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Stories

Featured Stories

For many years we maintained a software catalog. It is a showcase of products and services available from manufacturers, worldwide. The catalog contains over 6500 entries.

Lighting Design Story

Between 1999 and 2017, we worked in partnership with Chicago Stage Equipment Co. Inc. DBA Design & Drafting. Together, we combined lighting, sound, video, set design and event planning into an ALL-IN-ONE CAD program - LD Assistant.

3D Windows Story

T3Desk is a professional-class application that keeps you organized, makes you more productive and improves the way you work with Windows and the Web.

Cross-sensory, Digital Sculptures

The future of type through the computational lens is a speculative typographic, research project. It lays its basis on theories that discuss how typography is moving towards a multi-sensory future where the static becomes fluid, dimensional, and reactive and technology is the catalyst.

Sounds-of-Protest Typeface

The Sounds-of-Protest typeface gives the climate change movement a voice and articulates their beliefs through symbolic typography.

Experiments

Featured Experiments

Experimenting with Microsoft Foundation Classes

The Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library provides an object-oriented wrapper over much of the Win32 and COM APIs.

Experimenting with Win32++

Win32++ is a C++ library used to build windows applications. Win32++ is a free alternative to MFC.

Experimenting with Anti-Grain Geometry

Basically, you can think of AGG as of a rendering engine that produces pixel images in memory from some vectorial data. But of course, AGG can do much more than that.

Experimenting with a vector graphics editor

Dynamic Draw is a vector graphics editor. It is useful for making flowcharts, line drawings, org charts, buttons, etc. It is an object-oriented drawing and design program. It has intelligent linking system.

Experimenting with a full-featured system for 3D modeling

SolidGraph is a full-featured system for 3D modeling of highly complex geometric objects. Sooner or later, everyone who works with computer graphics feels necessary to write his own editor.

Experimenting with windowless user-interface

Traditionally, Windows applications are built upon the GDI/User windowing hierarchy, and thus restricted in several areas. While you can certainly generate a nice application quickly with the built-in control-set and get a standard clean look, you will soon enough stumble upon the limitations of the Windows controls - especially if you want to build something that looks a little more flashy.

Experimenting with a code snippet bank application

CodezBank is just a small application that stores source code snippets organized in a hierarchical manner with basic search ability.

Experimenting with Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. The Visual Studio IDE is a creative launching pad that you can use to edit, debug, and build code, and then publish an app.

Creative Layouts

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Cards

In designing a cards layout, careful consideration must be given to the visual hierarchy and information architecture of the content being presented. Each card acts as a self-contained unit, displaying concise yet meaningful information to users in a digestible format.

Intro

The intro layout of a software application or website plays a crucial role in setting the tone for user interaction. It serves as the first impression, offering users a glimpse into what to expect and guiding them on how to navigate further.

Paragraphs

Creative text paragraphs are a versatile tool in written communication, allowing for the expression of ideas in a structured yet engaging manner.

Headings

Text headings play a crucial role in structuring content and improving readability. By providing a visual hierarchy, headings help readers scan and understand the relationship between different sections of text.

Lighting Design

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Get prepared

Between 1999 and 2017, Tehnif Software worked in partnership with Chicago Stage Equipment Co. Inc. DBA Design & Drafting. We combined lighting, sound, video, set design and event planning into an ALL-IN-ONE CAD program - LD Assistant.

Software at a glance

LD Assistant is a Lighting Design Software for Stage Lighting, Audio, Video and Event Planning, that merges advanced lighting design algorithms with 2D & 3D standard CAD tool set.

Software features

Drawings are made up of objects. You can create a range of objects, from simple lines and circles to spline curves, and ellipses. When specifying a point, you can enter distances, offsets, and measured intervals.

Gallery

A realistic rendering of a model can often give a product team or prospective client a clearer vision of a conceptual design than a plotted drawing. Rendering creates a 2D image based on your 3D scene.

The user's voice

... it’s difficult to embrace all of LD Assistant’s features; therein lies the beauty of the program. Power users will never exhaust all the potential of the software, but they are consistently able to push the envelope of their own designs.

As reviewed by industry media

For adding the powerful 3D rendering tools of Viz 4 and Lightscape and credibility of IES standard photometrics to entertainment designer’s toolboxes – and making them user friendly enough to use without three new textbooks – we recognize Design and Drafting’s LD Assistant Ac with VIZlink.

Business facts

We understand much more than just CAD ... we understand Design, and more importantly, we understand users business. Our software solutions successfully combines lighting and event planning into an ALL-IN-ONE product.

The show must go on

Today, if your activity has a connection with 2D Drafting, 3D Modeling, Lighting Design, Audio & Video, Event Planning, Rendering & Animation, Visualization & DMX Control, LD Assistant or CAD, is good to know that CAD-N-LIGHTING.com remains a place where you can keep in touch with people who share the same passions.

3D Windows

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Get prepared

T3Desk implements a lightweight 3D Desktop Module, Windows manager, Applications manager, among other powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features and tools, to ensure your seamless desktop and online experience.

Software at a glance

Most of us are used to simply minimizing Windows applications to the taskbar, which is an easy enough way to set aside applications we're not using but plan to come back to. With T3Desk, however, users can create 3D representations of minimized applications on their desktop.

Software features

The Applications Manager module lets you organize and quickly access your shortcuts to applications, websites, folders and files. It use a fast database so you don't have to worry about used memory or speed performance.

Gallery

The 3D windows have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, swiveled in almost anyway you want.

The user's voice

Forget minimizing programs to the Windows taskbar where you can't see what they're up to. T3Desk minimizes them to the desktop, shrinking each one to the size, transparency, and 3D viewing angle of your choice.

As reviewed by industry media

If you want a little extra eye-candy in your Windows management, T3Desk is an alt-tab alternative that gives you 3D windows arrangement and more.

Business facts

Finding a useful utility is a great thing, and when it’s free it is even better. That’s the best way to describe T3Desk – it is incredibly useful and free. What T3Desk does is very simple, it allows you to minimize windows to thumbnails on the screen to get them out of your way, yet they are right there when you need them.