ACTCAD Software Updates & Fixes

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The new versions are available to download from the ACTCAD Download Page.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) is a software package which is used for the purpose of design and drafting of technical drawings like building plans, structures, electrical circuits etc. It helps in replacing the manual drafting in an automated way using computers.

The main use of CAD software is in different fields like architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, interior design, exterior design, surveying and many more. All these professionals use various 2D or 3D CAD programs. These programs can help them to analyze design ideas, visualize concepts through materialistic renderings, and assume how a design will perform in the reality. It also have many features depending on whether the design process involves 2D vector-based graphics or 3D modeling of solids and surfaces. Most 3D CAD programs let you apply multiple light sources, revolves objects in three dimensions, and remodify designs from any side. There are many CAD software available in world for with different specifications and features. Users choose a particular software based on their needs and resources available.

There is a huge competition in the market between various CAD software. Many companies focus mainly on sales for the purpose of selling their software all over the world but many of them are not focusing basic issues like price, regular features,technical support etc. These problems are felt by most users all over the World almost everyday. They are not getting much for what they are paying. Users are paying huge amount for a single license for 1 or 2 years validity and many of them are not satisfied in paying such amounts to CAD software companies. Due to this a gap has been created between customer’s requirements and solutions available in market.

On the other hand there are many low cost and free tools available in market which are limited with very few features and with so many performance issues. Thus they may not be very productive for real time projects.

To fill these gaps which the Professionals all over the World are facing, a CAD software called ActCAD was introduced to the market few years back. It is a best alternative CAD software with several advantages among others. It is having a very familiar user interface and almost same shortcuts which users are habituated for years. ActCAD has technical collaboration with Organizations like IntelliCAD, 3D Spatial, wintopo etc. ActCAD is available in two versions viz., Professional and Standard for both 2D drawings and 3D models. The main advantages of ActCAD are very low global price, life-time validity of licenses and prompt technical supports in India. I feel that this product can reduce the existing gaps I request you to try ActCAD software and give your feedback.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS ActCAD PRODUCT:

Your use, distribution or installation of this copy of "ActCAD Software" herein after called as "ActCAD") indicates your acceptance of these License terms.

ActCAD here means Software, image files, all accompanying files, data and materials received from "ActCAD" against your order.

If you do not agree to any of the terms of this License, then do not install, distribute or use ActCAD software. You may return the product for full refund of your money less any incidental charges before installing and activating the software within 30 days of purchase.

Warrantee covers defects in the software, which prevents successfully installing the software in the buyer's PC. Warrantee does not cover fitness of purpose, not meeting of expectations or needs in the mind of the buyer. 

This ActCAD software is for single use only and may be installed and used by and on only one computer. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one computer. ActCAD may be accessed through a network only after obtaining a site license. All components accompanying the software are copyrighted by ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India and may not be taken apart, modified, used or published with other software or means except with the ActCAD software and may not be distributed or copied in any manner.

This ActCAD software, all accompanying files, data and materials, are distributed "AS IS" and with no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. The user must assume all risk of using the program. This disclaimer of warranty constitutes an essential part of the agreement. 

Any liability of ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India will be limited exclusively to refund of purchase price. In addition, in no event shall ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India, or its principals, shareholders, officers, employees, affiliates, contractors, subsidiaries, or parent organizations, be liable for any incidental, consequential, punitive or any other damages whatsoever relating to the use of ActCAD.

In addition, in no event does ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India authorize you to use this ActCAD in applications or systems where ActCAD's failure to perform can reasonably be expected to result in a physical injury, or in loss of life. Any such use by you is entirely at your own risk, and you agree to hold ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India harmless from any claims or losses relating to such unauthorized use.

This Agreement constitutes the entire statement of the Agreement between the parties on the subject matter, and merges and supersedes all other or prior understandings, purchase orders, agreements and arrangements. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Andhra Pradesh State, India. 

ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India the owner of the copyright of this ActCAD software, all of its derivatives, title and accompanying materials are the exclusive property of ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India. All rights of any kind, which are not expressly granted in this License, are entirely and exclusively reserved to and by ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India. You may not rent, lease, transfer, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on this ActCAD. You may not make access to ActCAD available to others in connection with a service bureau, application service provider, or similar business, or use this ActCAD in a business to provide file compression, decompression, or conversion services to others. There are no third party beneficiaries of any promises, obligations or representations made by ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India herein.

You may not disclose to other persons the data or techniques relating to this ActCAD software that you know or should know that it is a trade secret of the ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India in any manner that will cause damage to ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India.

This ActCAD and all services provided may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any INDIA, Andhra Pradesh State or local laws is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. You agree to indemnify and hold ActCAD Engineering Solutions Private Limited, India harmless from any claims resulting from the use of this SOFTWARE PRODUCT, which may damage any other party.

ActCAD Engineering Solutions Pvt. Ltd. today announced the release of ActCAD 2017 based on all new IntelliCAD 8.2 Engine.

Following new versions are available:

  • ActCAD 2017 Professional 64bit
  • ActCAD 2017 Professional 32bit
  • ActCAD 2017 Standard 64bit
  • ActCAD 2017 Standard 32bit

The technology is based on most latest engine of IntelliCAD Engine 8.2 which was released on 1st July, 2017.

What's new in ActCAD 2017:

  • Latest ITC Engine based on new ODA Libraries. Drastic improvement in Speed and Performance
  • Transparent and in-place MTEXT Dialog Box
  • New Array Dialog Box
  • New FIELD Command
  • Export 3D PDF feature
  • Export .bmp from drawing
  • Maximize Viewports
  • Minimize Viewports
  • New IMAGEFRAMEMODE option
  • New TEXTTOFRONT Command
  • Improved performance when working with complex blocks, panning and zooming, exporting to .pdf files, and more.
  • New Keyboard Shortcuts
  • New Command Aliases
  • Many new commands

The new versions can be downloaded from this link.

ActCAD International is glad to announce the release of ActCAD 2116 version 8.1.1714.0 with several enhancements.

Below are the major enhancements in this release:

  • Added many new commands
  • New Command Aliases
  • New Key Board Shortcuts
  • Added Check for Updates command for automatic future updates
  • Improved Licensing Mechanism
  • New About Dialog Box with unique Support ID and user details
  • ActCAD Starting Images improved with correct progress bars
  • Several bug fixes and enhancements

The new versions for all below variants are now available on our Downloads section:

  • ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit

If you are an existing user of ActCAD, we strongly recommend you to download the update patches from below links:

2016_PRO_32bit_8_1_1714_0.zip

2016_PRO_64bit_8_1_1714_0.zip

2016_STD_32bit_8_1_1714_0.zip

2016_STD_64bit_8_1_1714_0.zip

Steps to update the patch:

  • Download appropriate patch from above links.
  • Login to Administrator
  • Extract the zip file to a local folder
  • Close ActCAD if it is alredy open
  • Copy paste all contents to ActCAD Install Directory. Overwrite all files.
  • Start ActCAD.
  • Tools->Customize->Reset All (at the right bottom side of dialog box)

Please contact us if you need technical assistance or any further information.

ActCAD Professional, one of our products, has been added to Softpedia database of software programs for the Windows operating system. It is featured with a description text, screenshots, download links and technical details on this page:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/ActCAD.shtml

The description text was created by Softpedia editors after they installed and tested the application.

"ActCAD Professional" has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components.

Softpedia has commented that "We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep these high standards in the future. To assure our visitors that ActCAD Professional is clean, we
have granted it with the "100% CLEAN" Softpedia award. To let your users know about this certification, you may display this award on your website, on software boxes or inside your product."

We sincerely thank the Editorial team of Softpedia for all their efforts.
<p>ActCAD 2016 Software latest update patches are released. Below are the steps to update:</p> <p>1.Download appropriate version of ActCAD patch from below links:<br /><a title="ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit" href="http://www.actcad.com/actupdates/2016.8.1.1708/ActCAD2016%20Professional%2064bit.exe">ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit</a></p> <p><a title="ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit" href="http://www.actcad.com/actupdates/2016.8.1.1708/ActCAD2016%20Professional%2032bit.exe">ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit</a></p> <p><a title="ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit" href="http://www.actcad.com/actupdates/2016.8.1.1708/ActCAD2016%20Standard%2064bit.exe">ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit</a></p> <p><a title="ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit" href="http://www.actcad.com/actupdates/2016.8.1.1708/ActCAD2016%20Standard%2032bit.exe">ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit</a></p> <p>2. Double click on the file and complete installation.</p> <p>3. Launch ActCAD and check the latest version.</p> <p>There is no need to reactivate your software, all your license will still be active.</p> <p>Feel free to contact us for any technica queries.</p> <p>ActCAD International</p> <p><a title="www.actcad.com" href="http://www.actcad.com">www.actcad.com</a></p>
ActCAD partner from Austria and Croatia GeoMIR5 has participated in INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SURVEYORS, CROATIAN GEODETIC SOCIETY, FACULTY OF GEODESY UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB. </p><p> We are the Bronze sponsors of this expo and showcasing our Products. </p><p> GeoMir software is now fully integrated with ActCAD. Please visit www.geomir.org for complete details about our Solutions for Surveying.
ActCAD has released the most latest versions based on ITC 8.1 technology as on today. These versions have have few fixes and enhancements compared to previous releases. </p><p> Below is a detailed list of enhancements: <ol> <li>License mechanism updated</li> <li>New program added to synchronize system time</li> <li>Changed references to be relative in an INSTALL directory structure.</li> <li>Fixed few issues on DotNetClassic projects.</li> <li>Fixed: Default file format in SaveAs dialog changed to .dxf in 8.1b</li> <li>Fixed: Boolean and/or ribbon-only SysVar expressions don't work</li> <li>Fixed: Grip edit of polyline is wrong<\li> <li>Fixed: OPTIONS, clipboard format, incorrect AutoCAD versions<\li> <li>Fixed: Grips work wrong for MOVE/Rotate etc<\li> <li>Fixed: [Crash] LAYER command<\li> <li>Fiex : Unable to open the attached DWG file (different behavior on DWG version)</li> <li>Fixed: [Crash] Remove vertex from polyline grip menu, with a big zoom out</li> <li>Fixed: Some dimensions are not created as annotative using annotative dim styles</li> <li>Fixed: sds_draggen doesn't work properly if callback returns RTERROR</li> <li>Fixed z depth precision for perspective projection.</li> <li>Fixed: [ENTPROP] Changing scale of an image with entprop produces wrong result</li> <li>Fixed: The selection set is reset if click Properties from the context menu</li> </ol> </p><p> We recommend all our existing customers and trial users to update softare to this latest version to get best performance.
ActCAD has released the new versions of below products for Windows XP users: <ol> <li>ActCAD 2015 Standard</li> <li>ActCAD 2015 Professional</li> </ol> <p><p> This release is based on latest IC8.0.2867. This software can be installed on both 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and all higher versions till date. However, for Windows Vista and above users we strongly recommend to use ActCAD 2016 vesions preferably the 64bit versions. They will give best performance and have enhanced features. <p><p> Windows XP users should download and use only ActCAD 2015 versions.
ActCAD announces the release of new Licensing Mechanism developed in house to provide better features to its customers. </p><p> In this new mechanism we have added below provisions: <ol> <li>ONLINE/LIVE Activation for TRIAL</li> <li>ONLINE/LIVE Activation for LICENSE KEY</li> <li>OFFLINE/E-mail Activation for TRIAL</li> <li>OFFLINE/E-mail Activation for License Key</li> <li>Direct Link to buy key online.</li> </ol> </p><p> ActCAD furhter enhanced its License Deactivation tool for easy transfer of license from one computer to another. </p><p> The new license mechanism is applicable to below products: <ol> <li>ActCAD 2015 Standard</li> <li>ActCAD 2015 Professional</li> <li>ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit</li> <li>ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit</li> <li>ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit</li> <li>ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit</li> </ol>
We are glad to announce that we have released a new Maintenance Patch 1.1686 for ActCAD 2016 Software. Below is a detailed list of fixes/enhancements in this version:</p> <ul> <li>INSERT dialog: Uniform scale checkbox unchecks on drawing selection</li> <li>Resources are not detected properly for menus in MNU loaded by -MENULOAD</li> <li>Crash : Crash on save</li> <li>[Crash] Hit autohide the properties pane and crashed out of program</li> <li>SCALELISTEDIT Reset doesn't work for attached drawing (Exception)</li> <li>[Crash] Crash clicking Layers tab in IntelliCAD Explorer</li> <li>DVIEW Twist command use wrong point as a pivot</li> <li>Calling CMDBAR or COMMANDLINE when command line is hidden raises redundant error Message Box</li> <li> Added WSAUTOSAVE registry sysvar (equal to 1 by default) - controls whether to save current cui profile to active workspace or not on changing current workspace.</li> <li>Loading MenuGroups with conflicting POP numbers from MNU file by MENULOAD leads to disabling existing menu items</li> <li>LUPREC shouldn't affect scale values in INSERT dialog</li> <li>Grayscale RASTER IMAGE has black / white reversed (depending on background)</li> <li>Associativity doesn't work properly when dragging MTEXT attached to LEADER</li> <li>Lineweights look too thin in Lineweights combobox</li> <li>PUBLISH to PDF: proper PDF file name</li> <li>Edit Boundaries in VIEW dialog leads to locking IntelliCAD</li> <li>Unable to change plot style table in properties pane</li> <li>Forced .NET (CLR) intialization as workaround of crash with nvidia quadro graphics card</li> <li>Original comment: Forced .NET (CLR) intialization as workaround of crash with nvidia quadro graphics card</li> <li>Hyperlink functionality doesn't work for local images</li> <li>[Crash] Properties Dialog crash: change text style</li> <li>"Apply to Layout" &amp; "Preview" printing with PC3 (DWF, DWFx, PNG, JPG) or activating Print to File</li> <li>[Crash] Properties Dialog crash</li> <li>Unable to change plot style table in properties pane</li> <li>Minor resource string change</li> <li>Hyperlink functionality doesnt work for local images</li> <li>Cannot to edit dimension in attached drawing</li> <li>Lineweights look too thin in Lineweights combobox</li> <li>[ENTPROP] SELECT button doesn't bring focus to command line when SHORTCUTMENU=3 </li> <li>ICAD goes to deadlock when NOTIFYMANAGER = 0 and drawing with missed xrefs is being opened</li> <li>COLOR dialog doesn't honor CECOLOR system variable properly </li> <li>Multiple grips dragging works wrong for polylines</li> <li>Cannot to modify polyline by grip dragging if more than one polyline is selected</li> <li>[Crash] IcThreadManager DebugBreak crash</li> <li>Orientation of leader should change if text is moved from right to left in relation to leader arrow </li> <li>Bootstrapper fails if it is digitally signed</li> <li>DXF version selection is needed in DXFOUT</li> <li>[Crash] CLOSING AND OPENING FILES BACK TO BACK </li> <li>Handle leaks</li> <li>DIMLINEAR/DIMCONTINUE shows annotation with incorrect size during creation</li> <li>TEXT command has wrong default rotation angle (TEXTANGLE) in rotated UCS</li> <li>[Ribbon UI] [Crash] I was customizing a toolbar flyout</li> <li>[Crash] Crash on exit </li> <li>[PATCH]Support IMAGEFRAME 0,1,2 values</li> <li>icad.cui has some problems with format of indents</li> <li>[Ribbon UI] SysVar Expressions doesn't work for certain types of sysvars</li> <li>Installer code refactoring and cleanup</li> <li>missing drawing for script</li> <li>PDFATTACH-ed PDF does not auto regen properly</li> <li>VERY slow Pan and zoom</li> <li>QSelect doesn't work in localized version</li> <li>Grips STRETCH plus PERPENDICULAR snap works wrong</li> <li>Page Setup Dialog crashes when trying to select printer for Layout</li> <li>VERY slow Pan and zoom</li> <li>Grips STRETCH plus PERPENDICULAR snap works wrong</li> <p></p>The latest software version is available for download on Downloads page.
ActCAD 2016 Software new version 1.1678 released today. Updates are available :

  • ActCAD 2016 Professional 64 bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Professional 32 bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Standard 64 bit
  • ActCAD 2016 Standard 32 bit

Below are the major list of fixes compared to previous version:

  • All software libraries updated from 1.1671 to 1.1678
  • Graphics Issues on nVidia fixed.
  • CUI files updated for Pro and Std versions
  • Updated ActCAD name in all International languages.
  • Modified few other libraries.

The latest installers for all four versions can be downloaded from our Downloads Page.