Architectural and mechanical design tools

Punch! ViaCAD Pro V6.0 is a versatile toolset for both simple and advanced, complex tasks including advanced modeling, deformation and surface functions, all created with the professional designer and mind.  This architectural and mechanical design software features advanced drawing, editing, and viewing options, including multiple viewpoints, automatic 3D to 2D conversion, and intuitive location of key drawing elements to help increase your design work productivity.  From the easy to use interface to the powerful creation tools, Punch! ViaCAD Pro V6.0 is easy, fast, and feature-rich, without compromising on power - making it great for every type of design project.

Easy

• 2D/3D seamless Interface - Toggle between 2D and 3D with one mouse click. Start in 2D, add 3D with surface solid modeling tools.  Then click back to 2D, making precision editing a snap.
• Professional Tools for Savvy Users - Tools designed for both simple and complex tasks will increase your productivity.  Pros will appreciate tools for surface analysis, deformations, tangent covers, surface Booleans, and more. Autodraw functions, multiple viewpoints, and textures add a new level of ease and speed as you draw.
• Effortless Cross-Platforming and Compatibility - Share your files with MC and PC ViaCAD users. Import and export options for popular drafting and drawing formats such as AutoCAD, DWG, .DXF, Adobe Illustrator, and Punch! Home Design products.

LogiCursor

• Works with You in the Design Process - LogiCursor technology anticipates your move and shows you a suggested action to complete it.  You'll draw faster and with more precision.
• Make Concept to Reality a Snap - LogiCursor automatically identifies and snaps to locations of centers, endpoints, midpoints, tangents, and many more as you draw.  Labels for locations appear on the fly, allowing precision alignment in real time.
• You Keep the Control - Customize LogiCursor to your drawing style by controlling sensitivity and snap filter options.  You can also toggle LogiCursor on or off at any time.
• Features for Every Type of Project - LogiCursor helps you complete your project faster, whether aerospace, technical illustration, architectural, industrial design, or prototype models.

Professional Features

• Easy Access to Pro Features - LogiCursor has a simple interface that provides you with professional tools to maximize your productivity.
• Multiple Viewpoints - Viewpoints provide a graphical user interface to display the same drawing in multiple views, letting you see an object simultaneously displayed in an isometric, side, front, and top view.
• Over 26,000 Integrated Symbols - Drag and drop symbols including doors, windows, mechanical, electrical, fasteners, CMOS, HVAC, IAN, and more.
• New File Wizard - Accelerate your initial drawing setup with ViaCAD's New File Wizard. Quickly set your preferred units, page scale, size, and orientation, and default annotation sizes.  Perfect for setting up architectural, mechanical, or custom drawings.

2D Design Features

• Curve to Arc - Convert a spline, ellipse, or conic into a collection or arcs.  Especially helpful when interfacing with CNC machines.  Two options: tangent continuous makes each arc tangent to its neighbor; keep preserves the original curve.
• Region Trim - Rapidly trim multiple curves with a single mouse click.  Click inside or outside to control which curves are kept or removed.
• Automatic 2D Converter - Simple 3D to 2D conversion in one mouse click, then create multiple 2D views with an additional mouse click.
• Tape Measure Tool - The tape measure tool identifies distance, distance components, and the angle relative to the work plane.  The distance and angle values are displayed at the cursor location for quick reference.
• Planar Area Properties - Professional feature for mechanical or architectural engineers needing precise 2D section properties.
• Object Transforms - Transform objects using polar or linear arrays.  Or use versatile tools to translate, scale, rotate, and mirror objects.

2D Architectural Design

• Standard 2D Drawing Tools - ViaCAD features over 26,000 integrated symbols, 26 styles for dimensioning, and industry-standard cross-hatching and solid fills.
• Intelligent Walls - Walls automatically heal when positioned next to other walls.  Quickly explore new wall configurations by dragging or precisely changing parameters that control length, angle, and thickness.
• Door and Windows Features - Add intelligent wall features such as doors and windows with just a few mouse clicks.  Or design a custom feature using the Insert Group into Wall tool.
• Architectural Detailing - Let ViaCAD automatically add dimensions to your walls.  Or selectively add key measurements to doors and windows using callouts and labels. Quickly identify room regions using single click filling and hatching.

3D Pro Design

• Local Face Editing - Provides tools to modify parts independent of previous construction history.  Great for working with parts designed from other CAD systems such as AutoCAD, Pro/E, or SolidWorks.
• Feature Operations - Intelligent features allow you to edit parts using blending, chamfering, hales, bosses, shelling, and bending tools.
• Add and Remove Tool - Use Boolean tools to add, subtract, and intersect parts, generating complex parts from simple ones.
• Associative Surface Modeling - Create surfaces associative to defining curves.  Stitch into solids to perform feature operations.
• Analysis Tools - Calculate precise volumes, weights, interferences, centers of gravity, moments of inertia, and other critical data associated with parts.

Presentation and More

• Autogenerate 2D - Automatically generate side, front, top, isometric views from 3D models.  Create section, detail, and other views.
• Convert 2D Profiles into 3D - Quickly lathe, extrude, sweep, and skin 2D profiles into 3D shapes.
• Complex Blending - Create constant and variable radius blends on complex models.
• Complex Shapes - Create a thin-walled object automatically with shell/hollow features, or twist and bend parts while maintaining precision NURBS data.
• Create Prototypes - Instantly convert your ViaCAD Pro file to STL, for 3D prototype modeling, with a single mouse click.
• Texture Library - Dray and drop over 3,000 included realistic textures such as woods, paints, flooring, fabrics, brick, stone, metal, and more. Apply textures by dragging and dropping onto the 3D object. Use filters to drop textures onto faces, bodies, or similar materials.

Complex Tasks

• Blending/Filtering - ViaCAD provides robust tools for constant and variable radius blends.  Select radial, elliptical, constant width, linear, variable by position, or hold line options.
• Concept Explorer - Use Concept Explorer to manage history features, organize layers or to insert symbols into your design.  Change parameters using Object Info to rapidly iterate new design configurations.
• Offset Surfaces - Offset surfaces maintain a constant distance normal to a referenced surface.  ViaCAD Pro includes offsetting complex trimmed NURB surfaces.
• Deformations - Modify a face using inflate or deflate terminology, Or move a portion of a face to a specific location using the face deformation tools of ViaCAD Pro.
• Bending Along Curve - This feature will bend a solid along an axis or along a curve.  The along curve option will automatically sketch or compress the new shape to precisely flow along the path.

Precision Tools

• Trim Surfaces - ViaCAD Pro supports high end surface trimming operations.  Trim to projected text or curves on a surface. Keep, delete, or move trim portions based on design requirements.
• Surface Analysis - Surface analysis tools in ViaCAD Pro provide feedback as to smoothness characteristics of the underlaying NURB definitions. These tools include curvature and zebra plots.
• Surface Matching - Perform class A surface matching operations on neighboring surfaces with either G1 (tangent) or G2 (curvature) continuity options.
• Skin with Guide Curves - Skin between blue profiles and use green guide curves to further refine and control shape of complex objects.
• Surface Booleans - ViaCAD Pro supports Boolean operations on open surfaces.  Perform addition and subtraction operations to quickly merge or remove surface areas.
• Tangent Covers - The Tangent Cover creates an n-sided surface that is tangent continuous to its surrounding surfaces.  The tool is useful for filling voids between surfaces and for capping objects.

• New File Wizard for Quick Start up for Architectural and Mechanical Users
• Data Management File Properties Feature
• Multiple Viewports
• 2 and 4-Color Gradient Backgrounds
• Image Backgrounds
• Start, End, Center Side for 2D Creation
• One Point Circle Tool
• Rounded Corners and Slot Polygon Tools
• Single-Click Hatching and Filling
• Architectural Tools including Intelligent Paremetric Walls and Custom Wall Styles
• 3D Bounding Box
• Curvature Circle
• Cutout from Profile by Distance
• Protrusion from Profile by Distance
• Profile Add, Replace, and Remove
• Data Exchange with AutoCAD 2009
• Publish to Web
• JPEG Import/Export

2D Features and Tools

• Usability
• Easily toggle between 2D or 2D/3D
• Same intuitive user interface for 2D and 3D tools
• Concept Explorer
• Customizable Key Shortcuts
• Prompt Window
• Data Entry Window
• Object Info Window
• Tool Tips and Hints
• Video Tutorials
• Tool Help
• Tool Cursors
• Multiple Monitor savvy
• Customize background and foreground colors
• Small or large tool palette option
• User-defined Views, Work Planes, and Pen Styles
• Unlimited Undo and Redo
• User-defined Working Units - Inches, Feet, Feet/Inches, Millimeter, Meters
• Precision Alignments
• Global Coordinates System
• Customizable User Preferences
• Cross-Platforming, Mac and PC
• New File Wizard for Quick Start up for Architectural and Mechanical Users
• LogiCursor
• Snaps for intelligently locating x, y, z drawing positions
• Anticipates next action
• Provides drawing options
• Mid points, End points
• Centers
• Intersections (Real and Extended)
• Dynamic Axis Locking
• Along Axis Alignments
• Snap Filters
• Tangents and Perpendiculars
• Works in 3D and 2D
• Data Management
• Layers and Sub Layers
• Isolate Layer
• Increment/Decrement Layer
• Layer Locking
• Layer Color Override
• Object Show/Hide Tools
• Automated File Backups
• Group and Ungroup
• Lock and UnLock
• File Properties
• Viewing
• Standard Top, Bottom, Front, Side, Back, Isometric, Trimetric Views
• User-Defined Views
• Zoom In/Out, Previous, All
• Window, Home, Ratio, to Scale, to Selected
• Wheel Button Zoom, Rotate, and Scroll
• Space Bar Panning
• 3Dconnexion Support
• Multiple Viewports
• 2 and 4 Color Gradient Backgrounds
• Image Backgrounds
• 2D Creation
• Point Tools at location and along curve
• Line Tools
• Line Two Points, Connected, Midpoint, Parallel, Double Line, Construction Line
• Arc Tools: Start, End, Center Point; Start, On Arc, End; Start, Tangent, End; Start, End, On Arc; Start, End, Center Side
• Circle Tools:  One Point; Start, On, End; Opposite Points; Center, On; Tangent 3 Curves; Tangent 2 Curves
• Conic Tools: 2 Point Start, End; 3 Point (Start, End, Slop, Rho); 4 Point (Start, End, Slope, On)
• Ellipse Tools: Center, Diagonal; Two Diagonals; Opposite Points; Center 3 Points; Major Axis 3 Points
• Polygon Tools: Rectangle, Inscribed, Circumscribed, Arbitrary Points, From Curves; Rounded Corners; Slot
• Spline Tools: Fit through Points, Control Polygon, Bezier, Sketch, On Surface, Add/Remove Point, Modify/Set Slope, Change Type
• Curve to Arc Tool: Convert spline, ellipse or conic into arcs; Interface with CNC machines; Tangent continuous option; Conversion relative to user-defined tolerance
• 2D Editing and Utilities
• Dynamic modification of positions and tangencies
• Fillet: Fillet Two Curves, Fillet Three Curves
• Spline Fill
• Chamfering: Chamfer by Length, Chamfer by Angle
• Corner
• Trim, Extend, Segment
• Region Trim
• Divide, Break At
• Connect, Join
• Offset By Value or To Location
• Transformations: Translate, Rotate, Mirror; Scale (and Non Uniform); Linear Duplicate; Polar Duplicate; Translate Along Path; Align, Stretch, Twist; Dynamic Linear Array Tool
• Verify: 2 Point Distance and Angles; Minimum Distance; Curve Lengths; 2D Planar Properties (Area, Centroid, Principle Moments); Dynamic Curvature Plots; Curvature Circle
• Selecting: Single or Partial Box Ambiguity; Mask, Deep
• Annotation/Detailing
• Pen Weights, Patterns, Styles
• Dimension Tools:  Smart Dimensions; Horizontal, Vertical, and Parallel; Chain and Baseline; Ordinates; Radial and Diameter; Center Marks; Leaders and Callouts; Angular; Tolerances and User Settings; Stacked, Dual, Fractions
• Hatching: Industry standard Cross-hatching; Iso and Din Standards; Metal and Mineral Categories; Custom Angles and Spacing; Single Click Hatching
• Fill Patterns: Solid Color and Patterned; Associative Fill; Single Click Filling
• Bill of Materials
• Export Comma Delimited File
• Automatic Table Creation
• Automatic Balloons for Labeling
• Text Tools: Horizontal, At Angle, Within Box, Along Curve, Extrude, Lathe, Sweep into 3D
• Automated 3D to 2D
• Generate 2D drawings automatically from 3D models
• Scalable Draw Views
• Section Views
• Detail Views
• Auxiliary Views
• Predefined Drawing Templates
• Precision Kernel - Precise ACIS kernel from Spatial serves as foundation fro NURBS and analytic-based geometry definitions
• Architectural Tools
• Intelligent Parametric Walls
• Automatic Healing
• Automatic Wall Dimensions
• Intelligent Doors and Windows
• Insert Objects into Walls
• Architectural Drawing Page Wizard
• Architectural Dimensions and Standards
• Custom Wall Styles and Components

3D Features and Tools

• Usability
• Section/Slice
• Wireframe and Phong Views
• Workplace Orientation
• Object Counts
• Mouse Navigation
• Tape Measure Tool
• Color per Face
• Verification Tools
• 2 Point Distance and Angles
• Lengths and Minimum Distance
• Interference Detection
• Mass Properties (Volumes, Weight, Centroids, Inertia, Principle Moments)
• Dynamic Curvature Plots
• 3D Bounding Box
• Curvature Circle
• Visualization
• Ambient, Distant, Point and Spot Lighting
• Surface Analysis: Smoothness Feedback; Curvature Plots; Gaussian, Mean, Minimum, and Maximum Radius; Zebra Plots; Examine surface continuity between adjacent surfaces; OpenGL Hardware Accelerated; Environment Maps
• Texture Library enhances visual realism
• Over 3000 Textures including: wood, paint, flooring, fabric, brick, stone, metal, tile, gravel, wallpaper
• Multiple Viewports: Display same drawing in multiple view simultaneously or on multiple monitors
• Surface Modeling
• Infinite Plane: X, Y, Z Axis Aligned; Normal plus location; By three points, along a curve
• Nets (M x N curve networks)
• Skin Surface: Draft angles and Magnitude; Perpendicular Take Offs; Simplify Option
• Ruled Surface
• Covered Surface: Planar and Non Planar; N-Sided Edges
• Resolve Surface: 2 Pt Revolve; About Curve Revolve
• Extrude by Vector
• One Rail Sweep: In place sweeping; Perpendicular sweeping
• Two Rail Sweep - Maintain height option
• Tube/Pipe Surface
• Thicken Surface to Solid
• Associativity for rapid design modifications
• Offset Surfaces: Maintain current distance normal to referenced surface; Complex offsets from trimmed NURB surfaces; Skin with Guide Curves; Tangent Covers; Creates surface tangent continuous to surrounding areas; N-sided surface; Fills voids between surfaces; Cap objects
• Surface Lofting
• Draft Surfaces
• Surface Utilities
• Plane/Surface Inspection
• Project Curve to Surface Imprint Option
• Surface/Surface Intersection
• Curve/Surface Intersection
• Silhouette Curve Calculation - From View or User Vector
• Explode Surface Edge
• Project Curve to Plane: Workplane; XY, XZ, YZ Planes: Select Infinite Plane
• Surface Matching: Class A surface matching operations; Use for neighboring surfaces; G1 (tangent) or G2 (curvature) continuity options
• Trim/Join Surfaces: Trim to projected text or curves on a surface; Keep, delete, move trim portions; Surface Booleans (Boolean operations on open surfaces, perform addition/subtraction operations, quickly merge or remove surface areas)
• Solid Modeling
• Solids from Primitives: Sphere, Block, Cylinder, Cone, Torus, Prism, Pyramid, Ellipsoid, Slab
• Lathe Profile
• Extrude Profile
• Vector, Distance, To Object, Mid plane, Thin extrude
• One Rail Sweep: Sweep in place, Rigid, Perpendicular to Object; Twist and draft parameters
• Two Rail Sweep - Maintain Height option
• Cutout from Profile - By Distance
• Profusion from Profile: Terminate at Face, Distance or Body; Draft Angle Optional; By Distance
• Solid from Sections (Skin Solid)
• Pipe Solid - By inner/outer diameter
• Branched Solid - Up to five branches
• Associativity between curves and resultant solids
• Profile Add, Replace, and Remove
• Curve Modeling - Points, Lines, Spines, Arcs, Ellipses, and Conics
• Feature Operations
• Feature based modeling
• Parametric features
• Feature/History Tree
• Shelling: Constant Wall Thickness; Editable multi wall thickness; Option to keep shelled core
• Holes: Simple, Counterbore, Countersink; Through body, To face, To depth
• Bosses
• Constant Radius Blends - Vertex, Elliptical Section, Circular Section, Multi-Edge
• Variable Radius Blends - Linear, By Position, By Curve Map, Fixed width
• Constant Length Chamfers - One Length, Two Length, Length/Angle, Vertex
• Variable Length Chamfers - Two Lengths, Two and Four Length Chamfer Lengths and Angles, By Position, Fixed width
• Bending: 2 Point bend axis; Center Line Bend; Bend Angle and Radius; Warp, Twist, Stretch; NURBS objects; Along curve; Auto Stretch/Compress part to flow along path
• Solid Modeling Utilities
• Boolean Operations
• Add, Subtract, Intersect
• Trim
• Split
• Thicken
• Surface to Solid, Existing Solid
• Thin Existing Solid
• Stitching Surfaces to Solids: User defined Tolerances; Healing and Repair; Tolerant Edges; NURBS to Analytic Simplify
• Local Face Editing
• Use Local Face Tools to modify imported files which do not have history or feature parameters
• Draft, Match, Move, Offset, Remove, and Replace Face
• Deformations: Modify faces; Inflate or deflate; Move a face
• Data Exchange
• Google SketchUp
• DXF/DWG
• ACIS SAT
• IGES and STEP
• Adobe Illustrator (V8)
• Rhino 3DM (Import Only)
• STL (ASCII and Binary)
• BMP
• PICT (Mac Only)
• CGM (Import Only)
• TurboCAD Mac
• TurboCAD Mac Pro
• Punch! Home Design object (Import Only)
• Wavefront OBJ
• AutoCAD 2009
• Seamless ViaCAD Pro file cross-platforming PC/Mac
• JPEG (Import/Export)
• Publish to Web
• Part Library
• 26,000+ Part Library
• 2D and 3D Symbols
• Drag and Drop Parts
• Dynamically Position
• Mechanical: 2D Mechanical Fasteners (Inch and Metric); High Strength Fasteners, Pins, Washers; Welding Symbols; GD&T; Title Blocks and Borders
• Electrical: Logic devices (TTL); IEC, JIC, and ANSI Symbols; Printed Circuit Board; Components
• AEC: Posed Human Figures; Road Signs; Windows, Doors; Marine Transports; Ground Transports; Trees and Shrubs
• Process Plant and Piping: Process Flow Symbols; Hydraulic and Pneumatic; Heat and Power; Piping Symbols
• Plumbing Fixtures

File Compatibility

• Import:
• DWG, DXF
• Google Sketchup
• Punch! Objects
• Adobe Illustrator v8
• BMP
• STEP
• PICT-Mac
• Grid Surface
• TEXT
• ACIS SAT
• IGES
• Rhino 3DM
• Spline
• Truespace COB
• WaveFront OBJ
• TurboCAD Mac
• ViaCAD PC/Mac
• Export:
• DWG, DXF
• Adobe EPS
• Adobe Illustrator v8
• BMP
• STEP
• PICT-Mac
• TEXT
• CGM
• ACIS SAT
• IGES
• WaveFront OBJ
• TurboCAD Mac
• ViaCAD PC/Mac

• Windows XP Home, XP Professional, Windows Vista or 7
• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon class processor
• 512 MB of RAm or greater
• 4 GB of available hard disk space
• Mouse Pointing Device
• DVD-ROM Drive

• Macintosh OS 10.4 - 10.6
• 512 MB of RAM or greater
• 4 GB of available hard disk space
• Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended)
• DVD-ROM Drive

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