ProgeCAD’s Partner in Thailand is participating in the InterMold Thailand 2013 Tradeshow, which is part of Manifacturing Expo 2013, the national largest manufacturing and supporting industries event. The trade exhibition will be held from July 20^th to 23^rd at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Center (BITEC), a highly acclaimed exhibition venue.

The InterMold Tradeshow 2013 is one of the 4 specialized Trade Exhibitions for parts makers of Manifacturing Expo 2013, that also includes 4 co-located shows and 4 featured pavilions in one. It is the 21^st edition of the InterMold Show dedicated to machinery and technology for Mold & Die manufacturing.

The official calendar proposes various activities including a technology forum of the latest trends in the surface treatment and coating. This is an excellent opportunity for auto makers to discover new ways to up product value and sharpen competitive edge. The tradeshow attendees will be able to visit the Robotic Center to watch live demonstration and robot technologies that can enhance auto parts manufacturing processes. Furthermore, the exhibition will hold the Plastic Innovation and Consultancy Centre which will showcase high performance and smart materials from petrochemical research. In addition, the engineering master class 2, which theme is “Hi-tech solutions for mold & die manufacturing”, will involve in practical process all the people interested in productivity improvement.

At this major manufacturing tradeshow ProgeCAD Thai Partner will be presenting the new features of progeCAD 2013, which stability and performance have been significantly improved. In fact, the CAD package is fully compatible with AutoCAD® DWG files from 2.5 to 2013 and with the recent Windows 8 operating system, has become up to 20 times faster and also includes the PDF to DWG converter.

The organisers expect many visitors to attend the tradeshow to discover new machinery, technologies, equipment, tools, auto and industrial parts. All the planned activities and seminaries will surely catch the attention of industry professionals, manufacturers or industrialists that are invited to join the event and also visit ProgeCAD at Stand n°MD03 in the Mold&Die Pavilion.

For more information about ProgeCAD, please visit www.progecad.com , about ProgeCAD Partner in Thailand, please go to http://www.cadinnovative.co.th

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ProgeCAD is pleased to announce a new release of its flagship product: progeCAD 2013 Professional.

After many efforts, the result is a new software package which looks like the best product among the CAD alternatives. The new release allows to open 2013 DWG files and is compatible with Windows 8. These implementations are most advantageous to users that will surely benefit from other updates as well. The software has been renewed with exclusive features and tools capable to tempt any CAD professionals, just to mention a few of them: drawing open and save time improvement, separate hatches and hatch trim, PDF to DWG conversion and new blocks available on iCADLib.

You may wonder if such product exists. “Yes, it does”. Not only does it exist, but also the software has improved by leaps and bounds thanks to the hard work of the development team that made the program richer than its previous versions.

You may wonder what this product is like. Here you are! It is reliable, easy-to-use and low-cost. These qualities are taken into consideration by professionals who care about their work productivity.

It is Reliable because it guarantees the usage of DWG files created with previous versions or with other software without any conversion. The native format of the software is DWG as always and that ensures a full compatibility with AutoCAD® files including recent DWG 2013. Not to forget the full integration with the latest Windows 8 operating system, as well as Windows 7, XP and Vista. Moreover, the software performance is improved and you can test it by yourself opening and saving DWG files. It is up to 20 times faster than before!

It is Easy-to-use because it provides familiar to AutoCAD® users features and tools.

It is Low-cost because its price is extremely reduced compared to competing products. The full list of the progeCAD 2013 Professional features is available on our official youtube channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z0YnIl42rs

progeCAD 2013 Professional is really new, in fact our development team have worked hard on the rewrite of the entire source code to generate a powerful alternative to AutoCAD® software.

But is it really so? The 2013 version includes many characteristics that can easily compete with other CAD products. It also contains the following features:

-   Separate Hatches and Hatch Trim. Creation and editing of separate  hatches.
-   PC3 Print Support. PC3 files enable you to easily configure a plotter and save the settings for later uses.
-   Spline Editing. Delete, add, move fit points of a spline; open or close a spline; edit the spline start and end tangents.
-   Multigrip Editing. Modify, move, rotate, scale, stretch  a single or multiple objects using multiple Grips.
-   Snap Extension. Snap to some point along the imaginary extension of a line, arc or polyline segment.
-   Traceparts and Cadenas for progeCAD.  iCADLib integrates the progeCAD Traceparts  and progeCAD Cadenas web portal.
-   New Dimension Options and Features. Quick, Jogged and Inspection Dimension, Arc Lenght.
-   Multiline Command. It allows to draw multiple parallel lines in a single command.
-   New Print Interface. The AutoCAD®-like style print dialog with Page Setup Manager.
-   PDF, DWF and DGN Underlay. PDF files can be attached as an underlay to a drawing file and used as a background for your drawings.
-   DGN Import. It allows to open Microstation files.
-   FlatShot. The command converts 3D solids to a 3-view 2D drawing.
-   AEC objects visualization. Graphical entities created with Architectural Desktop can be visualized inside a DWG drawing.
-  Helix Command. It allows to draw a 3D polyline in the form of a helix.
-  Loft Command extrudes several shapes and makes one continuous object.
-   STL and Collada (DAE) Export. These file formats are supported by many software packages.

We invite you to watch our official video about the new characteristics at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jG9c6x9Ir0

The PDF to DWG file converter is only one of the other exclusive features of progeCAD 2013 Professional and it responds to client needs. This tool allows you to import an existing PDF, convert it to DWG, open/edit it as if it were any other CAD drawing.

The unprecedented advantage is that users will save much time by retrieving drawings from catalogs or brochures and editing them without their original files. The software also includes a renewed version of EasyArch, the 2D architectural plugin, that increases productivity in creating floor plans and furniture layouts. The user will appreciate being able to draw a door or all other architectural elements of a floorplan by directly inserting a dynamic element selected from those available, with the possibility to vary all the parameters. EasyArch now supports Metric and Imperial measurement systems.

The iCADLib libraries have become a feather in progeCAD’s cap being beefed up with more than thousands of new blocks in the 2013 version. The libraries are now integrated with the TraceParts and Cadenas portals, where you can access millions of blocks. There, customers can easily download and insert producer standard parts and normalized symbols in their drawings.

Another significant feature of the software package is the integration with Google Earth to import georeferenced data and images and to publish 3D CAD models in Google Earth. Last, but not least, is the raster-to-vector tool provided to upload images that are then converted into drawings.
There is a special page dedicated to the technical aspects of the software at www.progesoft.com/en/products/progecad-professional/

We invite you to follow us on our official website: www.progecad.com For all those interested a free 30-day trial version of progeCAD 2013 Professional is available on www.progesoft.com/en/ while those who want to leave comments or suggestion, they may do so on ProgeCAD’s official facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/progeSOFT-progeCAD/136313050820

On April 18-20, 2013, thousands of the Philippines’s leading architects and design professionals will meet for the 39^th UAP National Convention and CONEX 2013 at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. It is the Philippines’ largest building and construction Expo and ProgeCAD Philippines is participating in it unveiling the new release of progeCAD 2013 Professional.

“One Vision, One Direction, One UAP” is the official theme of the event, whereby the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) aims at highlighting the idea of a sustainable city in its Annual National tradeshow.

Architects will play a decisive role in this evolution by implementing the necessary changes to create more sustainable cities and offer better living conditions, the determining factors for personal development and well-being. This occasion represents the ideal platform for architects, designers, UIA Member Sections to demonstrate their role in developing the cities of the future.​

ProgeCAD Philippines is joining this exciting event for the first time with the slogan “One Vision, One Direction, One UAP” to present its cost effective solutions for a sustainable professional practice.

The official calendar of CONEX 2013 proposes many seminars, film shows and presentations during three days of the event. The organisers expect many visitors to attend the tradeshow, even more than last year. In fact, Conex attendees will be able to acquaint themselves with a vast range of products, materials, technologies and services. CONEX 2013 is designed to be an incubator of inspiration and a place to share critical information.

Architects, designers, planners and other Architectural industry professionals are welcomed to join the event starting next Thursday. The ProgeCAD team would like to invite all those who have to deal with DWG drawing files and who will happen to be around Pasay City in this period to come and visit the progeCAD stand P131 at SMX Convention Center. Nice and exciting surprises will be awaiting you.

For more information about the progeCAD software, please visit our websites www.progecad.com and  www.progecad.ph. To get in touch with the ProgeCAD office in the Philippines, please find their contact details at  www.progecad.ph/index.php/contact. We will be keeping you updated on future initiatives!

Our ProgeCAD Philippine partner has participated in this prominent event promoting our software together with “green topics”. For three days last week Cebu City hosted the PIA Convention and around 500 architects visited the city on this occasion.
The meeting theme was “Touching Earth Touching lives” and it focused on ecological and social awareness in design. The Philippine Institute of Architects, the event organiser, grabbed this opportunity to spread the “green culture” to the participants. The convention has become a success thanks to the presence of three notable speakers: Kazuko Sejima, Kundoldibya Panitchpakdi and Doosdee Thaitakoo. They contributed to the event expressing their ideas on “Architecture is environment”, “Sustainable Housing in the Time of Climate Change”  and “Balancing Conservation and Development in Historic Town Centers”. The convention could not certainly overlook the environmental issues the Philippines have been facing, there were a few lectures about sustainable houses and way of balancing conservation on historical places.
Dennis Mayo, director at the Architechy, was full of enthusiasm sharing his impression about the event: “The attendees were very warm and impressed with the progeCAD software”. He also presented our software in one of the main assembly organised by PIA.ProgeCAD is always sensible to friendly environmental topics and the 80^th Philippine Institute of Architects National Convention was the best occasion to increase its green attitude.

Soon our Philippine Distributor will be taking part in another exciting event, the UAP CONEX 2013 tradeshow taking place on the 18-20 April 2013, we will keep you updated on further initiatives!

The ProgeCAD team recommends to all his followers the participation in an interesting event:  the 80th National Annual Convention. It will take place in Cebu City from the next 21st to 24th of February and it is organised by the Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) and supported by our ProgeCAD Philippines partner.
“Touching Earth, touching Lives” is the main theme of the meeting, it will focus on ecological and social awareness in design. The Philippine Institute of Architects takes always care of environmentally friendly topics showing its green advocacy as well as ProgeCAD.
Architect Dioscoro Alesna Jr, event co-chairman for plans and programs, states: “The theme mainly covers on how architecture literally affects the earth, the way in which a building “sits” in its environment and its visual impact in the cityscape and how we, as architects, touch people’s lives with our designs”. His sentence sums up the peculiar aspects of the forthcoming convention. It is very actual especially now after the recent natural disasters occurred in the Philippines, where new design solutions were developed, for example: emergency housing and refugee camp using paper-tube walls or paper poles used also in Japan and Africa.
In fact, the Philippine Institute of Architects sees the convention as a way where architects can discuss and plan new developments in case of calamities. The three days meeting is inspired by well-renowned architects in the global industry and was driven to address the environmental issues facing the Philippines. The 80th national annual convention is also a way to involve new followers to the green movement promoting a change in culture and attitude of people.
The official calendar evinces the presence of the notable speakers: Kazuko Sejima, Kundoldibya Panitchpakdi and Doosdee Thaitakoo. Unfortunately Shigeru Ban is unable to be part of the event as advertised in the last period. The first contribution is “Architecture is environment” by Kazuko Sejima. She won the prestigious Pritzker prize together with Ryue Nishizawa. The second contribution is “Sustainable Housing in the Time of Climate Change” by Kundoldibya Panitchpakdi and the third one is “Balancing Conservation and Development in Historic Town Centers” by DosadeeThaitakoo, both architects from Thailand. Then there will be lectures about sustainable houses and way of balancing conservation on historical places. All this will be accurately supervised by ProgeCAD that always supports these environmentally friendly causes.
Architects and representatives of non-architect companies are welcomed to join the event starting from Thursday and we invite you to do the same! For more information about ProgeCAD, visit our website www.progecad.com and about our Philippine partner, click here http://progecad.ph/index.php/contact

Designers, drafters, engineers, architects and other professionals using CAD in a specific industry will be able now to speed up the drawing process thanks to the millions of ready-to-use blocks placed at their disposal and ready to improve and facilitate the time-consuming routine work of drafting from scratch.

Moreover, the company has heeded another customers’ request, this time concerning the ALE Blocks Manager. Instead of an awkward and difficult to handle ALE Manager, a new completely different iCADLib Module for blocks management is introduced in the new version. The iCADLib Module enables intuitive and seamless work when creating, saving and inserting blocks in your drawings. The new Blocks Manager contains over 20.000 2D/3D ready-to- use blocks for various industries such as Construction, Architectural, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and others.

The new progeCAD 2011 version offers a plug-in for architects, Easy-Arch, an automated building tool implemented in the software to increase productivity in architectural and interior design and renovation. The Easy-Arch tool is designed to facilitate architectural and interior design providing parametric elements to quickly and easily create such building elements as walls, roofs, openings, stairs and many other functionalities.

Finally, another enhancement designed to beef up the productivity of a CAD professional is the integration of the Traceparts content library in progeCAD 2011 Professional. This feature will become particularly interesting and useful for a Mechanical Designer and Engineer. However, there can be also found electric, electronic, agricultural, furniture and many other parts to satisfy professional needs of CAD professionals from a wide range of sectors. The Traceparts portal is one of the biggest parts libraries in the world offering over 100 million 2D and 3D CAD models. Now the new progeCAD 2011 Professional version provides personalized and exclusive access to the Traceparts library with unlimited and free download of any elements from the catalogues as well as different parts complying with the following international standards: ANSI, ASME, BS, JIS, DIN, ISO and UNI. The downloaded components are seamlessly integrated in the blocks libraries and can be easily and quickly inserted in all your drawings like all the other iCADLib blocks.

One of the progeCAD’s most important innovation introduced with version 2011 is certainly the the iCARE Subscription services. The new iCARE Subscription maintenance and support program offers a variety of benefits to help customers get the most out of their progeCAD® software. It enables the Customer to cut down upgrades costs (they’ll receive the next progeCAD version at no charge, for instance) and receive comprehensive technical assistance via the web with the new help desk service through ticket, email, live chat and remote support.

“In the new version of progeCAD we’ve focused our efforts on meeting the needs of the CAD professionals who come from various industries but use mainly the generic CAD platform in their projects. We are striving to make our CAD platform more flexible and intuitive for each professional who uses our CAD package. However, we’re still committed to our principal goal that is to comply with the market leader, adding at least a little touch of the AutoCAD-like look and feel and compatibility to our product.” commented Damiano Croci, progeCAD’s CEO.

Current progeCAD users are reminded that they can upgrade to the latest version at a significant discount to the already-low price of the full version. progeCAD 2011 Professional proposes very flexible licensing: Single licenses with the possibility of an additional installation, Network NLM licenses with a Take-Away technology for remote work and Corporate licenses with unlimited installations at an unrivalled price.

The new version is available for immediate download at:
www.progesoft.com/en/downloads

YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/user/progesoft?feature=mhee

SoliCAD, ProgeCAD distributor for Poland and the Czech Republic, presented progeCAD at the BUDMA International Construction Fair held 11-14 January, 2011, Poznan, Poland.

progeCAD software was warmly met by visitors of the twentieth jubilee edition of the construction fair, which main theme this year became Sustainable Construction – Investment in the Future.

progeCAD, an economic 2D/3D DWG/DXF CAD, couldn’t help but best meeting all requirements of the tradeshow slogan and all needs of professionals in the construction sector accustomed to work with the industry standard.

Many visitors at the progeCAD stand showed their vivid interest in the product addressing a lot of questions to ProgeCAD Polish partners.

“We are glad for this opportunity to present progeCAD at this splendid tradeshow. We talked with many visitors at the stand of progeCAD and we gained a lot of new ideas through this dialogue with the end user. We believe our communication became valuable for the visitors too, who learned about the new product and received all the basic information on it. More information in Polish and a trial of the Polish version can be found on our web site www.progecad.pl as well as the Czech trial version at http://www.solicad.com/progecad “, commented Jiri Brozek, SoliCAD director.

progeCAD today announces the release of iCADMac®, the first real AutoCAD alternative for the Mac world. Being compatible with all Apple Macs based on Intel (Apple® Mac® Pro MacBook® Pro; iMac®; Mac® mini; MacBook Air®; MacBook®), it represents the ideal solution for those who have been resolute in their decision to fully abandon the PC world but has been kept back till now by the necessity to work with DWG files.

Como (Italy), January 19, 2011 After more than 10 years of success on the Windows® platform with progeCAD Professional, a DWG-native CAD that brought a drastic change in the way of looking at CAD software investments, progeCAD now introduces its iCADMac, a 2D/3D DWG-native CAD for MAC compatible with AutoCAD® versions 2.5 – 2011.

In addition to basic features and commands for creation and editing of drawings, iCADMac offers gradient hatches, property bar, PDF import/export with layer support, polygonal Viewports and many others.

With a standard interface familiar to all AutoCAD® or progeCAD® users, there is almost no learning curve to get started with the iCADMac software.

iCADMac DWG drawings can be exported to iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®

Architects, engineers and designers often find it convenient to save, archive or distribute their drawing files in the PDF format thanks to its small dimensions and reliability alongside with its numerous functions ensuring an accurate and precise visualization of produced drawing files.

With the PDF format recent enhancement, a PDF can preserve now layers in the converted document when an original drawing file contains layers in its structure.

iCADMac allows to import, convert in DWG, and print drawings in the multilayer PDF format.

“iCADMac is a product that has been expected by millions of MAC users all over the world“, says Damiano Croci, Sales Director, “Till this moment it has been just a dream to manage all stages of design without leaving the MAC environment.”

The trial version (a 30-day trial without any limits in functionality) is available on the website http://www.icadmac.com

progeCAD is a software house with 20 years of experience in development and distribution of CAD (Computer Aided Design) software.

See the pictures of Discovery Channel Telescope designed with progeCAD

Como, Italy 11/22/2010, from the collaboration between Lowell Observatory, the largest private, non-profit astronomical research institution in the United States, and Discovery Communications Inc. is accomplished the $44 Million Discovery Channel Research Telescope designed with progeCAD.

The DCT is a 14 ft research class telescope situated at an elevation of 7,800 feet atop an ancient cinder cone approximately 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona at a site called Happy Jack. It will significantly advance Lowell’s capabilities in astronomical research and just important, the partnership with Discovery Communications, whose current operations include 29 global networks in over 180 countries, will bring the fascinating world of astronomical science and education to more than 1.6 billion people every day.
Construction of the DCT began in 2005 with completion and early science operations expected in 2012.
At this phase of the project, DCT engineers, technicians, and contractors are engaged in detailed design work that demands the use of powerful and reliable CAD software tools.
After evaluating various CAD software options with respect to performance, price, custom features, and technical support, progeCAD 2010 Professional was judged  the best choice.
DCT engineering and technical staff confirms that progeCAD Professional delivers highly reliable and robust performance thus improving the ease and speed of design work.
progeCAD United States, an Authorized Distributor of progeSOFT products, has been working with the observatory since 2005 to deliver continual upgrades ensuring the Discovery Channel Telescope designers had the most current progeCAD technology.
Finally, progeSOFT’s proven commitment to supporting educational institutions such as Lowell Observatory yields additional value and confidence in our choice of progeCAD.
Lowell Observatory expects to continue using progeCAD Professional to support long term operations of the Discovery Channel Telescope. New instrumentation, system modifications, and electro-mechanical improvements are all likely to be developed in part via progeSOFT product solutions.

“We are greatly pleased that such a prestigious institution like Lowell Observatory chose our  software and we are proud to have made our contribution to realization of  this  important project, the Discovery Channel Telescope” announced Damiano Croci, progeCAD sales director “We express our particular appreciation to progeCAD US for support and assistance offered to the Lowell observatory staff in making their choice of technologies to implement.”

progeCAD is a Professional, native DWG 2D/3D CAD, supplied with Applications, Libraries and Services at a remarkably low cost.  progeCAD enterprise, executive and founding member of the IntelliCAD® Technology Consortium has been developing CAD software for over 23 years.

Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world’s number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 180 countries.

Lowell Observatory, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest observatories in the United States. It hosts 70,000 visitors per year and operates several important astronomical researches. Lowell Observatory’s astronomers conduct research on a wide range of solar system and astrophysical topics. In addition they design and build custom instrumentation for use on Lowell’s telescopes, such as Discovery Channel Telescope in partnership with Discovery Communications Inc.

Como, CO, Italy 25 October 2010 – progeCAD announce the release of progeCAD 2010 Professional DWG CAD software French version. progeCAD 2010 Professional FRA offers direct read/write compatibility with DWG 2010 drawings, faster operation, and an even more“AutoCAD Like” and usability thanks the localized interface in French language.

Architects, engineers, designers and drafters using AutoCAD, Auto CAD LT, or IntelliCAD will be impressed with progeCAD 2010’s overall unique performance for price combination. Unlike most AutoCAD compatible CAD programs, progeCAD 2010 Professional goes far beyond mere DWG file compatibility with dozens of extra features like gradient hatch patterns controlled with a new “AutoCAD Like” hatch dialog, a new complete properties bar, and DWG drawing save time improvement of up to 10 times the previous speeds. Nevertheless, progeCAD’s most inviting feature continues to be its incredibly low price compared to AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.

More and more engineering and architectural drawings are being saved, archived and distributed on the Adobe PDF format due to its small size, portable secure nature, and free tools available to display with great accuracy the files produced. In recent years the format has been improved with the addition of support for layers within the files produced. ProgeCAD has in the past been able to not only print to PDF, but has the unique ability to import PDF files and convert those files to drawings fully editable from within progeCAD Professional. progeCAD 2010 has improved support for the more recent enhancements of Adobe PDF providing the ability to import, convert, and print to the multilayer PDF format. A designer can receive a PDF from a collaborating partner on a project and is able to import the drawing to progeCAD for editing and additions.

progeCAD 2009 sports powerful interface updates like right-mouse click context menus, improved speed and reliability. AutoCAD LT users should be especially interested in true ACIS 3D modeling, AutoLISP, VBA, and SDS (C++) program extensions – features not supported by AutoCAD LT. The release of progeCAD 2010 Professional will bring the addition of the ability to profile solid models allowing you to display 2d representations of your 3d models.

The Network version of progeCAD 2010 Professional features a new network license manager (NLM) which allows users to check out their licenses and take them with them keeping the software available to them until they return and release the license back to the NLM. This allows users to travel to and from work sites without losing the function of their network licenses while on the trip.
Corporate Licenses allow unlimited software installation under the company name: the definitive solution for medium/large size companies now able to cover all users with a very small fraction of the cost required with other CAD solutions.

progeCAD’s compatibility with DWG 2011 and earlier drawings, easy-to-use, no learning curve, “AutoCAD Like” user interface, and wealth of features make progeCAD 2010 Professional a truly “professional” platform that is still unbelievably retail price. The release of progeCAD 2010 Professional comes at a time when just such an affordable, yet robust AutoCAD-compatible drawing program is really needed.

More info at:
http://www.progesoft.com/?lang=fre

About progeCAD:
progeCAD, executive and founding member of the IntelliCAD® Technology Consortium. has been developing CAD software for over 23 years. They can be contacted via their website at http://www.progesoft.com/