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progeCAD 2013 Professional: big steps forward with the new alternative CAD version

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

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39th UAP National Convention and CONEX 2013 in Pasay City

On April 18-20, 2013, thousands of the Philippines’s leading architects and design professionals will meet for the 39th 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!

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Great success for the 80th Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) National Convention

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 80th 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!

 

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progeCAD 2011 Professional, the New Version of the Well Known 2D/3D AutoCAD Alternative

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/channel/UCmEeoUH_yYfAu_X-riaEjIQ

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progeCAD 2007 Now Compatible With Microsoft® Windows Vista™

Como, Italy, 
February 25, 2007 – progeSOFT
announced today compatibility throughout the progeCAD software line with the
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system!

The progeCAD Software line,
including progeCAD 2007 Professional, progeCAD 2007 Standard, and the progeCAD
2007 Viewer DWG, can now be utilized on the latest operating systems from
Microsoft Corporation while still maintaining compatibility with older versions.