QCChart3D is a royalty free 3D Charting Toolkit for C# and Visual Basic .Net programmers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boston, Mass. - Dec 13, 2006 -
Quinn-Curtis, Inc. introduces
QCChart3D for
.Net, a 3D charting toolkit aimed
at developers who want to add interactive 3D charting graphics to their
C# and Visual Basic for .Net applications. The toolkit includes support for linear, logarithmic
and date/time based coordinate systems required by engineering, scientific and
business end-users. It also
includes support for advanced time/date coordinate systems required by business
end users, where weekends can be removed from the time scale, and where a day
can have a user-defined hourly range, for example: the 9:30AM to 4:00PM range
used in financial markets. Advanced user interface functions allow users to
interact with applications in 3D space, using the mouse: adding annotations, selecting,
marking and moving data points, and zooming into a particular chart region. The
QCChart3D software is sold as a single user Developer License
for $250. The user is entitled to free updates for two years. The developer version of the software can be downloaded for free
under a 30-day trial. Applications created using the QCChart3D toolkit can be
redistributed royalty free; no redistributable license is required. A brief summary of the major categories of classes
appears below.
 | Visual Studio .Net - Compatible with all versions of Visual
Studio .Net (2002, 2003 and 2005), and the .Net Framework 1.0 and
2.0. |
 | QCChart3D uses the same API (different namespace though)
as our QCChart2D software. Upgrade your existing code from
QCChart2D to QCChart3D in minutes. |
 | Based on the .Net Drawing and Drawing2D API - Compatible with .Net components and applications.
It is a pure .Net product that does not use any external 3D
rendering platform such as OpenGL, or Direct3D (DirectX). The software
is entirely written in C#, resulting in better performance and scalability.
Managed .Net code makes applications easier to deploy and maintain. |
 | 3D Plot Types - Line plots, ribbon plots, area plots, bar plots, line marker plots, floating bars,
scatter plots, group plots, open-high-low-close plots, error bar plots,
pie charts, contour plots, candlestick plots, line gap plots, cell plots,
histogram plots, arrow plots, bubble plots, multi-line plots and
stacked ribbon plots. An unlimited number of plot types can be combined in the same chart.
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 | 3D Transformations - Rotate charts 360 degrees with respect to
the x, y and z axes. |
 | Datasets - Datasets hold the x,y and/or z data values plotted in the chart. Charts can plot an unlimited
number of datasets, each dataset can contain an unlimited number of data points.
Datasets can hold numeric and DateTime based data. Mark data
points invalid, forcing a break in plotted lines. |
 | Coordinate Systems - Linear, logarithmic and time/date coordinate systems. An unlimited number of
coordinate system, and axes, can be overlaid in the same plotting area of a
graph. |
 | Time/Date Coordinate Systems - The time/date scale is specified using
DateTime objects. The time/date scales take into account the varying number of
days in months and years. The scales can also take into account
non-continuous time/date scales where a 5-day week is used, or where a full
day consists of a specific time interval that can be something less than a
24-hour day. |
 | Backgrounds and Walls - The chart background can use a
solid color, gradient, or an image object. Walls can be placed around
the chart, emphasizing the 3D effect. |
 | Axes - Linear, logarithmic and time/date axis types. All axis types have
manual and auto-scaling modes for setting axis ranges. Axis auto-scaling modes
handle multiple datasets, group data and contour data. A chart can have an
unlimited number of axes. |
 | Axis Labels - Axes can have decimal, exponential, time, date, string and multi-line labels.
Programmers can define custom numeric and time/date axis labels. |
 | Chart Titles - Charts can have a main title, a subhead and a footer. Axes can have horizontal
and vertical titles. |
 | Axis Grids - Grid lines of any line style and color can highlight major and minor axis tick
marks. |
 | Export Images – Chart images can be exported using the JPEG, BMP,
TIFF, PNG, WMF, EMF and GIF image formats. |
 | Import Images - Use .Net Image objects as plot elements in a chart, or as a
background object. |
 | Legends - Position horizontal and vertical legends anywhere in a chart. A chart can have
an unlimited number of legends. |
 | Mouse Interface - A group of classes implementing mouse event
delegates can locate,
select and move chart objects like data plots, axes, titles, and legends. |
 | Simple and Super Zooming - Zoom a chart in 3D space. Zoom a
simple xy axis pair, or simultaneous zoom an unlimited number of x- and
y-axes. |
 | Data Cursors - XOR data cursors are used to position the mouse cursor over data points in a
3D plot. |
 | Data Markers - Drop special marker symbols on to the data presented in a graph, much like a
bookmark in a word processing document. |
 | Text and Annotations - Add and position in 3D space an unlimited number single and multi-line text objects, arrows and geometric
objects to a chart. |
 |
Data ToolTips - Select a 3D data point with the mouse and popup a tooltip
window that displays the data x- and/or y-values for the data points.
Programmers can create custom information displays for tooltip windows. |
 | Data Compression - Large datasets
can be compressed, increasing display speed without loss of detail. |
 | High Resolution Printing -
Since the underlying 3D graphics kernel uses .Net 2D primitives
(lines, polygons and text), printer output is recreated on the
printer, through the .Net printing engine, at the printer resolution
and does not pass through an intermediate bitmap that can drastically
lower printer output resolution. Print Preview is fully supported.
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 | Documentation and Demo/Example Programs - The software includes a comprehensive
500 page user manual with many programming examples, XML help for
every class and more than 75 example charts in 31 demo programs. Every programming example, and
example program is presented in C# and Visual Basic. |
The software is written entirely in C# and works with all
platforms and browsers compatible with Microsoft .Net Framework. Applications
created using the software run on all Windows versions from Windows 98 to the
current version of Windows XP. The recommended development environment is
Microsoft Visual Studio for .Net configured for the C# and/or the Visual Basic
programming languages.
Product details are found at:
http://www.quinn-curtis.com/QCChart3DProdPage.htm

For More Information Contact:
Quinn-Curtis, Inc.
Medfield, MA
Tel: 508-359-6639
FAX: 508-960-2729
Internet:
info@quinn-curtis.com