ACTCAD Software Updates & Fixes

The name IntelliCAD originated from a software company that was formed in the early 1990s in San Diego, CA, USA. The starting project as ADE (AutoCAD Data Extension), which they sold to Autodesk and later became part of Autodesk MAP software. IntelliCAD has a long history that passed through the hands of Softdesk, Autodesk, Boomerang, Visio, just missing Microsoft and then to IntelliCAD Technology Consortium.

Today IntelliCAD is a member driver non-profit Organization developing core CAD Engine based on Open Design Alliance (ODA) Teigha dwg, dxf and dgn libraries. The member products like ActCAD, progeCAD etc., are available for commercial sale. ActCAD is a member of IntelliCAD with presence in India and USA.

During 1990s, Software was the largest third-party developer for Autodesk. Cyco Software was another development partner for Autodesk. Due to some business interests, Softdesk had acquired IntelliCAD and its programmers were given the job to work on a parallel software which is similar to Autocad.

Below are the business developements happened in this regard:

1. Autodesk purchased Software for $90 million in a bidding competition with Parametric Technologies.

2. After Autodesk discovered it now owned an AutoCAD clone, the software and employees separated as Boomerang Technologies.

3. FTC ordered Autodesk to avoid IntelliCAD and its employees for 10 years.

4. Later, Visio purchased Boomerang and IntelliCAD, and launched a commercial product just at 10% price of AutoCAD.

5. After few days, Visio has purchased MarComp for its .dwg read and write libraries. Later, Visio released the code free under the umbrella of the OpenDWG Alliance. It was later renamed to Open Design Alliance (ODA).

6. Autodesk launched "100% pure DWG"campaign to scare away customers from using IntelliCAD software.

7. Visio, after spending about $25 million sold only few thousand copies of IntelliCAD. Due to this Visio made IntelliCAD 98 free, and created IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) to maintain the source codes.

8. Later Visio was sold to Microsoft for $1.3 billion.

9. The ITC discovered that critical components required royalty payments, and so only a barebone IntelliCAD could be given away free.

10.Companies started to take IntelliCAD code, either for value-added resale or for internal usage.

Please note that IntelliCAD is a not a open source Organization, but the source code is available to its commericial members after paying yearly membership fee and licene royalties.

ActCAD is a commercial member of IntelliCAD from India launched its first versions ActCAD 2015 Standard and ActCAD 2015 Professional. ActCAD operates from USA and India.

ActCAD is a general purpose 2D drafting and 3D modeling CAD software based on IntelliCAD technology. It also uses ACIS kernel from Spatial Systems to enable 3D objects fully compatible with dwg native files created in other CAD software. The latest version of ActCAD is 2017 which is based on IntelliCAD 8.2a technology. It is available in Classic, Standard and Professional versions. All the variants are again available in both 64bit and 32bit versions.

Below are major advantages of ActCAD Software:

• Very familiar interface, commands, dialogs, shortcuts and aliases. No special learning needed. Migrate to ActCAD without much difficulty and deviation.
• Global Licensing with self-license transfer facility
• Express tools
• In-built raster to vector (dxf) converter
• In-built pdf and ps to vector (dxf, svg, hpgl, pcb, pptx, text, wmf, emf etc.) formats
• ActCAD Drawings Converter & Batch Auditor
• Interactive Drawings Auditor and Converter with button click
• Import Point Clouds from *.isd and *.pcg files
• Import Point Clouds to CAD from external CSV file
• Capture CAD points and hole coordinates to CSV file
• Create P&ID label specification
• Perform arithmetic operations on numeric text inside drawing

The main philosophy of ActCAD is to keep the technology very unique, original and genuine the copyrights and development efforts of other CAD software development companies. Make the professional grade CAD software available at very affordable price globally and offer perpetual licenses.

The developers and support team at ActCAD constantly strive to enhance the features and performance of the software on contious basis. All support queries will be addressed the same or next working day with correct solutions.

ActCAD is one of the very active member of IntelliCAD and closely work with development team to improve the software and bug fixes. The add-on featues keep us distinct from competition and any customer requested enhancements take reasonably short-time compared to industry standard.

Feel free to be in touch with us to know more about our products and services.

ActCAD Engineering Solutions announces the release of its new product ActCAD 2017 Classic for Windows power users. This software can be installed on Windows XP and upto Windows 10. It is a very light weight 2D drafting and 3D modeling software based on IntelliCAD engine and ACIS kernel.

ActCAD 2017 Classis version is available in both 64bit and 32bit versions. It will support all dwg and dxf versions from Release 2.5 to 2017.

The major features of this product are:

• Native dwg, dxf and dgn file support
• Very familiar interface and commands
• Complete 2D Drafting
• Powerful 3D Modeling based on ACIS Kernel
• Raster to DXF Converter
• PDF and PS to DXF, SVG, CGM, HPGL, PCB, PPTX, TEXT, WMF, EMF etc. Converter
• ActCAD Drawings Converter and Auditor in Batch Mode
• Light weight and best performance
• any many more....

Both the versions are now available in our Downloads section.

Feel free to contact us for any additional information.

Added:

- Interactive Drawings Auditor to fix internal errors
- Dr.KLN Drawings Converter from PDF & PS files to various output formats like DXF, SVG, CGM, PCG, HPGL, PCL, PPTX, TEXT, WMF,EMF, PDF, PS etc.
- New Program to Change Numeric Text Values by performing Arithmetic Operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
- New Program to Extrack Block Attributes to external CSV file with one click. No template needed for Attributes.
- New Program to capture CAD points and Hole Coordinates to external CSV file in batch mode.

- New Program to prepare P&ID Label Specification Text with required input values and orientation.
- New Tiegha .dwg, .dxf & .dgn libraries with many enhancements

Fixed:

- Fixed few license related issues
- Spelling mistakes in Import Point Cloud Program
- Rewritten the code for BREAKLINE command with more options
- ActCAD freezes with Pdfunderlay and zoom extents
- Problem with hatch in debug mode
- Korean fonts incorrectly displayed
 - MOVE/COPY is not performed if toggle a status bar icon while a command is active
- UNDO of layer freeze does not reveals the layer properly
- Dimensions get lost after trim
- ActCAD Locks up in a particular drawing with zoom using mouse scroll
- ActCAD crashes after canceling entity selection from Drawing Settings dialog
- Warning about different anno scale and plot scale should be shown only for model space
- [Crash] Crash with several operations
- UNDO of layer freeze does not reveals the layer properly
- Node Snap - cannot snap to point nodes if PDMODE!=0
- TIME command issue
- DGN files cannot be imported / converted
- Added more traces to printing
- [Crash] trying to open a particular drawing
- [VPMAX/VPMIN] MVIEW scale and view location is corrupted by VPMAX/VPMIN
- [PRINT] Wipeout and raster image border is printed regardless of WIPEOUTFRAME / IMAGEFRAME value if PRINTEXTOUT is off
- Problems with viewing PDF underlay
- Text is missed in print result and print preview (depending on print area size)
- Grip editing is disabled for locked viewports
- Cannot snap to zero-length polyline
- Viewport content is scaled down in print result
- SSGET filter works wrong for some characters
- Icons with black background in toolbars

Release patches released for all variants of ActCAD 2017. If ActCAD 2017 is already installed in your computer, simply click on Help->Check For Updates.

Feel free to contact us for any additional information.

ActCAD announces the release of its new product "Dr.KLN Drawing Files Converter" today. This converter facilitate the conversion of Portable Document Format (pdf) files and Post Script (ps) files to various other formats. Please see below table for various conversion options available in this program:

There are many settings available on the Converter but we recommend to use the default settings to get best quality output. You can watch the demonstration video at below link:

ActCAD Engineering Solutions announces the release of ActCAD 2017 version 8.2.774.0 today for following variants:

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

Below are the important release notes for this version compared to base release:

Added : Import Point Cloud Data from CSV/text files
Added : BREAKLINE Command
Added : ChangeValues program to increment or decrement text values in a drawing
Added : New options on right click context dialog
Fixed : Dimensions and Text Toolbars for vertical docking
Fixed : .Net Framework 4.5 skip install if already exists
Fixed : Improved Licensing & Activation Mechanisms
Fixed : [Crash] trying to open certain types of drawings
Fixed : [VPMAX/VPMIN] MVIEW scale and view location is corrupted by VPMAX/VPMIN
Fixed : [PRINT] Wipeout and raster image border is printed regardless of WIPEOUTFRAME / IMAGEFRAME value if PRINTEXTOUT is off
Fixed : Problems with viewing PDF underlay
Fixed : Text is missed in print result and print preview (depending on print area size)
Fixed : Grip editing is disabled for locked viewports
Fixed : Cannot snap to zero-length polyline
Fixed : Viewport content is scaled down in print result
Fixed : SSGET filter works wrong for some characters
Fixed : Improved Installer programs
Fixed : Menus have some unexpected symbols in front of "ActCAD"
Fixed : Improved Check for Updates command
Fixed : Icons with black background in toolbars
Fixed : Improved Flash Screen Images and text
Fixed : Improved menu items

The new versions are available for downloads on our Downloads page. We have also released update patches for existing 2017 users for automatic live update over internet.

ActCAD and its Goa Dealer Jamsons, have set up a stall at IIA Goa Chapter Meet on 5th August, 2016. The event photos can be viewed in below video.

In market there are very few CAD Softwares which satisfies the designer innovate thoughts and creativity which enrich our World in various aspects. There are limitations on features, affordability and implementation of new features. In those respects ActCAD is one of the most attractive software which is available at affordable Price for engineers and consultants compared to other CAD Softwares.

ActCAD is always appreciated as greatly valued Software, as it is having International Brand, best features and available at very fair price. In addition, it provides best-in-class technical support for prospects and customers. Familiar Interface and commands with well known shortcut keys are additional advantages to the existing CAD Users as there is no need of any special learning.
 
Genuinely our valuable customers are very much satisfied with ActCAD and recommending it to their Friends and giving us more and more references.

ActCAD helps to make your dream projects real by Powering Creativity.

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.

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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.