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Title: OpenCAD - A Step by Step Guide to Developing a Professional CAD Application

Author: Deelip Menezes - Founder & CEO of SYCODE

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.

Book Highlights:

• Start with an empty MFC Document View MDI workspace and create a professional CAD application using the DWGdirect SDK
  
  
• Read and write DWG and DXF files
  
  
• Add 3D navigation features - 3D orbit, pan, zoom and zoom window
  
  
• Add plug-in architecture
  
  
• Develop DRX plug-ins using the free DRX SDK that load and run in any DWGdirect hosted application
  
  
• Design and implement an AutoCAD-like command prompt
  
  
• Complete C++ source code with comments and organized by chapter
  
  
• Step by step explanation of program logic, class variables and methods
  
  
• Detailed figures showing each and every step
  
  

Price: $99 (paperback book), $49 (PDF eBook)

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Source Code

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