progeCAD 2020 Professional is a general-purpose 2D/3D DWG/DWF/DXF native CAD, the proven low-cost replacement forAutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. progeCAD 2020 Professional reads and writes AutoCAD DWG drawing files vv. 2.5 - to 2020. The progeCAD 2020 Professional software package is a fine solution for general technical drafting offering the standard CAD features as well as a series of handy tools facilitating daily design routines.

Support for BIM file types

Import/attach IFC and Autodesk Revit files as underlays (.rvt/.rfa,IFC); based on the ODA BIM component. These file types contain building and construction data. Once the file is attached, you can explode it, snap to it, and use the RVTPANE command to open the Categories pane for visibility control.

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.

Block Editor (_BEDIT)

The Block Editor offers a special authoring area to enable free drawing and editing of blocks geometry. The New Blocks Palette for inserting and editing of internal Blocks with Drag & Drop support.

Print 3d Hidden with silhouette

Creation of clean 3D prints on curved solid parts printing in Hidden Visual Style.

Xref Notify

The control of updated or missing xrefs. progeCAD displays a baloon when an XREF (External Reference) linked to the active drawing is modified.

STEP/IGES Options

The setting of conversion modes for STEP/IGES files (Quick Monocrome, With Color, Import as Surfaces).

Construction Line Command

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.

Property Panel Tree

The new selection control to view selected entities in a tree list allowing Properties local editing ( highlighting/modifications based on the tree selection).

Custom Folders preset

Adding of your most frequently used folders to the open/save dialog. Quick access to your disks/network.

 

PDF to DWG conversion

progeCAD helps you convert your PDF files to editable DWG files quickly and easily. The tool generates and optimizes vector entities such as lines, polylines, splines, hatches, circles, arcs and text strings; offers intelligent TrueType texts and line width recognition; retains colors in the DWG/DXF file. It is compatible with Layered PDF and preserves the same Layers scheme existing in the PDF when converting PDF to DWG. The PDF to CAD feature allows to save time by easily transferring projects, drawings, parts of existing in vectorial PDFs catalogues and manuals to CAD drawings to use them as native DWG files. It supports all versions of Adobe PDF file.

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

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.

Traceparts and Cadenas for progeCAD

iCADLib integrates Traceparts web portal and progeCAD's Cadenas web portal for easy guided usage of more than 100 million of blocks. Directly guided block insertion from the web into your drawings just in a snap. TraceParts and Cadenas are leading digital engineering 3D content companies offering cutting-edge business solutions through powerful web based products and services. The Traceparts web portal and progeCAD's Cadenas web portal are freely available to progeCAD users worldwide with hundreds of supplier catalogs and 100 million CAD models and product datasheets suitable for design, purchasing, manufacturing or maintenance processes.

Surveying, Gis And Civil Features

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

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. Speed up the print process when necessary to print or export several different drawings or drawings with several different layouts.

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

This is an ideal product for architects, engineers and for all those designers who need to view their own 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. It has the following characteristics:

• Photorealistic rendering with light and shade, reflection and transparency effects
• Materials like wood with grain, stone, plastic, metal, bricks (customizable, different shades)
• The finishing can be personalized with effects of reflection or transparency
• Complete control over illumination thanks to multiple light points
• Library of pre-set materials
• Smooth shadows
• Sun position control
• Save images with a custom resolution
• Pre-defined lighting schemes
• Library of pre-set backgrounds, 2D and 3D (hemispherical image)
• Manage SnapShots, for storing all the data from your work in scenes
• Archives of own libraries of materials, lights and backgrounds.