What is VidCAD Ultra?
VidCAD Ultra is a product for automated documentation. It's an app that takes you beyond design so you can easily advance global changes and remove elements if necessary. It also allows you to generate professional quality reports, tags and proposals through links to interactive databases. Vid CAD Ultra keeps track of equipment and cable errors, comparing the information in the database with each of the drawings.
Features of VidCAD Ultra
VidCAD Ultra includes more than 123 features in addition to the following options for professional work:
- Modify the names of the system equipment and cable numbers globally.
- Eliminates cables and equipment throughout the project.
- Provides lists of all cables and equipment in each drawing.
- Create reference codes in the drawings for the installation of special connectors quickly.
- Easily prepare documentation for presentations.
- Produces error logs of equipment and cables, comparing the information in the database with each of the drawings.
- Generates individual professional reports, tags and proposals with complex requests through an interactive line with the database.
This package is offered with the option of a PS Silver extended technical support service that includes 25 free calls reporting incidents (one at a time), unlimited support via email, library of individual drawings with the possibility of 25 requests per year, regular library updates, application updates and updates via the Internet. The PS Silver or Gold option must be maintained for the Ultra level.
Features of VidCAD Easy 123 and VidCAD Professional
Create single-line drawings that allow you to give an overview of more than 13,000 products, with icons that resemble the equipment. In addition, it creates diagrams with styles appropriate to each user, including icons of the equipment and various fonts. It allows the creation of support units and consoles in three dimensions with 3-D architectural rooms, sets, ceilings, floors and windows. It also presents shaded views of supports and rooms as well as tour animations.
It is also possible to extract the list of equipment from the drawings in a spreadsheet for cost estimation. Converts a piece of equipment or cable from the "phantom" drawing into database information without the need to retype the information. It offers interconnection diagrams for installation and maintenance in a few seconds, originating the information from the database.
VidCAD allows you to edit existing information tables, print reports and labels, as well as Redline drawings. This increases the production speed of documents by converting groups of cables and equipment within the project database. For example, 100 cables are documented in 15 seconds. It uses tools to convert all pairs of a multi-pair cable within the information logs using a single command and creates estimates of cable lengths and detailed schedules about cables, connectors, furniture, materials, and equipment.
In addition, it allows you to use the run-time version or create links to your copy of the AutoCAD2000 application. This helps in customizing menus, creating your own macros, adding third-party applications other than AutoCAD, developing solid 3D objects for quick creation of support units, and setting up short-cut commands to speed up work.
Who should buy VidCAD Ultra?
VidCAD Ultra has been developed to design and install large systems in a short time. This allows engineers to efficiently perform revisions and changes, prepare reports and detailed references for installation. If this describes your work, it's surely going to require at least one copy of this app.
About the graphics card
AutoCAD 2000 allocates more work to the graphics card than most programs. For this reason, unexpected interruptions or crashes in the program may occur occasionally. As a rule, you should go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers even if you have just purchased and installed the latest card. In general, the latest drivers overcome most problems.
Although VDP, Inc. does not test graphics cards, it does review many computers at the request of customers through a technical support process or in training courses. Most cards are suitable. Below you will find some alternatives offered by card manufacturers including:
- 3D Labs, Inc. Oxygen
- 3DFX Voodoo
- Creative Labs Annihilator
- Diamond Fire
- Elsa Gloria
- Intel AGP
- NVIDIA GeForce
From the experience of VidCAD customers, this company suggests that ATI or Matrox cards are not the most recommended. These game-optimized graphics processing cards appear to be incompatible with professional graphics programs. Drivers for these cards cause problems with AutoCAD and other high-quality graphics programs. These cards cause some problems with diagram drawings and three-dimensional media drawings. You should be especially careful with laptop computers since in these computers it is not possible to change the graphics card.
