hsCADCreator v2.0.3.49

Hachisoft Corporation's hsCADCreator. This CAD editor allows quick and intuitive design of technical, architectural, and engineering drawings.
All the features of leading CAD applications at a fraction of the cost.
hsCADCreator is designed to make CAD affordable for individuals, and occasional/novice users, while still providing business users the features they need.
Quickly create or edit complex CAD files.
At the simplest level, hsCADCreator is a drafting tool that functions as an editor, viewer, and a drawing converter. More...
Rock-solid DWG support
As a member of the Open Design Alliance, Hachisoft can provide reliable and compatible support for industry standard formats.
Designed with team in mind
Licenses may be purchased in easy-to-manage groups with volume discounts and site licensing available. Get CAD software for your entire team at a price that would have outfitted only one drafter.


hsCADCreator Features

hsCADCreator offers many product features that rival those of industry standard CAD applications. These features are discussed in general on this page, and more completely in the online documentation. hsCADCreator's high-level features include:

View Drawings

Import from most standard CAD File Formats
Display 2D and/or 3D information
Render with a variety of 3D Viewing modes
Zoom, Rotate, Pan, and Snap within a Drawing
Manage multiple views of a Drawing with Viewports
Preview both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace
Print Drawings
Map difficult to print colors with Plotstyles
Preview a print job before you waste your ink
Print both custom Drawing Layouts, and the Drawing Modelspace

Create Drawings

Build new Entities from scratch with intuitive Creation Tools
Use Blocks to simplify the generation of repeated Drawing elements (and reduce Drawing Size!)
Decorate your entities with Linestyles, Lineweights, Textstyles, Hatch Styles, and Colors
Take advantage of Dimension Entities to simplify the details of relating a Drawing to the real world
Choose a Drawing unit, and painlessly enter distances in any related unit without a calculator in hand

Edit Drawings

Choose one or more Entities of interest with crossing, containment, and single click selection
View and modify the properties of  the currently selected Entities (or Entities!)
Effortlessly manipulate or delete existing Entities with Modification Tools
Benefit from Drawing Aids to speed up common tasks and improve their accuracy
Easily manipulate User Coordinate Systems with simple tools and a UCS-aware data entry system
Manage Named Views, Viewports, and Layouts for custom presentations of your Drawing
Copy and paste your current selection in both "Standard" and "As Block" modes

Convert Drawings

To any supported Drawing file types (and all versions!). Make an old Drawing new, or a new Drawing old.
To web formats such as PDF, DWF, SVG, and Images
To an email attachment

Convenience

Autosave feature keeps saving even when you don't or can't
Maximize screen space with tabbed viewing and editing
Copy and paste entities/blocks between open drawings

Extensibility

Plugin System to provide addition format and tool support Raster Vectorization Plugin
Plot Style File Editor Plugin


Editable Formats

The following industry-standard CAD drawing file types are supported in hsCADCreator through the use of the Open DWG standard:
DXF - Drawing eXchange Format Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))

DWG - DraWinG Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))

DXB - Drawing eXchange Binary Versions (r9, r10, r12, r13, r14, r15, r18, r21(2007))

DWF - Design Web Format Versions (v4.2, v5.5, v6.0)
Formats (3D, Compressed Binary, Uncompressed Binary, Zipped ASCII Encoded 2D Stream, ASCII)
Versions (v4.2, v5.5, v6.0)
Formats (3D, Compressed Binary, Uncompressed Binary, Zipped ASCII Encoded 2D Stream, ASCII)

In addition, hsCADView also provides the ability to convert both between these formats and between different versions and types of these formats.
Exportable Formats

The following file formats may also be generated from a drawing:
BMP - Windows Bitmap File
PDF - Portable Document Format
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
Other Formats

In order to view and print drawings effectively, hsCADCreator supports the loading of plot style files. In addition, hsCADCreator's support for Plugins has made available a Plotstyle Editor Plugin that will allow editing of following plot style formats:
STB: Plot Style Table
CTB: Color-dependent Plot Style Table

Extend the Usability of hsCADCreator with Plugins

hsCADCreator strives to be as flexible as possible. One way in which it can adapt to suit the needs of its users is to support units of extensible functionality. Call them plugins, addins, addons, extensions, or whatever you wish. They provide special functionality above and beyond the features of hsCADCreator. Two free plugins have been made available, and their details follow. If you are interested in developing your own plugin, contact our support staff for more information.

Vectorization Plugin

There is much to be said for using what resources you have on hand. If you already have a drawing on paper, it is useful and powerful to be able to digitize it. This Vectorization Plugin does just that. It takes as input a raster image (JPG, GIF, PNG, etc.) and outputs a DWG file that you can edit. Simply download and run the Plugin installer to get started. (Make sure you have installed hsCADCreator first)

Plotstyle Plugin

In order to view, print, and export drawings effectively, hsCADCreator supports the (readonly) loading of plot style files: Plot Style Table (.stb) and Color-dependent Plot Style Table (.ctb).
The Plotstyle Plugin picks up where hsCADCreator left off and provides the simple ability to edit and create these files. Simply download and run the Plugin installer to get started. (Make sure you have installed hsCADCreator first)