Short:        CYCAS Demo: Architecture Design 2+3D, NoFPU
Author:       Wolfgang Weidner
Uploader:     cycas core de, Verlag Anja C  Frese
Type:         gfx/misc
Version:      1.78
Requires:     OS 3.0/3.1, 2MB, ECS/AGA/graphicsboard, 68020
Architecture: m68k-amigaos



   CYCAS  is  a 2D + 3D CAD/Architecture program for Amiga
   Computer.

   CYCAS was developed for all those people  who  want  to
   design, represent,  showcase and build architecture.

   Cycas   adheres   to   the   philosophy  of  simulating
   architectural  drawing  using  a  conventional  drawing
   board  as closely as possible, so that the draftsman is
   not faced with working methods that  are  untypical  of
   his trade.

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   New features in CYCAS 1.78:

   - 3-times faster display of patterns/hatches.
   - New pattern designed with points.
   - New function "Last" in the selection menu.
   - RPL (Real3D) -Export.
   - Material database for output as RPL and LWO.
   - Enhanced preview for 3D elements.
   - New DXF options:
       - 3D export
       - 3D export to Reflections
   - New  env.-variable CYSCALE for a correction factor
     for the output to printer.
   - New dimension symbol: arrows.
   - Optimizing for 68040/060 processors.
   - Bugfixes
   - English translation
   - Localized
   - New mesaurements: feet / inches

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   Features

   User interface:
     - Easy to handle
     - Online Help
     - WYSIWYG
     - Dialog windows
     - Layer technique

   Elements:
     - Symbols` library
     - Lines,  circles, texts, patterns, walls, openings,
       windows, doors and
     - Calculation of areas and volumina.
     - Semi-automatic and manual measurement.
     - Architectural elements such as 3D, units and
     - 3D basics.

   3D:
     - Intuitive input in the ground plan,  elevation and
       in isometric views.
     - Computing  graphics  such  as hidden line  or wire
       graphics  from various  perspective  or  isometric
       views.
     - Material  database  for  the  output of 3D data to
       Renderer.

   Import:
     - DXF 2D/3D

   Export:
     - DXF 2D/3D
     - LWO (Lightwave)
     - RPL (Real3D)
     - EPS-Postscript

   Output:
     - Workbench-Printer
     - HPGL

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   Limitations of the demo version:

   Saving  drawing  elements  is  not possible.  Output of
   drawings  only to printer. The output of 3D elements in
   Lightwave object format is limited.

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   System requirements:

        Software:    Kickstart 3.0, 3.1
                     Workbench 3.0, 3.1

        Minimum:     68020, 2MB RAM, HD

        Recommended: 68030/68882 or 68040/60,
                     6MB RAM and more
                     HD and graficsboard.
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                                      Verlag Anja C. Frese
                                      http://cycas.core.de
                                      email: cycas@core.de

                                                   Germany
                                             December 1998