Overview

Used by professionals from a wide range of industries such as mechanical, construction, infrastructure, architectural, design, geotechnical, etc., progeCAD Professional is an affordable and powerful 2D/3D DWG/DXF CAD software that reads and writes DWG/DXF drawing files versions 2.5 through the latest and is fully compatible with Windows OS.

progeCAD boasts the intuitive Classic/Ribbon Interface with familiar commands and perpetual licensing solutions.

progeCAD Professional is a highly efficient, the proven low-cost replacement for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, comprising all the basic CAD functionality as well as many exclusive extra tools to facilitate the drafting process and drawings interchange, for instance, with Mechanical (STEP/IGES/SolidWorks file formats support) and BIM (rvt/.rfa, IFC file formats support) applications.

10 Reasons to Buy ProgeCAD Professional

Perpetual Licensing. No annual fee. You decide when to upgrade
Nothing to learn, if you are AutoCAD® users
Works natively with DWG! Fully compatible with AutoCAD® without conversion
Import BIM projects and objects (Autodesk Revit® and IFC)
PDF to DWG conversion included
Convert your old paper draughts into CAD
Create architectural layouts in a flash with the EasyArch parametric plug-in
20.000+ blocks ready to use + customizable blocks manager
Import/Export - STEP, IGES, PDF, 3D PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, LWO, POV, Maya, OBJ, BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, SVG
Professional Artisan Render Engine included

Pair with an Add-On

Let progeCAD offer you a one of a kind solution to replace your AutoCAD solution at a fraction of the price. No other software provider can compete with our level of service or affordability. progeCAD's applications are ideal for the following fields: HVAC, Piping, Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, Civil Survey, and more.

progeEARTH

Land Development software created for survey, cogo, DTM and road design. Ideal for surveyors, civil engineers, architects, and more.

progeBILLD

professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application.

progeTABLE

Import Excel spreadsheets, create bi-directional links, and much more.

Highlights

progeCAD is professional ‘AutoCAD’ like software without the monthly subscription. It supports an interface complete with an “AutoCAD® Like” icon menu and “AutoCAD® Like” commands. It has the same file formats, same menus, and commands and at a fraction of the price (a one-time investment instead of a monthly subscription like AutoCAD).


EasyArch Architectural Plug-in Enjoy EasyArch, the free add-on for architectural design. Draw Walls, Doors and Windows instead of just lines, arcs and circles.	Express Tools Use a similar bonus toolset as AutoCAD. Offered FREE without subscription because, well, we’re just like that!	API Support Automate your tasks using industry standard API’s, including AutoLISP, SDS (like ADS), IRX (like ARX) and Visual Basic for Applications.	PDF Import Import PDF into progeCAD, along with Blocks, Layers, Linetypes, etc. All intelligence contained within the PDF is imported into your drawing.	PDF Plotting Plot to PDF using progeCAD’s plot interface. Use Color Tables (.ctb) or Style Tables (.stb) and Printer Configuration Parameter (.pcp) files from AutoCAD.

progeCAD, powered by IntelliCAD 8.x, is an AutoCAD® Industry compatible 2D/3D CAD application that natively works with AutoCAD® DWG files, from AutoCAD® DWG 2.5 through the latest AutoCAD® DWG format!
progeCAD’s original format, DWG, ensures a complete compatibility with AutoCAD® WITHOUT ANY FILE CONVERSION and without losing any critical information.
progeCAD supports an interface complete with an “AutoCAD® Like” icon menu and “AutoCAD® Like” commands.
progeCAD includes options like PDF & Google Earth KML export, 3D modeling, XREF & DWG block library managers, AutoCAD-style command line with extensions like DIESEL, VBA & AutoLISP, C++ programming and SHX fonts.
progeCAD Professional is useful for CAD field & concept sketch, electrical schematics, building construction, AEC architectural, civil, structural, mechanical and industrial engineering, carpentry & “as built” drawings, MCAD mechanical layout, home kitchen & bath floor plan, property survey & landscape drawing to ANSI DIN and ISO standards.
progeCAD includes options like PDF import and PDF print, 3D modeling, XREF & DWG block library managers, AutoCAD-style command line with extensions like VBA & AutoLISP, C++ programming and SHX fonts.
progeCAD offers more CAD functions than AutoCAD® LT or TurboCAD Pro at a fraction of the price of AutoCAD®, ArchiCAD or Microstation.
progeCAD works with AutoCAD DWG files, without any type of conversion. edit every version of DWG: AutoCAD 2.5 through the latest!
progeCAD’s user interface is complete with “AutoCAD Like” icon menus and commands.
progeCAD supports AutoCAD file types: DWG, DXF, .MNU, .SCR, AutoLISP, SHX and TTF fonts, CTB and PCP for Plotting, Hatch Patterns, Linetypes, etc.
progeCAD Professional supports 3D ACIS Solid Modeling, 3D Surface commands such as revsurf, rulesurf, etc., progeCAD also has 3D Realistic Rendering built in allowing you to make true to life representations of your AutoCAD compatible DWG models.

Main Features

The Swiss-Army-Knife CAD for file exchange

progeCAD Professional is a powerful tool for conversion of different CAD file formats. It imports and exports a large number of file types, making CAD interchange easy.

With the included PDF2DWG conversion engine, PDF Import is quick and easy. progeCAD helps you convert your PDF files to editable DWG drawings generating and optimizing vector entities such as lines, polylines, splines, hatches, circles, arcs and text strings. All colors are retained in the DWG/DXF file. PDF2DWG supports preview of pages, Batch conversion of all PDFs in a folder, multi-page PDF conversion, intelligent TrueType texts, line width and dashed lines recognition. PDFtoDWG is compatible with Layered PDF and preserves the same Layers scheme existing in the PDF when converting PDF to DWG. PDF2DWG allows to save time by easily transferring projects, drawings, parts of existing vector PDFs catalogs and manuals to CAD drawings to use them as native DWG files. PDFtoDWG supports all versions of Adobe PDF files.

PDF to DWG conversion
Import: STEP, IGES, ESRI-SHAPE SHP, 3DS, DGN(Microstation), LWO, OBJ(Wavefront), STL, RGT, KMZ, DXF, DWF, DWFx, IFC, POINT CLOUDS
Export: STEP, IGES, PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, 3D PRINT STL

Toolpalettes for Blocks, Hatches and frequently used Commands

Use the tool palettes to organize blocks, hatches, and custom tools in a tabbed window. Easily customizable by Drag & Drop. Options and settings are accessible from shortcut menus.
The ready-to-use Palettes for: Draw, Modify, Annotations, Utilities, View, 3D Tools, Fills and Hatches, 2D Architectural, Electrical Diagrams, Electrical Plants, Mechanics ANSI-ISO, Mechanics DIN-ISO, Hydraulic-Fluids and Pneumatics, Steel Sections

Icadlib Module And Blocks Libraries

The advanced iCADLib module for blocks management ensures the best organization and management of your Symbol Libraries. More than 22.000 ready- to-use 2D/3D Blocks: Construction, Architectural, ANSI-ISO and DIN-ISO Mechanics, ANSI and IEC Electrical, Electronic, Steel Profiles, Furniture, Kitchen.

iCADLib also integrates Traceparts web portal and progeCAD's Cadenas web portal for easy guided usage of more than 100 million of blocks.

PARAMETRIC 2D/3D LIBRARY - Imperial/Metric

Parametric generation and insertion of 2D or 3D mechanical/structural components for construction using a dedicated interface:

Wood: Lumber, Trus Joist® TJI®
Steel: Angle, Channel, Tubing, Pipe, S-W-M-HP Shape, S-M-W Tee Shape
Steel: Studs, Sstuds, Joist, Track

Two Tool Palettes for the new Structures library are provided, ready to use (Steel standard, Profiles and Wooden details)

Block Editor (_BEDIT)

The Block Editor offers a special authoring area to enable free drawing
and editing of blocks geometry.
In the Block Editor, you can:

Modify a block geometry
Add/Delete entities
Define attributes
Manage visibility states
Test and save the block definition

Surveying, Gis And Civil Features

Geolocation with Bing Maps - You can insert geographic location information to a drawing file as a graphic background by specifying the location of a reference point on a map provided by Bing Maps service.
Geographic location information is assigned to a drawing file by capturing a portion of the Bing online map to an object known as a map image and embedding it to the drawing area.
Maps can be visualized as Aerial(terrain), Road or mixed.
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.
MrSID support - MrSID (.sid), which is an acronym of Multiresolution Seamless Image, is a file format developed and patented by LizardTech for encoding of georeferenced raster graphics such as orthophotos. The MrSID (.sid) format is supported in major GIS applications such as Autodesk, Bentley Systems, CARIS, ENVI, ERDAS, ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo and QGIS.
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.
ESRI-SHAPE Import - Import SHAPE (ESRI) files with geometry and its attributes into DWG drawings. Specific commands allow geometry insertion, colors and layers management, data dynamic control.
3D and 2D Civil Features

Fast triangulation of point clouds Creation of TIN surfaces from points within point cloud scan files or land survey collected points. AUTOSEZ command can be applied to these surfaces.
AUTOSEZ The tool for the automatic creation of surface profiles to show surface elevations along a horizontal alignment to represent, for example, road edges or ditches (Topographic Sections)
SLOPE The tool for an easy creation of terrain slope lines (ticks) between two edges or for a conversion of polylines into slope-style polylines.

Easyarch 3D - The Architectural 2D/3D Plugin

The automated building tool for architects designed to increase productivity in house and interior design and remodeling. EasyArch allows to:

Create walls
Edit walls (delete, rotate, MOVE, copy, make/cap holes etc.)
Insert, copy, move, edit doors and windows automatically
Manage layers (quick turning on/off, freeze/unfreeze, isolate etc.)
Manage and insert parametric blocks from the additional menus
Create stairs
Create roofs
Create and edit tables of elements, rooms, spaces
Assisted dimensioning

QUICK PROPERTIES Palette

The Quick Properties palette shows a list of object properties for one or more selected objects. Rapid access to the most useful object properties avoiding irrelevant and confusing fields. You have the Quick Properties palette beside the cursor when clicking on an object.

Publish (Batch Plot)

Layouts taken from one or more drawings can be printed or exported to PDF or DWF using the print settings of individual layouts.

QRODE

Create and insert a QRCODE from any text, URL etc.
Make text in your drawings scannable from QR Codes using any mobile phone or tablet with a camera.
QR Codes, also known as mobile barcodes, allow to represent text, URLs, contact information etc.
Users may get automatically a lot of useful information for execution of maintenance, simply scanning the QR Codes visible in the drawings.

Perspective Image Correction

Thanks to this plugin, photos insertion is easy and intuitive, with the ability to correct their perspective through the multi-point system.

Advanced Render: Artisan

If you need to view your drawings in a photorealistic visualization, progeCAD professional includes for free the advanced Artisan Renderer Engine based on the ray-tracing algorithm. It allows you to quickly create a photorealistic image of your model using a wide range of pre-set materials and lighting setups combined with the ability to create custom lights and realistic materials.

Gradient Hatch Support

Fleshing out a drawing on progeCAD can give it additional impact during presentations, and the addition of color gradients to surfaces to produce a more "realistic" appearance is a great way to do so.

Color Books

progeCAD supports standard Color Books.
With progeCAD, the RGB values of the Color Books Colors that are assigned to objects are preserved in all current and legacy drawing files

Annotative Objects

The feature automates the sizing of annotations such as text, hatch and dimensions in multiple viewports with varying scales.
The annotative objects are scaled based on the current annotation scale setting and are automatically displayed at the correct size. The following objects can be annotative, meaning that they can size automatically:

Text (single-line text)
Mtext (multi-line text)
Dimensions
Tolerances
Hatches
Blocks
Block attributes

Tables

A table is an object with information arranged in rows and columns. Similar to spreadsheet, the rows and columns can be adjusted with grips, and styles can be assigned to the table and to selected cells.
progeCAD Tables support AutoCAD® like Text in-place editing, numeric Rows and alphabetical Columns.
Table Cells can contain formulas that do calculations related to the values in other Table Cells.
With a Double-Click on table cells, you can insert formulas from the Table Cell Editor.

Sheet Set Manager

Any design project requires a set of drawings and specifications to accompany the report which specifies the scope of the design. progeCAD Sheet Set Manager is an amazing tool to manage your drawings from start to finish in your design.
Using sheet sets in the most basic way you are just taking drawing files and organizing them in proper order, so they can be easily retrieved when working through your project.
Sheet Sets improve your team collaboration, facilitating working on one subset while you work on another.

Spell-check on the fly

Multiline text, Multileader and Tables text is automatically checked for spelling while typing, underlining wrong words.

SELFILTER

Controls the Selection Filter panel. It displays all entities in the drawing and allows you to filter and select entities by Layer, Color, entity Type and Linetype.
When you finish selecting entities, you can then use the selection set in subsequent commands.

Construction Lines

A Construction Line is a special type of the infinite line that is typically used when quick drafting techniques are required.
Similar to the infinite line, the construction line is a line through a given point, oriented at a specified angle in the three-dimensional space and extending to infinity in both directions

Point Clouds

A point cloud is a collection of points acquired using 3D laser scanners or other special technologies to create 3D representations of existing structures.

Point cloud files help the design process by providing real-world context where you can recreate the referenced objects. Once a point cloud is inserted to a drawing, you can use it as a guideline for the drawing, change its visualization, or apply a color to distinguish different features.

Along with the standard file formats, with progeCAD you can import Point Cloud formats such as ReCap .rcs, .rcp, XYZ, PLY and LAS.

3D PDF Export

Create the Adobe PDF standard with your dynamic 3D content inside. 3D PDF allows to communicate to all the globe and share your data with anyone in an easy and innovative way. Smart collaboration with your draftsmen and designers as well as users who do not deal with CAD software. 3D PDF can be visualized with the free Adobe® Reader®/Acrobat Reader DC software.

Superhatch Command

Create hatch patterns from images, blocks, external references ( xrefs ) and wipeouts. Superhatch is an express tools function that lets you quickly hatch with your own pattern, no programming or creation of pat files needed. progeCAD's hatch with image capability is a part of the Superhatch function.

Progecad Cloud

Cloud services will reshape the consumer digital lifestyle experience, with progeCAD save and open drawings on Cloud! progeCAD Cloud makes it easy for you to reach any of your drawings wherever you areand to share drawings with your team and customers. progeCAD Cloud supports the major cloud services for file sharing and syncing like DropBox, Google Drive, and Microsoft One Drive.

ACIS Solids

Reads and writes 3D solid objects with ACIS libraries (the same as AutoCAD®). ACIS solids are available thanks to an agreement signed with Spatial, the supplier of technology for solid modeling to the most important CAD software in the world. progeCAD 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, is therefore much easier! Creation of complex three-dimensional shapes using solid models becomes a way simpler procedure.

DATAEXTRACTION

Extracting information from objects such as block attributes and drawing properties and creating a detailed schedule, a parts list, or a bill of materials to a table inside a drawing or into an external file. For example, with a residential construction project, create a door installation schedule to place in the drawing. Using the Data Extraction wizard, you can limit the selection only to doors objects and extract the data.

You can create a list as an Excel external file as well. You can use a data extraction file as a template to perform the same type of extraction at any time.

Dynamic Input

Dynamic Input is an alternative way of entering commands through a command line interface at your Crosshair. You can input data like the length of a line or the radius of a circle with dynamic visualization of changes relative to mouse movements. When dynamic input is turned on, a tooltip displays dynamically updated information next to the cursor. When a command is in progress, you can specify options and values in the tooltip text box. You can also configure dynamic input to meet your personal or company standards. The feature is to further boost your productivity by making drafting and editing processes way more efficient.

3DCONNEXION Support

All powerful 3DConnexion mouse and devices are supported, with contextual menus and options.

Compatible with BetterWMF

BetterWMF solves problems related to copying and pasting drawings into other software packages like Microsoft Word.

If you have ever tried to insert a CAD picture into for example a Microsoft Office document you may have noticed several problems: To start with, you will get unwanted borders. The resulting size of a picture is the same as the graphics area of the CAD window at the time of creation, rather than matching the selected objects. This usually means that pictures copied from progeCAD to other Windows applications will have a large blank area to the top or right. Also when you print the document with the picture you will notice that all lines will become equally (very) thin. Finally, you will have discovered that it is very difficult to size your picture to an accurate scale.
For each of these problems individually, clumsy workarounds are possible, with varying degrees of success. The unique real solution is BetterWMF.

progeCAD is fully compatible with the BetterWMF version for AutoCAD LT but providing all the features available with the version for AutoCAD Full.

Express Tools

progeCAD Express Tools is a set of tools mainly grouped under the Express Tools menu which extend progeCAD functionality enabling the user to increase productivity through easy, fast and efficient performance of complex multistep CAD operations.

Digital signatures to DWG

The digital signature certifies the author of a file and indicates whether the file has been altered since the digital signature was applied.
Recipients of drawings are provided with reliable information about the author of a drawing.
Owners of drawings are provided with reliable verification that a drawing has not been modified since it was digitally signed.

And more...

Raster Handling
Raster to vector converter
Dynamic UCS
Multiline
Multileaders (MLEADER command)
Numbered markers
Incremental save
Points import
AddSelected
AreaText
Spline editing
Multigrip editing and advanced solid grips
Loft command
Flatshot command
Helix command

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