ShortCAD is software for Pocket PC that reveals the simplicity of well known CAD products just onto the palm of your hand! ShortCAD brings basic concepts of drawing creation to your Windows Mobile system.

With ShortCAD you can create and edit 2D vector-graphic drawings and templates just as you do in well known CAD applications.

While your Pocket PC is small and slow, all of the "huge CAD" features of ShortCAD have been reworked to make them accessible and usable without mouse and keyboard.

Rendering performance of your Pocket PC allows viewing drawings of low and medium complexity. Even though, the rendering latencies that occur when using slow Pocket PC platforms, ShortCAD is capable of adding changes to the most complex drawings almost as fast as it goes with completely empty drawings. Your smart layer management may improve the productivity even on very detailed drawings by switching off unneeded layers. We always improve our renderer but adding new objects does not depend on it at all! It takes almost immediately even on dense and complex drawings thus you may quickly add handwritten notes on any displayable drawing.

Finger friendly command bar and minimalistic UI covers sophisticated CAD engine. ShortCAD fully supports classical approach to layers, blocks and text styles.

Drawing primitives like circles, arcs, lines, ellipses, traces, polylines and others behaves alike popular desktop CAD systems.

Four variants of snapping, 34 fonts (including CJK and Unicode fonts), 38 standard line types, configurable colors and width of lines and many other features collected all in one small application. You may ask why is ShortCAD. Here is an answer! ShortCAD is a pun on shortcut that means shorter route or smaller effort. Also it has a specific meaning: a file that contains only the location of another file in the computer. Gathering all meanings together will give you the answer: ShortCAD is a way to CAD and save hints and tips to your ideas with smallest effort while you are away from your workspace.