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M-Color 9.5 for Easily Plotting Color-Fill
areas in AutoCAD Drawings
Flash:
See M-Color in Action
The following flash demonstrations will show you the basic principles and use of M-Color.
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M-Color is a presentation plotting software for AutoCAD users who need to develop high-quality plots of their AutoCAD designs. Key benefits of using
M-Color instead of traditional AutoCAD plotting include:
M-Color bridges the gap between traditional AutoCAD drafting and presentation graphics software. You can use AutoCAD's ™ precision drafting capabilities to create and edit your CAD drawings, and take advantage of the advanced graphical effects and publishing possibilities of
M-Color to produce a high-quality presentation plot.
M-Color is tightly integrated with AutoCAD so there is no need to import your AutoCAD drawing to some external graphics software and lose the editing
link with AutoCAD.
Graphical effects
M-Color helps you to improve the appearance of your AutoCAD plots by offering additional graphical effects not found in plain AutoCAD, such as a wide variety of translucent effects, gradient fills, bitmap texture fills, high quality fonts, hand-drawing effect and drop shadows.
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Extensive publishing possibilities
You can save your work in PDF, PostScript and EPS formats as well as in all common bitmap formats such as TIFF and JPEG. M-Color 9.5 plots are also easily exported to most page layout programs.
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Advanced previewing
With M-Color'™s full-color preview you can increase productivity by avoiding wasted plots. In addition, scheduled printing saves time by allowing you to process time-consuming jobs during off hours.
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Increases in productivity and plotting performance
M-Color has been designed to be a productive environment for producing high-quality presentation plots of real-world, large, complex CAD projects. You can control the plotting appearance of objects by assigning a fill style, outline width and outline style to a layer in M-Color not to individual objects, which saves time when you want to change the appearance of the objects.
M-Color makes controlling the plotting order of objects very simple. Instead of controlling individual objects, you control the plotting order of layers. Just drag layers up and down in a list to change their relative plotting order.
With M-Color, you can save and reuse plot appearance configurations in new drawings. This results in significant time savings in preparing similar drawings in new projects.
M-Color takes extensive measures to ensure that plotting is as fast as possible and produces as small plot files as possible with all output technologies. In many cases, this leads to dramatic differences in printing time and plot file size between standard AutoCAD and M-Color plotting.
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Compatibility
M-Color 9.5 is fully compatible with both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. You can run M-Color 9.5 with AutoCAD 2008-2000 and AutoCAD LT 2008-2002 on Windows Vista/XP/2000. M-Color works with all other AutoCAD based products as well, including AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and AutoCAD Map 3D.
- Read more about the new features in M-Color 9
- Click here to purchase M-Color 9.5 now
- Compare traditional AutoCAD plotting to M-Color plotting
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What's New in M-Color Version 9?
Highlights:
- Hand-drawing effect
A hand-drawn looks adds a touch of personality to your drawings.
You can use different
effects (curve, deviate, move ends, break and vary width,
multiple line segments) to make the
drawing look like it was hand-drawn. This is an excellent
feature for use in casting initial
sketches from your designs, for example.
- One-click drop shadows
Adding drop shadows to text or graphics gives depth and
flair to your layout. You can create
drop shadows simply with the click of a button, then easily
adjust the angle, distance, and
feathering of the shadow.
- Translucent raster images, bitmap textures,
and gradient fills
You can make raster images partially transparent so that
the background still shows through.
You can use the same effect also for bitmap texture fillings
and gradient fills. For example,
imagine the possibilities of a gradient fill transitioning
gradually towards transparency.
- Smooth blending of raster images into
the background (8-bit alpha channels)
All transparent raster images are now smoothly blended into
the background. With the new
8-bit alpha channel support you can add photos of trees,
people, etc. that blend into your
drawing perfectly.
- Improved rendering quality and more powerful
handling of translucency effects
The rendering mechanism of M-Color has been completely renewed;
as a result, the on-screen
graphics are smooth and exact. Also, the previewing responds
much more rapidly than before,
especially when you have used transparent effects.
- Faster, higher-quality bitmap exporting
The new technology of M-Color 9 enables you to export your
drawing as a raster image in
just a fraction of the time used by previous versions of
M-Color. In addition, the quality of the
resulting image is enhanced.
- 50% smaller PDF files and support for
PDF 1.5, including layer data
With M-Color 9, you can generate small, high-quality PDF
files. M-Color 9 also supports
PDF 1.5, including inclusion of your CFG layer information
in the resulting PDF file.
- Other improvements
M-Color 9 supports hyperlinks in PDF files. Also, you can
now also save CFG and PAL files
into old formats and activate your M-Color license instantly
online. Another improvement
providing flexibility is the integration with the AutoCAD
paper frame in Paper Space.
For automated usage of the software, APIs for bitmap exporting
and CFG and PAL
manipulation are included in the program.
For more information on the features and new benefits of M-color
9, please visit the M-color
website.
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