AViCAD Features

Screenshot of the AViCAD with some of the main features

The new, improved user interface with support of the AutoCAD® like a paper-style background. It features a new look and a “feel comfortable” experience.

AViCAD’s Main Features:

• Compatible with all AutoCAD® DWG’s – also supports earlier DWG versions.
• Windows 7 & 8/ 8.1/10/11 32&64 bit
• True 64-bit functionality
• Super quick installation (5-10 minutes)
• Simple registration process
• Mech-Q Engineering modules updated (always included in AViCAD)
• Choose between AutoCAD-Like Ribbon and Classic interface
• Free bonus utilities (express tools)
• Annotative Objects support
• Improved annotative scaling
• Dynamic Blocks Editing
• Stretch and pull 3D solids
• Built-in Cloud Backup (DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft One)
• Exports to DXF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, STL, LWO, POV, BMP, WMF, EMF and SVG
• Export to any previous AutoCAD versions, both in DWG and DXF file formats
• Tool Palettes
• Faster load and save times plus XREF performance improvements
• Updated Ribbon commands
• Familiar user interface
• 20,000+ Block Library *
• 2D/3D Windows, Walls & Doors *
• Advanced publishing / Export 3D PDF  *
• STEP/ IGES and Solidworks import and export (available in Plus Version) *
• PDF to DWG converts vectored PDFs in one click (available in Plus Version) *
• View Cube
• Autodesk® Revit® support
• TOOLPALETTE just like AutoCAD
• MAPIMPORT (Geo Data)
• Multiple Undo
• UCS command
• Network license available (please contact us)

* Available in AViCAD Plus

We have also recently added these new CAD features.

• New CAD Engine
• Enhanced Graphics
• New Commands
• Data Linking (Excel)
• XLS Import / Export
• Improved TABLE cells
• Increased speed of opening drawings with many blocks or external references
• Improved speed of opening drawings containing many blocks or external references
• Added functionality to drag .dwg files from Windows File Explorer to a tool palette to add them as blocks
• Advanced Blocks (aka Dynamic Blocks) with enhanced editing and parametric capabilities
• Transparent conversion of Dynamic Blocks to Advanced Blocks
• Block editor for creating and editing Advanced Blocks using parameters, actions, and visibility states
• Added functionality to drag .dwg files from Windows File Explorer to a tool palette to add them as blocks
• New 3D AEC Architectural module for drawing 3D architectural elements with a two-dimensional view
• New 3D AEC Architectural module compatible with AutoCAD AEC Objects
• Draw walls, doors, curtain walls, windows, stairs, and railings with the new AEC package
• Multi-level manager to assign levels to AEC entities
• AEC Styles manager to manage and customize AEC Styles for various architectural elements
• Rubber sheeting for nonuniform adjustment of topography data sets
• IFC Export to create IFC files from DWG with new experimental commands
• New printers are in PDF via DWG to PDF.PC3 with additional options and features
• New Express commands for block base point modification and point coordinate insertion
• New commands to display or hide frames of images and wipeouts and to reset block references to default values.
• New 3D command PROJECTGEOMETRY for creating projections of lines and curves
• New Express commands QBREAK and EBREAK for quick trimming of entities
• Rubber sheeting for image editing and alignment of different data sets
• Create IFC files with .rvt, .ifc underlays, and AEC Objects
• New printers are in PDF via DWG to PDF.PC3 with more options and features
• New Express command CHBLOCKBASEPOINT for changing block insertion points
• New Express command INSERTPOINTSVALUES for writing coordinate values near selected point entities
• New command TFRAMES for displaying or hiding frames of images and wipeouts
• New command RESETBLOCK for resetting Advanced or Dynamic block references to default values
• New 3D command PROJECTGEOMETRY for creating projections of lines and curves
• And more …

New Features
Click to see new product features

Mech-Q Full Suite (included with all AViCAD versions)

Mech-Q is a series of 4 main modules that integrate directly inside AViCAD. Mech-Q allows to:

• Draw fittings and parts parametrically with a zero learning curve
• Manage your layers and colors
• Works in either Imperial (U.S.) or Metric
• Create piping in single-line, double-line, and isometric
• Insert P&ID and plumbing symbols
• Create structural drawings with a beam designer
• Create steel stairs, railings and more
• Create rectangular & round Ducting
• Create BOM (Bill of Materials)
• Insert mechanical parts, nuts and bolts, plus more

AViCAD General Features:

AutoCAD®-Like Interface
Commands menus and icons just like AutoCAD®

Properties Palette
Easily change drawing settings on the fly

Xref Manager
A comfortable interface for the management of external references

Bitmap Clipping
Clip and polygonal clip-on images

Gradient Hatch support
Display and creation of Gradients

Polygonal layout Viewports
Display and creation

PDF Export
PDF export with layers support (DWG can be exported into layered PDF)

Find and Replace
Find and replace text and block attributes in DWG

Express Tool
A complete set of Extra functions for Blocks, Layers, Texts

Standard GUI
Comfortable, easy to use, standard graphic interface, Toolbars “AutoCAD®® like” feeling

Aerial View
In a large drawing, you can pan and zoom quickly in a window that can display the whole drawing

eTransmit
compacting and transmitting DWG file by email

Advanced CTB
Greyscale print and Screening

Rendering
Advanced rendering module with multiple lights management and the creation/editing of materials. Reflection, mirror, transparency, smooth shadows, customizable size bitmap output

Eattedit
Advanced Attribute editing

AViCAD Wblock Manager
Tool for the improved creation of blocks on disk

Solprof
2D profile image extraction from ACIS solids

AViCAD  QDIM
Quick dimensioning

Google Earth™ Integration
Export your models to Google Earth

Spell Checker
Highlight and correct misspellings

AViCAD Wizard
Initial configuration mask of new designs based on prototypes or predefined values

AViCAD DWG Explorer
Windows Explorer-style windows for DWG browsing and block insertion

Snap ‘From’
The smart tool completes the Snap family

Extended Hatches
More than 300 new Hatch patterns are available

Layer Manager
Save and Restore Layers configurations

Layout
Management of multiple layouts allows the creation of all print tables of the same design and offers greater compatibility with AutoCAD®

True color support
Over the limit of 256 colors in DWG

Render Export
Export tool for LightWave (.lwo), 3D Studio (.3ds), Pov-Ray (.pov)

ECW and Jpeg 2000 raster format
The standard wavelet compression format optimized for aerial and satellite imagery

Highlighted selection area
Crossing Selection and Window Selection

Hidden lines in Dview
Hidden lines in perspective views

Layers interface
“AutoCAD® like” layers management with Layers Filters support

Quick Group
Creates Entities groups with one click

Iconografics Interactive Purge
GUI interface for Purge command

Layout Advanced Features
Hide on Layout
Shade on Layout
Selection of Model Space with Double-Click
Layout Tabs

Print area visualization
Shows the page layout

Advanced-Data Extraction
Easy to use wizard for Attributes and Blocks data export

DIESEL language support
Support AutoCAD® DIESEL programming language,

DWF Import & Export
AViCAD Professional reads and writes standard DWF 2D/3D files

3D models o2c export
AViCAD  Professional contains o2c features; 3D Models are easily exported and managed with the o2c tool. o2c is the best Tool for 3D model presentations.

A 3D model is more alive, convincing and touchable
The o2c format is not only a 3D viewing on the internet but also in Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Outlook within HTML email.

JPG and PDF print
Export drawings to JPG and PDF formats

RealTime Pan & Zoom
AViCAD Professional allows users to work with their drawings using RealTime Pan and Zoom and includes the exclusive PPan Technology*, which allows dramatic improvements in Pan movements.

Line weight for Display and Printing
Line weight is supported on Video and Plot

Recovery manager
Easy recovery of drawings in the event of crashes

ActiveX integration
Allow cut and paste of AViCAD  drawings (or just parts of them) to a Microsoft Office application

Customization (AutoLISP, DIESEL, SDS, COM Automation)
3 programming languages supported by AViCAD Professional: LISP and SDS (C++ ADS compatible) VBA and COM automation.

Dynamic Input
Type commands at your crosshair

Auto / Dynamic UCS
Auto-create temporary XY draw

3D Ortho
Restricts the cursor to true Z direction

Auto insert
For title block text + other annotations

ARCTEXT
Creates complex curved text

BREAKLINE
Break for lines and polylines with 2 points

NLM Take Away
NLM licenses can be temporarily moved on a laptop or remote PC to be used offline. Maximum flexibility!

AViCAD supports every necessary AutoCAD® file type, including AutoCAD® drawings (from 2.5 through 2025), AutoCAD® menus (.MNU), AutoCAD® scripts (.SCR), AutoCAD® AutoLISP routines (.LSP), AutoCAD® Drawing Exchange Format (DXF), AutoCAD® ADS Compatible programs (SDS, Solutions Development System), Windows TrueType and AutoCAD® SHP/SHX fonts, AutoCAD® Tables for plotting (.CTB), AutoCAD® Hatch Patterns, AutoCAD® Blocks, AutoCAD® Linetypes, etc.