Welcome to ConceptDraw.

Welcome to ConceptDraw - the program for creating business and technical drawings developed by Computer Systems Odessa Corp.

Powerful Tools.

ConceptDraw offers you a wide choice of different tools you can use for quickly creating business diagrams, thorough research layouts, schemes, plans, etc. For each object, you can assign different line colors, fill colors, fill and shadow patterns. Any object may contain text. The Snap and Glue tools help you align points, lines and objects as you draw them and position them precisely.

Formulas allow you to define various object parameters, which gives you virtually unlimited control over objects.

ConceptDraw's intelligent connectors automatically change their path when you reposition objects, avoiding crossing other objects. And what is more, you can convert any object into a connector.

Connectors let you easily create all kinds of charts: technological or business processes, organization schemes, program project plans, etc.

OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) compatibility means that a ConceptDraw document can be used in any other OLE-compatible application (for instance, MS Word). And vice versa, any file or document, created in another OLE-compatible program can be embedded into ConceptDraw.

Import/Export functionality lets you easily use images stored in files of different formats.

The program provides you with extended Internet capabilities: creating and using hyperlinks, sending documents by e-mail, saving the document in HTML format.

It's easy.

You don't need to have any artistic talent or drawing skills to use this program. Simpler objects can be easily created by using simple graphic segments and the Snap tool, and for more complicated ones you can use our Libraries, supplied with the program, where most of objects you might need are already gathered for you, and can be easily dragged from there and dropped into your document. Connectors allow you to join objects together and keep them connected even if you reposition the objects.

Key Features.

• Complete cross-platform compatibility between the Windows and MacOS versions of ConceptDraw. All documents, templates and libraries can be opened as on a Mac as on a PC without any conversion.
• Supports basic elementary segments: line, arc of circle, arc of ellipse, spline.
• Basic segments can be combined into one object.
• Text can be associated with objects:
  • Text size and angle can be changed separately of the object.
  • Various text styles are available.
  • Extended formatting options are supported.
• Extended object properties:
  • More than 30 fill patterns. Gradient fill patterns.
  • Color shadows are supported.
  • More than 60 arrowhead styles.
  • Various object properties can be locked against changes.
  • Changeable double-click action of objects.
  • Adding, multiple selecting, moving, deleting of handles.
• Advanced operations on objects:
  • Grouping, ungrouping, editing group.
  • Rotating objects, including images.
  • Vertical/Horizontal flipping.
  • The Snap function adds maximum precision to your work.
  • The Glue functionality lets maintain objects connected to each other.
  • Various tools for aligning object with respect to each other and to a guide line.
• Connectors:
  • When you move objects, connectors re-form accordingly.
  • User-controlled points of connection.
• Document:
  • Working with multiple pages: adding, deleting, renaming pages.
  • Zooming in on and out from pages.
  • Changeable scaling in the document. Standard scales are supported.
  • Metric and non-metric units of measure are supported.
  • The grid, the rulers and the guide lines help you to create accurate drawings.
  • Working with layers is supported: locking, hiding/showing, changing the layer colors.
  • User-defined color palette.
  • All your work settings can be saved in a workspace file, letting you quickly resume working.
• Exporting/Importing of the following graphic formats: Windows bitmap, metafile, JPEG, GIF, PICT, EPS.
• Working with the Internet: creating and using hyperlinks, sending documents via e-mail, saving in the HTML format, searching the Internet.
• Object parameter table, where any parameter can be changed or specified. Formulas can be used to define various object parameters. More than 60 functions supported.
• More than 50 supplied document templates for all occasions.
• Over 70 supplied libraries (about 1700 objects).
• Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) compatibility.

and more ...

System requirements.

To install and work with ConceptDraw, your system must have the following configuration:

PC computer:

• Pentium processor or better;
• 16 MB of RAM or more;
• CD ROM
• SVGA monitor, 256 colors (16-bit color recommended);
• Windows 95/ Windows98/ Windows NT 4.0 system or higher.

Macintosh computer:

• Power Mac processor or better;
• 32 MB of RAM (64 MB recommended);
• CD ROM
• 800x600 resolution, 256 colors monitor (16-bit color recommended);
• MacOS version 8.0 or higher.

Installing ConceptDraw.

For Windows system:

1. Insert your ConceptDraw disk in the CD ROM drive;
2. Run Setup.exe from the disk;
3. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

During the installation process, all necessary files will be copied on your hard drive. The submenu for ConceptDraw will be created in the Start menu. The setup program will also place the ConceptDraw icon on your desktop.

For MacOS system:

1. Insert the ConceptDraw disk into your CD ROM drive.
2. Drag the ConceptDraw folder on your desktop, or to a folder on your hard drive.

Technical support.

We are always ready to answer your questions, which may arise when you're working with ConceptDraw. We offer you free technical support - if you couldn't find answer to your question in the manual.

The best way to get the support is to do this is via electronic mail. Our email technical support works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When reporting a problem, please include the following information:

• Registration number you receive with your copy of the product.
• ConceptDraw version number
• Information describing your computer: processor type, amount of RAM, the video adaptor info (make, resolution, number of colors);
• Your operating system version number.
• A detailed description of how to reproduce the problem.

Send this information via e-mail at support@conceptdraw.com and we'll do our best to resolve the problem, or answer your question. Replies usually arrive within one business day.

More information about our support programs can be found on the ConceptDraw site http://www.conceptdraw.com. This site is fully dedicated ConceptDraw, and is a perfect source for latest information about the program, newer versions, updates, add-on components, training and some other resources that you can't get in a printed way. Please check it out regularly to get new libraries, samples and other useful things.

Registration.

To become a registered user, you have to fill out the registration form on our site here:
http://www.conceptdraw.com/Register/

Registration give you the following benefits:

• all registered users get free technical support.
• registration entitles you to receive notification about product updates, add-on components, and other special offers by e-mail.
• discounts for later versions of the product.

Don't forget to register your copy!

The Team.

ConceptDraw was created by a large team of professionals: programmers, designers, mathematicians, testers, and many other people. They worked hard to provide you with a high quality product, to make it powerful, beautiful and easy-to-use. All these people work for Computer Systems Odessa.

Computer Systems Odessa is an international corporation, which has been developing and publishing software products of various kinds since 1993. The headquarters of the company are located in the Eastern Europe (the Ukraine), in the wonderful city of Odessa, on the Black Sea coast.

Here you may see the map:
http://www.cs-odessa.com.ua/corporateinfo/im/mapeuro.jpg

And here, get acquainted with our city - Odessa:
http://www.cs-odessa.com.ua/odessa/odessa.html

Our team always keeps up with our customers' needs creating high quality state-of-the-art products. We are always happy to hear your feedbacks and suggestions which do help us improve our products, stimulating us to use cutting-edge technologies for creating up-to-date software which helps you to reach the desired results in your work.

For more detailed information about Computer Systems Odessa, the products and the team, visit the company site at http://www.cs-odessa.com.ua