jDraft

jDraft is a 100% Pure Java software for creating engineering drawings.

Here are some key features of "jDraft":

Standard Desktop Application Features ￭ Undo/Redo ￭ Copy/Paste ￭ Drag/Stretch ￭ Drag & Drop ￭ Recent Files ￭ Templates ￭ Context / Right Click Menus

Common CAD features You'd Expect ￭ Snaps ￭ Grids ￭ Guide Lines ￭ Reference Points ￭ Layers ￭ Coordinate systems ￭ Hierarchical Grouping ￭ Move, Scale, Rotate ￭ Advanced Pasting ￭ Dimensioning ￭ Fillets ￭ Chamfers ￭ Triming ￭ Standard drawing elements lines, polylines, arcs, circles texts and filled areas

Advanced CAD features ￭ Rotated Views ￭ Split Panes ￭ Reference Images

Fully Featured Printing ￭ Preview ￭ Fit to page ￭ Multipage ￭ Scale Drawing ￭ Crop Image ￭ Print Selection ￭ Drawing-to-Media alignment

Text Editing ￭ Styles ￭ Fonts ￭ Any orientation ￭ Flexible Anchoring

Flexibility Provided By User Definable ￭ Hatches ￭ Line Styles ￭ Coordinate Systems ￭ Layers ￭ Shortcuts ￭ Performance Tuning ￭ User Interface Tuning ￭ Drawing Templates

Efficiency Enhancing Features ￭ Intuitive User Interface ￭ Features Just One Click Away ￭ Shortcuts ￭ Usefull Default Settings ￭ Working with Rotated Views

Eas of Use With ￭ Geometric Constuction ￭ Accessible, Simple, Yet Powerfull User Interface ￭ Built-in Interactice eGuide ￭ Both Workstation and PC Style Operations

Draw Accurately With ￭ Comprehensive Snaps ￭ Geometric Constuction ￭ Numeric Entry ￭ Grids ￭ Reference Points ￭ Reference Point Patterns ￭ Guide Lines

Connectivity With ￭ DXF import / Exports

Requirements:

Hardware ￭ Minimum Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels ￭ 1 GHz or faster CPU speed ￭ 256 MB RAM ￭ 10 MB Diskspace ￭ Note that these are not absolute requiremens, the software has been tested on a 333 MHz P3 with 128MB RAM and it runs, but the speed is probably not acceptable. ￭ All development is done on a Fujitsu/Siemens CELSIUS 2.8 GHz / 2 GB RAM / 1600 x 1200 pxls laptop.

Software ￭ Java Runtime Enviroment 5.0 (JRE 5.0 aka 1.5)