Purchase Glass Eye 2000: Which Edition?

  • This is our stained glass software for hobbyists, containing the essential features. You'll have all our drawing tools, including those for resizing, rotating stretching, flipping, and reflecting. Align your pattern elements with grids, crosshairs, and rulers. When adding glass to your design, choose from an unlimited color palette and fifteen glass textures. You'll get our library of over 400 annotated designs, as well as a bevel library of 160 shapes. Import and export BMP, GIF and JPEG images. If you wish, turn on piece numbering or produce a bill of materials.

    A Standard Edition can later be upgraded to the Professional Edition for $159, to the Professional Plus Edition for $319, or to the Enterprise Edition for $1199 (prices subject to change).

  • In addition to the many features available in the Standard Edition, the Professional Edition goes even further:
    • Glass library of over 3700 glass images from Armstrong, Bullseye, Casimir, Gecko, Kokomo, Lamberts, Spectrum, Uroboros, Wissmach, and Youghiogheny
    • Extend the glass library with your own samples
    • Text in unlimited fonts and colors
    • More import/export file types, including GIF, TIFF, PNG, and PCX; DXF export; variable image resolution
    • Assign names and prices to glass and textured colors
    • Piece numbering by color or location, or assign numbers to pieces manually
    • Lamp Wizard 3D modeling tool for designing lamps, jewelry boxes, ornaments, etc.
    • Measurements shown as decimal numbers or as fractions
    • Export, print and calculate materials usage for selected design elements
    • Print with a scale factor
    • Assign global color codes that apply across designs, not only to individual designs
    • Auto-orientation option that automatically chooses portrait or landscape printing, whichever uses paper more efficiently
    • Printer calibration tool to compensate for inaccuracies in your printer
    • Extended customer support
    • U-came borders
    • Repeat command to make multiple copies of a design element
    • Part names can be automatically used as piece labels
    • Scale factor can be displayed on printouts
    • Align piece labels with glass direction

    A Professional Edition can later be upgraded to the Professional Plus Edition for $169 or to the Enterprise Edition for $1049 (prices subject to change).

  • Along with everything that's included in the Professional Edition, the Professional Plus Edition adds these features:
    • AutoTrace Background which automatically converts any scanned or imported line drawing to a Glass Eye 2000 design
    • AutoTrace Text which automatically converts text into lines so that letters can be filled with color, rotated, etc.
    • Display measurements such as height, width, radius, and angle during drawing operations
    • Keyboard entry of locations and sizes during drawing operations
    • Customizable shortcut menu and hot keys to tailor Glass Eye 2000 to how you work
    • Extended customer support
    • Vector import in industry-standard DXF/DWG/EMF/WMF formats for compatibility with all major CAD software including Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and AutoCAD
    • Glass Orientation command to set location and rotation of glass images in pieces
    • User-adjustable glass transparency so that background images can show through your designs

    A Professional Plus Edition can later be upgraded to the Enterprise Edition for $899 (price subject to change).

  • The complete solution for the professional stained glass studio. The Enterprise Edition supplements the Professional Plus Edition with powerful and accurate plotting and cutting capabilities:
    • Direct output to plotters, cutters and blasters
    • Vector export in industry-standard DXF/DWG/EMF/WMF formats
    • Piece separation and nesting for plotter/cutter media
    • Draw a new contour by specifying an inner or outer offset distance of a selected shape
    • Extended customer support
 
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