Drafting Tools

Expand your drafting toolkit with inCAD and improve your everyday productivity

Numerous Automap Enhancements - New Point ID label features, more options for adding descriptions and labels in general, the ability to process a range of points (instead of all connections), and some user interface enhancements to improve the workflow when saving files.

XYZ-Coding Updates - Implemented multiple modifications, based on user feedback, for handling 2D/3D arcs and polylines when processing XYZ-Codes.

3D Curves & Commands - Improvements and additional parameters have been added to the _3DCURVE and _3DPOLY_TO_3DCURVE commands.

RPN Calculator - An RPN Calculator can now be launched from any numeric inCAD field to assist with your manual calculations.

Pad Builder - Draw and edit pads directly within your current drawing by specifying edge lengths, turned angles, deflection angles, or double-offsets. This is different than the previously existing House Library commands which creates drawings in an external house library.

Point Patterns - Create a custom library of point patterns to use for calculating multiple points in relation to other key points in your drawing. This is used primarily for applying Bolt Patterns onto columns, beams, etc.

Offset Grid Lines - Easily offset Lines in your drawing by varying offset distances. This is similar to the standard _PARALLEL or _OFFSET command but is easier to use.

Auto-Add Points to Gridline Intersections - Automatically compute points at the 3D intersection of selected Lines in your drawing. This is intended primarily for calculating points on grid lines, but it can be used in many situations.

Query Angle between Two Lines - Calculates a 3-point inverse to determine the interior or exterior angle between two lines, and displays the angle to you in both decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds.

3D Polyline Utilities: Insert Vertices - Insert one or more consecutive vertices in a 3D Polyline by selecting two adjacent vertices, such that new vertices will be inserted evenly between them with their elevations adjusted to fit a linear interpolation.

3D Polyline Utilities: Delete Vertices - Delete one or more consecutive vertices in a 3D Polyline by selecting two vertices, such that all vertices between them will be removed.

3D Polyline Utilities: Interpolate Vertices - Interpolate one or more consecutive vertices in a 3D Polyline by selecting two vertices, such that all vertices between them will have their elevations adjusted to fit a linear interpolation.

Pick Text Labels for Lot Closures / Plan Check - Check your plan by using the new "Pick" buttons on the Lot Closure dialog, to select line and curve labels for calculating a closure based on the text labels.

Delete Lot Closures - A command is now available to delete existing Lot Closures from your drawing and database.

Lot Closure Dialog - The Lot Closure dialog was cleaned up and made easier to use. Specifically...

• The current entry field is now highlighted by a green box. This helps speed up keyboard entry when defining lots.
• All data fields now immediately appear after selecting "Line" or "Curve", previously you were required to press Enter or click OK to make the next option appear which was not intuitive.
• "Pick" buttons were added beside each distance and direction field, which allow you to select a text entity from your drawing to use for the lot definition.
• "Pick All" buttons were added beside the Line and Curve fields, which allow you to select multiple text entities from your drawing to use for the lot definition.
• "Swap" buttons were added beside each direction field, to reverse the direction of the currently displayed angle.
• The current leg is now temporarily shown on your drawing as soon as enough data has been defined for that leg so that it can be visually reviewed before advancing to the next leg and drawing it in.
• Removed Bearing/Azimuth and Feet/Metric controls, in favor of using the drawing's units settings as defined in the General Configuration Options dialog.
• Removed OK buttons, in favor of having all fields immediately visible on the dialog.
• Removed NW, NE, SW, SE quadrant bearing buttons, which users found confusing and unnecessary.
• Removed Zoom/Pan controls which were previously necessary for older CAD engines, in favor of using real-time pan and zoom from your mouse.
• Removed Current Coordinate text, which users found confusing and unnecessary. Current position is still indicated by an arrow icon in the drawing.
• Realigned similar options to make the dialog more intuitive.

Auto-Add Points to Objects - Now works with Polylines, LWPolylines, and 3DPolylines.

Mapping Grid - Improvements to the Mapping Grid command including the following...

• Improved scaling of labels and "+" grid marks, and preview capabilities.
• New preview capabilities so you can see the grid before placing it in your drawing.
• Grid is now drawn onto a dedicated "MAPPING_GRID" layer (instead of the current layer).

Survey AutoMap Libraries - Two new Automap Libraries, Survey-M1 (Metric) and Survey-I1 (Imperial) have been provided which include an improved description list and an improved default layering structure.

Quick Posts with Wipeouts - New Quick Post blocks are included which use Wipeouts instead of a Trimming Radius to hide details behind/inside the blocks. You must load the new MSCAD_WIPEOUT.CSV AutoMAP Library instead of the default MSCAD.CSV AutoMAP Library to use the wipeout versions of the Quick Posts.

Symbol Librarian Posts with Wipeouts - New Symbol Library blocks are included which use Wipeouts to hide details behind/inside the blocks.

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