SuperEdit is built using the newest generation of hybrid raster-vector editing framework called Tessel Composite Documents (TCD). TCD offers an important generalization of the hybrid editing concept: a composite document may consist of any number of raster subdocuments, and, optionally, vector background documents, placed in the common world coordinates system and functioning as a single logical document.
SuperEdit , as all TCD-compatible applications (like viewers, editors, integrator libraries), utilizes a common Composite Document dialog that provides the necessary tools to operate on composite documents on both the main document and subdocument level.
In the SuperEdit environment, you may simply look at TCD subdocuments as additional layers that are fully controlled by SuperEdit .
TCD raster subdocuments have the following important features:
they may contain raster images in any format supported by Tessel Software Line including monochrome, grayscale and color raster images;
they may be properly mapped to the common world coordinates system using the resolution, orientation, scale, units and insertion point parameters;
monochrome raster images may have a logical color independently assigned;
raster images may be edited using SuperEdit commands.
TCD vector subdocuments have the following important features:
optionally supported background vector subdocuments may contain vector files in DWG, DXF, HPGL and TVD format;
the DWG, DXF and HPGL vector drawings be properly mapped in the common world coordinates system using the units and orientation parameters independently set for each subdocument; drawings with layered structure may have visibility set on per-layer basis;
full control of drawing properties is supported for TVD vector drawings; one of TVD drawings can be selected and thus marked as foreground drawing, that can be directly edited using SuperEdit drafting commands.