CADRA® Features

Design and Drafting

• Multi-language support — including English, French, Italian, German, and Japanese
• Multiple platform support — including Windows®, Linux 4 and UNIX hardware (HPUX and Solaris)
• Industry leading collection of dimension types, styles, and standards
• Symbol libraries with built-in feature control and surface finish symbols
• Streamlined user interface — allows casual users to operate CADRA without having to learn complex command sequences
• Layer locking — allows users to lock a layer for viewing only
• Unlimited drawing size
• View-based — allows users to create up to 200 views with different 3D orientation and scales. This simplifies the creation of projected geometry
• In the latest database we can save up to 32000 figures with the part
• Associative detail views
• Automatic and view specific dimensioning new style update
• Windows-like "cut and paste" capability — enables you to reuse groups of entities in multiple CADRA sessions
• Advanced move and copy functions — enables rapid creation of symmetrical parts
• Advanced offset of grouped geometry and splines
• Up to 200 drawing overlays — assemble drawings to check component mounting, geometry, modification refer to entities available in other drawings
• 2D Cut Out for hidden line removal— excellent for easily creating technical documentation

Productivity Tools

• Fully integrated with Microsoft® Office using Microsoft® OLE™. Text and spreadsheets from Microsoft applications may be "live linked" in to CADRA drawings or CADRA drawings may be "live linked" into Microsoft documents. CADRA also supports OLE drag and drop.
• Large assortment of context-sensitive one-touch tools including:
  • QuickDim™ for intelligent dimensioning
  • QuickPick™ for rapid selection and insertion of parts, layers, and overlays
  • QuickHatch™ for crosshatching
  • QuickTrim™ for trimming and cornering
• Insight provides automatic selection of definition points, end points, and midpoints, and finds tangencies automatically
• FlexDesign for variational and dimension driven editing

Integration Tools

• Optional integrated solids with CADRA® Works or DesignGateway™
• CADRA Direct reads and writes to industry leading software packages — including CADAM, CADDS, IGES, DWG, DXF, CCD and reads from CATIA™ and MicroCADAM™
• Read legacy 3D wireframe drawings via IGES — user can directly manipulate the wireframe or project the wireframe into 2D views*
• Leverage your investment in legacy data as well as import/export data with other design and modeling system
• We support AutoCAD® 2008 and the latest AutoCAD write format for DXF/DWG (Intel Only)
• CCD (CATIA-CADAM) 4.2.4 Read and Write

* Mechanical Design Drafting Software, Plot, FlexDesign, 3D wire frame, IGES, and DXF are included in a CADRA Design Power Pack.