Last update on 16-11-2024 |
AlfaCAD was conceived as a simple, universal program for creating technical 2D drawings. However, "universal" does not mean "almighty". It is a Swiss Army knife rather than a box full of tools most of which are a secret to the user and probably will never be used. Despite the limited working area of the
screen, AlfaCAD allows you to move freely throughout the drawing and
its presentation or edition through zooming in and out and - what is
quite unique - auto-panning. Zooming out allows you to see more of the
drawing. Zooming in allows you to see details but on a smaller part of
the drawing. However, individual parts of the drawing can also be
viewed without changing the scale, or at least not frequent change. It
consists in panning the image of the drawing and is similar to
watching it through the viewfinder of the camera changing its position
in relation to the object. The auto-panning procedure was recognized by the program's author as an important element of the user interface. Panning of the drawing is related to the movement of the pointer in the program. Successive portions of the drawing are displayed when the cursor reaches the boundary of the drawing's display field. |
AlfaCAD's interface is different from that of most CADs. The idea came from such premises:
AlfaCAD is a program made available for free, in order to support the engineering community and engineering enthusiasts, as well as the programming community, because soon the full source code of the program will be made available, so that anyone who wants can make use of my work. At the moment I am working on cleaning the code from unnecessary garbage that has multiplied over the entire period of development, changes, trials and tests.
Attacking the site was an act of stupidity, although probably done by a bot and not a human, which speaks even worse about the human. This is not a commercial site, you can't steal money here and destroying the site always ends in the destruction of the intruder's site. The virus kills the victim but dies with it. That's how virus does.
The new site will be simple and will only provide links to the program and to PDF files describing their functions, especially those not described in the basic guide.
The program is being created in 4 languages: English, Polish, Ukrainian and Spanish, because these are the languages that I can use to a greater or lesser extent, although not always without the support of an online translator, so probably the vocabulary used is not always chosen correctly.
The ZIP file of the "Last night’s build" should be extracted in the folder where AlfaCAD is installed, overwriting existing files. This also applies to folders contained in the ZIP file.
In Linux, make sure that the executable files overwritten from the ZIP file have the executable attribute.
Updating from the ZIP file is not necessary, because the AlfaCAD program has procedures for updating the package when the program starts, if a newer version is detected on the server. The update consists of downloading the ZIP file, unpacking it in the main program folder and changing the attributes of the executable files if necessary.
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