Using this powerful feature, you can create self-maintaining Bills of Materials easily. Attributes provide the basic mechanism for generating Bills of Materials – Stardraw is particularly impressive here, offering a built-in report generator which uses live links to a drawing’s attributes. Unusually in this price sector, Stardraw’s library symbols can contain attribute data for text or numerical information. The only serious criticism is the program’s limited dimensioning facilities, although they’re probably OK for architectural work. Stardraw allows you to move objects in front or behind other objects – in this respect, it feels quite similar to object-oriented graphics program such as Designer or Corel Draw. The align command combines move and snap in cases where you need to work more accurately. The program doesn’t offer many editing commands as such, relying instead on grips or handles. There’s a pretty standard collection of drawing objects – lines, arcs, polygons, text and dimensions are all here, as well as bezier curves. Stardraw 2D provides a true Multiple Document Interface, so you can work on several drawings at once. A pop-up menu on the right-hand mouse button repeats some commands. There’s a toolbar along the top for file handling, undo and snaps, while a palette on the right contains drawing tools and display-handling features. On start-up, you’re presented with a fairly conventional Windows CAD interface. Although aimed at a specific vertical market, Starlite believe that Stardraw 2D is versatile enough for general use. Stardraw’s authors, Starlite Systems are well established in this field, with over 10 years’ experience in equipment manufacture and consultancy.
Stardraw 2D is a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) program for the professional lighting industry, being used to prepare lighting installations for concerts and shows. Here we’re inserting a symbol from the supplied lighting library. The simplicity of Stardraw 2D’s interface hides some clever design. 486 CPU Windows 3.1+Win32s (supplied), Windows 95 or Windows NT 4Mb RAM (16Mb for Windows NT) 2Mb disk-space
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