Symmetrica v5.1

Symmetrica is a powerful 3D drafting and modeling program for Windows.  Symmetrica delivers the serious drafting capabilities of expensive and complex Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) systems in an easy-to-use and cost-effective software architecture.

Symmetrica opens the door to powerful drafting tools, enabling all users to enjoy high-end CAD power at a low-end price. Conforming closely to the Microsoft user interface guidelines, Symmetrica can dramatically reducing the training time typical of complex CAD solutions.

Windows All The Way

Symmetrica conforms closely to the Microsoft user interface guidelines, dramatically reducing the training time typical of complex CAD solutions. Many early users have responded enthusiastically after discovering that their familiarity with other Windows software pays off with Symmetrica.

List of Features

Many features typically found only in high-end CAD systems have been incorporated into Symmetrica in an easy and intuitive fashion. The following is a list of features that reveal some of the power built into this product.

• Serious dimensionally accurate computer drafting tools.

• Lines, Arcs, Circles, and Polylines

• Symbols

• Text Lines and Text Boxes

• Dimensions and Leader Lines

• Crosshatch

• Pictures (BMP’s, JPG’s)

• Beams and Columns

• Column Bay Lines

• Walls with Door and Window Openings

• Ceiling Grids with Lights and Diffusers

• Triangles, Quads, and Meshes

• Disks and Filled Polygons

• Boxes, Cylinders, Spheres, Cones

• Surface Extrusions, Rotations, Fills, and Tessellations

• External References to Link Drawings Together

• And Much More…

• High-Performance 3D Display – Choose between OpenGL, DirectX, or Windows GDI for the 3D rendering technology that works best with your display hardware and drivers. Do your work in fully rendered first-person perspective more easily than many CAD programs handle 2D drafting.

• No built-in limits!  Unlimited drawing layers, unlimited number of elements per drawing layer, unlimited nesting of scaled and rotated symbols.

• Full 3D drawing system: 3D drawing coordinates, 3D view rotations, 3D element location and snapping, 3D shaded rendering.

• Drafting and 3D modeling tools help you to develop your designs to high levels of graphical detail.

• Import and export AutoCAD format DWG and DXF files.

• Import ‘3DS’ files to gain access to worlds of 3D model data available on the Internet.

• Multiple Document Interface enables multiple documents and multiple views per document to be open simultaneously.

• Use Metric and Imperial units simultaneously.

• Undo all changes to the drawing back to the previous New/Load/Save operation and Redo back again.

• Print and preview your drawings in both scaled and un-scaled formats. Print lines only or fully shaded 3D renderings.

• Accurately split large scaled plots across multiple printer sheets.

• Supports all Windows compatible output devices that use standardized Windows drivers, including print, plot and fax devices.

• Integrated calculator tool for solving Scalar and vector problems as you work.

• Clipboard support: within a Drawing window, between drawing windows of the same or different drawings, and to other clipboard targets such as MS Paint and MS Write.

• Drag and Drop support: between drawing windows of the same or different drawings, between the drawing window and detail tree for quick storage and retrieval of drawing details and components, and between Symmetrica and other targets like Microsoft Word.

• Easy to translate to any language.

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements:

 

• Intel^® or compatible CPU
• Microsoft^® Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP 
• 128 MB of RAM
• Color display adapter set to 1024x768 screen resolution
• 80 MB available hard-disk space
 

Recommended System:

 

• 1 GHz processor or faster
• Microsoft^® Windows XP
• 512 MB of RAM
• 3D hardware-accelerated graphics adapter set to 1280x1024
• 19" SVGA display monitor or larger
• 200 MB available hard-disk space for drawing and work data
• CD-ROM

• Windows compatible printer or plotter

• Internet Access
• Three-button mouse

Symmetrica is not adware, spyware, hackware, or any other such devious concoction. The Symmetrica files that can be downloaded here do not contain viruses, worms, cockroaches, bedbugs, lice or other pests. Software Engineering is committed to producing excellent quality software that is genuinely useful. Symmetrica is not malicious or mischievous in any way.

A free trial version of Symmetrica can be downloaded here. The download package contains the complete software product. A licensing dialog appears while running the trial version to remind you to purchase a license. After a license is purchased, Software Engineering issues a password that eliminates the licensing dialog.

Symmetrica costs only $199.95. The Policies page provides details about bulk discounts, support and upgrades.

Symmetrica v5.1 for Windows - Almost 50MB