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progeCAD Malaysia at METALTECH, Kuala Lumpur’s greatest annual event in the Manufacturing industry

This year progeCAD Malaysia is excited to meet all CAD users in Kuala Lumpur at MITEC during the days of the Metaltech exhibiton. From May 14th to 17th at Booth 6389, Hall 6 the progeCAD distributor for Malaysia has been presenting progeCAD Professional to its visitors and showcasing the upcoming new version of our software.

METALTECH is Malaysia’s largest and most progressive machine tools, metalworking, and automation technology exhibition. METALTECH is the annual event for the manufacturing industry hosting more than 1,500 providers of metalworking and machine tools technologies from 19 countries and regions as well as group pavilions from China, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.

Malaysian users are most fortunate to be the first to have a sneak preview of the new features of progeCAD 2026 Professional which official release is going to take place only in a few days’ time. The progeCAD team from Malaysia has prepared for all visitors of their Booth a lot of surprises, from special offers to best prices for software licenses. The Metaltech fair is the event full of opportunities definitely not to miss out!

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Manage BIM models in progeCAD

Published on CAD Semplice a blog of Domenico IEVA

BIM models are becoming increasingly common among the files designers exchange in their work.
Not everyone is ready to acquire BIM yet, because either they fail to keep pace with update processes or they are designers whose field of action does not justify the investment in BIM Authoring software. For the latter, CAD products supporting this type of file represent a great asset…

This article will demonstrate us how progeCAD 2021 can handle BIM models also offering tools to generate 2D representations from these models, such as elevations and sections. Viewing the predefined tables and creating ad hoc sections and elevations, designers can easily realize how model geometry is organized.

Furthermore, you can determine which elements to display and which to hide  and that helps you reduce geometry complexity. So let’s see in detail: insertion, predefined views display, the creation of sections and elevations from a BIM model in progeCAD 2021.

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iCADMac Editor’s Pick of the Week on Desktop Engineer

AutoCAD Alternative for Mac OS X

I was at a relative’s house and on a counter was a beautiful, big-screen iMac. The guy’s self-employed, so I asked him if he used it for working from home. “Naaa,” he lamented. “I love it, but the software I need for my business only runs on PCs.” Such has been the complaint of many an engineering Mac maven for years now, but life changes. And the recent announcement of iCADMac from progeCAD serves as another example of the rapid speed of your changing desktop.

Read more… www.deskeng.com/articles/aabacr.htm

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progeCAD at BUDMA in Poland

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.

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iCADMac Released: progeCAD Presents iCADMac®, the First Real AutoCAD® Alternative for the Apple® Mac OS X

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.