Introducing IntelliCAD 98

A Viable Alternative to AutoCAD

Introduction

hen one product dominates a into the world of Windows-based software, it W software category for too long, the continues to lag in key areas, such as support- consumer inevitably pays the price. Competi- ing multiple open documents (MDI). tion inspires feature innovations, improved The introduction of IntelliCAD® 98 by Visio service, and better pricing. A choice of in March 1998 promises to transform the CAD software solutions is often as big a benefit as landscape, giving you exciting new options for any other feature. No category better illus- equipping your CAD workstations. IntelliCAD trates this point than the PC-based com- 98 offers unprecedented compatibility with puter-aided drafting (CAD) category. Autodesk AutoCAD, preserving your investment For the past 15 years, CAD has been in this de facto CAD standard while allowing synonymous with one solution: Autodesk your experienced CAD users to move from one AutoCAD. Industry experts have proposed program to the other without a hitch. many theories for the preeminence of this In addition, IntelliCAD 98 offers numerous software, but they’ve all eventually focused productivity features, such as its innovative on one factor—the huge investment Drawing Explorer™ and its easy support for CAD users have made in learning AutoCAD, multiple open documents, which can help new customizing its work environment, and and longtime CAD users alike work more creating drawings in its DWG format. The efficiently. IntelliCAD 98 also delivers seamless numerous software companies who’ve integration with the and Windows emerged to challenge Autodesk have all failed NT 4.0 desktops. to confront this core investment in DWG, seeking instead to establish rival standards Another compelling aspect of IntelliCAD 98 with little success. is its price. At an estimated street price of only $349, IntelliCAD 98 is ushering the DWG In the past decade, retail software prices standard into an era of modern Windows have plummeted, giving people access to pricing. Now you can afford to put a fully more powerful programs for a fraction of the featured, DWG-based CAD program on the prices once required—except in the CAD desktop of anyone who needs it—whether that arena, where AutoCAD customers continue user works full-time to create architectural, to pay as much as $3,000 a seat. As a result, engineering, GIS, and other CAD-related many companies make do with multiple documents or part-time to review, annotate, employees sharing access to CAD worksta- and occasionally edit CAD drawings. With its tions. In addition, while AutoCAD has moved

1 strong compatibility with AutoCAD, IntelliCAD you open an AutoCAD file in another CAD 98 also fits smoothly into AutoCAD-based program, that program may discard or workgroups. misinterpret data. If you round-trip that file— in other words, move it from AutoCAD to The final benefit IntelliCAD 98 offers you is another CAD program and back again—the Visio Corporation itself, which has consider- data loss can cause significant problems. able expertise in designing and marketing successful, affordable Windows-based graphics IntelliCAD 98 solves this problem by using software. More than 2 million people world- DWG as its native file format. It opens, edits, wide use Visio® products, including 250,000 and saves DWG files (version 2.5-Release 14) who use Visio Technical to create technical without conversion. In fact, you can save your schematics. files in DWG or DXF format (ASCII or binary) in any version of AutoCAD from version 2.5 to This document offers an in-depth tour of Release 14—a capability that makes IntelliCAD IntelliCAD 98 and demonstrates how this cost- 98 compatible with more versions of AutoCAD effective, powerful program can transform than AutoCAD Release 14 is. IntelliCAD 98 can your CAD work. even display previews of older DWG files, while AutoCAD can display previews only of Release Unprecedented Compatibility with 13 and Release 14 files. Autodesk AutoCAD In addition, if IntelliCAD 98 encounters In 1997, Autodesk claimed the existence of information it cannot work with, it preserves more than 2 billion DWG-format files that data unharmed. For details, see “Data worldwide—an enormous industry invest- preserved in round trips with AutoCAD” later ment that underscores why Visio has designed in this document. IntelliCAD 98 to deliver unprecedented

compatibility with the DWG standard. AutoCAD commands IntelliCAD 98 lets you read, write, and display If you’re typical of many AutoCAD users, DWG files without conversion. It also provides you’ve spent years mastering the commands extensive support for AutoCAD commands, that help you accomplish the bulk of your AutoCAD syntax, Autodesk AutoLISP and CAD work. Furthermore, you’re comfortable ADS progams, and other legacy AutoCAD and efficient working with the AutoCAD tools. If you’re an experienced AutoCAD user, command line. That’s why IntelliCAD 98 gives you can get to work immediately using the you the option of still working with the AutoCAD commands, tools, and files you use command line. every day. You simply right-click the toolbar to open Native DWG files the optional command line and enter your If you’ve ever used any AutoCAD competitor, AutoCAD commands to get right to work. you know the problem—being somewhat IntelliCAD 98 transparently maps these compatible with DWG files just isn’t good commands to the IntelliCAD 98 equivalents enough. In fact, it typically means data loss. If using aliases. For example, if you enter the AutoCAD Offset command, it calls the

2 IntelliCAD 98 Parallel command instantly. ADS programs Promoting an open DWG standard In February 1998, a group of CAD Furthermore, the program lets you create AutoCAD has adapted to the needs of different industry leaders—including Visio additional aliases with graphical ease (see market niches by providing the Autodesk and 13 other charter members— ™ “Visual customization of the work environ- founded the OpenDWG Alliance , a Development System (ADS), a C-language API nonprofit organization with the sole ment” later in this document for details). that lets in-house and third-party developers mission of promoting an open DWG standard. DWG is clearly the most IntelliCAD 98 offers other command create custom applications for vertical markets. popular format in the world today support that benefits new and longtime CAD You can also use those ADS-based applications for storing and exchanging 2-D and 3-D CAD drawings. However, it is with IntelliCAD 98. If you have an in-house users alike. The program provides menu and also an undocumented, proprietary toolbar access to hundreds of AutoCAD- development team that creates these programs, format that eludes easy read and write access to the data stored compatible commands, and the program you can have it recompile its programs using within it. The alliance is committed intelligently extends certain commands to the libraries provided on the IntelliCAD 98 to documenting this standard and to provide greater functionality. For example, the product CD-ROM. providing the OpenDWG Toolkit— C programming language libraries Circle command in IntelliCAD 98 offers an arc In addition, prominent third-party that provide read and write access option for converting arcs to circles; the to DWG files—free of charge for developers of ADS and C++-based pro- noncommercial use. (Commercial Rectangle command can produce squares or grams—including CadPLUS, Cimlogic, Cyco vendors can obtain a nonexclusive, rotated rectangles; and the Parallel command International, drcauto, Eagle Point Software, perpetual, royalty-free license for this toolkit by joining the alliance as can offset in both directions at once. Framework Technology, Intergraph, Ketiv a dues-paying member.) For more details about the importance of While its AutoCAD command support is Technologies, and Hitachi—have already opening the DWG standard or to extensive, it has certain limits. IntelliCAD 98 recompiled their popular programs to work obtain the OpenDWG toolkit, visit does not yet support certain groups of with IntelliCAD 98. For a full list, download a the alliance Web site (www.opendwg.org). commands, such as ACIS solid modeling .pdf of the catalog of solutions and services at commands, ASE commands (AutoCAD SQL www.visio.com/products/intellicad/partnering. extension), Internet commands, and others. Two working spaces, plus external references For a complete list of these unsupported commands, visit the IntelliCAD 98 section of IntelliCAD 98 offers two working areas (just as the Visio Web site (www.visio.com/intellicad). AutoCAD does): the model space and the paper space. The model space is the area in AutoLISP routines which you create 2-D and 3-D entities using For years now, experienced CAD users have either a World Coordinate System (WCS) or a been developing AutoLISP routines to User Coordinate System (UCS). You can view automate and enhance functionality in different aspects of this model space at the AutoCAD. It’s not surprising, then, that same time in a tiled view, but you work on and literally thousands of these routines exist in print only one view at a time. corporate AutoLISP libraries or in the public The paper space mode represents a paper domain for you to use. IntelliCAD 98 main- version of your drawing. It allows you to tains this long-term investment by running arrange different views of your drawing the most AutoLISP routines directly (occasionally, way you would want them to appear in a you may run into an AutoLISP routine that printed version. It also lets you add annota- requires revision only because it calls a com- tions, borders, and title blocks. mand that the product doesn’t yet support).

3 In addition, IntelliCAD 98 lets you attach support everything. For example, you cannot entire separate drawings to your current work with ACIS solid models or with TrueType drawing using external references. fonts. However, when opening DWG files, IntelliCAD 98 behaves with the utmost intelli- Import of menu, script, font, and other files gence—alerting you when data it cannot work You can transfer your custom AutoCAD with is included and preserving that data environments into IntelliCAD 98 with unharmed. This means that you can take the complete ease. IntelliCAD 98 works fully with file back to AutoCAD without a problem. This symbol libraries, fonts (SHX), scripts (SCR), intelligent handling particularly supports using menus (MNU), and dialog box (DCL) files IntelliCAD 98 in workgroups that (dialog box files are typically part of ADS AutoCAD and IntelliCAD 98 workstations. programs or AutoLISP routines). These capabilities make it simple to get to work Exceptional Productivity Features quickly in a familiar drafting environment. In designing IntelliCAD 98, Visio stayed focused Display of raster images on one key goal: delivering superb compatibil- IntelliCAD 98 displays a variety of raster ity with AutoCAD. However, the company also image file types. You can view and export set a second goal of making improvements WMF (Windows metafile), EMF (enhanced anywhere that didn’t interfere with the first metafile), and SLD (slide) files. You can display goal. The result is that you gain innovative and BMP, GIF, JPG, TIF, PCX, and CALS Type 1 often unique productivity tools that can enhance your CAD work. From its support for files embedded in DWG files. opening multiple documents at once to its Data preserved in round trips with AutoCAD ability to undo and redo unlimited numbers of drawing steps, IntelliCAD 98 delivers an While IntelliCAD 98 offers exceptional extraordinary toolset for your work. compatibility with AutoCAD, it doesn’t

Multiple open documents According to the AutoCAD Users Group International, the number one feature request from AutoCAD users is the ability to open multiple documents at once (MDI). Intelli- CAD 98 addresses this need by providing complete support for opening multiple documents at once. With this functionality, you can: • Review two or more drawings at once (in a single instance of IntelliCAD 98). • Copy objects from one drawing to another easily. • Switch to the Drawing Explorer view (see Open multiple drawings at once and then easily cut and paste among them. details in next section) and copy elements, such

4 as linetypes, layers, and text styles, from one elements. You can also copy and paste elements drawing to another. from one drawing to another instantly. • Load and edit drawings that appear as xref (externally referenced) drawings. The Drawing Explorer even provides an easy way to view and identify the blocks in a AutoCAD, by contrast, is limited to letting drawing. You can choose whether to view a you open multiple drawings in different graphical image of each block or to view block instances of the program. Each instance details, including the names, number of requires at least 10 MB of extra RAM to open, insertions, and cross-references to them in a putting a drain on valuable system resources. drawing.

Support for scripting Scripts in IntelliCAD 98 work similarly to macros in Office programs. You can use them to record and automate the tasks that you perform all of the time. For example, a script can capture the command names, options, and coordinates you use in any given task.

IntelliCAD 98 not only supports scripting, it reads and writes SCR (script) files created in AutoCAD. In addition, IntelliCAD 98 provides certain key improvements that vastly enhance

Use the Drawing Explorer to copy and paste several elements at your productivity: once from one drawing to another. View thumbnails of blocks in the Drawing Explorer. • Automatic launching. If you double-click an SCR file in Windows Explorer, the file launches IntelliCAD 98 and runs the script. The Drawing Explorer • Script Recorder. IntelliCAD 98 provides a The Drawing Explorer provides a different view unique Script Recorder that automatically captures keystrokes and mouse actions to of your drawings. Instead of seeing them as produce accurate scripts. drawings, you view the contents of the draw- • Script appending. IntelliCAD 98 can easily add ings in a list that resembles the way Windows new scripts to existing scripts. Explorer displays files. In particular, the • Enhanced scripting commands. IntelliCAD 98 Drawing Explorer lets you see and browse all of includes two new commands for beginning recording and stopping a script from running. the layers, blocks, linetypes, styles, views, and

user coordinate systems in use. If more than one Simultaneous editing of multiple entities drawing is open, the Drawing Explorer groups As a modern Windows program, IntelliCAD each drawing’s elements separately. 98 lets you modify multiple entities at once With the Drawing Explorer, you can create with a simple right-mouse click. For example, new elements, change element parameters, set you might select all of the entities on one layer the current element, rename elements, and delete and move them to another layer, or you might

5 change all entities of one color to another color. click the Reset button in the dialog box to return AutoCAD, by contrast, allows you to edit only to the default state for the user interface. one entity at a time, or at best to change a common subset of properties. Unlimited undo and redo steps IntelliCAD 98 can undo and redo an unlimited Visual customization of the work environment number of steps in any work session. AutoCAD With IntelliCAD 98, you can place all of the can undo an unlimited number of steps but commands, tools, and shortcuts you need at can redo only one. When you’re working on your fingertips without resorting to program- complex drawings, this flexible support for ming. IntelliCAD 98 collects all of the changing your mind—whether you’re undoing customization options for menus, keyboard a bad idea or redoing steps you realize you shortcuts, toolbars, and aliases together in one need—can really make a difference. handy dialog box. You can modify your menus by adding, deleting, and moving menu items, Photorealistic 3-D rendered drawings While IntelliCAD 98 doesn’t support 3-D ACIS commands, it does fully support 3-D commands. In addition, Visio Corporation has licensed the LightWorks 3-D engine to provide professional 3-D drawing tools and capabilities. This support makes it a snap for you to produce high-quality 3-D models and display them as wireframes, with hidden lines re- moved, with surface shading, or as fully rendered, photorealistic artwork. In addition, IntelliCAD 98 provides these tools for ensuring the professional quality of your 3-D models: • The Image Background Editor. You can modify Modify menus, toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and aliases with a few the background area, which is essentially any clicks of the mouse. part of the image that’s not covered by the model itself. You can apply a single color, a spacers, submenus, and context-sensitive right- graduated blend between two colors, an click menus. To create new toolbars, you simply imported image, or clouds. drag and drop buttons from the dialog box • Lighting Studio. You can model four light sources—spot, point, distant or parallel, and into a toolbar, or from a toolbar to the dialog ambient—to produce a more realistic effect. box. • Material Properties Editor. You can choose among many options for setting the transpar- Keyboard shortcuts can really enhance ency and reflectance type for rendering. Your efficiency, so IntelliCAD 98 lets you assign any options include shiny plastic, dull plastic, shiny metal, dull metal, mirrors, and glass. command to any combination of non-alphanu- meric keys. To modify aliases, on the other When you’re ready to produce fully ren- hand, you simply assign any command to any dered drawings, IntelliCAD 98 offers sophisti- sequence of alphanumeric keystrokes. If you cated raytracing to ensure the final make a mistake or change your mind, simply photorealistic quality of those drawings.

6 Plotted drawings printed with accuracy Many CAD drawings are useful only if the final printed versions are plotted consistently and accurately. To help you achieve the best printed results possible, IntelliCAD 98 includes the WinLINE driver, which allows it to work seamlessly with HPGL and HPGL/2 devices, such as Hewlett-Packard plotters (this driver compensates for the weaknesses in the default Windows drivers for HPGL and HPGL/2 devices).

The WinLINE driver offers key plotting Produce photorealistic versions of 3-D artwork with the click of a button. capabilities, including the ability to map A modern Windows application screen colors to plotted pen colors or to line A 32-bit application, IntelliCAD 98 was weights. In addition, the driver produces plot designed for the Windows 95 and Windows files that are up to 90 percent smaller than NT 4.0 desktops. The toolbars at the top of the those produced with the default Windows window look and function like those in drivers. The driver also returns CPU control to 97. You have a choice of IntelliCAD 98 more quickly than the default working with beginning, intermediate, or Windows drivers do. advanced versions of these toolbars. You can also work with context-sensitive right-click Smooth Integration with the menus, and you can drag and drop DWG files Windows Desktop into a drawing. Because of this strong integra- tion with the Windows desktop, Microsoft With an installed base of more than 70 million Corporation has certified IntelliCAD 98 as users, Windows is the dominant computer Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 compliant. operating system in the world. It’s also the most popular operating system for most This integration with modern Windows businesses, appearing on 7 out of 10 business technology is particularly useful if you don’t desktops. Given the significant investment work with CAD tools often. The application many of you have made in learning Windows closely resembles the Microsoft Office applica- standards, it made sense to design IntelliCAD tions that most business people use, so it’s 98 to strictly adhere to these standards. From its easier to start working with it after several days toolbars to its support for Microsoft ActiveX, or weeks away from it. The interface even that’s what you’ll find—a modern Windows includes tooltips and other user interface hints application that fits in smoothly with your that make the program easier and more other business software tools. accessible to use.

7 ActiveX support Extended functionality through VBA programs Like most modern Windows applications IntelliCAD 98 includes a preview version of (including other Visio products), IntelliCAD Microsoft for Applications (VBA), 98 fully supports Microsoft ActiveX. You can a development environment that simplifies edit embedded ActiveX objects—including the creation and execution of Visual Basic Visio Technical drawings, Microsoft Word applications. This built-in programming documents, and Microsoft Excel charts— environment offers you several distinct contained in IntelliCAD 98 drawings. You can advantages in developing custom solutions also edit IntelliCAD 98 drawings in-place from for your business. It: within any ActiveX-compatible program. • Works just like the VBA environment for Microsoft Office, so it will be familiar to any VBA programmers you hire to develop applications for you. • Includes information that helps developers select and implement IntelliCAD 98 interface methods and constants. • Works efficiently, exposing more events that require less code to access and control. • Integrates its code into IntelliCAD 98, producing files that run faster and are easier to distribute than standalone solutions. • Supports an Office 97–like approach to macros.

With built-in VBA, you can extend the functionality in IntelliCAD 98 and easily share it with anyone using your drawings. You could, for example, create simple programs that let Visio Technical produces precise 2-D technical schematics, such as space plans, electrical diagrams, and HVAC designs, using an intuitive drag-and-drop you automatically generate bills of materials approach to drawing. Instead of drawing each object separately, you develop schematics using SmartShapes® symbols that represent those objects intelligently. or parts lists. This efficient process makes Visio Technical an invaluable tool to use side-by-side with IntelliCAD 98. Through ActiveX, it’s easy to embed and edit Visio Technical schematics in IntelliCAD drawings, or vice versa. The IntelliCAD 98 Investment

This functionality is particularly useful when Part of making any software buying decision is you incorporate IntelliCAD 98 drawings into a assessing the support costs and resources report in Microsoft Word, for example, and available for that program. If you want to want to continue making changes to the customize IntelliCAD 98 to support your drawings. You can also use ActiveX technology corporate needs, you may need access to third to incorporate technical schematics from Visio parties who can help you. While IntelliCAD 98 Technical more efficiently. You could, for takes some off the edge of the learning curve example, design a complex building in with its modern Windows interface (you can IntelliCAD 98, develop its electrical and HVAC apply skills you’ve acquired from other systems in Visio Technical, and combine the Windows programs), it requires a significant drawing information into one useful file. learning investment, as does AutoCAD.

8 The fact is that the third-party response to a business relationship with a nationally IntelliCAD 98 has been phenomenal. Because recognized training organization, of IntelliCAD 98’s strong support for legacy KnowledgeWorks, to create courseware that AutoCAD features, it offers a tremendous and supports your training needs. That courseware relatively inexpensive growth opportunity for will be available in June 1998. the third-party development and training community that’s grown up around AutoCAD. Conclusion Here’s a brief look at the third-party support you can find for IntelliCAD 98. IntelliCAD 98 is the first viable and affordable alternative to AutoCAD. It combines superior Third-party software AutoCAD compatibility with innovative Since Visio first previewed IntelliCAD 98 at productivity features and a modern Windows the A/E/C show in June 1997, the third-party interface to deliver a smart, new choice in response has been overwhelmingly positive. professional CAD tools. Whether you’re a full- When IntelliCAD 98 was released in March time architect, engineer, or designer or a part- 1998, hundreds of third-party applications time manager who needs to work with CAD were already available from more than 40 drawings but has difficulty justifying the cost developers, a number that is growing monthly. of a $3,750 copy of AutoCAD, you can benefit Many of the most important third-party from working with IntelliCAD 98 software. solution developers—including Cimlogic, For more information about IntelliCAD 98 CadPlus, Cyco International, Eagle Point by Visio, visit www.visio.com/intellicad. Software, Hitachi, and Ketiv Technologies— have already recompiled their popular programs to work with IntelliCAD 98. Visio Corporation is committed to developing more third-party relationships that will ensure you find the solutions you need to meet your market niche requirements.

Training resources Like AutoCAD, IntelliCAD 98 takes time and training to learn (if you’re a trained AutoCAD user, however, you can get to work immedi- ately. For the most up-to-the-minute list of trainers and consultants, see the IntelliCAD 98 section of the Visio Web site (www.visio.com/ intellicad98). In addition, Visio has developed

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IntelliCAD 98 System Requirements Visio Technical 5.0 System Requirements

• 95 or Windows NT 4.0 operating • Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 system operating system

• 486/66 processor (minimum); Pentium processor or • 486/66 processor (minimum); Pentium processor or higher recommended higher (recommended) • 16 MB of RAM (minimum); 24 MB of RAM or • 16 MB of RAM (minimum); 24 MB of RAM or more (recommended) more (recommended) • 40 MB of free hard-disk space for a minimum installation • 50 MB of free hard-disk space for a full installation • CD-ROM drive (for installation only) • CD-ROM drive (for installation only)

• Includes single-user license (volume licenses available)

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