TechSoft Design Tools Software

2D Design

Graphic Design, Technical

Drawing and CAD/CAM

TechSoft created 2D Design for users who require

sophisticated drawing and design features, but
don’t want to spend a lifetime learning to use
them. Although designed with professional
capability, its ease of use means that 2D Design
is the CAD standard for the vast majority of UK
secondary schools. Whether you need to produce
traditional engineering drawings, colourful ‘free-
form’ designs for embroidery, or smart graphical
presentation sheets, 2D Design V2 has been
carefully developed to give you all the tools you
need – and all in one place.

Graphic Design Technical Drawing CAD/CAM Output

2D Design V2 offers thousands of exciting options 2D Design V2 makes an excellent electronic A key feature of 2D Design V2 is the high level of
for combining vector drawing with text, bitmaps, drawing board with an extensive range of tools integration that has been built in between the
photographs or clip-art to create stunning graphic to enable you to accurately draw and dimension output device and the drawing stages of design.
products. Comprehensive editing tools allow any anything from a nut and bolt to a super tanker.
image to be clipped to size and shape; bitmap All the line-geometry, transformation, edit, attach
images can be converted into a vector drawing; and dimensioning tools are there.
individual font characters can be customised;
colour fills can be single colour, graduated,
texture or pattern, etc. The options are endless –
the texture fill could be used to simply render a
drawing with a photograph of the material it will
be made from; the pattern fill could become an
application in its own right to design patterns for
Sublimation (see page 120) work or embroidery. When starting a drawing you will typically set your
page size to suit the machine you will be using - at
its simplest level this means that the design will
‘fit’ and you can position the job accurately on the
work area, but there is more to it than that. Once
If you are new to CAD, but familiar with set, all the particular features of that machine
conventional technical drawing, you will soon become available so, for example, you can add
be producing work to meet any sector standard. registration marks ready for print-and-cut using
Layers can be used for construction work, standard knife-cutting machines and you will see a dialog
sheet templates, dimensioning or output to CAM, box to set up the rotary table for a LaserCAM.
etc. There is no practical limit to the complexity When ready to output to many CAD/CAM devices
of drawing 2D Design V2 is capable of doing. and all our Roland and LaserCAM machines, there
We supply numerous universities who find it is one simple machine-specific dialog box to deal
gives them everything they need from a 2D CAD with and no tedious post-processing to confuse
The graphics elements of 2D Design V2 give the platform - it integrates easily with other packages matters.
student all the tools they need to design packaging and it provides a hassle-free way to output to
products, posters, point-of-sale displays, greeting CAM machinery. Powerfully Simple
cards, etc. In addition, 2D Design V2 provides an Unlike many CAD packages, 2D Design V2 has a
intuitive tool to compile design folder pages by simple desktop that lets learners start with basic
importing photographs, scanned sketches and
research material alongside CAD drawings – the
“2D Design has the best tools, adding new tools as their confidence grows.
Everything about the software can be customised
possibilities are endless. combination of powerful tools to suit different ages and abilities, and versatility
means that learning can be built-in to any manner
and ease of use available”
of project applications from KS2 onwards. By KS4,
2D Design V2 simply becomes a powerful tool for
designing and making, and continues to be so
into sixth form and beyond.

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2D Design

Just a few of the CNC

machines that are
DIRECTLY CONTROLLED
through 2D Design V2
Pre-printed card is
scored and cut in a GS-24E Card Packaging

Flat Pack
Model
Chair

Slot Jointed
Acrylic Photo
Frame

Features
•• Exhaustive geometrical constructions including circles, arcs, lines, tangents, •• Comprehensive graduated, texture and pattern fill routines.
normals, etc.
•• Comprehensive transformation tools including move, mirror, size, array and
•• Comprehensive drawing aids, user-defined grids and attach (snap). distort.
•• Powerful tools such as fully tuneable bezier curve drawing, text flow along •• Automatic or manual dimensioning. Work to pre-set or user-defined
a path, etc. scales.
•• Comprehensive text facilities, even exceeding those in many sign-writing •• Contour feature to off-set lines. Invaluable for creating cutter-
packages. compensated tool paths or tracing.
•• Single line fonts and an in-built font editor/designer. •• Powerful editing and delete features, unlimited user-named drawing
layers. Cut and paste to and from many other packages, including Word.
•• Bitmap to vector conversion.
•• Import/Export BMP, DXF, EMF, HPGL, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, plus legacy
•• Clip path tools, essential for creating professional high end graphic images. Acorn formats.

Software Information Prices £* *See Pricing Information on page 2

TS107 2D Design V2 Single Licence

Site Licence
A Site Licence allows a school/college to install the software on any TS108 2D Design V2 Site Licence
number of computers on the school site. 2D Design V2 Student Licence (site licence holders
TS109
only)
Student Licence
A Student Licence allows a school/college to distribute a special non- TS119 Upgrade Single Licence V2 to Site Licence
output version of the software to students and teachers for home use.
Students will be able to save work for output back at school. Schools may Version 1 to Version 2 Upgrade Prices:
choose to charge a nominal amount per student, to recoup the cost. TS102 Single Licence V1 to Single Licence V2
Minimum Hardware Requirements TS106 Single Licence V1 to Site Licence V2
Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10. TS103 Site Licence V1 to Site Licence V2
Microsoft recommended minimum hardware specification advised.
Network compatible (site licence only). TS104 Student Licence V1 to Student Licence V2
TS105 Site & Student Licence Upgrade V1 to V2 (Save £45)
Ordering (N.B. To be eligible for the combined Site & Student Upgrade
In order to avoid software theft, the software is encrypted with the name both Site and Student Licenses must currently be held for V1.)
of the licensed user, typically the name of a person, or the name of an
individual establishment.

When ordering please state:

a) Name of licensed user/site (max 28 characters, including spaces).
b) Address for site licence if appropriate.

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