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OCAD is a drawing program created for the needs of the cartographer. This focus in cartography makes it extremely easy and convenient to use. OCAD has all the capabilities to create any kind of maps.
OCAD Blog
3w ago
OCAD has updated its symbol sets for orienteering and sprint orienteering after a revision by the IOF.
The new symbol sets are valid from 1st February 2024 and mandatory for IOF events from 1st January 2025.
Update Orienteering Symbol Set due to ISOM 2017-2 Revision 6
The most important changes:
New symbol added for Retained earth wall | New symbol added for Dangerous pit | New symbol added Continuing point after map exchange | Renumbering of certain symbols | Certain symbols for minimum sizes removed
Update Sprint Orienteering Symbol Set due to ISSprOM 2019-2 Revision 6
The most important ..read more
OCAD Blog
1M ago
OCAD has been sponsoring prizes for the Swiss Orienteering course setting competition for many years.
The aim of the competition is to set good and level courses for certain categories and to comply with the required framework conditions.
The course set by former orienteering world champion Thomas Bührer impressed the jury the most.
Click here for the analysis (German language) and the winning courses ..read more
OCAD Blog
1M ago
We have added some new features to the OCAD Sketch App.
To update the app, go to Google Play Store (Android) or Apple App Store (iOS), search for OCAD Sketch and update the app.
See here a short video of what has changed.
– Sketch colors can now be filtered and sorted.
– Zoom buttons can be hidden – see project settings.
– The Eraser can be resized – see project settings.
– The Sketch layer can be hidden or just dimmed – see layers menu.
– All background layers can be shown or hidden all at once – see layers menu.
– Bug fixes and performance improvements ..read more
OCAD Blog
2M ago
We hope you all had a good start to the new year and wish you all the best for 2024.
In this blog post, we take a look at what has been added to OCAD over the last year in terms of functionality and learning aids.
OCAD Route Analyzer 2.0
The Route Analyzer 2.0 now also takes into account the relief and the runnability. With it, the fastest routes can be calculated in urban as well as in classic forest terrain.
Optimized DEM for Course Setting Available
To ensures that the climbing and slope gradient are included in the route calculation of Route Analyzer 2.0, an optimized elevation model can ..read more
OCAD Blog
3M ago
The OCAD Basics exercise teaches both basic and advanced drawing and editing functions in an interactive way. Many tips and tricks for working efficiently with OCAD are also presented.
The exercise file is therefore not only suitable for beginners, but also for experienced users who want to refresh their OCAD knowledge.
It can be found in the OCAD program under Menu File > Open Sample Maps in English, Swedish or German (OCAD Basics_EN.ocd, OCAD Basics_SE.ocd or OCAD Basics_DE.ocd).
If the files are not visible, please download the latest OCAD Update.
More OCAD Tutorials can be found here ..read more
OCAD Blog
4M ago
The specifications for the control descriptions have been slightly adapted by the International Orienteering Federation IOF and published as ISCD 2024.
The new symbol sets are valid from 1 January 2024 and are already available in OCAD (Menu File > New > Course Setting project for orienteering).
The most important changes:
Color of the control description on map now black by default (optionally still purple, see the Course Setting Options).
According to IOF, control description sheet on map should be printed in black.
New symbols for map filp and railway are shown.You can change the co ..read more
OCAD Blog
5M ago
In this article we present different ways of drawing stairs in OCAD and what to look out for.
If stairs are drawn too small or too narrow, this greatly impairs legibility and the staircase can easily be mistaken for an impassable object (especially if the print quality of the circles is poor).
How is the stairway symbol defined?
Steps of a stairway shall be represented in a generalized manner. Contour lines shall be cut out for better legibility, if they touch stairways.
This means that when you are drawing stairs you should make sure that…
(1) treads are not drawn with too little spacing (m ..read more
OCAD Blog
5M ago
This blog post is about how to compare 2 versions of an OCAD file.
What are possible ways to find out what has changed at object level between two versions of a file?
#01: Select by Date
You can select objects by their Creation date or Modification date in the menu Select > Select by date.
You will get a list of all objects which have been created or modified during a specified period of time.
It’s possible to sort the values in the list by double clicking on the top row.
Click on a object in the list to move the view to the corresponding object.
You can save this selection, reload it and ..read more
OCAD Blog
6M ago
To use the OCAD Route Analyzer 2.0, course setters need a current map as well as a Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
This is loaded into the map or course setting file and ensures that the climbing and slope gradient are included in the route calculation. The DEM is typically created by the cartographer and has traditionally required a lot of memory.
The DEM can now be optimized and compressed without loss of quality for route calculation. This significantly reduces the file size of the DEM and makes it easier to share. The optimized elevation model can also be embedded directly into the map or c ..read more
OCAD Blog
6M ago
The Crop Object funtion in OCAD offers many possibilities, such as cropping a map or deleting certain objects in an area.
Here are a few examples:
Create a desired sector
Use this method to crop the map to a certain extent.
A map should be cropped to the extent of the purple line object. You can also use a cropping rectangle instead of selecting a crop object, see Settings below.Map has been cropped to the extent of the chosen crop object.Settings
Create a hole
Use this method to cut away parts of the map.
A map where the part of the purple line object is to be cut away. Cropped mapSetting ..read more