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iCADMac is a complete DWG-native CAD with a wide range of tools for 2D drawing and 3D modelling, offering a familiar interface and full compatibility with the most widespread design format in the world.
iCADMac, a 2D/3D CAD for macOS with DWG and DXF native file formats, is powerful, reliable, complete, easy-to-use and affordable software.
The iCADMac license fee is moderate comparing with competitors' product prices. This makes the software an ideal choice for those who want to optimize costs of design, revision and creation of technical documentation without renouncing to their Mac computer and to quality of the CAD standard.
iCADMac stands out for being compatible with the AutoCAD® DWG file format and for having a
familiar AutoCAD®-like User interface.
iCADMac is intuitive to users familiar with AutoCAD® and allows them to start working with
their DWG drawings without any file conversion or training.
Compatible with macOS from Monterey to Sonoma
High compatibility with the DWG drawing file format, from Version 2.5 up to the most recent AutoCAD® 2024
- PDF file conversion into DWG with Layer supported
- Export your drawings in the PDF format. Supports grayscale output,
PDF layer, TrueType font embedding, and document properties.
Share content among drawings
Trims multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity. Extends or trims two entities where they intersect at a virtual corner. PowerTrim works also on Hatches and Gradients.
Display and create Gradient Hatches.
Creates an area hatch using an image, a block, an external reference or a wipeout.
Display and create tables.
Display, create and edit DWG drawings with images, photos and raster images.
The Sheet Set Manager palette creates, organizes and manages drawing sheets within a drawing sheet set.
Parametric drawing is a technology for designing with constraints, which are restrictions and associations bind to 2D entities.
iCADMac supports Custom Block, smarts blocks similar to Dynamic Blocks.
Custom Blocks support parametric size and shape and special grips and
actions such as Move, Scale, Stretch, Rotate, Pattern, or Mirror. You may,
for example, create a custom block whose size can be dynamically adjusted
with a grip you can stretch, allow switching between different types of the
same block. You can also create custom blocks with different states having
elements that are hidden or shown. This allows, for example, to use only one
block to show different options.
One custom block may replace tens of the blocks you currently use and would
therefore significantly increase your productivity.
Link Table Data with Excel
The content of your tables can be linked with spreadsheets to update each
other
You can create tables in iCADMac — however, it’s more convenient and
flexible to use spreadsheet editors for filling in and managing the data.
And sometimes you may receive a completed spreadsheet that you need to
include in a drawing, but retyping or copying and pasting it is a tedious
task. In both these scenarios, this new feature can save time and
effort.
Now you can take all the data you have already entered in Microsoft Excel
spreadsheets and reuse it in a table created in iCADMac. You can link to an
entire spreadsheet, a predefined cell range, or a cell range in Excel.
Tool palettes provide you with a combined method of accessing tools. Tool
palettes provide the best of both worlds, Ribbon or Toolbars. Tool palettes
can consist of blocks, hatch patterns, commands or Macro and Lisp function.
iCADMac have many default tool palette and categories that can be expanded
or customized, allowing you to create one for your own needs. You can dock
the tool palettes or have them float within your workspace or even another
monitor.
Import/Export collections of customized tools and data previously created
with AutoCAD® to ensure a smooth
migration of your users to ICADMAC.
A tool palette combining ready to use blocks and preconfigured entities: not
just a polyline but a polyline with a specific color and layer to represent
a particular type of wall.
Preconfigure any type of entity: in this case, the line will be
automatically assigned to a specific layer: “A_ Wall”. Other parameters can
be predefined, such as colors, lineweight, or linetype.
Move among views quickly
When using the new View Navigator tool in the 3D environment, you can switch between
standard views and isometric views of the model with a single click. The View
Navigator intuitive interface acts as a 3D orientation indicator enabling you to see
the current view direction. The View Navigator is a very helpful feature while
working in the 3D environment as you can easily switch between parallel and
perspective views. You can use it in 2D as well.
Link Table Data with Excel
The content of your tables can be linked with spreadsheets to update each other. You
can create tables in iCADMac — however, it’s more convenient and flexible to use
spreadsheet editors for filling in and managing the data. Sometimes you may receive
a completed spreadsheet that you need to include in a drawing, but retyping or
copying and pasting it is a tedious task. In both these scenarios, this new feature
can save time and effort. Now you can take all the data you have already entered in
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and reuse it in a table created in iCADMac. You can
link to an entire spreadsheet, a predefined cell range, or a cell range in Excel.
Tool palettes provide you with a combined method of accessing tools. Tool palettes
provide the best of both worlds, Ribbon or Toolbars. Tool palettes can consist of
blocks, hatch patterns, commands or Macro and Lisp function. iCADMac has many
default tool palettes and categories that can be expanded or customized allowing you
to create one for your own needs. You can dock the tool palettes or have them float
within your workspace or even another monitor.
Import/Export collections of customized tools and data previously created with
AutoCAD® to ensure a smooth
migration of your users to iCADMac.
A tool palette combining ready-to-use blocks and preconfigured entities: not just a
polyline but a polyline with a specific color and a layer to represent a particular
type of wall.
Preconfigure any type of entity: in this case, the line will be automatically
assigned to a specific layer: “A_ Wall”. Other parameters that can be predefined are
colors, lineweight or linetype.
Having the right tools available when you work on your drawings helps you work efficiently. Cycling selection is a time-saving solution when working with crowded drawings that include stacked and overlapped entities. When you hover the mouse cursor over stacked entities a small icon makes you aware that there is more than one entity. Clicking to specify entities displays a dialog box in which you can select the entity you want to modify.
AutoCAD® like interface with easy configuration of plot parameters and with PDF, JPG, PNG and SVG print with native virtual driver.
The new Custom Block Editor helps you create smarter blocks.
The Custom Block Editor is launched with the command EditCustomBlock or after a
double-click on a block. You can use it to modify any block reference and also make
them parametric in size and shape. The contextual ribbon includes features to
combine special grips and actions such as Move, Scale, Stretch, Rotate, Pattern or
Mirror. You may, for example, create a custom block which size can be dynamically
adjusted with a grip that you can stretch.
The switch between different types of the same block. You can also create custom
blocks with different states having elements that are hidden or shown. This allows,
for example, to use only one block to show different options.
One Custom Block can replace many blocks. Combining multiple of these grips and
actions allows you to create much smarter blocks. One custom block may replace tens
of the blocks you currently use and would therefore significantly increase your
productivity.
Convert dynamic blocks into custom blocks
You can use dynamic blocks created with AutoCAD® as they are. They will
keep their intelligence and parameters in iCADMac. But now you may alternatively use
the CBCONVERT command to convert them into custom blocks which definition can be
further modified with iCADMac.
Test mode in the Block Editor
The Block Editor includes now a “Test Block” feature (Command CBTESTBLOCK) to try
your custom block definition without exiting the Block Editor.
Define multiple base points
Traditional blocks have only one base point. Now custom blocks enable you to define
more base points to choose from during insertion. By pressing the Ctrl key you could
cycle between them which significantly helps to position and align the block without
any further actions.
Distance multiplier and angle offset
You could define a value as an increment to eventually limit how an entity would
vary in size and avoid, for example, configurations that cannot exist or be
produced.
You can also define the distance multiplier to let you alternatively specify a
factor by which a distance value of the custom block is increased or decreased (for
example, double the size after each increment).
The angle offset works the same but with angles. You may, for example, define that
entities could only rotate with angle increments of 60°.
Dynamic Blocks vs. Custom Blocks
-Using AUTOCAD Dymamic Blocks in iCADMac
iCADMac reads and uses AutoCAD dynamic blocks just like AutoCAD®
does. When someone shares with you dynamic blocks created in AutoCAD®,
they can be used inside iCADMac with the same set of interactivity functions,
including modifying their shape, size, and configuration. After making interactivity
changes to them and saving the drawing with iCADMac, the blocks are still seen as
dynamic blocks back in AutoCAD®. When, however, you want
to edit an AutoCAD® dynamic block with iCADMac
Block Editor, it will be converted to Custom Block.
-Using iCADMac Custom Blocks in other CAD Programs
Custom blocks created with iCADMac can be read by other CAD programs, such as
AutoCAD®, but only as simple
blocks. When one of iCADMac custom blocks is modified in another program, it loses
the interactivity that was specified with iCADMac. Fortunately, you can modify all
the rest of the drawing with another program without breaking the interactivity of
custom blocks as long as you don’t touch the custom blocks. When you want to edit an
iCADMac custom block with the AutoCAD Block Editor, it is required to redefine grips
and actions from scratch.
Flatten
The new FLATTEN command is introduced to convert 3D entities into a 2D
projection.
It is also useful to solve issues with entities which elevation is not properly set.
Flatshot
The MAKEFLATSNAPSHOT command already existed in iCADMac before this version. Yet now
the command features some enhanced options to better represent hidden lines:
-“Foreground Lines” to specify the color and the line style for the foreground
lines
-“Hidden lines”, the hidden lines which can be displayed by selecting “Show” can now
have their color and line style modified
-“Show tangent edges” , this option displays tangent edges in the flat
representation.
The well-known ribbon user interface (UI).
Now also in iCADMac you can benefit from the contextual ribbons accessing tools
without hidden levels and easily memorizing commands with icons.
Contextual Ribbon Tabs
Quickly modify hatches, dimensions, xrefs, images, and more.
The iCADMac user interface is now enhanced with contextual ribbons that are
displayed when you select specific entities in the graphics area, or when you use
certain commands for creating new entities.
New upgrade of the core DWG technology of iCADMac enables significant improvements
on a number of operations in this version. Zoom, Selection, Copy and Paste, and
Undo.
Selection can be 50% faster than in previous versions, Copy and Paste are 25%
faster, and Undo can in some cases be 8x faster. The performance tests done by the
iCADMac team for the 2024 release included a set of sample drawings from different
industries for better in-depth evaluation and the aforementioned performance
improvements indicate an average time registered when performing some critical and
common operations on these different drawings.
This new LISP Editor is a Visual Studio Code extension that enables you to easily edit and debug your code.
Many users and companies have customizations in LISP. The language doesn’t require many resources or tools to run, and a lot of useful code snippets can be found on the Internet, so LISP is a very common way to automate or customize DWG editor applications.
Debugging LISP programs, however, can sometimes be challenging. With this in mind, the new release of iCADMac provides a Visual Studio Code extension that allows any LISP developer to edit and debug routines properly — and save time doing so.
Share Sheet Sets with eTransmit - Automatically gather everything
together for your collaborators.
The Pack and Go (eTransmit) feature has been improved to be used with sheet sets. It
makes it easy for you to package into a zip file all sheet set references such as
all the drawings of your project, but also the images or underlays inserted in them.
Additionally, the directory structure is maintained with relative paths ensuring
that no link will be broken when your contact unzips the project.
Sheet List Table - Reduce redundant work by filling in tables
automatically.
Located in the Sheet Set Manager right-click menu, this functionality provides a way
to create a table inside the drawing listing all the sheets or subsets.
Consequently, users can avoid filling in this table manually or retyping the sheet
name or other information already provided in the sheet set.
Publish Sheet Sets to DWF or DWFx - Two new output options join
Publish to PDF.
To improve the ways that the Sheet Set Manager can export drawings, we introduced
support for DWF and DWFx file formats which are much more compressed than DWG files
and therefore it is easy to transmit them over the Internet. These are just two more
options for the Publish command in addition to the popular PDF format and the
possibility to print on paper.
Get answers without leaving your drawing. The Smart Calculator now displays in a side palette allowing you to perform calculations and edit the drawing at the same time.
New option expands the command functionality.
The new Multiple option of the SPLIT command allows you to select multiple entities
and break them at their intersection points with cutting lines. No gaps are created
and the split segments remain on the drawing.
Align multiple entity types.
The new ALIGNX command aligns several types of entities following the position of
the first entity that you selected.
Find disassociated annotations quickly.
The new Annotation Monitor system variable enables you to easily identify what
annotations are no longer associated with their related geometry and to take the
necessary action in each case: reassociate the annotation or delete it.
Automatically and consecutively import all the files (of the chosen format) contained in a folder indicated by the user.
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