Microsoft Windows® XP, Windows® Vista or Windows 7 Intel Pentium® III or more powerful processor (recommended) 1 GB RAM (minimum), 2 GB (recommended for complex drawings) 400 MB of hard disk space

If you are using progeCAD 2008 or a later version follow the instruction of the registration wizard (automatically shown when you start the registration procedure).

If you are using an older product, please get in touch with the customer care.

progeCAD From 2008 upward:
Uninstall progeCAD ® from the PC so far used, through the the menu:
Start> Programs> progeCAD 200X pro ENG> Uninstall progeCAD Pro 200X
Choose how uninstall "Automatic".
NB. This procedure is also valid for all USB versions.

For earlier versions to progeCAD 2008 not USB version:
Uninstall progeCAD ® from the PC so far used, using the item in the menu:
Start> Programs> progeCAD 200X pro ENG> Uninstall progeCAD Pro 200X
Choose how uninstall "Automatic"
IMPORTANT: When you uninstall, the uninstall code (LTC) will be displayed during removal.

For progeCAD 2008 and later versions
Uninstall progeCAD ® from the PC so far used, using the item in the menu:
Start> Programs> progeCAD 200X pro ITA> Uninstall progeCAD Pro 200X
Choose how uninstall "Automatic"
licenses without USB key
Proceed to the new PC
Follow the wizard of registration to obtain a new authorization code
licenses with USB key
Proceed to the new PC
Start the registration process by completing the first mask, indicating the serial number.
When prompted to insert the USB key

For earlier versions to progeCAD 2008
Uninstall progeCAD ® from the PC so far used, using the item in the menu:
Start> Programs> progeCAD 200X pro ENG> Uninstall progeCAD Pro 200X
Choose how uninstall "Automatic"
licenses without USB key
IMPORTANT: Note the code uninstall (LTC) that appears when uninstalling
Proceed to the new PC
Follow the wizard of registration to obtain a new authorization code
Indicate when requested that the software has already been registered once
Enter the code uninstall (LTC) in the mask.
licenses with USB key
Proceed to the new PC
Start the registration process by completing the first mask, indicating the serial number.
When prompted to insert the USB key

progeCAD From 2008 onwards:
After reinstalled progeCAD start the registration process.
Follow the wizard of registration to obtain a new authorization code.

For progeCAD 2007: (license without key USB)
After reinstalled progeCAD start the registration process.
Then indicate that the software has already been registered.
Indicate that you do not have the code LTC and proceed following signs appear.
In this way, automatically receive a mail with the new CODE REGISTRATION.

For earlier versions to progeCAD 2007: (license without key USB)
After reinstalled progeCAD start the registration process.
Follow the incazioni as if it were the first registration.

For progeCAD 2007: (license without key USB)
After reinstalled progeCAD start the registration process
Then indicate that the software has already been registered
Indicate that you do not have the LTC code and proceed following signs appear.
In this way, automatically receive a mail with the new CODE REGISTRATION.

For earlier versions to progeCAD 2007: (license without key USB)
After reinstalled progeCAD start the registration process.
Follow the indication as if it were the first registration.

It is a matter of font. The drawing opened uses an AutoCAD font. Anyone who owns a regular AutoCAD licence can use, besides the numerous fonts available with progeCAD , also the fonts supplied with AutoCAD. Just open the Tools menu. Under Options in Path/File in Fonts, add the fonts' installation path. For ex.: C:Program FilesAutoCAD R14Fonts. For the 2000 version of AutoCAD the simplex font can be found in Support directory. You can add this path too (For ex.: C:AutoCAD LT 2000Fonts;C:AutoCAD LT 2000Support) or copy this font to the folder Fonts of AutoCAD 2000. This guarantees a perfect display of any project using the simplex.shx font.

To eliminate this problem, it is necessary to reduce the hardware acceleration of the graphic hardware. To do this, in the Screen section of the Windows Control Panel, use the advanced settings relative to the graphic hardware's properties.

Anyone who owns a regular AutoCAD licence can use, besides the numerous fonts available with progeCAD, also the fonts supplied with AutoCAD.
To do this, open the Tools menu, under Options in Path/File, in Fonts add the fonts' installation path. For ex.: C:Program FilesAutoCAD R14Fonts. For the 2000 version of AutoCAD the simplex font can be found Support directory. You can add this path too (For ex.: C:AutoCAD LT 2000Fonts;C:AutoCAD LT 2000Support) or copy this font to the folder Fonts of AutoCAD 2000. This guarantees a perfect display of any project using the simplex.shx font.
If when progeCAD was installed on your PC an AutoCAD installation is already present, the font path will be automatically added to the standard ones.
The fonts used for the drawing's text depend on the text's style.
With progeCAD it is possible to specify the font to be used in place of other fonts.
Sometimes it may be necessary to use only some types of font for a drawing, or to convert the fonts used into different fonts.
To this purpose the font mapping tables can be used.
If for example drawings are shared with other AutoCAD users, a font mapping table can be used in order to specify the alternative font progeCAD must use for the text originally created in a different font.
The font mapping table (FMP) is an ASCII file containing a font mapping for each line.
Each line contains the basic name of the font file (without the path) followed by a semicolon (;) and the name of the alternative font file with the relative extension (for example .shx or .ttf).
It is for example possible to type the following string in a font mapping table in order to specify that the romanc.shx font file must be substituted by the IC-romans.shx font file.

romanc.shx;IC-romans.shx

progeCAD comes with a default font mapping table included in the file ICAD.FMP, which is stored in the progeCAD folder.
This file can be modified with any ASCII text editor. It is also possible to specify a different table file in the Options dialogue box or by means of the FONTMAP system variable.

How to specify a font mapping table

1 From the Tools menu choose Options.
2 In the Paths/File list
3 Insert the mapping file name (.fmp) in the 'Font Identification' box

progeCAD's original setting uses icad.fmp; if no substitution of font is needed, delete or rename the ICAD.FMP file.
Also remember that...
Is it possible to use AutoCAD's fonts (the .SHX files) with progeCAD ?
Yes,progeCAD is compatible with AutoCAD fonts file .shx.
To do this, open the "Options" menu and select the "File Paths" tab; then add the fonts' installation path under "fonts".
For ex: C:Program FilesAutoCAD R14fonts;c:Program FilesAutoCAD R14support
If when progeCAD was installed on your PC an AutoCAD installation is already present, the font path will be automatically added to the standard ones.

If you have original AutoCAD Fonts and want to avoid font substitution of standard ones (Ex. ROMANS.SHX SIMPLEX.SHX)
You also must open the font mapping file, icad.fmp and either delete or comment out the line that makes a font substitution for your AutoCAD font.

For example, suppose you have simplex.shx located at C:ACADFONT and you click on Tools on the menu bar and then Options to identify C:ACADFONT as an alternate font directory. But when you open a drawing that uses simplex.shx, the program continues to substitute ic-simplex.shx.

The solution is to open icad.fmp with a text editing program and either delete the line simplex;ic-simplex.shx or comment it out so that it reads:

;simplex;ic-simplex.shx

Then the next time you launch the program it will no longer substitute ic-simplex.shx for simplex.shx.

This is a problem that generally depends on the settings of the FlyOver snap (advanced snaps).
Fly over snaps are a special mode of object Snaps which allow a user of progeCAD to display immediately the relevant points of objects (endpoint, centre, midpoint, intersection, etc.).
For complex drawings (several drawn entities) or if a PC is not very fast, the use of this mode can overload the computer.
Should any problem arise, only one value at the time should be set (for ex. only End, Centre, Intersection, etc.); alternatively this function should be disabled and object Snaps should be used only when necessary by means of the relative toolbar.

To set the Object Snaps, position the cursor over the Esnap writing situated on the right at the bottom of the progeCAD screen and press the mouse's right button.
From the menu, select 'Settings'


The required snaps should then be selected from the control window.
The FlyOver button can be used for activating the settings of FlyOver Snaps.

- Check if the font path is specified correctly in progeCAD options. From Tools->Options choose Path/Files tab and insert the correct path for your fonts. You can add more different paths separated by a semicolon ;
- progeCAD makes an automatic substitution of fonts not available, check file icad.fmp (it is stored into progeCAD main directory), if a font substitution is present for one you have on the disk, delete this row. Font substitution syntax is OriginalFont;OptionalFont

This problem arises when external references (Xrif) are used and its re-occurrence can be erratic.
It could happen even after opening and saving the drawing several times.
It relates to all OLE objects that can be inserted (images, Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents, etc.)
If you have this problem, you just need to delete the file with .vbi extension and the same name as your drawing found in the same directory as the .dwg file.

Where:
01. An error message is displayed and the drawing is not opened.
02. An error message is not displayed but the drawing won't open.
03. It began the loading of the drawing but after the operation is completed or before it progeCAD ® goes wrong.

In all these cases, the file may be corrupted, so recovery is needed:

-- Start progeCAD ®
-- From the File menu choose "Recover"
-- Select the damaged files and confirm
-- After the procedure so that the operations take effect on the drawing it is necessary to save it.
It is recommended that you use the "Save as" command assigning another name to the recovered file to avoid losing in this way any definitive information that was not recovered.

Where:
The drawing is open, but some of its details are not present
In this case, the file may be corrupted, so recovery is needed:

-- Start progeCAD ®
-- From the File menu choose "Recover"
-- Select the damaged files and confirm
-- After the procedure so that the operations take effect on the drawing it is necessary to save it.
It is recommended that you use the "Save as" command assigning another name to the recovered file to avoid losing in this way any definitive information that was not recovered.

-- Click on the button "LWT" in the status bar of progeCAD ® to enable or disable the display of line width.
OR:
-- From the Tools menu, choose " Drawing Settings" .
-- Under the "Display", under the label "Change settings:" choose from: "lineweight."
-- Select the "display lineweights".
-- Exit the form confirming the button "Ok"

The font used in the drawing is not present on the PC on which progeCAD ® is installed. Font installation is required.

or
Make sure that a font search path is present among those displayed in the menu Tools -> Options -> Paths/File -> Fonts. If it is not, add the character ";" after the queued existing routes and then the font path.

or
Verify that the font replacement is not active. Open with a text editor (eg: "Notepad" Windows) the file "icad.fmp" that is situated at Start menu of Windows -> All Programs -> progeCAD 2XXX Pro ENG -> Utility -> User Support Folder.
Example:
The font not properly displayed is "romans". After verifying the installation of the font on your system and therefore the presence of the full path among those displayed in the fonts location (Tools -> Options -> Paths/File -> Fonts), open the file "icad.fmp" and remove the row with the following content: "romans; ic-romans. shx. " This will avoid the replacement of fonts.

The reason could be that the drawing from which are copied entities was closed.
-- Make sure the file from which they were copied entities is still open.
-- If it proves closed: open the file of the drawing of origin, select entities to be copied from the Edit menu and choose "Copy" or "Copy with point basis."
-- Open or move in the drawing of destination without closing the drawing of origin, Edit menu and choose Paste "or" Paste in Coordinates original ".
NOTE
The right way to copy is always use the command "Copy" from the Edit menu.

The variable "LTSCALE" of the drawing has been set to a different value.
Check the value of variable "LTSCALE" in the drawing of origin, typing in the command bar: "LTSCALE" then press ENTER
Moving in the drawing of destination and repeat the operation of the preceding paragraph.
If the value of variable in the drawing of destination is different, change typing in the command bar the new value

wheel of the Mouse
rotation -> Zoom IN and Zoon Out
pressed -> Pan in the active window
double-click -> Zoom Extension in the Active

CTRL + Left mouse button pressed -> 3D orbit in the window Enable
CTRL + SHIFT + Left Mouse button pressed -> Zoom IN and Zoon Out the window
CTRL + SHIFT + Right Mouse button pressed -> Pan in the Active
SHIFT + mouse-> Pan in the Active

If the font used in the drawing is not present on your PC, install it to see the drawing properly.
If you can not, when you open the drawing with progeCAD, a selection mask for fonts substitutes appears.
Choose the character compatible with the one to replace.

NOTE
To ensure sound management of Bigfonts installed you must change the file Bigfont.ini
Start -> All Programs -> progeCAD 2XXX pro ENG -> Utility ->User Support Folder

this file specifies the language to which the installed font belongs.

SYNOPSIS:
"Name of the font with"; " language reference number"
CODES OF REFERENCE LANGUAGES:
JAPANESE_CODEPAGE_INDEX = 1,
TRADITIONAL_CHINESE_CODEPAGE_INDEX = 2,
KOREAN_CODEPAGE_INDEX = 3,
SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE_CODEPAGE_INDEX = 5

Example
for a font that is called chinas_fzhjt.shx in simplified Chinese, you will add a row
chinas_fzhjt.shx; 5

For versions until 2007
WARNING: Do not open the file Dwg, in which you want to insert the PDF as DXF by double-clicking the file. For proper loading function VBA, which manages the command PDFtoDXF, start progeCAD and open the file Dwg with open command.
The problem was resolved by the 2008 version.

- Update your printer drivers from the website of printer's supplier
- Verify from drivers configuration, printer job is managed by the computer not by the printer. Some printers doesn't have enought memory for print drawing from progeCAD
- Expecially on Win 9x and Win ME systems, RAM management is weak and some complex drawing cannot be printed. If you have error message or system hangs, please add RAM to your computer.

- Update your printer drivers from the website of printer's supplier
- If available, download and install an updated driver for printer supplier website.
- If progeCAD doesn't accept some settings available from your system driver, please try to set them directly from the control panel.

- Update your printer drivers from the website of printer's supplier
- System drivers shipped with operating systems, could be not full compatible with your printer, so some options supported by your printer, could be unavailable. If available, download and install an updated driver for printer supplier website.
- Landscape plot works

Stored Into the system registry :
- 'Save changes to Layout' check box value
- 'Use Setting from' check box value
- Header and Footer
Stored into the drawing:
- Print Area
- Fit print area to size of page
- Scale
- Print origin
- Use Line Weight
- Printer
- Paper Landscape/Portrait
- Units
- Upside down set
Stored into CTB files :
- Pens color related to colors table
- Lineweight related to colors table
- Linetype

The printing in progeCAD ® is based directly on the configurations of printer driver device chosen.
The configurations of customization (file. Pc3 AutoCAD ®) are not currently managed.
Make sure anytime you have installed the latest drivers for your operating system.
For additional information on drivers of device used, consult the manual or the manufacturer's website.

-- Ensure that the option "print lineweights" in the mask "Print" in "Advanced", is selected.

If the thickness of lines is set from a file of the print. Ctb
-- Make sure also that in the file. Ctb are configured right thickness in relation to colours.

If the thickness of lines is set from a file of the print. Stb
-- Make sure your file. Stb are configured right thickness in relation to the styles

Like all the print, depends solely by means of printing installed.

-- Open the design to be printed
-- Start the Print command
-- Select the tab Operative (plotter, printer or output file) in the mask Print
-- After selecting the means of printing you want, click the Properties button
You'll see the driver interface printing device that allows the creation of custom size (if provided by the manufacturer).
For additional information about creating customized formats the device used, consult the manufacturer's manual.

Attention:
If progeCAD ® did not save customized formats, you must move from the Control Panel> Printers Windows

-- Access the mask "Print", choosing from the File menu command "Print"
-- Select from printers: "progeSOFT PDF Wizard"
-- Through the button "Properties" configure, if necessary, the parameters of the print as a common printer.
-- Setting the parameters of scale, position paper print area pens.
-- Ask if necessary preview and launch printing.
-- At the time of printing will be asked a name for the PDF file to be generated, and its path.

Save the last image rendered:
From the View menu choose "Rendering" and then "Render Options."
-- In Tab Rendering press the button "Save Last Render." (or Visual. Last Render to see the screen image of render made)
-- Specify path and name, by extension, for file and confirm.

Save the render directly to file:
From the View menu choose "Rendering" and then "Render Options."
-- In Tab "Renderizza to file" to define the desired size and press the button "Render"
-- Specify path and name, by extension, for file and confirm.

The manual printable PDF (manual.pdf) is saved in the Help folder that is located in the main program.
Es. "C: Program Files progeSOFT progeCAD 2XXX Pro ENG help manual.pdf"

Open progeCAD ®.
Help menu -> About progeSOFT

The mask is written the exact number of installed version.

In the support area you will find the downloads to update your progeCAD to the latest version.

NOTE
progeCAD 2008 and upward has an Updater that automatically alerts you of updates and promotions.

Please visit the Trial versions forum.

Follow the link for the product you are looking for at the site's products page.

progeCAD 2010

Detailed instructions can be found here.

progeCAD 2009 or earlier

01. From Start menu —> All Programs , choose progeCAD 2XXX NLM section, then Register NLM license.
02. Specify all the requested information (the serial number is in the e-mail you received from progeSOFT), then press Next>.
03. Select I don’t have an Authorization code.
04. Select the registration method you prefer. E-mail registration is
recommended.
05. By choosing an e-mail or Fax registration, the registration form will appear. Fill it in with the required information, the bolded fields are mandatory. Press Next>.
06. Proceed with the registration following the instructions of the forms to send FAX or e-mail.
07. Once you have received the Authorization code, follow these steps: From Start menu —> All Programs, choose progeCAD 2XXX NLM section, then Register NLM license.
08. Copy and insert the authorization code you received in the specified field, then press Continue.

progeCAD 2010

Detailed instructions can be found here.

progeCAD 2009 or earlier

01. Install progeCAD 2XXX Professional on a client PC. From Start menu —> All Prgrams, choose progeCAD 2XXX section, then Register progeCAD 2XXX.
02. Specify all the requested information (the serial number is in the e-mail sent by progeSOFT), then press Next>.
03. progeCAD shows you the default connection server data.Leave the default settings. (you can check your server IP by inserting your server name and pressing a “Check DNS” button).

progeCAD 2010

Detailed instructions can be found here.

NOTE: if NLM server has been moved or its communication port changed, the window asking for ip and port is opened automatically at progeCAD start. Anyway, in order to force this dialog it's enough to run registration.exe with the SETSERVERDATA parameter. For default installation the command is the following:

"C:\Program Files\progeSOFT\progeCAD 2010 Professional ENG\registration.exe" SETSERVERDATA

progeCAD 2009 or earlier

To modify the comunication port used by Network License Server,(usually not required) edit (using a simply text editor such as Notepad) pserver.ini that you can find in the installation folder (usually c:program filesprogesoftnetprot).