Introduction to BabaCAD

Target Users and Application Areas

BabaCAD is convenient for new users because it is simple for us, it has simple working environment and it is made based on modern trends. BabaCAD working environment is very much alike environments of far famous tools. BabaCAD is a very efficient replacament for bigger program tools, as can be seen by using all BabaCAD functionalities. Therefore, BabaCAD is suitable for users of all knowledge levels.

BabaCAD could be situated in a group of cost-justified program packages designed for drawing, projecting, and other types of computers' usage in engineering practice. BabaCAD is especially interesting for users who require high precision, users who require fast manipulation with big amounts of data. Some of BabaCAD application areas are: drawings from electrical, construction, and mechanical engineering, architectural drawings of all types, creating topographic and geographic maps, flow diagrams, organizational schemes, presentations, logotypes, greeting cards, other art drawings, etc.

Why BabaCAD?

Speed and ease in creation or modifications of drawings within BabaCAD represent enormous advantages in comparation to classic drawings or work with other tools. Everything drawn in BabaCAD is related to vector graphics, meaning that everything is in relation to coordinate system. In contrast to raster graphics, no matter how much the picture is increased, the picture quality is not changing.

BabaCAD is a fast growing CAD software, developed from by scratch without any dependent engines and CAD platforms. It works with Fast OpenGL graphic rendering, fast selection and manipulation with vector objects. BabaCAD supports the following objects: point (3D), line (3D), polyline (2D,3D), circle, arc, ellipse, spline (2D,3D), vector text, work with blocks, work with hatches, work with images and even georeferenced TIFF raster images. BabaCAD supports SNAP-ing to end-point, mid-point, nearest point, perpendicular, parallel, and interesection point. OSNAP (Object Snap Tracking) makes drawing very simple.

BabaCAD supports work with basic types of vector files (DXF and DWG) and it's compatible with other CAD softwares woring with DWG and DXF files. DXF is the universal standard format for storing of data within BabaCAD. Support for other graphic formats is in progress.

Versioning

Each new version of BabaCAD contains functionalities of older versions so users don't have to worry about it during installation of a new BabaCAD version. BabaCAD versions are release with every bigger step in software progress. Download file size is around 2,5 MB. So far, seven BabaCAD releases have been published:

Version	Publish date
BabaCAD beta 1.0	2011
BabaCAD beta 1.1	June 2012
BabaCAD beta 1.2	April 2013
BabaCAD beta 1.3	June 2013
BabaCAD 1.3.4	February 2015
BabaCAD 2.0	April 2017
BabaCAD 3.0 HE/EE	January 2018

Hardware and software requirements for BabaCAD software

BabaCAD is not too demanding regarding hardware because it can work well even on computer with 512 MB of RAM (the recommended minimum for Windows XP) as well as on new computers.

So far, BabaCAD works on operating systems Windows XP, Windows VISTA, Windows 7,8,8.1 and Windows 10

Support

BabaCAD offers support to it's users by answering all users' questions on the web site and realizing justified demands of BabaCAD users.