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ProgeCAD and InterMold Thailand 2013

InterMold Thailand 2013ProgeCAD’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 20th to 23rd 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 21st 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

We invite you to follow our blog to be updated on future initiatives!

 

 

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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!