ActCAD 2024 products released in Prime, Professional, Standard and Map Drafter variants. It is a major release based on IntelliCAD 12 engine. Below is a list of major improvements in this release:
- Latest ODA 23.12 dwg and dxf libraries
- Siginificant improvements in speed and performance
- Improved user interface
- New ANGLE command
- Create reports and report templates, extract data to tables and .xls files
- New SUPERHATCH command to create hatches using images, textures, blocks, external references, and wipeouts
- New Quick Properties pane
- Draw splines using control vertices and knot parameterization
- New Geometric Center snap
- Create and edit legacy image tile menus
- Export tables to .csv files, create and update them from extracted drawing data, remove cell formatting overrides, and specify cell border properties
- Improved ActCAD Explorer to manage more visual style properties, manage more layout settings, and specify whether to freeze layers automatically in layouts that you create. For all Explorer elements, change the column order, visibility of columns, and restore the default display of columns.
- New command for Project geometry
- Show and hide CV
- Layer Isolate, VP Freze
- New commands for Rename Block, Change Block and Copy Multiple
- Improved page setups from other drawings
- Choose PDF presets when publishing or exporting to pdf files
- Import and export Facet Modeler Binary (.fmb) files
- Set display settings for section planes, control whether entities on layers can be cut by section planes
- Preview the modifications when using the Offset, Trim, and Extend commands and when editing hatches
- Customize AEC styles
- Attach roof and ceiling plane symbols to walls and reference them while interactively creating roof and ceiling planes
- Assign levels to AEC entities, import .ifc files with more options, and include .rvt and .ifc underlays when exporting to .ifc files
- Improved Licensing Technology
