CAD applications were normally too ‘heavy’ to be given away on magazine cover-disks. Nevertheless, ‘PC Plus’ provided a few over the years.
The hardest part when writing tutorials is coping with the sheer number of features in even the most basic CAD program – drawing tools, editing and selecting, display controls, layers and library commands, to name just a few. It’s tricky getting the balance right between simple step-by-step instructions for raw beginners and introducing more advanced features for readers who’ve used CAD before.
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: Date: Getting Started: SoftCAD.3D Lite V1.16 SoftCAD.3D Lite V1.16 is a Product Visualisation program, with a bias towards architectural work. It includes features such as stairs and terrain modelling, and a library of building-related objects. If you like it there’s an upgrade path to the full version of […]
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: 149 Date: March 1999 IMSI TotalCAD 1.0 FULL PRODUCT IMSI TotalCAD 1.0 is a budget 2D Computer-Aided Draughting (CAD) program, which is related to TurboCAD. When we last reviewed TurboCAD (Issue 118) we liked its ease of use, and this is also true of TotalCAD. TotalCAD is strictly […]
Publication Details: Publication: “PC Plus”, UK Issue: 138 Date: April 1998 SuperCD Tutorials: bCAD 2.2 bCAD 2.2 for DOS is a freeware 3D modelling and rendering package from the ProPro Group Inc., of Novosibirk, Russia. Despite its public-domain origins, it’s a surprisingly capable program – as well the surface modeller and photo-realistic renderer there’s a […]