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House Plans Page

"Burma Shave" like
R oad signs below

draw toolbar

lines toolbar

polylines toolbar

snap toolbar

selection toolbar

modify toolbar

dimensions toolbar

measure toolbar

circles toolbar

arcs toolbar

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Videos explain CAD drawing principles using low cost QCad-Professional

We dont just teach CAD toolbars here, we also teach CAD concepts.

Ever tried to learn CAD by reading books or reading CAD Help Files? Then you know how frustrating and pointless it can be. "The Cad Training CD" is chock full of video clips that eliminate all that wasted time reading CAD books. Not to mention that this training CD costs less than most boring CAD books.

This CAD training course will help you to prepare for a CAD career and/or bring you up to speed for creating professional drawings using the low cost yet feature-rich QCad. This CAD training course will have you QCad proficient in short order. This training course includes a free bonus DryStacked Block House Plan Drawing CD if you are interested in this home construction method. See our house plans page for details.

Because of its amazing low price combined with a feature-rich set of drawing tools that rival many costly CAD programs, QCad was chosen as our preferred teaching platform. It is also multi-platform OS capable and provides numerous language translations. It had only one serious limitation, and that was the lack of available training for new CAD users. "The Cad Training CD" comes barreling down the tracks and completely blows away those new user training issues.

Starting with QCad doesn't mean you have to end with QCad. This acquired knowledge base will propel you rapidly into complete understanding of high-end commercial CAD systems. Maximize you college or trade school experience by becoming CAD literate before you start that expensive training.

No need to be CAD career motivated to find many excellent uses for a personal CAD program such as QCad. Now you can start that project that has been delayed for lack of any CAD experience.

Watching the CD videos is like having an expert trainer standing over your shoulder, walking you through and explaining all the features and various concepts. As you learn new and exciting CAD concepts in the videos, you can pause; try them live on your computer, then pickup where you left off.

30-course lessons with detailed CAD video training clips will help you to quickly develop rock solid 2D CAD drawing skills. Solid 2D skills are very necessary if you want to successfully advance to 3D later. The Cad Training CD will thoroughly examine drawing, editing, viewing and plotting. You will find all of the essential material necessary to create 2D renderings in a concise and thorough manner.

Covers introductory to advanced CAD training concepts such as navigating the user interface and proper use of basic and advanced drawing tools. Includes new drawing project considerations, and CAD concepts that increase both your CAD drawing speed and your CAD drawing accuracy.

Learn quickly at home using your own low cost copy of QCad and review the CAD video training CD exercises as many times as you like. Acquire a better understanding of those CAD drawing concepts that help you to draw with confidence. This CAD training course concludes with tutorials on drawing a home floor plan and one small part.

This CAD training course CD is written in English and designed to operate on Windows operating systems. If there is a demand, we will also offer the CAD course on DVD for use with other operating systems. All we need are e-mail requests to justify the extra DVD development effort.

You can purchase the low cost QCad Professional version or download current demo or community updates at www.RibbonSoft.com

Below are listed some of the menus that will be covered.

Drop-down Edit menu

Drop-down Modify menu

Drop-down Snap menu

Drop-down Layers menu

QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors or mechanical parts. QCad works under Linux, Unix Systems, Mac OS X and Windows. The source code of QCad is released under the GPL (Open Source).

This feature list applies to the latest release of QCad Professional v2.1.3.2 (05Jun07)

Layer support
Block support (grouping)
Integrated part / symbol browser
256 Colors
24 different line widths
19 line styles
35 CAD optimized fonts
200 undo/ redo levels
Clipboard functions (copy, cut, paste)
Rotate, scale, flip while pasting
Multi-document interface

Supported units:
  Metrical: Nanometer, Millimeter, Centimeter,
      Decimeter, Meter, ...
  Imperial: Inch, Foot, Mile, Microinch, Mil,
      Yard
  Other: Angstrom, Micron, Astro, Lightyear,
      Parsec

Supported file formats:
  DXF R12 and DXF 200x (reading/ writing)
  BMP, JPEG, PNG, .. (import/ export as bitmaps)
  PDF format export

Printing
  Printing to scale (e.g. 1:2, 1:100, ..)
  Print preview with paper selection

Construction types
Points
Lines
  with two points
  given absolute angle
  horizontal / vertical
  rectangles
  parallels
  bisectors
  tangents
  orthogonal
  given relative angle
  regular polygons
  freehand lines
Arcs
  center, radius, angles
  three points
  concentric
  adjacent to existing entity
Circles
  center, circle line point
  center, radius
  two opposed points
  three points
  concentric
Ellipses
  center, two points (minor and major axis)
  center, two points, start angle, end angle
Splines (NURBS)
  degrees 2, 3
  closed, open
Polylines
  line and arc segments
  add / delete nodes
  trim segments
  delete all nodes between two given segments
  create polylines from existing segments
  create equidistant polylines

Texts
  fonts: ISO, ISO cursive, Courier, Romans,
   ... (35   CAD fonts included)
  alignments: left, right, centered
  vertical alignments: top, bottom, middle
  unicode support (Japanese, Chinese, German   umlauts, ...)

Dimensions
  aligned
  linear
  horizontal / vertical
  radius
  diameter
  angles
  arrows (leaders)

Hatches
  40 patterns (extensible by the user)
  adjustable pattern scale and angle
  solid fill (color fill)

Raster images (bitmaps)
  insertion of bitmaps
  adjustable scale, rotation angle

Modification
  move
  rotate
  scale
  mirror
  move and rotate
  rotate and counter-rotate
  trim to entity
  trim by amount
  bevel
  round
  divide
  divide 2 (remove segment)
  stretch

Edit geometry (numeric)

Edit attributes (color, line width, line pattern, layer)

Exploding texts / dimensions / hatches / ellipses
     into atomic elements

Edit texts
  delete
  move to background / foreground
  modify properties of single or multiple entities
     with property editor

Element selection functions
  all / nothing
  single elements
  rectangular ranges
  connected elements (contours)
  elements intersected by a selecting line
  invert selection
  select layer

Snapping functions
  (used to position the mouse cursor to an
      exactly defined location)
  free
  snap to grid
  snap to endpoints
  snap to center points
  snap to middle points
  snap to intersections
  llocation defined by entered co-ordinates
       (relative/absolute/cartesian/angular)
  auto snap

Measuring functions
  distance between two points
  distance between an element and a point
  angle between two lines
  total length of selected entities
  polygonal area / circumference

Zoom functions
  redraw
  auto zoom
  zoom in / out (mouse wheel or buttons or
     hotkeys)
  panning (middle mouse button)
  window zoom

Part library
  over 4800 CAD parts included (screws, nuts,   symbols, ...)
  insert parts into the drawing
  adjust angle and scale
  extensible with user defined drawings and
       symbols

Misc features
  adjustable dimension unit format and
       accuracy
  modification of existing CAD fonts
  creation of new fonts
  ECMA scripting interface with integrated IDE
  Help = user reference manual

Language translations:
Bulgarian
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Punjabi
Portuguese (BR)
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Turkish
Welsh

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