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Draw3D
Draw 3D is much more than 3D editor. Draw 3D includes four text processors such as Animated words, Key word , Raster text and Scrolling text that makes text oriented operations maximally fast and easy. Draw 3D also includes three separate effect editors: Effect editor, Filter editor and Write out editor New import formatThe latest version of Draw 3D includes the
ability to import DXF format files. Graphics editorProjectionsDraw 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. Drawing toolsDraw 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. Align and SnapThere 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. Object toolOne 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. Editing toolsDraw 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. ClipboardDraw 3D provides classic clipboard operations like Copy, Paste and Cut and uses Windows clipboard to allow the transfer of data between LAStudio applications. MetafilesClassic 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. Raster image as backgroundEach projection window can display a bitmap image in the background. This can be used for manual tracing. TransformationThe 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. WrappingDraw 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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