DANCAD 3D (v2.0eg) by Daniel H. Hudgins REGISTRATION ($44.00) (Abstracted from the documentation)... This version of DANCAD3D is dedicated to the thousands of DANCAD3D users around the world and especially to those that supported its development with financial and spiritual support and constructive criticism and view points. And additionally to the dealers that agreed to sell v1.x and gave me the opportunity to build DANCAD3D into a useful program. Hardware Requirments : * 100% IBM compatible XT, AT, or PS/2 computer. * 512K to 640K DOS system memory. * CGA, EGA, HGC, or Hercules video board. VGA also works in EGA mode. * A HardDisk or other drive of 720KB or more. Recommended Equipment : * 80286 or 80386 cpu running at 10MHz or faster. * A voice coil harddisk with an access or 28 ms. or faster. * A three button mouse or 3D track ball. * A PostScript compatible laser printer or photo typesetter. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Version 2.0eg of DANCAD3D is compiled from nearly thirty thousand lines of Turbo Pascal (tm) Borland, and assembly code. Because of the need to use as much of your computers memory for data storage DANCAD3D makes great use of overlays. Overlays allow DANCAD3D to work automatically from macro command files. But since overlays are on a disk they take time to load. Putting DANCAD3D in a expanded memory RAM disk makes it work faster. A harddisk is needed for efficient use of some commands such as dot page files. As a minimum you need all the files named DANCAD??.??? on one disk. It can be run on a 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M floppy. - - - DANCAD3D works with the CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) (tm) IBM Co., the EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) (tm) IBM Co., and the Hercules (tm) Hercules Inc. video board. You can install DANCAD3D to run as follows by renaming the configuration file (when you run the program for the first time it makes the file up for the type of video board you pick, do not erase your configuration file since it holds the names of your alias files and the boot up default drawing settings along with your printer and plotter type, pick [C]hange from the main menu to change or set these). - - - DANCAD3D will print at high quality on most currently manufactured printers. It will work with 8 pin and some 24 pin printers that have a 240 dot per inch mode. It will work with line feeds of 1/216 or 1/180 inch and also with 1/144 or 1/72. Provision has been made to print on 120 dot per inch printers as well. A maximum of 1920 dot columns is supported. The codes for the major brands of printers are - - - DANCAD3D v2.x supports most plotters. It can drive up to 127 plotter pens. You can drive any port or send the plotter data to a disk file for spooling later while you draw some more drawings. Most plotters use a ASCII text type of data format so the DOS spooler PRINT should work if your plotter will accept a form feed, ASCII 12. - - - DANCAD3D v2.x supports the MicroSoft (tm) MicroSoft Corp. compatible mice and the FastTRAP (tm) MicroSpeed Inc. 3D trackball. Be sure to run the driver that came with your device before running DANCAD3D. - - - DANCAD3D draws lines. The lines can go in any direction in a 3D space. If you want to do 2D drawing just ignore the 3rd dimension and pick the [F]ront view when you draw. - - - The Help screens should be able to get you started drawing. From the main menu press [T] (tutor) to read 10 general help screens. To draw select [D] from the main menu. Select [T] (tutor) from the draw sub-menu to see 10 help screens about the drawing commands. The built in ASCII text editor that is used to edit DANCAD3D's macro command files (actually powerful CAD programs) has 10 help screens also. Press [W] (write) from the main menu to enter the text editor. Then press the [Control] and [^] keys at the same time to see the help screens. To get out of the editor press ^[K]^[X]. - - - All the drawing commands are in the menu that is at the right side of the drawing screen. Those commands change depending on what menu you are in and what you are doing. You can select any command you see in the menu as long as the pop-up text window in not covering the center of the screen. Look at the menus and read them. The printed manual describes all the commands in detail.