Description:
ShortCAD is software for Pocket PC that reveals the simplicity of well known CAD products just onto the palm of your hand! ShortCAD brings basic concepts of drawing creation to your Windows Mobile system.

With ShortCAD you can create and edit 2D vector-graphic drawings and templates just as you do in well known CAD applications.

ShortCAD drawings are saved as .ShortDWG files, but you can also save them in .dxf format so you can export your drawings to other vector-graphic editors. Also it allows rendering snapshots of your Pocket PC viewport to bitmaps of any size.While your Pocket PC is small and slow, all of the "huge CAD" features of ShortCAD have been reworked to make them accessible and usable without mouse and keyboard.

Rendering performance of your Pocket PC allows viewing drawings of low and medium complexity. Even though, the rendering latencies that occur when using slow Pocket PC platforms, ShortCAD is capable of adding changes to the most complex drawings almost as fast as it goes with completely empty drawings. Your smart layer management may improve the productivity even on very detailed drawings by switching off unneeded layers. We always improve our renderer but adding new objects does not depend on it at all! It takes almost immediately even on dense and complex drawings thus you may quickly add handwritten notes on any displayable drawing.

Finger friendly command bar and minimalistic UI covers sophisticated CAD engine. ShortCAD fully supports classical approach to layers, blocks and text styles.

Drawing primitives like circles, arcs, lines, ellipses, traces, polylines and others behaves alike popular desktop CAD systems.

Four variants of snapping, 34 fonts (including CJK and Unicode fonts), 38 standard line types, configurable colors and width of lines and many other features collected all in one small application. You may ask why is ShortCAD. Here is an answer! ShortCAD is a pun on shortcut that means shorter route or smaller effort. Also it has a specific meaning: a file that contains only the location of another file in the computer. Gathering all meanings together will give you the answer: ShortCAD is a way to CAD and save hints and tips to your ideas with smallest effort while you are away from your workspace.

ShortCAD provides drawing by means of the following graphic entities:
- Straight lines.
- Poly-lines.
- Texts.
- Circles.
- Arcs.
- Ellipses and Elliptical arcs.
- Solids.
- Inserted Blocks.
- Traces.

Additional tools of ShortCAD allow to create the following drawing elements:
- Free lined figures.
- Rectangles.
- Chamfers.

ShortCAD allows modification drawing elements by means of:
- Moving.
- Scaling.
- Rotating.
- Changing line type, color, width, text style, layer and so on.
- Erasing.
- Setting insertion base point.

In idle state ShortCAD just displays a fragment of opened drawing and waits for a command from you. You can launch commands of ShortCAD by the following means:
- Selecting appropriate items in the Menu.
- Tapping appropriate icons in the Command Toolbar.
- Tapping appropriate icons in the Command Palette.

Each command of ShortCAD has it's own icon on the Command Palette.

Update Description:
v2.6 (08-03-2011):
- Added command to create equilateral Polygons.
- Added ShortCAD JavaScript command DIM_Angle.ShortJS to create Angular Dimensions.
- A number of non-critical bugs have been fixed.
- Improved ShortCAD Java Script API: Now ShortCAD Java Script applications can store and read data in the internal ShortCAD storage of values using ShortCADStoreValue and ShortCADReadValue. For example, DIM.ShortJS, DIM_Radius.ShortJS and DIM_Angle.ShortJS save and read to reuse the same parameters like text height, dim arrow size and others.
- Updated ShortCAD JavaScript Reference and ShortCAD Lite 2.6 User Guide.

v2.5 (05-02-2011):
- A number of non-critical bugs have been fixed.
- Improved ShortCAD Java Script API: Now the method DwgObject.forget() is obsolete. No needs to take care about releasing the OS resources used by orphan DwgObjects anymore (the javascript garbage collector will take care about cleaning the RAM).
- Improved ShortCAD JavaScript Reference and ShortCAD Lite 2.5 User Guide.

v2.4 (25-07-2010):
- Introduced command to create Polar Array of objects.
- A number of bugs have been fixed in the help files.

v2.3 (25-07-2010):
- Introduced command to create Rectangular Array of object copies.
- A number of bugs have been fixed. Most important are:
>> On a number of devices, the drawing did not automatically redraw after the changed drawing settings.
>> On a number of devices the ShortCAD's numeric keyboard was displayed incorrectly.
- A number of bugs have been fixed in ShortCAD JavaScript: Properties of DwgTEXT and others.
- Little bit corrected ShortCAD JavaScript Language References document.

v2.1 (03-06-2010):
- DXF Output Command added.
- Bugs fixed:
o Incorrect DXF output formatting of the drawing ARC objects, which were rotated.
o ShortCAD JavaScript: Incorrect values of startAngle and endAngle properties of the DwgARC objects, which were rotated.

v2.0 (03-05-2010):
- ShortCAD JavaScript was introduced as the programming language to develop custom commands. Sample scripts, installed with ShortCAD Lite demonstrate how JavaScript could be used to extend ShortCAD with new useful commands:
nbsp; o Dimensioning.
nbsp; o HATCHING.
nbsp; o Object editing.
- Polyline drawing object was improved to be completely interoperable with other CAD systems.
- POLYLINE EDIT command was added to curve/decurve/close/open the existing polylines. The CUBIC and QUADRATIC splines are used to perform the to smooth polylines.
- BREAK command was added to break objects between 2 points.
- Stopped supporting of the LUA programming language.