progeCAD 2024 Professional – Upgrade progeSOFT

Overview Used by professionals from a wide range of industries such as mechanical, construction, infrastructure, architectural, design, geotechnical, etc., progeCAD Professional is an affordable and powerful 2D/3D DWG/DXF CAD software that reads and writes DWG/DXF drawing files versions 2.5 through the latest and is fully compatible with Windows OS. progeCAD boasts the intuitive Classic/Ribbon Interface with familiar commands and perpetual licensing solutions. progeCAD Professional is a highly efficient, the proven low-cost replacement for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, comprising all the basic CAD functionality as well as many exclusive extra tools to facilitate the drafting process and drawings interchange, for instance, with Mechanical (STEP/IGES/SolidWorks file formats support) and BIM (rvt/.rfa, IFC file formats support) applications.

 

What’s New

Performance

• Intellicad 11.1 engine – The most recent IntelliCAD source code with all the relative improvements. Hundreds of bugs fixed, new features and improved interface
• Optimized selection performance
• Faster polyline vectorization
• Fast Zoom
• Improved Zoom reactivity and smoothness
• Quick Select 2x faster in large drawings

User Interface

• ViewCube – The View Cube is a convenient way to control and manipulate the model space viewing angle in progeCAD
• Insert blocks preview into Table Cells – Insert Blocks through a friendly visual interface
• New function for the UCS command – Now it is possible to select Solid entities or Surfaces to define a new UCS
• Preview Sheet on print – Paper and margins preview in the print dialog box
• Command REGENVISIBLE – Regenerates entities only in the visible area
• Improved TOOLPALETTE – Drag an entity from a drawing and drop it on a tool palette to add the corresponding entity-creation command to the tool palette
• Command Line Font – Displays the Command Bar Font dialog box
• Restore suppressed messages – From the Options dialog, restore the help and warning messages that were definitively hidden by the user
• GRIP improvements for clipped blocks
• CTRL+R function – Switches between tiled viewports in the Model tab or floating viewports in the current layout
• 3DWALK – Changes the 3D view in a drawing interactively to create the appearance of walking through the model. Manage Settings with the 3DWALKFLYSETTINGS command
• 3DFLY – Changes the 3D view in a drawing interactively to create the appearance of flying through the model. Manage Settings with the 3DWALKFLYSETTINGS command
• 3DPOSITIONER – Displays a visual aid, or gizmo, used to move and rotate entities in the three-dimensional space

New Features

• DATALINK – Link a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to a progeCAD table. The best thing about data linking is that any changes that you make to the Excel spreadsheet will update the progeCAD table. Plus, if you set it up this way, you can edit the table and it can write back to the spreadsheet.
• XLSIMPORT – Imports directly an .xls or .xlsx file into a new static progeCAD Table. The imported data fill a new table that is created automatically during import, and the new table is formatted automatically to match the format of the original spreadsheet.
• MAPIMPORT – Geo Data and FDO Import. Inserts geometries from SDF files (SDF is a native Autodesk® geospatial file-based format optimized for storing large classified data sets), SQLite and SHAPE (esri) files, or can use a database server service like WFS (the Web Feature Service allows users to share geospatial /or non-spatial data over the Internet. Thus, feature services can be consumed through the Internet in WebMaps, desktop and web applications.), PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• MAPIINSERT – Multiple images insertion. Insertion of multiple images at the same time (especially useful for georeferenced images).
• Improved Geolocation – New dialog box for adding a geographic location to a drawing.
• GEOMAPSERVICE – Use the Map Service command to turn geographic map services on and off. When off, the program is prevented from accessing the Internet to display the online map, and the Mark Position, Capture Area, and Reload Image commands are unavailable.
• New Express command – Smart Join. Joins lines, polylines, splines into a single polyline.
• LAYMRG – Merge Layers. Reduces the number of layers in a drawing by merging them. Objects on merged layers are moved to the target layer, and the original layers are purged from the drawing.
• SURFEXTRACTCURVE – Creates curves in the U and V directions on a Surface or on a 3D solid. The curves can be lines, polylines, arcs, or splines depending on the shape of a 3D object.
• AIDIMSTYLE – Allows to create a new Dimension Style based on an existing dimension. Say you have a dimension and you change its properties by overriding such elements: extension line color, text color, arrowhead size, and text font. Just run the command AIDIMSTYLE and select the dimension and a new style will be created with these properties.
• CENTER MARK and CENTERLINE entities – Center Marks and Centerlines are dimensioning references to centers and axes of symmetry. Center Marks and Centerlines are associative objects. If you move or modify the associated objects, the center marks and centerlines adjust accordingly. From the Properties palette, you can control their geometry and visibility. 
• BREAKATPOINT – Splits 2D entities such as lines, arcs, polylines, infinite lines, rays, splines into two entities at a single break point. Closed entities cannot be split at a single break point.

Working with BIM files

• Support for Autodesk® Revit® 2023 files – Import .rvt files v. 2023.
• Import IFC and REVIT with Layers – progeCAD imports BIM files with the layers structure reading from the IFC or Revit files (up to Autodesk® Revit® version 2022) .
• The BIM Properties pane allows to create and assign Visibility States.
• Select, attach, and manage .IFC and .RVT/.RFA underlays using the progeCAD Explorer.
• Use the Audit command to check for errors in .IFC files that are attached as underlays.

Improvements

• QDIM – Updated the Quick Dimension command and added the new Settings option in order to manage the associative dimension priority to the Endpoint or to the Intersection.
• PDFEXPORT – New interface for exporting drawings to PDF. Now it is possible to export all layouts and the model space, based on the user selection, to create multi-page PDF files.
• OFFSET – Added the options “Layer” and “Erase” in the OFFSET command.
  “Erase” erases the source object after it is offset.
  “Layer” determines whether offset objects are created on the current layer or on the layer of the source object.
• STEP/IGES Import – New Object creation option. You can configure your preferred 3D CAD entity type when importing 3D external files. “Automatic” is the default and recommended mode.
• Blocks Filter – The “Blocks” option is now available to automatically filter selected objects in order to preserve objects other than blocks, such as Array, Polylines, MTexts, etc.
• Big Font substitution – Select a replacement font by searching directly on the PC or LAN, using the Browse function, and not only among the predefined choices.

Utilities

• WHOHAS – Information on the drawing user and usage. Displays information about an open drawing file. You can use WHOHAS to find out who has a specified drawing file open. After you specify a drawing file, information is displayed that includes the full path of the file, the current user’s login name, computer name, and the date and time that the drawing file was opened.
• Network license Groups (Apply to NLM licenses only)
  The feature to assign a membership group to each NLM license which allows breaking the total number of available NLM licenses into some independent groups. In this way, licenses can be divided among specific offices / work groups.

10 Reasons to Buy ProgeCAD Professional 

Perpetual Licensing. No annual fee. You decide when to upgrade Nothing to learn, if you are AutoCAD® users Works natively with DWG! Fully compatible with AutoCAD® without conversion Import BIM projects and objects (Autodesk Revit® and IFC) PDF to DWG conversion included Convert your old paper draughts into CAD Create architectural layouts in a flash with the EasyArch parametric plug-in 20.000+ blocks ready to use + customizable blocks manager Import/Export – STEP, IGES, PDF, 3D PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, LWO, POV, Maya, OBJ, BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, SVG Professional Artisan Render Engine included

 
Main Features

The Swiss-Army-Knife CAD for file exchange

progeCAD Professional is a powerful tool for conversion of different CAD file formats. It imports and exports a large number of file types, making CAD interchange easy. 

With the included PDF2DWG conversion engine, PDF Import is quick and easy. progeCAD helps you convert your PDF files to editable DWG drawings generating and optimizing vector entities such as lines, polylines, splines, hatches, circles, arcs and text strings. All colors are retained in the DWG/DXF file. PDF2DWG supports preview of pages, Batch conversion of all PDFs in a folder, multi-page PDF conversion, intelligent TrueType texts, line width and dashed lines recognition. PDFtoDWG is compatible with Layered PDF and preserves the same Layers scheme existing in the PDF when converting PDF to DWG. PDF2DWG allows to save time by easily transferring projects, drawings, parts of existing vector PDFs catalogs and manuals to CAD drawings to use them as native DWG files. PDFtoDWG supports all versions of Adobe PDF files.

• PDF to DWG conversion
• Import: STEP, IGES, ESRI-SHAPE SHP, 3DS, DGN(Microstation), LWO, OBJ(Wavefront), STL, RGT, KMZ, DXF, DWF, DWFx, IFC, POINT CLOUDS
• Export: STEP, IGES, PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, 3D PRINT STL

Toolpalettes for Blocks, Hatches and frequently used Commands

Use the tool palettes to organize blocks, hatches, and custom tools in a tabbed window. Easily customizable by Drag & Drop. Options and settings are accessible from shortcut menus.
The ready-to-use Palettes for: Draw, Modify, Annotations, Utilities, View, 3D Tools, Fills and Hatches, 2D Architectural, Electrical Diagrams, Electrical Plants, Mechanics ANSI-ISO, Mechanics DIN-ISO, Hydraulic-Fluids and Pneumatics, Steel Sections

Icadlib Module And Blocks Libraries

The advanced iCADLib module for blocks management ensures the best organization and management of your Symbol Libraries. More than 22.000 ready- to-use 2D/3D Blocks: Construction, Architectural, ANSI-ISO and DIN-ISO Mechanics, ANSI and IEC Electrical, Electronic, Steel Profiles, Furniture, Kitchen. 

PARAMETRIC 2D/3D LIBRARY – Imperial/Metric

Parametric generation and insertion of 2D or 3D mechanical/structural components for construction using a dedicated interface:

• Wood: Lumber, Trus Joist® TJI®
• Steel: Angle, Channel, Tubing, Pipe, S-W-M-HP Shape, S-M-W Tee Shape
• Steel: Studs, Sstuds, Joist, Track

Two Tool Palettes for the new Structures library are provided, ready to use (Steel standard, Profiles and Wooden details)

Block Editor (_BEDIT)

The Block Editor offers a special authoring area to enable free drawing
and editing of blocks geometry.
In the Block Editor, you can:

• Modify a block geometry
• Add/Delete entities
• Define attributes
• Manage visibility states
• Test and save the block definition

Surveying, Gis And Civil Features

• Geolocation with Bing Maps – You can insert geographic location information to a drawing file as a graphic background by specifying the location of a reference point on a map provided by Bing Maps service.
  Geographic location information is assigned to a drawing file by capturing a portion of the Bing online map to an object known as a map image and embedding it to the drawing area.
  Maps can be visualized as Aerial(terrain), Road or mixed.
• Image Georeferencing – Georeferencing is the process of scaling, rotating, translating and deskewing the image to match a particular size and position. Special for GIS!
• ECW support – ECW is an open standard wavelet compression image format developed by Earth Resource Mapping. The file format is optimized for aerial and satellite imagery, and efficiently compresses very large images with fine, alternating contrast. This is a lossy compression format.
• MrSID support – MrSID (.sid), which is an acronym of Multiresolution Seamless Image, is a file format developed and patented by LizardTech for encoding of georeferenced raster graphics such as orthophotos. The MrSID (.sid) format is supported in major GIS applications such as Autodesk, Bentley Systems, CARIS, ENVI, ERDAS, ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo and QGIS.
• Jpeg 2000 support – Jpeg 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard.
• ESRI-SHAPE Import – Import SHAPE (ESRI) files with geometry and its attributes into DWG drawings. Specific commands allow geometry insertion, colors and layers management, data dynamic control.
• 3D and 2D Civil Features
• Fast triangulation of point clouds Creation of TIN surfaces from points within point cloud scan files or land survey collected points. AUTOSEZ command can be applied to these surfaces.
• AUTOSEZ The tool for the automatic creation of surface profiles to show surface elevations along a horizontal alignment to represent, for example, road edges or ditches (Topographic Sections)
• SLOPE The tool for an easy creation of terrain slope lines (ticks) between two edges or for a conversion of polylines into slope-style polylines.

Easyarch 3D – The Architectural 2D/3D Plugin

The automated building tool for architects designed to increase productivity in house and interior design and remodeling. EasyArch allows to:

QUICK PROPERTIES Palette

The Quick Properties palette shows a list of object properties for one or more selected objects. Rapid access to the most useful object properties avoiding irrelevant and confusing fields. You have the Quick Properties palette beside the cursor when clicking on an object.

Publish (Batch Plot)

Layouts taken from one or more drawings can be printed or exported to PDF or DWF using the print settings of individual layouts. 

QRODE

Create and insert a QRCODE from any text, URL etc.
Make text in your drawings scannable from QR Codes using any mobile phone or tablet with a camera.
QR Codes, also known as mobile barcodes, allow to represent text, URLs, contact information etc.
Users may get automatically a lot of useful information for execution of maintenance, simply scanning the QR Codes visible in the drawings.

Perspective Image Correction

Thanks to this plugin, photos insertion is easy and intuitive, with the ability to correct their perspective through the multi-point system.

Advanced Render: Artisan

If you need to view your drawings in a photorealistic visualization, progeCAD professional includes for free the advanced Artisan Renderer Engine based on the ray-tracing algorithm. It allows you to quickly create a photorealistic image of your model using a wide range of pre-set materials and lighting setups combined with the ability to create custom lights and realistic materials.

Gradient Hatch Support

Fleshing out a drawing on progeCAD can give it additional impact during presentations, and the addition of color gradients to surfaces to produce a more “realistic” appearance is a great way to do so. 

Color Books

progeCAD supports standard Color Books.
With progeCAD, the RGB values of the Color Books Colors that are assigned to objects are preserved in all current and legacy drawing files

Annotative Objects

The feature automates the sizing of annotations such as text, hatch and dimensions in multiple viewports with varying scales.
The annotative objects are scaled based on the current annotation scale setting and are automatically displayed at the correct size. The following objects can be annotative, meaning that they can size automatically:

• Text (single-line text)
• Mtext (multi-line text)
• Dimensions
• Tolerances
• Hatches
• Blocks
• Block attributes

Tables

A table is an object with information arranged in rows and columns. Similar to spreadsheet, the rows and columns can be adjusted with grips, and styles can be assigned to the table and to selected cells.
progeCAD Tables support AutoCAD® like Text in-place editing, numeric Rows and alphabetical Columns.
Table Cells can contain formulas that do calculations related to the values in other Table Cells.
With a Double-Click on table cells, you can insert formulas from the Table Cell Editor.

Sheet Set Manager

Any design project requires a set of drawings and specifications to accompany the report which specifies the scope of the design. progeCAD Sheet Set Manager is an amazing tool to manage your drawings from start to finish in your design.
Using sheet sets in the most basic way you are just taking drawing files and organizing them in proper order, so they can be easily retrieved when working through your project.
Sheet Sets improve your team collaboration, facilitating working on one subset while you work on another.

Spell-check on the fly

Multiline text, Multileader and Tables text is automatically checked for spelling while typing, underlining wrong words.

SELFILTER

Controls the Selection Filter panel. It displays all entities in the drawing and allows you to filter and select entities by Layer, Color, entity Type and Linetype.
When you finish selecting entities, you can then use the selection set in subsequent commands.

Construction Lines

A Construction Line is a special type of the infinite line that is typically used when quick drafting techniques are required.
Similar to the infinite line, the construction line is a line through a given point, oriented at a specified angle in the three-dimensional space and extending to infinity in both directions

Point Clouds

A point cloud is a collection of points acquired using 3D laser scanners or other special technologies to create 3D representations of existing structures.

Point cloud files help the design process by providing real-world context where you can recreate the referenced objects. Once a point cloud is inserted to a drawing, you can use it as a guideline for the drawing, change its visualization, or apply a color to distinguish different features.

Along with the standard file formats, with progeCAD you can import Point Cloud formats such as ReCap .rcs, .rcp, XYZ, PLY and LAS.

3D PDF Export

Create the Adobe PDF standard with your dynamic 3D content inside. 3D PDF allows to communicate to all the globe and share your data with anyone in an easy and innovative way. Smart collaboration with your draftsmen and designers as well as users who do not deal with CAD software. 3D PDF can be visualized with the free Adobe® Reader®/Acrobat Reader DC software.

Superhatch Command

Create hatch patterns from images, blocks, external references ( xrefs ) and wipeouts. Superhatch is an express tools function that lets you quickly hatch with your own pattern, no programming or creation of pat files needed. progeCAD’s hatch with image capability is a part of the Superhatch function.

Progecad Cloud

Cloud services will reshape the consumer digital lifestyle experience, with progeCAD save and open drawings on Cloud! progeCAD Cloud makes it easy for you to reach any of your drawings wherever you areand to share drawings with your team and customers. progeCAD Cloud supports the major cloud services for file sharing and syncing like DropBox, Google Drive, and Microsoft One Drive. 

 

ACIS Solids

Reads and writes 3D solid objects with ACIS libraries (the same as AutoCAD®). ACIS solids are available thanks to an agreement signed with Spatial, the supplier of technology for solid modeling to the most important CAD software in the world. progeCAD Professional has implemented a complete management of ACIS solids, which can now be viewed, printed, created and edited.
Any exchange of projects with CAD, which include ACIS Solids, is therefore much easier! Creation of complex three-dimensional shapes using solid models becomes a way simpler procedure.

DATAEXTRACTION

Extracting information from objects such as block attributes and drawing properties and creating a detailed schedule, a parts list, or a bill of materials to a table inside a drawing or into an external file. For example, with a residential construction project, create a door installation schedule to place in the drawing. Using the Data Extraction wizard, you can limit the selection only to doors objects and extract the data.

You can create a list as an Excel external file as well. You can use a data extraction file as a template to perform the same type of extraction at any time.

Dynamic Input

Dynamic Input is an alternative way of entering commands through a command line interface at your Crosshair. You can input data like the length of a line or the radius of a circle with dynamic visualization of changes relative to mouse movements. When dynamic input is turned on, a tooltip displays dynamically updated information next to the cursor. When a command is in progress, you can specify options and values in the tooltip text box. You can also configure dynamic input to meet your personal or company standards. The feature is to further boost your productivity by making drafting and editing processes way more efficient.

3DCONNEXION Support

All powerful 3DConnexion mouse and devices are supported, with contextual menus and options.

Compatible with BetterWMF

BetterWMF solves problems related to copying and pasting drawings into other software packages like Microsoft Word.

If you have ever tried to insert a CAD picture into for example a Microsoft Office document you may have noticed several problems: To start with, you will get unwanted borders. The resulting size of a picture is the same as the graphics area of the CAD window at the time of creation, rather than matching the selected objects. This usually means that pictures copied from progeCAD to other Windows applications will have a large blank area to the top or right. Also when you print the document with the picture you will notice that all lines will become equally (very) thin. Finally, you will have discovered that it is very difficult to size your picture to an accurate scale.
For each of these problems individually, clumsy workarounds are possible, with varying degrees of success. The unique real solution is BetterWMF.

progeCAD is fully compatible with the BetterWMF version for AutoCAD LT but providing all the features available with the version for AutoCAD Full.

Express Tools

progeCAD Express Tools is a set of tools mainly grouped under the Express Tools menu which extend progeCAD functionality enabling the user to increase productivity through easy, fast and efficient performance of complex multistep CAD operations.

Digital signatures to DWG

The digital signature certifies the author of a file and indicates whether the file has been altered since the digital signature was applied.
Recipients of drawings are provided with reliable information about the author of a drawing.
Owners of drawings are provided with reliable verification that a drawing has not been modified since it was digitally signed.

And more…

• Raster Handling
• Raster to vector converter
• Dynamic UCS
• Multiline
• Multileaders (MLEADER command)
• Numbered markers
• Incremental save
• Points import
• AddSelected
• AreaText
• Spline editing
• Multigrip editing and advanced solid grips
• Loft command
• Flatshot command
• Helix command

 

 

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Support & Maintenance

progeCAD Professional includes PDF documentation and Help, Advanced Technical (TSL2) Support for the first 30 days, and Basic Technical Support (TSL1) for one year.

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