An important aspect of any CAD tool is its 2D drafting and detailing capabilities. With the majority of all CAD projects ending in 2D drawings, the ability to create or open a 3D design and rapidly and effectively create those 2D drawings is of critical importance. This is why we have chosen to focus DoubleCAD on exactly this task.

DoubleCAD XT Pro excels in its 2D capabilities. The ability to explode viewports makes it easy to create flat 2D vector drawings from any view of the model. The Drafting Palette creates associative views, sections, and detailed views with a single click – even from an Xref. These object views can be dimensioned and annotated rapidly.

Different visual styles allow for materials, fills, even transparent fills and gradients to be used to add effects and visual clarity. Lines and custom line styles allow for color or width by layer. Polyline segments may have differing starting and ending line widths.

But it all begins with fundamental drawing tools. And in that regard DoubleCAD XT Pro is rich. (Each video below is under 30 seconds.) There are:

• 14 basic Line (video) tools including Polyline (video), irregular Polygon (video), Perpendicular (video), Parallel (video), and tangent lines


• 8 Double Line (video) tools (but there are also self-healing Architectural Wall (video) tools)


• 8 Multiline (video) tools including polyline and polygon tools


• 14 Circle (video) tools including 5 methods for drawing Ellipses (video)


• 22 Arc (video) tools including tangencies, point fitting methods, and 4 elliptical arcs


• 5 Point (video) tools from dots to crosses and even stars


• 5 curve tools including Bezier (video), freehand sketch, and convert to curve


• index color and true color support


• custom brush style editor for combining colors, gradients, hatches, and transparency

DoubleCAD also includes drawing aides. These include:

• 13 basic object snaps with controllable Osnap priority including parametric Divide By Segment snaps


• extended ortho and apparent intersection for geometric aids


• a fully parametric grid


• easily parameterized ortho angular system


• 11 types of Construction Line (video) geometry

There are many more tools to aid in the drafting and detailing functions, among them all the capabilities for quickly and easily creating views and viewports of any size and shape. There are extensive paper space and printing capabilities. Marker and Schedule tools, leaders, multi-leaders, dimension tools, and symbols content. See additional information on the next several pages with Drafting Palette, Parametric Constraints, Annotation, and Symbols.