Draw3D
Draw 3D is much more than 3D editor. Draw 3D
includes four text processors
including
Animated
words,
Key word ,
Raster text and
Scrolling text
which makes text oriented operations extremely fast and
easy.
Draw 3D also
includes three
separate
effect editors:
Effect
editor,
Filter editor and
Write out editor
The latest version of Draw 3D includes the ability to
import DXF format files.
Graphics editor
Draw 3D
has up to four
windows
called "projections". Each
window has its own "projection
settings". In this
sense the term "projection settings" has nothing to do with the
laser, but it has to do with the particular view of the object.
There are of course front, top and side projections, but there
are also rotated and zoomed projections. In this way, you can
draw in the front, top and side view, but you can also draw on a
rotated plane as well. You can also store
up to 10 projection settings which
can be restored by the click of a menu.
Draw 3D
has a classic set of drawing tools
like Add point, Freehand (stream of points), Line, Rectangle,
Circle and Text. When you select a drawing
tool, a toolbar at the top of the screen shows all of the
parameters related to the tool. For
example, when you select the Circle
tool, its toolbar contains the
parameters that control start/end angle for making the arc,
the Line tool contains parameters for
the angle of drawing, the
Freehand tool contains density of
points and so on.
There
are alignment and snap
features
which make editing
and creating 3D objects easier. "Align" allows
you to set coordinates to specified step and "Snap"
allows you to join the points in 3D
space.
One of powerful features
is ability to define the custom shapes that will be used as
drawing tools. The idea of this tool is very simple
-- take any frame and use it as usual tools - like
rectangle. Object are stored inside library that provides
fast access
and the library is fully controllable and allows to load
the objects (frames) from ILD or any other frame-based file.
Draw 3D
provides editing tools like Move, Scale and Rotation. All tools
may be used in 3D space. Operations can be
applied to selected points or to the entire frame.
When the "keys-modifier" is enabled,
operations may be applied to a single axis if desired.
Draw 3D
provides
classic clipboard operations like Copy, Paste and Cut
and
uses Windows clipboard to allow the
transfer
of data between LAStudio applications.
Classic
drawing applications for Windows such as
Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator
allows you to copy vector graphics as
metafiles in to the windows clipboard. Now this door is opened
for laser images. Draw 3D allows you
to copy or paste the frame as metafile into the clipboard
and that can be used for editing of your frames inside
these great Windows drawing applications.
Each projection
window can display a bitmap image in the background. This
can be used for manual tracing.
The
Transformation dialog provides an
alternative way to apply editing operations like rotation, scale
and position via dialog. This dialog
allows you to define up to 16
operations. The operations are
saved into the buffer and can be re-applied via menu without
re-calling
the transformation dialog. Defined
operation can be applied to a copy of selected objects.
Another interesting
feature is making a copies by means of Transformation. May be
defined up to 16 copies and the operations will be applies
sequentially to each copy:
Only a
single circle was drawn by hand. All of the others were created
automatically bu the transformation dialog.
Draw 3D provides a wide
range of pre-calculated effects like wrapping on Sphere,
Hemisphere, Cylinder, Ring, etc. Some examples are
shown below:
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