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QCChart3D - 3D Charting Tools for .Net

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.

bulletVisual Studio .Net - Compatible with all versions of Visual Studio .Net (2002, 2003 and 2005), and the .Net Framework 1.0 and 2.0.
bulletQCChart3D uses the same API (different namespace though) as our QCChart2D software. Upgrade your existing code from QCChart2D to QCChart3D in minutes.
bulletBased 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.
bullet3D 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. 
bullet3D Transformations - Rotate charts 360 degrees with respect to the x, y and z axes.
bulletDatasets - 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.
bulletCoordinate 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.
bulletTime/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.
bulletBackgrounds 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.
bulletAxes - 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.
bulletAxis Labels - Axes can have decimal, exponential, time, date, string and multi-line labels. Programmers can define custom numeric and time/date axis labels.
bulletChart Titles - Charts can have a main title, a subhead and a footer. Axes can have horizontal and vertical titles.
bulletAxis Grids - Grid lines of any line style and color can highlight major and minor axis tick marks.
bulletExport Images – Chart images can be exported using the JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, WMF, EMF and GIF image formats.
bulletImport Images - Use .Net Image objects as plot elements in a chart, or as a background object.
bulletLegends - Position horizontal and vertical legends anywhere in a chart. A chart can have an unlimited number of legends.
bulletMouse Interface - A group of classes implementing mouse event delegates can locate, select and move chart objects like data plots, axes, titles, and legends.
bulletSimple 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.
bulletData Cursors - XOR data cursors are used to position the mouse cursor over data points in a 3D plot.
bulletData Markers - Drop special marker symbols on to the data presented in a graph, much like a bookmark in a word processing document.
bulletText and Annotations - Add and position in 3D space an unlimited number single and multi-line text objects, arrows and geometric objects to a chart.
bullet 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.
bulletData Compression - Large datasets can be compressed, increasing display speed without loss of detail.
bulletHigh 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.
bulletDocumentation 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