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ConceptDraw 7 is a powerful diagramming and drawing tool that enables you effectively visualize and communicate information and processes. Create professional-looking graphics and diagrams such as flowcharts, network diagrams, database diagrams, floor plans and much more in minutes. ConceptDraw 7 provides a comprehensive tool set to easily represent and share any kind of information.
ConceptDraw 7 is a powerful business and technical diagramming package for both Windows and Macintosh.
It is intended for drawing schemes and diagrams of different kinds: business diagrams and flowcharts, network diagrams and software charts, technical drafts, floor and landscape plans.
ConceptDraw 7 offers a wide choice of powerful and easy-to-use tools for quickly creating all kinds of charts and diagrams. Even if you've never used a drawing tool before, it's very easy to create high-quality professional graphic documents with ConceptDraw 7. That's possible thanks to the program's intuitive interface, comprehensive drawing capabilities, and many pre-drawn library shapes. Templates will help to quickly create most common documents.
At the same time the comprehensive professional features of ConceptDraw 7 allows using it while developing graphical enclosures to various corporate solutions. Use ConceptDraw 7 to visualize and share information you work with every day, prototype new ideas, systems, solutions.
Drawing capabilities
Vector Drawing Tools
ConceptDraw 7 offers a set of vector drawing tools that can compete with any professional illustration program. Customizable Grid and Snap tools help to position your shapes precisely. A number of Alignment, Distribution and Make Same tools will automate routine operations with multiple shapes. Unlimited number of layers is supported.
Smart Connectors
Lines stay linked to their shapes, so you don't need to redraw your diagram every time you move something. Smart connectors can flow shapes around, display gaps or bridges where they cross other connectors. Every shape can be turned into a connector. The automatic connection mode is also available.
Custom Connection Points
With ConceptDraw 7 Connection point tool you can easily add connection points to any part of the shape for more diagramming freedom.
Layers
You can use unlimited number of layers to organize related shapes in one document page. For instance, when you draw a house plan, you may locate electrical system on one layer, water supply system on the other one, etc. This makes work more convenient, and you won't accidentally alter shapes on other layers.
Libraries and cliparts
ConceptDraw 7 goes with dozens of collections of shapes to help you create a number of different types of diagrams, and drawings such as Network Diagram, Office Layout, Org Chart and more. It allows to easily create your own customized drawing tools by drawing your own shapes or dragging the existing graphics onto a new library. The vast set of cliparts added to illustrate your documents or presentations in clear and vivid way
Advanced editing
Powerful text tools
Most of shapes in ConceptDraw contain text. ConceptDraw offers extensive formatting capabilities, and various tools for work with text, such as adding text to a shape, editing shape's text, text searching, replacing, formatting and repositioning, adjusting shape's size to fit its text, text auto-expand mode, choosing size, color and font of text; alignment, margins and text background color.
Customizable toolbar and floating dialogs
Quick-and-easy access to main tools and settings with customizable toolbars and floating dialogs. ConceptDraw 7 adheres to the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get principle and features anti-aliasing that brings your diagramming to a new level of presentation quality.
Creativity freedom
Color palette
You can use the standard color palette or a custom palette. You can set a palette for a shape, its text or other attributes or document.
Texture fill
This functionality allows you to create professionally looking objects by filling ConceptDraw shapes with one of the preset textures or any raster image of your own.
Alpha-channel (transparency)
The slider next to Hide custom color button allows you to add transparency to your objects in order to make them more attractive or enables you to see objects located under. Move the slider to the right to increase the object transparency and to the left to decrease it.
Droptool
It's now more convenient to select the necessary color of text, line or filling with the new droptool.
Smart customization
Custom Properties
In ConceptDraw 7, you can create custom properties for shapes. That is, a shape can act as a visual database field that stores data you can retrieve in a report. For instance, a computer shape in a network diagram can store data about the cost, model, inventory number, system configuration and other. Custom properties data can be used in calculations in ConceptDraw Basic scripts. This is useful for creating automatic reports based on your drawings.
Intelligent Shapes
ConceptDraw 7 shapes are highly customizable. You can assign custom properties to them, add user defined context menus, and create links to other shapes, files or programs. ConceptDraw Basic scripts can be associated with shapes, providing virtually unlimited control over them.
Built-In Scripting Language
The built-in scripting language ConceptDraw Basic, and support of the open XML for ConceptDraw format, as well as a number of other formats, provides developers with powerful means of building complex customized solutions based on the ConceptDraw 7 graphics engine.
Measuring units selection
The fitted tool lets you select the measuring units of your charts or drawing just with one touch.
Seamless integration
ConceptDraw 7 allows import and export files to a large number of raster, vector, multimedia and text formats, making it easy to exchange data with other applications. Apart from most popular graphic formats, it supports txt and ConceptDraw xml formats and export documents to PDF.
Cross platform compatibility
ConceptDraw 7 is the only professional diagramming software, that works on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. All its documents and libraries are 100% compatible and can be exchanged hassle-free between the platforms.
New in this version:
New version is a Universal Binary application with incredibly stylish user interface, enhanced usability and increased performance. ConceptDraw 7 has a redesigned interface with customizable toolbars and well designed inspectors that make preparing of professional business graphics effortless for people who do not have advanced drawing skills. Organization charts, flowcharts, floor plans as well as network and database diagrams are just a few of the many tasks ConceptDraw 7 can easily handle. ConceptDraw 7 adds to its extensive shape libraries new colorful objects found in the product's "Floor plan" and "Business diagramsâ" categories. It gives users the power to generate professional flowcharts, great looking floor plans; as well as drawing evacuation plans or wiring and telecommunication schemes.
Format text notes
Native interface (for Mac)
A completely new pleasing interface with customizable toolbars and floating windows absolutely changes the look and impression of the application.
Professional clipart libraries
Measuring units selection
Unlike the previous version of ConceptDraw, measuring units selection now is done with one touch.
Brainstorming
New Print mode
Print mode as well as document printing setups was facilitated that appreciably quickens the preparation of a document for printing.
Floating window
Application work speeded up
Drawing of objects and operations with objects were speed up to 75%.
New interface
New illustrative cliparts for presentations
You can choose new professional images making your work more attractive and helpful for visual perception.
Excellent appearance of map
Expanded "Floorplan" and "Business diagrams" libraries
More colorful elements were added into "Floorplan" and "Business diagrams" libraries. Create naturally looking floor plans of various apartments. With the new added elements you can also quickly draw evacuation plans or wiring and telecommunication schemes.
Multiple page
Floating dialogs
Organize your workspace in the most suitable and convenient way so that to locate the most necessary buttons close at hand.
Smart topic repositioning
Droptool
It's now more convenient to select the necessary color of text, line or filling with the new droptool.
The Outline and Map views
New palette
The new attractive palette has a large quantity of various colors letting choose the appropriate color quickly and easily.
System Requirements:
Macintosh
• OS: MacOS X 10.4 or later
• CPU: G3 or higher
• RAM: 256 Mb
• HDD: 500 Mb
Windows
• OS: Microsoft Windows Vista/XP/2000
• CPU: Pentium III 700 MHz or higher processor
• RAM: 256 Mb
• HDD: 500 Mb
Price: $149
ConceptDraw 7 Professional has a suggested list price $299.00
Owners of earlier versions can upgrade for only $99, until the end of May.
Free 30-day trial,
For more information, visit:
http://www.conceptdraw.com/
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