Shadows 2.2.5

Shadows software was designed to be a program used to design sundials. Shadows can be used by everybody without any required technical skills. Shadows will calculate everything and print the drawing according the users preferences.
Shadows is acclaimed by thousands of users around the world and by numbers of professional sundial makers and astronomers. Shadows has been awarded by the French Astronomy Society (Société Astronomique de France).
Main features:
- Free of charge in its entry level
- Two advanced levels: Shadows Expert and Shadows Pro
- Acclaimed as the most simple choice for the design of sundials
- Calculates and prints the drawings at real scale
- Simulates and displays the shadow of the style
- Includes a complete documentation in English
- Exports drawings as BMP, JPG, EMF and DXF (AutoCAD)
- Includes a location data base of 2500 places
- Offers a complete solar ephemeris
- Available in 8 languages
- Supports plane sundials with polar style, analemmatic sundials, cylindrical and bifilar sundials.
Shadows is the basic level and is freeware.
It comes with a powerful set of functions and a full documentation. If you want to discover further functions, you can acquire a license of Shadows Expert or Shadows Pro.
Shadows Expert is made for people already knowing the basics of sundial design and willing to extend their knowledge to more complex sundial types.
Shadows Expert adds on top of Shadows the analemmatic and cylindrical sundial types, the ephemeris tables, a number of new drawing options, such as italic and babylonian hours, the ability to insert images on the sundial, export functions, and so on.
Shadows Pro is the most advanced level and is made for professional sundial makers and power users.
Shadows Pro adds on to of Shadows Expert the vertical declining analemmatic sundial, the bifilar sundials, the drawing of azimuth-altitude lines on the sundial and in a separate graph, the export of the drwaing in WMF and DXF (AutoCAD)...
NOTE:You may acquire a license for Shadows Expert or Shadows Pro by paying a license fee. These levels offer advanced features that are not available in the standard level