General CADD Pro or GCP as users are calling it is a very powerful 2 D Computer Assisted Design & Drafting program (32 bit accuracy) which embodies the features of Generic CADD (CADD, CADD5 & CADD6), the very popular and well known DOS based CADD program which reportedly has over 350,000 users world wide. General CADD Pro is easy to learn, easy to teach others, follows standard paper drafting techniques and produces drawings as much as 10 times faster than other CAD programs.

General CADD Pro is the ideal solution for quickly making precise, accurate 2 dimensional line drawings. Just about anyone can quickly learn to use it in any field of endeavor. Current users include architects, surveyors, real estate persons, carpenters, truss rafter fabricators, circuit board designers, optical equipment makers, engineers, machinists, graphic artists, HVAC workers, plumbers, electricians, textile and clothing designers, theatre layout and production, sound engineers, equipment manufacturers, auto designers, wind power development, sign makers, CNC control, plasma, laser, router, water jet control... the list of uses and applications is just about endless. This is why it is named General CADD.

General CADD Pro features an easy to learn two letter command structure favored by many drafting professionals. A variety of Windows menus and dialog boxes are also available for simplified access to such features as dimension settings and text formatting. All commands are available from the Main Windows menu, user customizable toolbars and as two letter keyboard shortcuts. Over 30 new commands and features have been added including ACAD 2010 file support and specific surveyor bearing/distance commands and Field to Finish command!

General CADD Pro can import the following file formats:

AutoCAD: DWG, DXF, SHX, PAT with XREF

Generic CADD: GCD DWG (drawing file); CMP (component); MCR (macro); MNU (video menu); ATB (attribute); HCH (hatching); FNT (fonts) & (VC .HAT)

VCD, VCS, HAT

JPG, BMP, TIF, GIF, PNG

Microsoft TrueType Fonts

OLE Container

General CADD Pro can export the following file formats:

AutoCAD DWG, DXF

WMF

OLE Server

PDF

JPG, BMP, TIF, GIF, PNG (bitmap images)

Program Highlights:

Free Demo Download

Easy to learn two letter command structure along with Windows drop down menus

Full Batch File Macro Language, Vector font creation supported

TrueType fonts may be converted to native outline or filled vector fonts.

Text Editor features a new Quick Edit, TL and TP commands, Spell Check, Tab and column text

1024 drawing layers, Scroll mouse dynamic zoom and pan supported

Magnify Window user defined size and zoom value

Layer Protect and Lock commands

Auto Save and Version Control commands

Cut and paste to Windows clipboard for pasting vector drawings to other software

Multiple file environment configuration Save feature

Visual scaling and rotation of components on the fly

Thumbnail image selection for visually loading drawings, hatches and components

User definable custom line types and hatches

Internal help/bug reporter sends reports directly from program to support staff

Selective Turn Off of screen features to increase drawing area, Digitizer 16 button puck support

Automatic file compression keeps drawing files small, No limit on number of components in drawings

Easy Windows print / plot support with Line Width/Color Map and HPGL direct plotter support

Programmable mouse buttons and function keys, Layer UnName and Hatch Change commands

Illustrated on screen command help reference manual with illustrated Macro Language Section

Bearing commands for surveyors click here

Field to Finish

Total Station data import and data load utilities

IG Image load and trace function, Geotiff image import

Attributes, Multi Line draw, trim and edit commands

New Explorer Type file load interface with images, drag and drop and Auto Save

To Front To Back, Object Resort/Reorder and new Universal Point commands

Surveyor Bearing and Distance Commands, Ortho Stop, Version Control, persistent commands

Floating Toolbars, Spell Check, multi break, 3 point Rectangle, Offset

TAB Window views of XREFs, multiple drawing load and multiple view of same drawing

copy and paste internally and to external programs like Word

Automatic check for new program updates notification feature

Additional features and commands continue to be added daily at customer request feature list

Interactive on line support forum... the fastest and best support staff in the industry

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 7 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows XP Home & Professional and 64, Windows 2000
512 MB RAM minimum (1 GB preferred) the more memory, the better
150MB of hard disk space
Pentium or AMD Athlon class processor
Pointing device (scroll mouse 3 button preferred)
CD ROM drive
USB or Parallel Port

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