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Exceptional Productivity
IntelliCAD® offers smooth Microsoft Windows integration plus many unique productivity features.
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Photorealistic 3-D Real time shading and Professional photorealistic 3D Rendering and lighting
IntelliCAD® lets you easily create 3-D designs using the 3-D drawing tools. You can display hidden-line, shaded versions of your 3-D models or your existing 3-D libraries with a click of a button.
CMS IntelliCAD lets you easily create 3-D designs using the 3-D drawing tools. You can display hidden-line, shaded, or fully rendered versions of your 3-D models or your existing 3-D libraries with a click of a button. You can choose professional-quality, preset options for lighting, surface materials, and backgrounds. With IntelliCAD's sophisticated raytracing capabilities, you can produce photorealistic 3-D renderings.
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Microsoft ActiveX support including in-place editing
IntelliCAD® fully supports Microsoft ActiveX (Not yet supported on v7). You can edit embedded ActiveX objects — including Visio Technical drawings, Microsoft Word documents, and Microsoft Excel charts — contained in IntelliCAD® drawings. You can also edit IntelliCAD® drawings in-place from within any ActiveX-compatible program.
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Drawing Explorer™ for managing layers, blocks, line types, and more
With IntelliCAD®'s Drawing Explorer™, you can browse the contents of your drawings as easily as you browse files in the Windows Explorer. Open multiple drawings in the Drawing Explorer™ and then view all of the layers, blocks, linetypes, styles, views, and user coordinate systems currently in use. You can even copy and paste elements between drawings, or switch to a thumbnail view to preview blocks. This means you can easily make use of existing designs and drawing setups.
"IntelliCAD® is much more intuitive than AutoCAD® software, with better on-screen hinting and help."
— Paul Nishman, NISH
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Graphical Block Preview
IntelliCAD® provides the Drawing Explorer™, which lets you browse the contents of drawings as easily as you browse files in the Windows Explorer. Open multiple drawings in the Drawing Explorer and then view all of the layers, blocks, linetypes, styles, views, and coordinate systems in use. Within the Drawing Explorer, you can copy and paste between drawings, or switch to a thumbnail view to preview blocks.
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Work with multiple open drawings (MDI)
According to the AutoCAD® software Users Group International, the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) is one of the most requested features for AutoCAD® software. IntelliCAD® fully supports MDI. That means you can:
- Review two or more drawings at once.
- Easily copy objects from one drawing to another.
- Copy elements, such as layers, linetypes, and text styles, from one drawing to another using the Drawing Explorer.
- Load and edit drawings that appear as xref (externally referenced) drawings.
Thanks to IntelliCAD®'s MDI support, you can set up your work environment more efficiently by opening multiple drawings simultaneously in a single drawing session.
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Real Time Pan & Zoom
IntelliCAD® allows users to work with their drawings using Real Time Pan and Zoom. This functionality makes viewing and navigating around your .Autodesk® .dwg file™ format drawing files easier and more productive.
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Right-mouse click to edit properties of multiple selected entities
With IntelliCAD®, you can modify the properties of more than one entity at a time. For example, you might use IntelliCAD®'s "Entprop" command to select all entities on a particular layer, then use the Layer text box to move those entities to another layer. You could also change all the entities in one color to another color.
"I really like how the cursor (or pick point) ignores the snap setting until the command is executed. This makes it much easier for the object selection with snap turned on."
— James Dory, James Dory Design
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Script Recorder
Like a macro in Word, a script mimics what you type, including command names, options and coordinates. IntelliCAD® fully supports scripting. In fact, it reads and writes the same script files (.SCR) that work in AutoCAD® software.
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IntelliCAD®, however, provides several scripting enhancements that vastly improve your productivity:
- An automatic launch feature:
Double-click an SCR script file in Windows Explorer and you'll open IntelliCAD® and run the script instantly.
- A script recorder:
Use the script recorder to automatically capture your keystrokes and mouse actions including menu picks, toolbar button selections, and screen picks. To review the script, simply play it back.
- A script append feature:
Use this feature to add new scripts to existing ones.
- Enhanced scripting commands:
IntelliCAD®'s commands include Recscript, which begins the recording, and Stopscript, which stops any script that's running.
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Unlimited "Undo" & "Redo"
Go ahead and try out all your drawing ideas. IntelliCAD® lets you "Undo and "Redo" an unlimited number of editing actions. (With AutoCAD® software, you can "Undo" an unlimited number of actions, but you can only "Redo" one.)
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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)
CMS IntelliCAD® 7 PRO includes a full implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications Edition (VSTA), a development environment that simplifies the creation and execution of Visual Studio applications.
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Visual customization of menus and toolbar
Place the tools, commands, and shortcuts you need at your fingertips without resorting to programming. Simply drag and drop tools to create custom toolbars, or modify menus with a few clicks of your mouse.
IntelliCAD® also supports AutoCAD® software menus, fonts, scripts, and symbol libraries, so you can easily transfer your custom AutoCAD® software environment into IntelliCAD®.
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Productivity
