TechSoft Design V3

TechSoft Design V3 (formerly 2D Design V2) is for users who require sophisticated drawing and design features, but don’t want to spend a lifetime learning to use them. Although designed with professional capability, its ease of use means that TechSoft Design V3 is the CAD standard for the vast majority of UK secondary schools. Whether you need to produce traditional engineering drawings, colourful ‘free-form’ designs for embroidery, or smart graphical presentation sheets, TechSoft Design V3 has been carefully developed to give you all the tools you need – and all in one place.

TechSoft Design V3 offers thousands of exciting options for combining vector drawing with text, bitmaps, photographs or clip-art to create stunning graphic products. Comprehensive editing tools allow any image to be clipped to size and shape; bitmap images can be converted into a vector drawing; individual font characters can be customised; colour fills can be single colour, graduated, texture or pattern, etc. The options are endless – the texture fill could be used to simply render a drawing with a photograph of the material it will be made from; the pattern fill could become an application in its own right to design patterns for laser engraving work or embroidery.

The graphics elements of TechSoft Design V3 give the student all the tools they need to design packaging products, posters, point-of-sale displays, greeting cards, etc. In addition, TechSoft Design V3 provides an intuitive tool to compile design folder pages by importing photographs, scanned sketches and research material alongside CAD drawings – the possibilities are endless.

TechSoft Design V3 makes an excellent electronic drawing board with an extensive range of tools to enable you to accurately draw and dimension anything from a nut and bolt to a super tanker. All the line-geometry, transformation, edit, attach and dimensioning tools are there.

If you are new to CAD, but familiar with conventional technical drawing, you will soon be producing work to meet any sector standard. Layers can be used for construction work, standard sheet templates, dimensioning or output to CAM, etc. There is no practical limit to the complexity of drawing TechSoft Design V3 is capable of doing. We supply numerous universities who find it gives them everything they need from a 2D CAD platform - it integrates easily with other packages and it provides a hassle-free way to output to CAM machinery.

A key feature of TechSoft Design V3 is the high level of integration that has been built in between the output device and the drawing stages of design.

When starting a drawing you will typically set your page size to suit the machine you will be using - at its simplest level this means that the design will ‘fit’ and you can position the job accurately on the work area, but there is more to it than that. Once set, all the particular features of that machine become available so, for example, you can add registration marks ready for print-and-cut using knife-cutting machines and you will see a dialog box to set up the rotary table for a LaserCAM. When ready to output to many CAD/CAM devices and all our Roland and LaserCAM machines, there is one simple machine-specific dialog box to deal with and no tedious post-processing to confuse matters.

Minimum Hardware Requirements Windows

Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11. Network & Internet connection.

Microsoft recommended minimum hardware specification advised.

Minimum Hardware Requirements Chromebooks

Network and Internet connection.

Chromebooks which can activate the Linux subsystem. This includes most Chromebooks after 2019. At least 10GB of storage space is required for the Linux subsystem. The Linux subsystem can only be installed on each user account, not per Chromebook. If you are using Chromebooks with multiple users, please email sales@techsoft.co.nz. The software runs best on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD processor, but will run on other processors. Verifying that the software works on a given Chromebook - by installing and running the software in demo mode, is recommended.

Ordering

In order to avoid software theft, the software is encrypted with the name of the licensed user, typically the name of a person, or the name of an individual establishment.

When ordering please state:

a) Name of licensed user/site (max 28 characters, including spaces).

b) Address for site licence if appropriate