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News Release from: Punch! Software | Subject: ViaCAD
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2007
Punch! software to support Google
sketchup
Affordable 2D/3D software opens up world of Google Earth and 3D warehouse models
Punch! Software LLC, developers of the #1 best-selling home and landscape design software on the retail market, has announced that its upcoming ViaCAD release will support the Google SketchUp 6 import file formats ViaCAD is a high functionality, low-cost 2D/3D design product that revolutionises the way everybody creates designs in 2D and 3D
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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To be released in March of 2007, the new product supports Mac OS X and Windows platforms, and retails for $99.
"The addition of the new SketchUp format is very powerful for our users," said Paul Bay, CEO, Punch! Software LLC.
"With this capability, we enable ViaCAD users to benefit from the availability of predrawn models on Google's 3D Warehouse, while using an affordable, simple and yet powerful design product".
The 3D Warehouse is an online feature of Google's SketchUp application that lets users search, share, and re-use 3D models.
The models in the 3D Warehouse include commonly used 3D elements, everything from buildings, houses, bridges, and statues to couches, cars, people, and pets.
ViaCAD delivers a powerful new way of designing, using 2D and 3D elements in a concurrent adaptive user interface that enables surprisingly rapid, easy and precise designs to be created.
It also creates 2D details, plans and elevations automatically from 3D models - a tool that can also be used with models imported from SketchUp.
ViaCAD supports 2D, 3D, surface, and solid modeling tools with a wide array of features to allow precision illustrations while keeping the process incredibly simple.
Accuracy is ensured by ViaCAD's ACIS-based kernel.
The new release can export section views and detail views, Bill of Materials lists, and includes complete 3D editing tools, annotation, and dimensions, among other practical features for the home designer.
Export functionality of SketchUp formats is planned soon, and will be available as a download to existing users when complete.
ViaCAD will be released in March 2007, and will be available at major retail stores as well as direct from Punch! Software's web site.
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