2D CAD

Breeze through part creation with MetaCAM's speedy drafting engine. Intelligent snaps, automatic construction lines and a rich set of sheet metal primitives make you more productive than ever, while a library of canned shapes and user-definable parametrics help automate repetitive tasks.

Other refinements include support for blocks, layers, spline curves and an automatic dimensioning system.

Whether you are creating parts from scratch, or cleaning up geometry imported from DXF, DWG, IGES or PRT files, MetaCAM's drafting system provides the tools to keep you productive.

The Common Shape Maker helps automatically draw standard shapes such as circles, obrounds, ellipses and triangles.

This Powerful Function can easily Grid out standard shapes in to Patterns such as circular arrays, line at angles and staggered grids.

Intelligent Snaps allow the user to easily connect to midpoints, endpoints and intersections. This feature makes drawing CAD with a mouse extremely easy and fast.

Auto-Dimensioning allows standard dimensions applied to CAD with one mouse click.

All attributes of the dimensioning process such as size of text, break in point, arrows, ordinate or chain dimensioning are user defined.

Custom Layers can be defined in addition to the MetaCAM standard layers. Layers from DXF, DWG files are maintained during import and automatically added to the Layer Control Definitions.

All Layer Names, Colors, Line types are user defined and are used in the CAM process to automate certain tooling process such as Marking, Etching, Forming for punches.

Bend Lines can be moved to Bend Layers and assigned custom Bend Angles, Bend Deductions, Bend Radius. This data can be used to Fold up the part to a 3D Model or to generate a Bend Report that can be given to the Brake Operator with a 2D view of the drawing.

The windows standard True Type Text Library is available to define Text for etching, Part marking or Cutting.