WildTools Palettes

Powerful Drawing and Illustration Tools
Here's a quick look at the WildTools tool palette.

WildTools palette

The WildTools palette has tools for selecting objects, text, drawing basic shapes, trimming, fillets, chamfers, symbols, etc. A few of the tools (Text, Leader Text, Symbol, Clip, Combine) are the PowerCADD tools installed in the WildTools palette as a convenience for users who want to work mainly with the WildTools palette.

All of the tools here can operate in click-drag, click-click or hyrbid click-click. With the click-click methods, you may zoom in and out in the process of drawing.

WildTools is an extra-cost add-on to PowerCADD. The features described for WildTools are only available if you purchase WildTools in addition to PowerCADD.

WildTools also includes a number of other tool palettes.

Transformation Tools

Dimension Tools

The Transformation Tools provide tools for moving and rotating selected objects, linear and radial duplications, and for moving points of selected areas of the drawing. The most useful of these is the Move Points tool in the third row.

The Dimension tools palette provides tool for measuring lengths and angles, dimensioning (including dual English/metric dimensioning), as well as the Nibble, Count and Date Stamp tools.

The 3D Cube window and WildTools 3D

WildTools 3D and the 3D Cube window work together for creating isometric and axonometric drawings, commonly called three-dimensional depictions.

Baseline Tools

Style Tools

Special Curves

The Baseline Tools palette provide tools for drawing at an angle of rotation. This is the equivalent of setting a drafting machine to an angle and then working relative to that angle, as though it were horizontal.

The Style Tools palette brings the concept of line styles to PowerCADD. Special Curves provides the Spiral and Faired Curve tools.

WildTools also includes a number of menu commands such as LaserPrint, Squiggle, Simplify and Jiggle.

We say again, WildTools is an extra-cost add-on to PowerCADD. The features described for WildTools are only available if you purchase WildTools in addition to PowerCADD.

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