AutoSketch is a 2D vector drawing program by
AutodeskAutodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. Autodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of early versions of the company's...
. It is less powerful than Autodesk's
AutoCADAutoCAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. Initially released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, and notably the IBM PC...
and does not support 3D models.
AutoSketch uses SKD as its native format, but can export to DWG and DXF. Version 2.1 for Windows supports macros which has been removed in later versions.
Originally called "Drafix" by Foresight Resources, the independent software product won the first American Institute of Architect's "CAD Shoot-out".
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AutoSketch is a 2D vector drawing program by
AutodeskAutodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. Autodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of early versions of the company's...
. It is less powerful than Autodesk's
AutoCADAutoCAD is a CAD software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. Initially released in late 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, and notably the IBM PC...
and does not support 3D models.
AutoSketch uses SKD as its native format, but can export to DWG and DXF. Version 2.1 for Windows supports macros which has been removed in later versions.
History
Originally called "Drafix" by Foresight Resources, the independent software product won the first American Institute of Architect's "CAD Shoot-out". It was one of the first windows
computer-aided designComputer-aided design is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. CAD often involves more than just shapes...
(CAD) products and utilized OLE (object linking and embedment) prior to any Autodesk product. Autodesk found this product both a threat and opportunity and bought out the company. The current version of Autosketch, version 10, was released on November 14th 2008.
The
DOSDOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and ME.Related systems...
release stored working data in Random access memory {RAM} rather than depending on
swappingVirtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory , while in fact it may be physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage. Systems that use this technique make programming of large applications...
. This limited editing to what could be stored in free RAM. The
WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
release relaxed this limitation by using virtual memory.
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