progeCAD 2013 Professional

• progeCAD, powered by IntelliCAD 7.x, is an AutoCAD® Industry compatible 2D/3D CAD application that works with AutoCAD® DWG files from AutoCAD® 2.5 through AutoCAD® 2013!
  
  
• progeCAD is the first Alternative CAD opening 2013 DWG and compatible with Windows 8!
   
• progeCAD's original format DWG ensures a complete compatibility with AutoCAD® WITHOUT ANY FILE CONVERSION and without loosing any critical information. progeCAD lets you export drawing files both in DWG and DXF format.
  
  
• progeCAD supports an interface complete with an "AutoCAD® - Like" icon menu and "AutoCAD® - Like" commands.
  
  
• progeCAD Professional is general-purpose 2D and 3D design software useful for CAD field & concept sketch. It offers very high compatibility with AutoCAD® and Direct Modeling in native .dwg. progeCAD is so much more than an alternative! progeCAD offers more CAD functions than AutoCAD® LT or TurboCAD Pro at a fractional price to AutoCAD®, ArchiCAD or Microstation.
  New licenses include 1 month free support.
   
• Languages available for progeCAD Professional:
  English,  French, Spanish, German, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Italian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, Russian, Hungarian.
  
  
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progeCAD's original format is DWG. This ensures unrivaled compatibility with AutoCAD® without any need for file conversion or any danger of information loss (support for DWG up to 2013).
progeCAD lets you export drawing files to any previous AutoCAD versions, both in DWG and DXF format.

Fully compatible with Windows® 8
progeCAD runs on Windows® XP, Windows® Vista, Windows® 7 and Windows® 8.

PDF and JPG format Printing/Export

The PDF format is extremely convenient for the publication of your documents, which can then be read with ADOBE ACROBAT READER.
Acrobat Reader is a free product; many PC have it already installed, alternatively it can be downloaded from the Internet.
However, in order to produce PDF files a specific product such as ADOBE ACROBAT is usually needed and this can cost up to a few hundred Euro.
progeCAD 2013 Professional automatically adds a virtual printer which can produce PDF files without the need to own ADOBE ACROBAT.
The PDF file's parameters can easily configured.

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.

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.

PDF, DWF and DGN Underlay
PDF, DWF and DGN files can be attached as an underlay to a drawing file and used as background for your drawings. CAD entities can be created over the Underlays.
Much like raster image files and external references (Xrefs) an underlay is not part of the drawing, but is linked to it.

Raster
Insert and manipulate Raster images with only one click of the mouse!
With powerful raster editing and raster-to-vector conversion tools, progeCAD helps you to easily clean up, edit, enhance, and maintain scanned drawings and plans.
Timesaving image display features—Use a wide range of image data, embed images, insert and export images, and use a polygonal mask boundary to display image subsets.
Image transformation functionality and georeferenced image display.

Raster to vector
progeCAD 2013 Professional include WinTopo raster to vector tool
Main functions:

• Loads BMP Bitmap images (raster)
• Refines bitmap lines and detects the edges
• Creates monochromatic vectors from refined lines
• Views vectors on top of the bitmap
• Load vectors to progeCAD, IntelliCAD, AutoCAD

ACIS solids

Main functions: reads and writes 3D solid objects with ACIS libraries (the same as AutoCAD®).
Essential for those who deal with Industrial Design, Dies, complex architectural elements and generally for any application in which creating complex three-dimensional shapes quickly and easily is essential.
ACIS solids are available thanks to an agreement signed with Spatial, the supplier of technology for solid modelling to the most important CAD software in the world.
progeCAD 2013 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 (such as AutoCAD® 2000, 2009) is therefore much easier!
The creation of complex three-dimensional shapes by using solid models is therefore much simpler in comparison with the more traditional techniques.

MultiLINE (new)
The multiline command allows the drawing of multiple parallel lines with a single command. Not only does this feature allow you to create simultaneous, perfectly parallel lines, but these lines are treated as one entity, allowing for easy editing.
The Multiline support greatly speeds up and simplifies drawing and improve the AutoCAD® compatibility

Spile Editing (new)
You can delete fit points of a spline, add fit points for greater accuracy, or move fit points to alter the shape of a spline. You can open or close a spline and edit the spline start and end tangents. Spline direction is reversible. You can change the tolerance of the spline also. Tolerance refers to how closely the spline fits the set of fit points you specify. The lower the tolerance, the more closely the spline fits the points.
You can refine a spline by increasing the number of control points in one portion of the spline or by changing the weight of specific control points. Increasing the weight of a control point pulls the spline more towards that point. You can also refine a spline by changing its order. A spline’s order is the degree of the spline polynomial + 1. A cubic spline, for example, has order 4. The higher a spline’s order, the more control points it has.

Multigrip Editing (new)
Modify, move, rotate, scale, strtech or mirror using multiple Grips
 
Snap Extension (new)
Snap to some point along the imaginary extension of a line, arc or polyline segment

AEC objects visualization
Graphical entities created with Architectural Desktop visualized inside a DWG

DGN Import
Import drawing files from Microstation®

STL and Collada (DAE) Export

COLLADA is a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an interchange file format for interactive 3D applications.
Collada is supported by several 3D software like SketchUp®, SAP Visual Enterprise Author, 3DS Max etc.
For a comprensive list of supportig software see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA

STL (STereoLithography) is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software. STL is also known as Standard Tessellation Language
This file format is supported by many other software packages; it is widely used for rapid prototyping (3D printers) and computer-aided manufacturing.

Render export tool

Export tool for Lightwave 3D (.lwo), 3DStudio (.3ds), Kerkythea (.3ds), Pov-Ray (.pov).
Make progeCAD a friendly companion to export drawings to advanced rendering engines.

Layer manager (new improved)

Express tools

Quick dimension
Create and modify quickly a large number of dimensions at a time.

Dimension Style Manager
Creates new styles, sets the current style, modifies styles, sets overrides on the current style, and compares styles

Wipeout entities

Refedit (block in-place editing)

Loft Command
The loft command is similar to the extrude command, but much more versatile. Instead of extruding a single shape, the loft command allows you to extrude several shapes and make one continuous object.

FlatShot
Convert 3D solids to a 3-view 2D drawing. An entire drawing could be flattened with an single operation.

Helix Command
Draw 3D Polyline in the form of a helix

DWF import & export
progeCAD 2013 Professional read and write standard DWF files. DWF 3d Export export supported.

DWF View
progeCAD 2013 Professional visualize DWF files.

Recovery manager
Easy recover of drawings through graphic interface in the event of crashes.

Realtime pan & zoom
The exclusive PPAN Technology* boost pan and zoom in realtime, allowing an easy management of large drawing, also with big hatch and TrueType fonts.

Polar tracking (Polar snap)
It helps to draw objects at specific angles or in specific relationships to other objects. When turned on polar tracking, temporary alignment paths help you create objects at precise angles.

Eattedit
Advanced attribute editing - AutoCAD® like.

Etrack - Otrack®
Used to avoid the necessity of drawing construction lines in order to locate points.

Flexibility and personalisation

Like AutoCAD®, progeCAD has a bar for typing commands and a series of icons arranged around the drawing area which facilitate and speed up the use of the various functions.

There are obviously pull-down menus which, like command aliases and tool bars, can be personalised.
Likewise the management of layout and blocks is compatible and these can be managed and inserted with the same commands as AutoCAD.

Development (AutoLISP, IRX, SDS, VBA)

The user can choose between 3 programming languages in order to personalise ProgeCAD IntelliCAD.
As well as LISP, IRX C++ similar to AutoCAD® ARX, SDS C++ compatible with AutoCAD® ADS, Microsoft's Visual Basic for Application (VBA) and COM automation support.