COMPARISON TABLE
a	Series
h	Optional
BMPCAD MAIN FUNCTIONS		BMPCAD WX (Windows XP Pro)			BMPCAD XP (Windows XP Pro)
		vers. LITE	vers. 2D	vers. 3D	vers. LITE	vers. 2D	vers. 3D
GEOMETRIC ENTITIES
Linear Entities: Line, rectangle, polygon, polyline		a	a	a	a	a	a
Not Linear Entities: Bezier, spline		a	a	a	a	a	a
Circular Entities: circle, arc		a	a	a	a	a	a
Horizontal Text, vertical Text, on Arc Text, with incremental numeration		a	a	a	a	a	a
Draw on lateral view XZ and YZ of lines, spline and bezier			a	a		a	a
INTERFACE
Input windows anchorable		a	a	a
Toolbars with button for rapid ascces to the functions		a	a	a	a	a	a
Preview in the opening of the drawing			a	a
View of the drawing in differnt windows		a	a	a	a	a	a
2D view of the drawing and of the toolpath		XY	XY	XY,XZ,YZ	XY	XY	XY,XZ,YZ
3D view of the drawing and of the toolpath			a	a		a	a
3D BMPCAD's Surface Rendering				a			a
Rulers		a	a	a
Real width toolpath			a	a		a	a
FONTS
240 BIEMMEPI's fonts for text		a	a	a	a	a	a
Able to use  True Type Font (TTF)		a	a	a	a	a	a
Biemmepi and TTF fonts changeable		a	a	a	a	a	a
FUNCTIONS/COMMANDS
Transform of an entity: Move, rotation and scale		a	a	a	a	a	a
Transform of an entity with collision check (nesting)			a	a
Divide, extention and fillet functions			a	a		a	a
Fast mode to divide, remove segment, extend, fillet with trim and extend automatically.			a	a
Accurated convertion of entities in other of another type (line, spline, bezier, drilling, ecc..)			a	a
Fast 90° rotation, mirror, invert path, invert compensation and entities offset.			a	a
Automatic union and intersection of closed path.			a	a
Bridges and 3D bridges			a	a
Cleaning funcitons for drawing of imported files from other CAD			a	a
Drag and drop of entities to change the milling sequence		a	a	a	a	a	a
Sort by tool,  by entities or by points			a	a		a	a
Alignment entities			a	a		a	a
Horizontal and vertical automatic distribution of entities			a	a
Automatic selection of the entities inside a closed path.			a	a
Serial Ripetion of parts of drawing on  a grid or on a circle		a	a	a	a	a	a
Creation of Macro-Drawing repeatable on a grid, on a circle or on a polyline.			a	a		a	a
Snap commands to draw easily		a	a	a	a	a	a
Simplified management of Sdr(Layer)/Macro		a	a	a
Tree organization of the entity list using the folder			a	a
Lock entities (to avoid accidental changes)			a	a
Surface scan function to obtain automatically the surface.			a	a		a	a
Editor ISO			a	a		a	a
TIFF and Bitmap image to draw over with mouse		h	a	a	h	a	a
Monocromatic TIFF and Bitmap image for stamps milling			h	h		h	h
Raster milling of grey scale image		h	h	h	h	h	h
Stamps from vectorial elements		h	h	h	h	h	h
Emptying milling		a	a	a	a	a	a
Surface terracing milling				a			a
Drawing print and drawing print preview			a	a
Drawing information report			a	a
3D MODELLING
Surface from grey scale image				a			a
Surface from colour bitmap (BULGE)				a			a
Surface from vectorial elements (extrusion, rotation) and opertazion between surfaces				a			a
Predefined Surfaces (Sphere, Cylinder, Inclined Plane, Cone, Toroid)			a	a		a	a
Surface compensation (tool, and thickness of material male-female)				a			a
Sequential surface compensation				a
Filter for surface irregularity, Horizontal and vertical section, calculation of volume and weight.				a			a
Surface Rotation along X or Y axis, calculation of approximate surface(course)				a
Surface Deformation Functions (useful for skin and leather manifacurer)				h			h
FILE IMPORT/EXPORT
Import  DXF (*.dxf)		a	a	a	a	a	a
Import Encapsuled Postscript (*.eps)		a	a	a	a	a	a
Import file HPGL (*.plt)			a	a		a	a
Import file  BMPCAD (*.xtr, *.wtr, *.tri)			a	a
Import text		a	a	a	a	a	a
Export i DXF (*.dxf)		a	a	a	a	a	a
Export file HPGL (*.plt)			a	a		a	a
Export image (*.tif, *.bmp)			a	a		a	a
Export text		a	a	a	a	a	a
SURFACE IMPORT/EXPORT
Import file Stereolitography (*.stl), Raw Triangles (*.raw)				a			a
Import file Maquette volume Grille (*.mvg, *.pts)				a			a
Import file Roland (*.pix), Laser Optimet (*.job), Renishaw (*.pun)				a			a
Import file ASCII CIMATRON (*.asc), Artcam (relief) (*.rlf)				a			a
Import file Griglie Machintosh (*.gri), CIELLE (*.pol), Type3 (*.vna)				a			a
Import file ISO (*.iso)				a			a
Export file Stereolitography (*.stl)				a			a
Export file Ascii CIMATRON (*.asc), Ascii RHINOCEROS (*.asc), TYPE3 (*.iso)				a			a
Export file image (*.tif, *.bmp)				a			a
LANGUAGES
Italian		a	a	a	a	a	a
English		a	a	a	a	a	a
French		a	a	a	a	a	a
Spanish		a	a	a	a	a	a
Chinese		a	a	a	a	a	a
PLATE
PLATE - SOFTWARE for engraving plates		h	h	h	h	h	h
THREE DIMENSIONAL MILLING
Drawing a profile following a reference surface				a			a
Develop and envelop a profile respect a surface				a			a