CMS IntelliCAD CAD Software News Blog

New CMS IntelliCAD 13.0 CAD Software - Now Available

September 1, 2024 - Azle, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INC. (AKA CMS) announces a new CMS IntelliCAD 13.0, now available.

CMS IntelliCAD 13.0 is a major release that includes performance improvements and new features, including a new Options dialog which is highly compatible with other CAD applications, calculators for evaluating expressions and converting units of measurement, lookup tables and the ability to reset advanced blocks. When creating reports, extract data from external references, advanced blocks, attributes, and AEC entities; extract from .dgn, .ifc, .rvt, and .rfa files when supported; and filter data to meet conditions.

LISP is completely refactored to improve performance and increase compatibility with other CAD applications. Other new features include Flatshot, Solid Profile, Make Shape, Compile to SHX, and Make Linetype, and more.

For CMS IntelliCAD 13.0 PE PLUS licenses that include Spatial® Technology ACIS® modeler, use the following commands to work with surfaces: Network, Offset, Fillet, Extend, and Trim.

All CMS IntelliCAD support working with BIM files: use the IFC Validate, RVT to IFC conversion, and Corner Window commands; dimension AEC entities; manage layers for .ifc underlays; define styles for new elements such as roof slabs, dimensions, structural members, and more; and attach railings to stair segments.

For technical users, CMS IntelliCAD 13.0 uses ODA SDKs version 2024.12. IntelliCAD IcARX continues to be a pre-release version and is highly compatible with AutoCAD® Object ARX, allowing developers to build applications with a single code base that runs on both platforms.

Free trial available at https://intellicadms.com

Highlighted selection of polygon areas

November 11, 2024 - Azle, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INC. (AKA CMS) sneak peek of Graphics Highlighting of Polygons Area Calculations on the new CMS IntelliCAD 13.0

CMS IntelliCAD 13.0 users always get extended features for an unbeatable price, anywhere. We're extending the Polygons Area Calculations by combining math operations with graphics highlighted selections.  Vitor Neves, CMS President,  stated "Get ready to supercharge your polygon area calculations! CMS IntelliCAD 13 users, the next maintenance update (FREE!) brings a major upgrade to make your workflow increasingly smoother."

 

Extended CMS IntelliCAD CAD training courses now Available

July 3, 2024 - Azle, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INC. (AKA CMS) has released new online training courses to help users learn more about CMS IntelliCAD CAD software.

 

On top of the free Basic course, we've added 3 new levels: Intermediate, 3D Drafting, and Advanced. These new courses include a total of 37 lessons with 44 videos. They're designed for users with a v12 license who want to brush up on their CMS IntelliCAD skills, and the best part? They're completely free for licensed users!

Not using CMS IntelliCAD? No problem! You can still access this valuable training content for a one-time, low fee. Learn the basics of using Autodesk AutoCAD and other .dwg file compatible CAD software, including other options like BricsCAD, ZWCAD, GstarCAD, progeCAD, nanoCAD, Draftsight, and more.

 

There's about 4 hours and 29 minutes of video material to review. Based on this, we estimate trainees will need roughly 29 hours of training total to develop these advanced skills.
Explore downloadable training courses - full table of contents available here.

 

The training videos offer helpful features like casting to Apple Airplay and Google Chromecast devices, as well as real-time captions and transcriptions.

Vitor Neves, President of CMS, is enthusiastic about the new courses: "We're thrilled to offer these 3 new online training courses! Anyone looking to sharpen their CAD software skills will find them incredibly valuable."

 Here's one free sample of the CMS IntelliCAD online CAD lessons available at https://intellicadms.com

New CMS IntelliCAD 10.0 PE Easy Run CAD Software released - Free use for 60 days

August 19, 2020 - Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. (AKA CMS) announces the release of the new CMS IntelliCAD 10.0 PE Easy Run.

CMS IntelliCAD® 10 CAD Software is a major release providing new features and improvements. Free use for 60 days.

What's new:

a) OpenGL ES graphics device is now supported for enhanced display quality and performance, which also includes new visual styles;
b) new materials library contains materials that can be assigned to entities and layers and then displayed with visual styles;



c) Spot and point lights now display in-program with visual styles;
d) Redesigned View Manager has more options available;
e) New dynamic input incorporates command prompts and measurement guides at the cursor;
f) New properties are available for various entity types in the Properties pane;
g) New ability to view properties of custom entities;
h) CMS IntelliCAD 10 also includes the ability to migrate user interface customizations from previous versions;
i) CMS IntelliCAD 10 incorporates ODA SDKs version 2020 Update 2 and enhanced .NET and IRX functionality for increased API capabilities;

Other improvements and fixes are found in performance, working with files, editing and selecting entities, text, printing, and more.

Vitor Neves, CMS , INC. President stated "CMS IntelliCAD 10 release represents another major milestone in IntelliCAD development and resoluteness to provide one of the best, and most compatible, CAD software development platform in the world. CMS IntelliCAD 10 becomes available to end users throughout a variety of licencing models, including perpetual standalone seats, network, subscription and OEMs, and granting them access to updated technologies and features built in to CMS IntelliCAD. For the first time ever, the most updated and new version CMS IntelliCAD is primarily available throughout our software streaming technology running locally at any Windows 64-bit end user system. Sign-in, download, and run ; simple as that."

CMS IntelliCAD 10.0 PE Easy Run is available at https://run.intellicadms.com  Additional information about CMS IntelliCAD PE Easy Run can be found at https://us.intellicadms.com

New QuoteCAD Manufacturing 4.1 released

July 31, 2019 – Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. announces the release of new CMS QuoteCAD® Manufacturing 4.1 software.

QuoteCAD Manufacturing 4.1 is a new release that includes major new features and improvements to the previous QuoteCAD Manufacturing 4.0 beta release. Administration tools to backup and restore the QuoteCAD database were added. It also includes a new licensing method that allows users to automatically transfer an activated license either by uninstalling the software or by using the license transfer tool available at the QuoteCAD user interface.

Starting from this 4.1 version, QuoteCAD Manufacturing software provides an extensive set of methods of communication between various of its software components allowing third party developers to extend the Microsoft® .Net based QuoteCAD® Manufacturing software functionalities. Published documentation can be found at our e-book, “Develop QuoteCAD Manufacturing Plugins”, as source for the full QuoteCAD Manufacturing API usage. Such e-book is freely available under an Amazon KindleUnlimited account but can also be purchased on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0785834VY

To open *.dwg, *.dxf, *.dwf and *.dae CAD files associated to products, parts or services, we provide now ETOOLBOX® CAD Viewer for Windows desktops, separately both as standalone installer and application streaming. Know more about it at https://etoolbox.com

Currently, QuoteCAD Manufacturing 4.1 has been released as final version that can run for 15 days in trial mode: Free download available at https://quotecad.com/download/

Which is the best CAD Software?

This is a very subjective question because it depends primarily on the business activity, on the needs, their value to the user and the cost to get such needs fulfilled.
Generically, it’s possible to find 2d or/and 3d cad software available in the market. They can be associative-parametric driven or non parametric cad software, direct, indirect or "hybrid" modeling.
Additionally, we already observe CAD software packages including automatic organic modeling resulting from design optimization technology. This is also called "generative design" that, due to the impracticability of the organic shapes being supported by conventional manufacturing processes at a reasonable price, has started to find its place with the development of 3D printing methodologies.

It’s not uncommon to see users running a whistles and bells CAD program and spend a huge amount of time in 3D modeling that will probably never re-used/edit and after all that wait hours to get the related 2D drawings or, even worse, getting a software crash at the end. Regrettably for all, there's no bug CAD free software anywhere and even the most expensive packages suffer from something the market ended up accepting.

But at the end of the day, users still end up requiring drawings based on 2D representation standards simply because an universal understandable common design language is required. Interoperability is an increasingly requirement for users and software vendors are keen to control it in order to protect their own markets. Forces are in opposite directions. Software vendors won't decide if this will change in the future not, users will.

So the correct answer should be none is the best cad software. But at the same time, they all are.

New ETOOLBOX Free CAD Viewer for Microsoft Windows now available

February 9, 2018 - Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. announces the release of the new ETOOLBOX^® Compatible CAD Viewer for Windows operating systems, now also available as free standalone version.
ETOOLBOX^® Free CAD Viewer will allow users the option to view *.dwg, *.dxf or *.dwf cad files.

Installer files are available at https://www.intellicadms.com/download

Get free ETOOLBOX^® CAD Viewer licenses at https://www.intellicadms.com/store/standalone

Know more about ETOOLBOX^® CAD Viewer at https://etoolbox.com

New CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 PE Cloud CAD Software Now Available

June 5, 2017 - Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. (AKA CMS) announces the release of the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 Premium 2D & 3D Compatible CAD Software now also provided through Cloud Application Streaming.

Following up the major release of the CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 as perpetual standalone version, CMS releases now this version also available through Application Streaming.

The v8.3 release includes new support for the following: packaging drawings and their related files using the eTransmit command, adding gradient patterns to closed entities, improved ease-of-use for hatch patterns, creating filters for selecting entities, searching for files by clicking Tools > Find when using the Open command, easier access to saving workspaces, and much more...

CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 Premium Edition Cloud has been released as 64-bit maintained subscription floating seat.

Free Trial available at http://uscloud.intellicadms.com

Username: demo
Password: demo

 

 

New CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 2D & 3D Compatible CAD Software

May 05, 2017 - Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. announces the release of the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 Premium 2D & 3D Compatible CAD Software.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 is a major release that includes new support for the following: packaging drawings and their related files using the eTransmit command, adding gradient patterns to closed entities, improved ease-of-use for hatch patterns, creating filters for selecting entities, searching for files by clicking Tools > Find when using the Open command, easier access to saving workspaces, and more...

Also included are enhancements to the new in-place multiline text editor that was released last year, including paragraph alignment, symbols, alt-codes, stacked text, numbered lists, and unnumbered lists

Major performance improvements to window selection, snapping, cursor movement, and muti-threaded drawing. In addition, a complete refactoring of PDF snapping improved performance to be hundreds of times faster than previous releases. Additional performance improvements for drawing new entities on top of large drawings.

Additionally, it includes 900+ improvements on existing features.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.3 Premium Edition has been released as Perpetual Standalone 64-Bit version.

Free Trial available at https://intellicadms.com

The Premium CLOUD version, provided through application streaming for 64-bit systems, will be available soon.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 PE Compatible CAD Software - Now available

September 29, 2016 - Burleson, Texas, USA.  CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. announces the release of the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium CAD software.

The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) recently announced the release of IntelliCAD 8.2 CAD engine. CMS releases now the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition. 
Standalone trials are already available at the downloads section of https://intellicadms.com . CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition CLOUD version is also available through application streaming for 64-bit systems at http://us.intellicadms.com . 

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition CLOUD runs locally at end user systems as typical standalone versions do. 

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition  is a major release that includes new support for exporting 3D .pdf files; more options added to existing features that export 2D .pdf files, export .bmp files, and attach underlays; new in-place multiline text editor; new support for maximizing and minimizing viewports; and various other new commands such as BCOUNT, IMAGEFRAMEMODE, FIELD, and TEXTTOFRONT. CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 also includes improved performance when working with complex blocks, panning and zooming, exporting to .pdf files, and more.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition is available with the ability to open and edit .dgn files in the native DGN format and can be saved as .dwg format.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 Premium Edition also includes integration with an additional Advanced Rendering add-on, Artisan Render for IntelliCAD,  to create photo-realistic images of models quickly using a wide range of pre-set materials and lighting setups combined with the ability to create custom lights and realistic materials.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 now includes ribbon panel expanders, ribbon versioning support, and the ability to customize the ribbon using the CUSTOMIZE command.

Vitor Neves, ITC Chairman and President of CAD Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. (CMS), an ITC  member, stated, "IntelliCAD 8.2 represents one giant leap on CAD software performance , CAD compatibility and Productivity. Plus, CMS is providing additional advanced and very useful features at the best price that users can get in the market."

Users that have purchased a CMS IntelliCAD license after July 1, 2016 will receive a free upgrade to the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.2 version. Users under a support pack subscription with maintenance are ALREADY able to run the new CMS IntelliCAD v8.2 Premium Edition from http://uscloud.intellicadms.com.

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CMS IntelliCAD 8.1 PE DWG file compatible cad software subscription

February 7, 2016 - Burleson, Texas, USA. CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS, INC. (AKA CMS) announces the release of the new CMS IntelliCAD 8.1 Premium CAD software now also streaming from the Internet.

CMS IntelliCAD 8.1 PE CLOUD cad software is licensed on a subscription basis, running locally at end user machines as a standalone application - NO file UPLOADS, not running on Internet Browsers, keeping users work files PRIVATE and always available.

Typically, running a CAD software inside a browser still present some difficulties. Manly they are related internet connection performance and reliability, file security and availability. Vitor Neves, CMS, Inc. President, stated "We do not believe in pushing professional CAD users to run a cad application web service and at the same time forcing them to have their CAD work hosted on servers they do not control."

CMS IntelliCAD 8.1 PE CLOUD CAD software subscription service streams and runs the software at ANY end user Windows machine, locally. End user CAD files can be created, edited and saved locally as they have always been. Additionally, CMS IntelliCAD subscription includes a 250MB dedicated disc space allowing file synchronization, sharing and collaboration. Synced user work files will be present at the end user machine even if the machine is off-line.

14 days free cad demo is available at http://uscloud.intellicadms.com . Trial account data - Username: DEMO | account password: DEMO

Users can purchase an 1 year CMS IntelliCAD PE CLOUD Subscrition at https://www.intellicadms.com/store/subscription .