CAD Import VCL

The most popular Operating Systems in decades of 80s were largely replaced with the first versions of MS Windows which offered a GUI (Graphical User Interface) in place of text only mode based Operating Systems. The graphical interface offers ease of use with an intuitive interface and is easily usable even by users with average computer skills. This has led to a revolution in the entire industry where modern applications and programs are coming with attractively designed visual user interface including graphical layout of various objects and functionalities. Due to such market demands, developers have to come up with some efficient solution for fast integration of graphic objects into their application, where most of the objects are designed in powerful designing software such as CAD. CAD Import VCL v.8.0 helps developers at this.

CAD Import VCL v.8.0 is a component for Delhi and C++ builder applications and comes with full source code for integration. The powerful component support both raster and vector formats and these formats are more than 30 in number including AutoCAD DXF, DWG, DWF, HPGL, CGM, PLT, HGL, BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPG and many more. In short, it supports almost all the popular CAD formats and provides the user with ease of access to the CAD entities properties. The program is fully compatible with report builder and Fast Report for VCL. The program has a simplified user interface which lets you quickly add objects in various popular image formats and supports a myriad of CAD extensions such as hpg, hgl, hg, hpgl, prn, spl, hp 1/2, etc. It comes with speedy reading capabilities of input objects and has support for 3D co-ordinates.

Overall, CAD Import VCL v.8.0 is a powerful component for quickly integrating graphical objects in your applications which are designed in CAD program. Hence, it receives a score of three and a half rating points on the scale of five.

CAD Import VCL is a source code provided library for managing CAD files in Delphi and C++ Builder. Most of the known 2D and 3D vector formats are supported, including AutoCAD DXF/DWG 2013.

The software provides easy access to entities properties and to the structure of the drawing, allows printing drawings and converting them to raster images: BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, WMF and EMF. For saving to vector formats, use CAD Export VCL.
The library is distinguished by high speed and reasonable prices. Various license options for including royalty free ones are available. Source code gives much freedom in implementing CAD features.
CAD Import VCL supports Delphi and C++ Builder from 5 to RAD Studio XE4 for both 32 and 64-bit platforms. The library is compatible with Fast Report VCL and Report Builder.
CAD Import VCL features include among others:
- DWG/DXF, Autodesk DWF, HPGL, HPGL/2, CGM, SVG, STEP, IGES, STL, ASIS SAT, BREP, TIFF, BMP, JPG, GIF and many other formats support;
- high speed of reading;
- access to extensive properties of each supported CAD entity;
- easy drawing with TCanvas, TImage, TOpenPictureDialog and other standard classes;
- control of every layer and any element of it;
- support of three-dimensional coordinates;
- easy and smart scaling and image dragging;
- all ANSI codepages are supported;
- Unicode support.
It is possible to add support for the following extentions: *.tif; *.tiff; *.fax; *.bw; *.rgb; *.rgba; *.sgi; *.cel; *.pic; *.tga; *.vst; *.icb; *.vda; *.win; *.pcd; *.ppm; *.pgm; *.pbm; *.cut; *.pal; *.rla; *.rpf; *.psd; *.pdd; *.psp; *.png; *.rle; *.dib; *.ico; *.emf; *.wmf; *.jpg; *.jpeg; *.gif; *.pcx; *.bmp