VersaCAD

VersaCAD is a production-level CAD software package intended for use by engineers, draftspersons, and other technical professionals working in the architectural, civil engineering, construction, and mechanical industries.
 

Unlimited Campus License
Use it in any class, anywhere on campus.  License the whole campus for the one fee, $595!

Unique, VersaCAD Unlimited Campus License offers maximum flexibility, shortest learning curve at the least cost for the busy technology teacher from middle school through high school and college.  Students learn from the pioneer of Computer Aided Design.  VersaCAD, a leader in CAD education for 25 years, is considered the easiest CAD to learn and most productive.  VersaCAD is used by professionals and over 1000 teachers worldwide. 

VersaCAD uses a unique combination of graphic interface and commmands plus HELP plus dynamic corrdinate dial to make learning CAD technology easy and fun.  Learn from QuickStart Manual, Application Vignettes, Training Guide, How to Migrate to other CAD and ready-to-go lesson plans for a semester course in CAD.  With VersaCAD, students learn more concepts in a given class period making it easy to learn other CAD as needed.
 
Capabilities:
  • 2-D drafting and dimensioning
  • Symbol libraries
  • Bill of materials
  • File translation
  • Customization capabilities
Rights:
  • Install anywhere on an unlimited # of computers.
  • Free Student Copies
  • Right to copy Software & Manuals
Benefits:
  • Fits all computers
  • Learn in 4 hours
  • Save School $$$
  • Learn 80% of all CAD brands

 Learn:
  • Architecture
  • Civil
  • Mechanical
  • Electrical
  • Mapping
Features:
  • Color standard/encapsulated Postscript now supported
  • New Tablet and VersaCAD Overlays
  • Create multilines of a specific length
  • Automatic recalculation of dimensions
  • Scaleable extension lines
  • Ability to change marker types
  • Capability to remove or include extension lines
  • Object manipulation facilities for inside/outside of window definition
  • Exchange/add copied objects with current group
  • Convert current group into local symbol without having to save drawing
  • Support of multiple references to a drawing
  • Dimensioning setting/insertion at any angle
  • Angular, diameter, and radial dimension text easily definable
  • Automatic adjustment of breaks in dimension lines
  • Symbol selection capabilities by name
  • Eight built-in linestyles, plus user-definable styles
  • Change properties individually or globally
  • Place drawing objects on up to 250 levels or layers
  • Drawing may include up to 30,000 objects
  • Geometry construction utilities for extending or trimming lines/circles/arcs to a common point, and constructing fillets, chamfers, tangent lines, isometric views and cross-hatching (more than 40 patterns included)
  • Create Bezier curves parallel to a specified Bezier curve
    Isometric views automatically projected from orthographic views
  • Locked Levels option prevents unintentional modification to a drawing on specified layers
  • Save any drawing or drawing portion as a symbol; up to 1,000 symbols per library
  • Symbols can be automatically cut into existing objects (such as a door into a wall) as well as scaled, rotated, and broken back into component parts
  • Attributes for attaching non-graphic information (such as part name, cost, size, and material type) to drawing objects
  • Reference drawings capability merges copy of one or more previously saved drawings into the workfile
  • Associative linear dimensions dynamically link drawing objects and its dimensions
  • Change geometry and the dimensions update automatically, and vice versa
  • Dual dimensioning to display in two different sets of units
  • Ten built-in units of measure (feet, inches, millimeters, etc.) plus user-definable units
  • Drawing aids including center markers and template lines
  • Built-in or customized proportional fonts and special characters
  • Create reports of attributes attached to object on the drawing
     
Built-in drawing objects include:
  • lines
  • multilines
  • arcs
  • circles
  • ellipses
  • rectangles
  • polygons
  • curves (Beziers, fillets, splines, and free-hand sketch)
  • points
  • text
 
Edit any drawing object or group of objects:
  • move
  • copy
  • scale
  • rotate
  • stretch
  • mirror image at any angle
  • explode into component parts
  • delete and undelete
 
Group drawing objects:
  • by common properties (color, level, etc.)
  • by type (arc, circle, etc.)
  • by enclosing in a fence
    or any combination of these methods
  • by user-defined name
  
Create drawing objects with user-definable properties:
  • line style
  • line width
  • line density
  • level/layer
  • plotter pen number
  • screen color
  • Z-coordinate
  • optional grouping name
 
Display and modify object data such as:
  • location
  • length
  • radius
  • rotation
  • area
  • cross-sectional calculations (center of gravity, movement of inertia, etc.)
  
 
Auto-dimension:
  • true linear
  • angular
  • radial
  • diametrical
  • datum dimensioning
    along with baseline and chain alignment, tolerances, and limits
Snap modes lock objects to:
  • grid intersections
  • user-defined spacing increments
  • pre-set object points
  • object surfaces
  • object intersections

Display:
  • Zoom in and out, and pan in user-defined increments
  • Save up to 20 views in a work session for sequential re-display
  • Reverse sketch feature for redrawing from last object to first
  • System support display list processing for quick zoom, pan, and redraw

To receive more detailed information about our Technical College CAD/CAM programs or any other products offered by our Technical Education division, please contact a member of our sales staff.