Now, mechanical design engineers at companies of every size can work more productively than ever using CADKEY® 7. CADKEY breaks through the price barriers of higher cost personal CAD products by thousands of dollars, and is to mechanical design and engineering what word processing is to the modern office.

By focusing exclusively on mechanical design, Cadkey has created a powerful productivity tool custom-made for engineers and designers. An integrated 3D mechanical design and drafting software system, CADKEY supports the complete design-to-manufacturing process. Yet CADKEY is so easy to learn and use that it provides design productivity right out of the box.

A pioneer in desktop concurrent engineering, Cadkey is revolutionizing the industry today by offering mechanical designers CADKEY, an affordable, sophisticated CAD product.

CADKEY PROVIDES TRUE 3D DESIGN AND FULL DETAIL DRAFTING CAPABILITIES FOUND IN HIGH-END CAD SYSTEMS - BUT AT A FRACTION OF THE COST. POWERFUL AND FAST, CADKEY INCLUDES THESE PRACTICAL, TIME-SAVING FEATURES.

3D Design and Digital Prototyping
When the objectives are shorter product development and prototype cycles, the 3D modeling capabilities of CADKEY enable mechanical design engineers to meet the goal of ensuring form, fit, and function. Using comprehensive, easy-to-use geometric construction and editing features, you can start with simple parts, and build upon your design to create working assemblies. Pattern libraries allow you to create, retrieve, and insert components from existing designs to create new assemblies. Also, you can check and verify all design interferences, either visually or mathematically. Using the 3D design capabilities of CADKEY to build a digital prototype, you verify the integrity of your design, reduce Engineering Change Orders, and eliminate costly errors prior to manufacture.

Hidden Line Removal, Shading, Mass Properties and Stereolithography Output
CADKEY allows you to perform on-line, hidden line removal and create shaded renderings of your 3D models. With the ability to specify individual component colors and adjust lighting and orientation, you can create isometric and other oblique views easily and improve visualization of your design. Ideal for conceptual designs and shaded renderings, CADKEY also calculates mass-property data allowing you to obtain valuable engineering information and generates stereolithography (SLA) output for rapid prototyping applications.

Integrated, Comprehensive Surfacing
Integrated surface modeling capabilities of FastSURF Lite allow you to build, manipulate, and display complex, free-form surfaces easily inside CADKEY. The surfacing capabilities include surface of revolution, ruled surface, tabulated cylinder, fillet, offset and swept surfaces. FastSURF Lite also enables you to solve complex surface intersections. These high-end features found in CADKEY provide you with the tools necessary to complete demanding and complex design tasks.

CADKEY assists new users by including on-line help, documentation, and a self-paced tutorial that allows novices to become proficient in a matter of hours. More experienced users can take advantage of hot keys called Immediate Modes, keyboard macros, and the Status Window to greatly enhance their performance and improve productivity.

Birds-eye and Worms-eye Viewing Added
SOFTENGINE's birds-eye and worms-eye viewing uses display list processing and enables you to pan and zoom instantly around your model or drawing. This allows you to maintain your cursor position in larger parts and avoid time consuming regens. By dragging the selection window in the birds-eye viewport, the main working area is panned dynamically. Worms-eye viewing displays a magnified view of the area around your cursor. As the cursor is moved, the worms-eye viewport updates dynamically.

Complete Model-to-Drawing Associativity
Associative Drawing Layout makes CADKEY one of the most intelligent design system available today. As a 3D model is created, the 2D detail drawings made in Drawing Layout mirror what the 3D model defines. Whenever the model is changed, the related dimensions are updated automatically. This eliminates costly detailing errors and ensures that the detail drawings correspond to the actual design.

Full Support of Drafting Standards
CADKEY supports ANSI, ISO, DIN and JIS drafting standards and contains a complete set of dimensioning capabilities to ensure the production of accurate, professional documentation. The text editor and automatic features in CADKEY, such as automatic centering, auto-alignment, and dimension dragging, allow you to produce detail drawings quickly and easily.

New Advanced Drafting Module
CADKEY has an Advanced Drafting Module for high-end detailing functions including:

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
Dual Dimensioning
Basic Dimensioning
Balloon Notes, Datums, Targets
Welding Symbols
Symbol Libraries

These features give you the ability to specify tolerances for size and critical part characteristics, create and display dimensions in both English and metric units, and improve your level of documentation. The Advanced Drafting Module also provides symbol libraries for electrical, sheet metal, piping, fluid power, and flow chart applications.

Unlimited Potential for Customization
CADKEY has advanced, flexible customization features to fit your unique requirements. Customization starts with keystroke macros and continues with CADL® (CADKEY Advanced Design Language), the flexible, easy-to-use programming language that allows you to write simple routines for customizing CADKEY menus and functions.

CADKEY® LISP
CADKEY assists AutoCAD® users who want to migrate to CADKEY by including CADKEY LISP. CADKEY LISP provides a LISP interpreter, and a command line interface, and built-in program editor. CADKEY LISP permits many programs written in AutoLISP® to run in CADKEY with minimal changes. CADKEY LISP'S command line interface enables you to use many familiar Auto LISP commands. Simply type the commands and operate as usual. To assist in the development of CADKEY LISP programs, the program editor gives you a quick and easy method for modifying your source code.

Cadkey Dynamic Extensions
CADKEY Dynamic Extension (CDE) programs make it possible to add complete, fully functioning, complex applications, such as parametric modeling, progressive die programming and detail dimensioning extensions. CDE programs can be integrated within the CADKEY menu structure to provide a seamless interface for special applications. CDE's are written using the C programming language and offer the flexibility needed for every mechanical design engineer or developer to customize CADKEY.

Import/Export DWG®, DXF® and IGES® Files
By using on-line, bi-directional translation capabilities of CADKEY, you can protect your existing CAD investment, utilize existing data, and effectively transfer CAD files to and from other CAD/CAM systems.

CADKEY is designed to run on most desktop platforms and is fully compatible with many low-end to high-end CAD/CAM systems. CADKEY enables you, on-line, to import from and export to popular data formats including DWG and DXF. CADKEY also includes CADKEY's Advanced IGES Translator (Initial Graphics Exchange Standard). Easy-to-use dialog boxes allow you to configure and fine-tune the translation of data, assuring you the highest level of data integrity possible.

On-line Multi-language Support
CADKEY is available in over 17 different languages. In order to enhance system interaction for non-English-speaking users, CADKEY features a multi-language support system that allows you to configure the CADKEY 7 menus, prompts, and messages in your own language. By simply selecting one of the language options from a menu or configuration program, the text inside CADKEY updates automatically.

Baystate Technologies, the Design and Engineering Productivity Company
Baystate Technologies, Inc. acquired the CADKEY mechanical product line on June 28, 1996. This acquisition will enable Baystate to substantially enhance its position as an innovator in the PC mechanical CAD technology.

Baystate Technologies, Inc,. headquartered in Marlborough, MA, develops, manufactures and markets professional 2D and 3D computer aided design (CAD) software for mechanical engineering applications. Many CADKEY customers also use Baystate's popular product, DRAFT-PAK, a mechanical productivity enhancement product that was originally released for use with CADKEY software in 1989. DRAFT-PAK was the first PC-CAD enhancement package that was designed specifically for CADKEY mechanical designers and combined ease of use with innovative and practical productivity enhancements.

CADKEY is the stand-alone 2D and 3D software package which can also serve as the foundation for the other fully integrated software tools from Baystate Technologies, Inc. All share a single flexible database and easy-to-use interface. The full set of CADKEY concurrent engineering tools operates across numerous platforms and operating systems for complete desktop 3D modeling, 2D drawing and engineering analysis, with direct links into machining.