How to Write a CAD Program, Book by Deelip
Menezes
Suggested retail price - paperpack - $99; PDF e-book - $49
 PANAJI,
GOA, India, Mar 23, 2009 - SYCODE today released a book titled “OpenCAD – A
Step by Step Guide to Developing a Professional CAD Application” written by
Deelip Menezes, its Founder and CEO, showcasing the technologies offered by
the Open Design Alliance.
 "I
have been keeping a close eye on the ODA and its technologies for quite some
time now", explains Deelip Menezes. “SYCODE is a Sustaining Member of the ODA
and I have been writing about the issues surrounding the ODA on my blog at
www.deelip.com. By means of this book I am
taking it a step further by emphasizing the fact that the ODA is not only about
reverse engineering the DWG file format. They offer far more than that.”
The book is written as a short story describing the evolution of a CAD
application called OpenCAD. The reader starts with an empty Visual C++ project.
In each chapter, the reader adds features to OpenCAD, first making it a DWG
reader, then a viewer and finally an editor. Finally the reader ends up with a
professional CAD application complete with an AutoCAD-like command prompt and
plug-in architecture, thereby giving it the ability to be extended by means of
DRX plug-ins.
The book is divided into two sections. Section 1 deals with creating the
basic OpenCAD application, wiring it up with ODA libraries and adding features
to make it a full blown professional 3D DWG viewer. Section 2 deals with adding
a command prompt, plug-in architecture and developing a DRX plug-in that
converts it into a DWG editor. The book can also be used as a primer for
developing DRX plug-ins since the plug-ins developed for OpenCAD also work with
any DWGdirect hosted application such as Bricscad V9.
The book comes with complete C++ source code and is available as a paperback
book for $99 as well as a PDF eBook for $49.
For more information on OpenCAD, please visit
http://www.open-cad.com.
About SYCODE
SYCODE develops cutting-edge software solutions for Computer Aided Design
(CAD). These solutions are in the form of standalone applications or plug-ins
that work inside major CAD systems such as AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk
VIZ, Autodesk 3D Studio MAX, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Maya, Rhinoceros, Surfcam,
etc.
SYCODE also designs, develops and implements customized software solutions
for companies worldwide. The customized solution may be a standalone application
working closely with the client's existing CAD application or a plug-in to the
CAD application.
For more information, visit www.sycode.com.
About the Open Design Alliance
The Open Design Alliance is a non-profit membership-based consortium of
software companies, developers and users committed to promoting the open
exchange of CAD data now and in the future. In addition to setting standards for
CAD data formats, the ODA also focuses on the practical matter of developing
software libraries of exceptional quality that enable ODA members to develop
applications capable of reading and writing the popular DWG and DGN CAD file
formats.
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Dec 17 - SYCODE Ships CATIA, NX, Pro/E 2D Importers for SolidWorks
Dec 14 - SYCODE Ships CATIA V4, V5 File Import Add Ins for SolidWorks
Dec 2 - SYCODE Ships 6 Neutral Data Exchange Plug Ins for AutoCAD
Nov 30 - SYCODE Ships CATIA V4, V5 File Import Plug Ins for AutoCAD
Nov 30 - SYCODE Ships Pro/E File Import Plug In for AutoCAD
Nov 25 - SYCODE Releases Inventor File Import Plug-in for AutoCAD
Oct 28 - SYCODE Releases 12 Data Exchange Add-ins for KeyCreator
Oct 28 - SYCODE Releases ESRI Shape File Import Plug-ins
Sep 28 - SYCODE Offers 4 Proprietary File Import Plug-ins for AutoCAD
Jul 27 - SYCODE Offers 14 Data Exchange Plug-ins for Pro/E
Jul 22 - Deelip Menezes Launches Alibre Network
Mar 30 - SYCODE Updates Plug-ins for AutoCAD, Inventor 2010
Mar 23 - How to Write a CAD Program, Book by Deelip Menezes
Feb 19 - SYCODE Launches Mesh To Solid for Bricscad
Feb 18 - SYCODE Launches Point Cloud for Bricscad
Feb 17 - SYCODE Launches TerrainCAD for Bricscad
Feb 5 - SYCODE Releases 20 Import/Export Plug-Ins for Bricscad
Jan 21 - SYCODE Ships DWG, DXF Import Add-ins for SpaceClaim
Jan 20 - SYCODE Launches 8 Data Exchange Plug-Ins for Adobe Acrobat
Jan 6 - SYCODE Releases 32 SketchUp Data Exchange Plug-Ins
Nov 24 - Deelip Menezes Launches Pro/E Network
Nov 10 - SYCODE Releases 6 VTK Import/Export Plug-Ins
Sep 24 - SYCODE Releases 4 Free Rapid Prototyping Export Plug-Ins
Aug 27 - Deelip Menezes Launches IntelliCAD Network
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