RiscCAD Professional, the popular 2D CAD program for RISC OS is now available on !Store.

RiscCAD is a fully featured 2D CAD program, written by a professional engineer, it allows the creation of complex 2D drawings, but can also be used as a supplement to other programs such as !Draw to create forms and other artwork where Draw's grid snap is
not suitable.

Some of the key features of RiscCAD are:-
* Multiple drawings and multiple views per drawing.
* Multiple snaps with on-the-fly snap.
* Automatic dimensions which update after editing.
* Full ray-cast line and pattern hatching to fill complex shapes.
* Supplied with over 150 patterns, or create your own.
* Pattern options include last row or first row and multiple islands can be detected.
* Paper sizes above A0 and draw to scale feature with configurable origin.
* Page rulers and on-screen isometric, rectangular or oblique grid.
* Integrated drawing symbol library manager.
* Integrated drawing library manager with preview.
* Full control over printout including sideways, scaled and tiled printing.
* Output to plotter via HPGL, or create your own driver with the programmable output driver.
* Included plotter utilities can support up to 20 different plot queues on a single or networked machines.
* Up to 255 outline fonts per drawing, for both text and dimensions.
* Draw import and export.
* DXF import and export.
* Numerous object constructions including 3 point circles, parallel objects, perpendiculars etc.
* Many editing operations including fillet, chamfer, join, trim, stretch.
* Draw style select mode allowing grouping of objects and transformations on selections.
* Transformations such as polar and rectangular arrays, step and repeat, scale, rotate etc.
* Quick edit tool which allows an object to be picked up and edited as if being created from new.
* Fully toolbox driven interface with configurable toolbox size and position.
* Large clear tool icons and dialog boxes.
* Many settings can be configured such as grid colour, automatic save etc.
* Fully interactive help within RiscCAD and via the !Help application.
* HTML User Guide and Command Reference manuals included.

Price is £40, available now.

Also now available on !Store is !Draw2DXF for converting draw files to DXF and !RCADView which is a RiscCAD Release 10 file viewer to allow anyone without RiscCAD to view RiscCAD drawings. Some sample drawings are also included. Both of these utilities ar
e free of charge.

David Buck



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