Vdraft 
A CAD System for AutoCAD and DXF Drawings
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- Quick Tour -
SoftSource has a long history of software development. The
group wrote everything from a PC system bios, to pulp quality control systems, AutoCAD
drawing viewers, and CAD drawing translators. When Autodesk decided to rewrite
AutoCAD, they licensed DXE as the new software’s read-write system. They were already
using DXE for Autosketch and other products. We participated in the design of the ‘new’
AutoCAD until a management change cancelled the project. The crew at SoftSource decided
to continue the CAD system project and Vdraft is the result. Four years later, with over
500,000 lines of object oriented C++ code, we released the Vdraft 1.0 (May 1997). Vdraft
has continued to evolve by customer input and developer request. It is a solid AutoCAD
drawing based editor, as our customers will attest.
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