifed, and saved without data loss. CADian happens to open old drawings such as AutoCAD R 11 - R 14 drawings more easily than AutoCAD.

AutoCAD MENU (.mnu) and SCRIPT (.scr) files CADian supports AutoCAD menus (MNU), dialog boxes (DCL), fonts (SHX), scripts (SCR), and symbol libraries, so you can easily transfer custom AutoCAD environments into CADian and continue working in your favorite drafting environment.

LISP Support CADian provides complete support for AutoLISP, Autodesk's proprietary macro language, as well as the Autodesk Development System (ADS), Autodesk's proprietary programming language. CADian also supports DLL files and includes a preview version of VBA.

Raster Image Display (optional) Image Enabler of CADian supports the image composed files such as scanning files or photos of drawings. Supported formats are BMP, CALS (cg4, gp4, cal, g4), GIF, JPG, PCX, TIF, TIFF, DAT, HRF, TGA, PNG, RAS, RLC, BIL. CADian allows images to be attached to a drawing using "detaching", "reloading", and "unloading" functions. In addition, combining a raster image and CADian's vector data generates a drawing and the order between the vector data and raster image can be controlled.


Productivity Features

Fly-Over Snapping — a visual aid to help you see and use entity snaps more efficiently.

Photorealistic 3D Rendering (optional) — CADian lets you easily create 3D designs using the 3D drawing tools. You can display hidden-line, shaded, or fully rendered versions of your 3D models or your existing 3D libraries with a click of a button. You can choose professional-quality, preset options for lighting, surface materials, and backgrounds. With CADian's sophisticated raytracing capabilities, you can produce photorealistic 3D renderings. (Requires license of rendering technology from Lightwork Design).

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ActiveX Support including in-place editing — CADian provides in-place editing of Microsoft objects written in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. In-place Editing enables you to share data with different users and programs For instance, CADian drawings can be inserted in Microsoft Word or Excel documents and can include Word or Excel documents. Furthermore, double-clicking enables data editing.

Drawing Explorer for managing layers, blocks, line types, and more — CADian Explorer has the similar interface of Windows Explorer so that users can find layers, line types, text styles, blocks, view, coordinates(UCS) and so forth in a drawing and manage them very easily. In other words, necessary elements from opened drawings can be copied, moved or removed to other drawings.

Graphical Block Preview — If an opened drawing has blocks, CADian Explorer shows blocks' shapes and indicates how many blocks are inserted in the drawing; and therefore users can work on drawings more precisely.

Work with Multiple Open Drawings (MDI) — CADian can open an unlimited number of drawings in an individual session with less memory. Selecting a file in a dialog by choosing [Open] from [File] or dragging a drawing file into CADian, you can open drawings simultaneously, and increase the efficiency of work. Furthermore, among the opened drawings, users can Copy, Cut, and Paste a certain part from a drawing to other drawings.

Real Time Pan & Zoom — CADian allows users to work with their drawings using Real Time Pan and Zoom. This functionality makes viewing and navigating around your .DWG drawing files easier and more productive.

Right-Click to Edit Properties of multiple selected entities — With CADian, you can modify the properties of more than one entity at a time. For example, you might use CADian's "Entprop" command to select all entities on a particular layer, then use the Layer text box to move those entities to another layer. You could also change all the entities in one color to another color.

Script Recorder — Like a macro in Word, a script mimics what you type, including command names, options and coordinates. CADian fully supports scripting. In fact, it reads and writes the same script files (.SCR) that work in AutoCAD. CADian, however, provides several scripting enhancements that vastly improve your productivity:

An automatic launch feature: Double-click an SCR script file in Windows Explorer and you'll open CADian and run the script instantly.

A script recorder: Use the script recorder to automatically capture your keystrokes and mouse actions including menu picks, toolbar button selections, and screen picks. To review the script, simply play it back.

A script append feature: Use this feature to add new scripts to existing ones.

Enhanced scripting commands: CADian's commands include Recscript, which begins the recording, and Stopscript, which stops any script that's running.

Unlimited Undo/Redo
Go ahead and try out all your drawing ideas. CADian lets you "Undo" and "Redo" an unlimited number of editing actions. (With AutoCAD, you can "Undo" an unlimited number of actions, but you can only "Redo" one.)

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) (optional, COM is standard)
CADian includes a full implementation of Microsoft Visual Basic, Applications Edition (VBA), a development environment that simplifies the creation and execution of Visual Basic applications.

Visual Customization of Menus and Toolbars
CADian supports AutoCAD menus (MNU), dialog boxes (DCL), fonts (SHX), scripts (SCR), and symbol libraries, so you can easily transfer custom AutoCAD environments into CADian and continue working in your favorite drafting environment. CADian menus, function keys, and command aliases are able to be redefined by using a mouse and toolbars being changable by drag-and-drop.


Advanced Features

YES - Multiple open documents
YES - Drawing Explorer for managing layers, blocks, linetypes
YES - Graphical block preview
YES - ActiveX support for in-place editing
YES - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
YES - Photorealistic 3-D rendering
YES - Script recorder
YES - Real Time Pan & Zoom
YES - Visual menu customization
YES - Right-mouse click to edit properties
YES - Unlimited undo
YES - Unlimited redo

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Compare CADian with AutoCAD 2000 to 2009 and AutoCAD R14

YES - Native dwg format (R14-2009)
YES - Support for AutoCAD command line
YES - AutoCAD 3D surface commands
YES - AutoLISP support (including .DCL)
YES - Autodesk Development System (ADS) support
YES - AutoCAD menu (.MNU) and script (.SCR) files
YES - True Type font support
YES - Digitizer Support
YES - ACIS 3D solid modeling
YES - Raster image display

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CADian™2011 System Requirements

Microsoft® Windows® 7 ; Vista® XP ; 2000 ; NT 4.0
Pentium IV (or greater)
512MB memory or higher (4GB recommended)
CD-ROM Drive (for installation only)

1.8 GB free disk space for installation
1,024 x 768 display resolution with true color
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
Install from download or DVD

 


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