bCAD Vista is the public-domain 3D data viewer
and render. This program may be freely distributed 
without modification, including the Copyright notice 
of ProPro Group. 

Following 3D formats are supported:

3DS - native Autodesk 3D Studio files (import only)
ASC - Autodesk 3D Studio ASCII files
DXF - AutoCAD Data Exchange Format files
NFF - Sense8 Neutral Format Files (import only)
BDF - bCAD native files. 

Following raster formats are supported:

Export TGA/JPEG/BMP/GIF/TIF/PCX

Import TGA/JPEG/BMP/GIF/TIF/PIC/CEL

Rendering methods:

Flat shading
Gouraud 
Phong z-buffered
Ray-tracing

Material settings form 3DS files are supported automatically in case
of appropriate texture images presence.

Command line options:

bcadv [options] [filename1.[extencion]] [filename2.[extencion]] ...

options:

-h   	help
-v  	force to run in VGA 640x480 mode
-b  	force to use dark background of the drawings
-m  	force to display monochrome vectors
-cfg    force to run set-up dialogue box

if there is no file extension .BDF will be used as default


In case program doesn't recogninize your vide hardware try to
run univesa.exe first and then bcadv.

Hardware requirements:

Minimum: 386,1Mb RAM, VGA, mouse, DOS 3.3 and later
Recommended: 486DX, 4Mb RAM, 256 colours SVGA, mouse, DOS 5.0 and later

High and TrueColour modes are supported, resolution up to 1024x1280.

Questions/suggestions send to 

Internet: brd@iis.nsk.su

or by surface mail

ProPro Group
PO box 350,
Novosibirsk 117,
630117 RUSSIA

or by phone

+7 383 2 329 658  (Note +6hours time differnce from GMT)

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