Lithium 12 - Subscription

Precision sketching: the fun way to design

Lithium is an entry level drafting and sketching program for product and building ideas. Based on Cobalt, it has great precision and easy to use layers, and will not include some of the more professional drafting features of Graphite, such as model-to-sheet, view ports or parametrics.

• Unique Working Environment featuring Organic Workflow™
• Effortless and Fast Precision Drafting
• Easier to Learn and Faster to Use
• Accurate 2D and 3D Drafting to 16 Digits
• Intuitive Vellum® Interface
• Vellum Drafting Assistant™ for Intelligent Snaps and Alignments in X,Y & Z
• Unique Hybrid Mac/Windows, Office/Home Licensing
• 2D PDF Export and Import
• Export as STL for 3D Printing
• Exports as 3D PDF for Easy Sharing
• 2D Drawing Snapshots

Features

General Features

• Direct Multi-sheet PDF Creation
• 16 Place Floating Point Accuracy
• Hybrid Mac/Windows Office/Home Licensing
• Infinite Pan and Zoom
• More than 256 Layers with Grouping Control
• Unlimited Drawing Size
• Unlimited Number of Objects and Drawing Size
• Draw Order Control by Arrange Menu or Layer Dialog
• 65,000 Hierarchical Layers
• Unlimited Colors

2D Analysis

• Perimeter
• Area
• Centroid

User Interface

• Updated, Intuitive Vellum Interface
• Drafting Assistant™ for Automatic Snaps and Alignments
• Smart Cursor Changes Shape Indicating Active Tool and Operations
• Tear-off Tool Palettes
• Strokes and Short Cuts Provide Instant Access to Commands
• Status Line to Specify Object Parameters
• Message Line Provides Tool Feedback, Instructions, and Options
• Edit Objects Dialog Box
• World and User-defined Coordinate Systems
• All Data Entry Fields can Perform Numeric Calculations
• Object Grouping and Locking
• TrackBall for View Selection and Dynamic or Cube Rotation
• Scroll Wheel Zoom and Spacebar Panning
• Axis Locking
• Orbit Tool
• Nudge Tool Moves Selected Items a User-definable Distance
• Selection Mask for Easier Selection of Specific Entity Types
• Grid (User-defined, with snapping)
• Layer Manager
• Macros to Assign Keys or Strokes to Repetitive Tasks
• Localized Languages
• Tool Tips
• Help Tool Hyperlink
• Visual Assistance:
  • Cursor Options
  • Scaled Line Weights
  • Menu Fonts
• Visual Color Selection Palettes
• Re-ordering of Layers and User Views
• Nested Layers

Drawing Tools

Wireframe Creation Tools:

• Point
• Points on Curve
• Points on Surface
• Line
• Mid-point Line
• Connected Line
• Arc
• Circle
• Ellipse
• Conic
• Rectangle
• Polygon
• Arbitrary Polygon
• Star Polygon
• Sketch Spline
• Through-point Spline
• Vector Spline
• Bezier Spline
• Helix
• Spiral

Wireframe Editing Tools:

• Fillet
  
• Chamfer
  
• Trim
  
• Relimit/Extend
  
• Break
  
• Offset
  
• Join
  
• Extrude
  
• Revolve
  
• Extract Edge of Surface or Solid
  
• Increase Order
  
• Fair Spline
  
• Add/Remove Spline Points
  
• Modify Spline Slope
  
• Curve by Intersection of Plane
  
• Project Curve onto a plane
  
• Intersect Two Curves
  
• Create Points by Intersecting
  
• Spline Editing Tools
  
• Modify Spline Slope
  
• Intersect Two Curves
  
• Infinite Construction Lines
  
• Offset, Divide

Selection Tools

• Fence
  
• Crossing/Intersecting
  
• Enclosed Polygon
• Automatic Boundary Detection

Views

• Multiple
  
• 3D

Additional Drafting Tools

• Symbols Panel
  
• Multiple Sheets per Document
  
• Plotter Font
  
• Pen Style Palette

Text Tools

• Multi Line
  
• Normal
  
• Along Path
  
• At an Angle
  
• Set Font, Size, Color and Justification

General Transform Tools

• Move
  
• Linear Duplicate
  
• Rotate
  
• Polar Duplicate
  
• Scale
  
• Mirror
  
• Stretch
  
• Copy Along Path

2D Drawing Creation

• Smart Dimension Tool Automatically Creates the Appropriate Dimensions
  
• Dimensions:
  
  • Linear
    
  • Angular
    
  • Diametric
    
  • Radial
    
  • Baseline Method
    
  • Chain Method
    
  • Ordinate (Datum Method)
    
  • Circle Center Marking
• Standard and User Definable Tolerances and Settings (ANSI, DIN, ISO, JIS, Dual,
• Architecture, and Stacked Fraction)
  
• Predefined Hatch and Fill Patterns
  
• Line Weights, Colors, and Styles
  
• Unlimited Number of Objects
  
• Dynamic or Static Dimensioning
  
• Balloon and Callout Dimensions

Import / Export

• DWG/DXF (Up to R32)
  
• PDF 2D Import and Export
  
• EPS (Export Only)
  
• Spline (Import Only)
  
• ASCII Text
  
• Claris CAD (Import Only)
  
• Graphical Formats:
  
• BMP (w/Alpha)
  
• GIF (w/Alpha)
  
• JPG
  
• PNG (w/Alpha)
  
• PSD
  
• TGA (w/Alpha)
  
• TIFF (w/Alpha)
  
• WBMP

Text Tools

• Normal
  
• Along a Path
  
• Keep Screen Horizontal
  
• At an Angle
  
• Set: Font, Size, Style, Color

PDF Integration

Export:

• Direct (Generates Non-tessellated Arcs)
  
• Multi-sheet
  
• Imbedded Exports Optional
  
• PDF Large Size Export up to 200in × 200in (508cm × 508cm, including margins)
  
• Page Size Independent of Print Size

Import:

• Vector
  
• Raster
  
• Text