Cartography that holds up
Advanced map creation with the precision a survey deliverable has to stand up to.
Survey and cartography
ACTCAD Map Drafter
Cartography and 2D map creation for surveyors — field data in, contours, sections and finished sheets out.
- Perpetual licence
- Support included
- No subscription
Why this edition
Built for survey work.
ACTCAD Map Drafter is a cost-effective answer for cartography and 2D map creation, with the full drafting toolset underneath and a one-time perpetual licence.
Field data straight in
Bring survey data into the drawing and build contours and sections from it.
Enterprise ready, budget friendly
Network and volume licensing without the enterprise price tag, and no subscription.
Full drafting underneath
The complete 2D toolset and DWG compatibility are all there; mapping sits on top of it.
In the box
What you get
Every item below is in ACTCAD Map Drafter as shipped — nothing is an add-on, and nothing expires with a subscription.
Built for
- Survey firms producing maps and section drawings
- Government and infrastructure mapping teams
- Anyone who needs cartography without a full GIS suite
- Full 2D drafting toolset on native DWG and DXF
- Advanced cartography and map creation
- Survey data import
- Contours and TIN surfaces
- Cross sections and longitudinal sections
- Shapefile and GIS data support
- ACTCAD PDF printer, and PDF to DWG conversion
- Block library of 7,000+ symbols
- LISP, SDS and script support
- Sheet and layout management for map series
Editions compared
Full comparison
Which one do you need?
| Capability | Standard | Premium | Map Drafter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full 2D drafting toolset | |||
| Native DWG / DXF read and write | |||
| IntelliCAD 14.1 engine | |||
| PDF printer and PDF to DWG | |||
| 7,000+ block symbol library | |||
| 3D mesh and wireframe modelling | — | ||
| ACIS 3D solid modelling | Viewer only | — | |
| Photo-realistic rendering | — | — | |
| Point cloud import | — | — | |
| 3D PDF export | — | — | |
| 2D to 3D conversion | — | — | |
| Block attribute extraction to CSV | — | — | |
| Cartography and map creation | — | — | |
| Perpetual licence, free support |
Try ACTCAD Map Drafter on your own drawings.
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Before you install
System requirements
A Windows desktop application. If your machine runs current CAD software, it will run this comfortably.
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- Processor
- Quad Core CPU (64-bit)
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Disk space
- 10 GB Hard Disk
- Graphics
- OpenGL 2.0 and above
- Drivers
- Updated Graphics Drivers
- Display
- HD monitor for the best drawing display
Questions
All answers
Asked before buying.
Some ACAD LISP programs are not working properly in ActCAD
Most of the LISP commands are supported in ActCAD. However there are few limitations on VISUAL LISP Some of the Visual LISP commands are not supported by ActCAD. Check the code thoroughly and compare with ActCAD Help Developer Reference.
How to increase Entity Selection Pickbox Size and Entity Snap Aperture ?
Below are the steps to achieve this result in ActCAD 2016 Software.
1.Select any entity inside ActCAD.
2.In that condition, go to Tools->Drawing Settings -> Coordinate Input Tab
3.Then you will notice two options at the bottom on Entity Selection Pickbox, increase the size at the pickbox dropdown list.
4.Similarly you can increase the Entity Snap Aperture, by increasing the Aperture size.
How do I know the version number that I have installed ?
Open ActCAD.
Help menu -> About ActCAD
The dialog box shows the exact number of installed version
Where is print information stored ?
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
How to Insert Blocks from ActCAD Block Library ?
Double Click on the block that you want to insert into a drawing & specify the insertion point
Copy and Paste does not work. I can not copy the drawing in another drawing ?
The reason could be that the drawing from which entities are being copied was closed.
-- Make sure the file from which the entities were copied 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 Base Point."
-- Open or move into the drawing of destination without closing the drawing of origin, Edit menu and choose Paste "or" Paste to Original Coordinate".
NOTE:
The right way to copy is always use the command "Copy" from the Edit menu