TabletCAD September 29, 1999

Designing a tablet has always been a complex task, requiring expensive equipment, software, and a dedicated programmer (or user). This always takes

a lot of time, and often your results were not exactly as you may have wanted or planned.

With TabletCAD the design work for a new tablet can be done easily, quickly, and correctly on a standard personal computer (P/C).

TabletCAD can:

  • Design any standard tablet shape as well as some unusual shapes (heart, diamond, etc.)

  • Design many possibilities of cup design (concave, compound cup, flat face bevel edge, concave bevel edge, etc.)

  • Design many possibilities of bisect designs on one or both sides of the tablet. Quadrisect (crossing bisects) also!

  • Calculate accurate tablet volume and surface area from the dimensions of the tablet. Volume and surface area are calculated in "real time" and update every time you change a dimension, allowing you to design "on the fly".

  • Calculates product density and tablet weight, which allows you to determine tablet sizes for various doses or strengths.

  • Calculates maximum tip pressure for tablet designs. This is required for most new computerized tablet presses.

High quality scaled technical drawings can be produced on a laser printer using only the tablet dimensions as input. You do not need to be a CAD draftsman! This will provide proper documentation for your company’s records. All calculated technical information is printed on the drawing for your easy reference, including maximum tip force for each tablet design. A standard font logo is provided for design of embossing! Engraving cut details are included. Volume and surface area calculations consider material removal for bisects and embossing.

  • Easy, menu driven format. Just input the numbers. No drafting skill is required.
  • Both US and European paper sizes are supported.
  • Dimensions may be in inches or millimeters. After you create a drawing in one, you can toggle to the other instantly for easy dual dimensioned drawings.
  • Scale tablets up or down by volume or by dimension.
  • Tablet designs can be filed on hard drive, floppy drive, or on a network. Drawings can be printed for your convenience.
  • Help function is provided

Tablet shapes supported:

  • Round
  • Capsule and Modified Capsule
  • Oval and Modified Oval
  • Square and Rectangle
  • Triangle
  • Diamond
  • Regular Polygon – from 3 to 12 sided (Pentagon, Hexagon, etc.)
  • Heart
 

(Either straight sided or arc sided of any of the above)

 

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