CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 November 2004
Product News
Autodsys Announces IntelliCAD 5
Autodsys announced a major update of IntelliCAD® that contains many exclusive enhancements that build on the base IntelliCAD Technology.
Autodsys IntelliCAD 5 includes a number of new features and enhancements designed to improve productivity and compatibility including tabbed layouts, entity properties toolbar, dimension styles toolbar, lineweight support, and compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG 2004-2005 file formats. It also includes drawing recovery for corrupted files, creation of DWF (Design Web Format) files, and draw order to control how entities overlap.
In addition to these standard features Autodsys IntelliCAD also includes a number of exclusive features to improve productivity. The Aerial Birds-eye view allows users to zoom and pan in a small resizable window that gives them an overall view of their drawing when they are zoomed in. It also includes an auto-hide feature that keeps the window hidden when not in use. Edge panning is another feature that allows the user to pan the drawing simply by moving the mouse to the edge of the drawing area.
The block Navigator allows users to organize their blocks and commands into categories and comes with hundreds of blocks plus samples of the thousands that are available in the optional block libraries. With this tool users can visually browse thousands of blocks quickly plus it includes the ability to organize them into plan, elevation or 3D view and insert them at a specified elevation or scale.
The bonus toolkit includes over 75 tools to increase productivity including AutoLayer management to automatically put blocks and entities on the correct layer, Text tools for labeling lines, arcs, and importing text, annotation tools for labeling drawings, Parallel lines and intersection clean-up, Block tools with editing, search/replace, block count, and block update, plus Glue line and many other tools to make editing and creating drawings easier.
"Autodsys IntelliCAD 5 realizes the dream of a powerful CAD alternative that I had when I started the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium in 1999", said Ronald Prepchuk, President of Autodsys and former Executive Director of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium. "IntelliCAD is truly capable of bringing affordable, high-powered CAD to the design industry."
IntelliCAD 5 has a Suggested Retail Price of $149 to $349. IntelliCAD was designed to be a low cost Computer Aided Design alternative by providing DWG file support as well as support for industry standard commands, menu files, script files, shape files, text fonts, hatch patterns, linetypes, LISP programs, SDS/C++ programs, and VBA programs.
Autodsys is a commercial and board member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium and developer of IntelliCAD, ArchT, and other utilities that work with both AutoCAD and IntelliCAD. Autodsys has been producing AutoCAD add-ons since 1986 and has received industry awards for its products including a "Highly Recommended" by Cadalyst Magazine.
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