| USABILITY & INTERFACE |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| Fully Customisable User Interface & Preferences |
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| Easy, Handle-Based Editing |
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| Transparent & Bitmapped Fills |
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| Draw Order by Layer |
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| Brush Style Editor |
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| Layer Filters |
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| Object SNAP Priortisations |
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| Video & Interactive Tutorials |
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| Paper & Model Space |
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| Performance Enhanced via Integrated Redway3d® Drawing engine |
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| Explode Viewports |
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| Smart Dimension Tool |
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| SNAP Prioritisation |
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| Transparent & Bit-mapped Fills |
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| ARCHITECTURAL |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| Intelligent, Self-Healing Walls |
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| Self-Aligning Blocks that Insert into Walls |
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| House Wizard |
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| Intelligent (Parametric) Attribute-rich Architectural Objects |
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| Windows & Doors |
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| Muntins - both Doors & Windows |
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| Roofs, Slabs, Stairs & Rails |
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| Component Walls |
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| Architectural Sections & Elevations (3D-2D documentation) |
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| Style Manager |
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| 2D DRAFTING & DETAILING TOOLS |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| Auto Tools (Scaling, Sizing, Positioning, Rotating & Movement) |
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| Wide Selection of Basic 2D Drafting Tools |
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| Smart & Quick Dimension Tools |
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| Layer Properties Manager |
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| Bezier & Fair Curves |
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| Text Editing |
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| Index Colour Support |
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| Doors, Windows & Markers |
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| Schedule Tool & Wizard P |
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| Self-Aligning Blocks that Insert into Walls |
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| Dynamic Dimensions for Doors & Windows |
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| Roof Tool P |
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| Drafting Palette (Create associative sections & cut planes) |
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| Copy In Place Tool |
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| PDF Underlay Tool |
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| Xclip Support |
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| 3D DRAWING & EDITING TOOLS |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| Assembly Tools |
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| Boolean Operations - Add, Subtract, Intersect |
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| 3D Primitives, Meshes & Splines |
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| Extrude, Revolve, Twist & Sweep Editing Tools |
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| 3D MODELLING |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D/3D |
| 3D Solid Modelling & Editing |
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| 3D Terrain Modelling |
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| 3D Shelling, Lofting & Surfaces |
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| 3D Deformable Modelling |
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| 3D Pattern Copy Tools |
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| History Tree with Editor |
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| PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING & VISUALISATION |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| 3D Photorealistic Rendering |
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| Advance Rendering - customisable ray tracing, sketch rendering, depth of field |
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| Gradient Fills |
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| Luminance of Objects, Shadow Casting |
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| OpenGL & Hidden Line Rendering |
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| Ray Tracing |
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| Customisable Material Library |
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| Customisable Environments Library |
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| Radiosity |
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| MECHANICAL |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| 2D Geometric and Dimension Constraints |
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| Adhesive Symbol Tool (fully parametric) |
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| Bend/Unbend Tools |
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| Branched Lofting |
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| Face-to-Face Lofting |
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| Gear Contour Tool |
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| Geometric Tolerance Tool |
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| Surface Roughness and Weld Symbols |
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| Thread Tool |
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| INTEROPERABILITY - FILE IMPORT & EXPORT |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| AutoCAD® .DWG & .DXF, DWX File Compatibility |
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| Import & Open File Formats |
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| Export, Save As, Publish File Formats |
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| Google™ SketchUp™ (SKP) Import (geometry, views, materials, components) & Exports |
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| Open & Save 3DM (Rhino), IGES, OBJ, SAT, STL, STP mechanical drawings |
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| Terrain Data (XYZ) File Import & Export Support |
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| File Conversion Tool with Batch File Conversion |
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| Network License Support |
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| PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT & CONTENT |
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Pro Platinum 18 |
Pro 18 |
Deluxe 2D / 3D |
| Xref, Blocks, Block Editor Support |
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| Symbols, Part Library |
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| Ruby Scripting |
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| Programmable SDK |
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| Macro Recorder |
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