file extension DTD

TechSoft created 2D Design for users who require sophisticated drawing and design features, but who don't want to spend a lifetime learning to use them. Although designed with professional capability, its ease of use means that 2D Design is the CAD standard for the vast majority of UK secondary schools.

Features:

• Exhaustive geometrical constructions, including circles, arcs, tangents, normals, etc. Essential for all constructional work.
• Comprehensive text facilities, even exceeding those on many sign-writing packages. Truetype fonts may be used, either as outlines or filled in colour, even hatched. Editable text blocks may contain different heights and angles, even different fonts.
• Single line fonts and an in-built font editor/designer.
• Powerful tools such as fully “tuneable” bezier curve drawing, text flow along paths, etc.
• Import/Export Bitmap data such as BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF.
• Import/Export WMF, EMF, DXF, HPGL, Acorn Draw and Designer V3 files.
• Convert appropriate bitmap images to vector paths with a user friendly conversion utility.
• Clip path tools, essential for creating professional high end graphic images.
• Comprehensive graduated fills.
• Comprehensive transformation commands include move/copy, rotate, mirror image, alter size, 3D effects, etc.
• Automatic or manual dimensioning.
• Contour routine provides either a powerful graphical tool, or the means to generate a cutter diameter compensated tool path - ideal for RotoCAMM, MODELA users.
• Powerful editing and delete facilities. Unlimited user named drawing layers.
• Cut and paste facilities allow links to many other packages, eg., put your drawing into a document on your word processor.
• Unique customisation feature allows layout and menus to be simplified to suit any age/ability.