Description
User sensitive facilities
- Automatic unit checking and conversion
- Continuous discrete prompts for tools and commands
- Double precision floating point accuracy – accurate to ten decimal places
- Mouse controlled Pan and Zoom
- Multiple documentation interface (MDI) for simultaneous display of multiple worksheets
- Multiple level user definable (up to 1000 steps) Undo/Redo capability
- On-line help and tips
- User definable units library
- Work with inch and metric units, as well as user defined unit system
Sketching Tools
Initial geometry can be entered within GrafiCalc Elements as well as imported from any DXF compliant CAD software using the built-in 2-way automatic translator.
Constraint manager: GrafiCalc Elements includes an ultra-fast constraint manager especially tailored for function modeling. The powerful point and click constraint manager can resolve virtually unlimited number of circularities. It tracks original design intents to automatically resolve plural solutions.
Geometry definition tools: Line, Circle, Arc, Poly Line, Closed Boundary. Array operations – mirror, copy, translate.
Constraint tools: Free point, Concentric, Centroid, Endpoint, Proportional, Tangent, Intersection, Virtual Intersection, On-Entity/Slider, Parallel, Perpendicular, and at a fixed angle with respect to another line.
Automatic Constraint inference: GrafiCalc Elements includes an automatic constraint inference facility which, when turned on, allows you to snap automatically to center, endpoints, tangents, centroid, and on-geometry automatically. Lines snap automatically to horizontal and vertical.
Text tool: Allows entering notes and annotations. Use all available fonts in your computer.
View manipulation tools: Pan, Zoom, Zoom by 2X, Zoom by .5X, Zoom to fit, Show paper boundary.
Automatic Measurements
GrafiCalc Elements incorporates linear, radial, and angular dimensions that can be constrained to measure any aspect of the flexible model. The measurements are updated automatically as design intents are altered. The measurements can be directly included in calculations setup in GrafiCalc Elements Formula bar.
Calculations Facilities
Formula Bar: GrafiCalc Elements includes a library of 88 built-in functions to setup in the Formula bar and the Programmable calculator.
Note: Complete built-in function listing is available at the end of this page.
Built-in calculation functions: GrafiCalc Elements incorporates a “point and click” Excel type Formula bar that is used to establish bidirectional association between geometry, dimension, values, and calculations.
Excel connection
GrafiCalc is self-contained software that can be used standalone as well as a companion to Microsoft Excel. GrafiCalc supports Windows standard Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol. You can define GrafiCalc calculation macros to drive Excel calculations. You can also link any dimension in GrafiCalc to any cell in Excel. Conversely you can use Excel to control any attribute of any geometry in GrafiCalc.
CAD Connection
A 2-way DXF translator is available inside GrafiCalc that enables you to exchange geometry between Graficalc and all popular CAD applications in both directions.
Input Output
- Built-in 2-way DXF translator
- Built-in 2-way DXF translator
- Cut, copy, and paste information from GrafiCalc Elements to Windows clipboard.
- Cut, copy, and paste information from Windows clipboard into GrafiCalc Elements
