Oct 09, 2017 Here then is our list of the best CAD software on Mac for 2020 in order of ranking. SmartDraw (Best 2D CAD For Mac) If you’re looking for something powerful for 2D CAD design but amazingly easy to use and value for money, SmartDraw is the best 2D CAD software for Mac on the market. The Thea Render software suite is SaaS, Mac, and Windows software. Thea Render is CAD software, and includes features such as 2 1/2-axis milling, 3-axis milling, 4-axis milling, and 5-axis milling. Software pricing starts at $50.00/user. Some competitor software products to Thea Render include AxisVM, progeCAD Professional, and CorelCAD.
progeCAD 2021 - AutoCAD Alternative
progeCAD is an AutoCAD® replacement 2D/3D CAD application that works with AutoCAD® DWG files from v. 2.5 to v. 2021! The best solution for AEC, MCAD and all generic CAD usages.
progeCAD sells with perpetual licensing and offers more CAD functions than AutoCAD® LT at a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD®, ZwCAD®, GstarCAD®, BricsCAD®, ArchiCAD® o Microstation®
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ICADLib includes the access to Traceparts for progeCAD: Advanced integration with the progeCAD’s Traceparts web portal for easy guided usage of more than 100 millions of blocks. Apple® Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro, iMac®, Mac® mini, MacBook Air®, MacBook®. ICADMAc is the first real alternative to AutoCAD for Mac OS X. Native DWG 2D/3D CAD, supplied with Applications, Libraries and Services at remarkably low cost. ProgeCAD is a Professional, native DWG 2D/3D CAD package for Windows, supplied with Applications, Libraries and Services. ProgeCAD 2021 - AutoCAD Alternative progeCAD is an AutoCAD ® replacement 2D/3D CAD application that works with AutoCAD ® DWG files from v. The best solution for AEC, MCAD and all generic CAD usages. ProgeCAD sells with perpetual licensing and offers more CAD functions than AutoCAD ® LT at a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD ®, ZwCAD ®, GstarCAD ®, BricsCAD ®, ArchiCAD.
DWG is progeCAD Native File Format
It is the same AutoCAD file format, so when you open an existing DWG file with progeCAD, there's no file conversion, nor data loss. We provide industry standard compatibility with Autodesk AutoCAD® to let you get down to work with progeCAD at once. Read and write DWG files, use the same commands, fonts, blocks, hatches and Linetypes just as you are accustomed to.
No conversion or data loss!
Familiar Interface
You already know how to use progeCAD!
progeCAD offers the interface complete with the 'AutoCAD® - Like' Classic icon and Ribbon menus and 'AutoCAD® - Like' commands.
The User interface is standard and intuitive, familiar to all AutoCAD® Users who will be able to get started with progeCAD immediately.
progeCAD offers the interface complete with the 'AutoCAD® - Like' Classic icon and Ribbon menus and 'AutoCAD® - Like' commands.
The User interface is standard and intuitive, familiar to all AutoCAD® Users who will be able to get started with progeCAD immediately.
No learning curve! Nothing to learn if you are an AutoCAD® user.
Perpetual License!
You can finally buy a DWG-compatible CAD program AutoCAD replacement at an extremely affordable price.
progeCAD's license is perpetual and allows the customer to use the licensed software indefinitely.
progeCAD's license is perpetual and allows the customer to use the licensed software indefinitely.
NO YEARLY FEES.
Feel Safe and absolutely Legal using progeCAD as an AutoCAD Clone Replacement.
You decide when to upgrade.
10 Reasons for progeCAD Professional
- Perpetual Licensing!No annual fee. You decide when to upgrade
- Works natively with DWG! Full compatibility with AutoCAD® without conversion
- Amazing exclusive Advanced Features
- Import/Export - STEP, IGES, SolidWorks, PDF, 3D PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, LWO, POV, Maya, OBJ, BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, SVG
Share your DWG, convert PDF to DWG, convert DWF to DWG, create 3D PDF, export models to Google Earth®, Import Revit® and IFC BIM files,Import shape files .shp, Import/Export STEP and IGES files, PDF print, iCADLib with thousands of free blocks, Point Cloud support, EasyArch 3D - the free Architectural plugin, Civil 3D Features are only some of the key features available with progeCAD... more details
Familiar Interface
The progeCAD interface will make you feel comfortable from the very beginning thanks to the 'AutoCAD® - Like' Classic icon and Ribbon menus and 'AutoCAD® - Like' commands. Learn More...
Advanced Features
Besides being an all-embracing 2D/3D CAD tool with all the fundamental drawing functionality, progeCAD offers professionals a large number of advanced features and exclusive tools. Learn More...
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Comparison
progeCAD offers all the main features available with AutoCAD® and is also renowned for its handy extra tools added for free to further boost your productivity. Your cost-effective drawing power! Learn More...
Flexible Licensing
progeCAD Professional is available with different perpetual licensing solutions, suitable for all business dimensions, from a single drafter to global corporations. Learn More...
A Proven Replacement for AutoCAD 2D/3D DWG Software
…with all the Familiar Icons and Menus
iCADMac is professional ‘AutoCAD’ like software without the monthly subscription. It supports an interface complete with an “AutoCAD® Like” icon menu and “AutoCAD® Like” commands. It has the same file formats, same menus, and commands and at a fraction of the price (a one-time investment instead of a monthly subscription like AutoCAD)…
Over 20,000 Blocks and Symbols
Includes over 20,000 Blocks and Symbols in the iCADLib block library manager.
Express Tools
Use a similar bonus toolset as AutoCAD. Offered FREE without subscription because, well, we’re just like that!
Application Programming Interface (API) Support
Progecad For Mac Versions
Automate your tasks using industry standard API’s, including AutoLISP, and SDS (like ADS).
PDF Import
Import PDF into iCADMac, along with Blocks, Layers, Linetypes, etc. All intelligence contained within the PDF is imported into your drawing.
PDF Plotting
Progecad For Mac Shortcut
Plot to PDF using iCADMac’s plot interface. Use Color Tables (.ctb) or Style Tables (.stb) and Printer Configuration Parameter (.pcp) files from AutoCAD.
What is iCADMac?
To start, it is over $3000 less than AutoCAD…
- Affordable Price
- High compatibility with the DWG drawing file format
- PDF Import and Export
- Gradient Hatch
- Tables
- Raster and Image Management
- Image Clipping
- Polygonal Viewports
- Xref Manager
- Standard Interface
- Property Bar
- Additional Hatches
- Multilines
- Display on iPad™
- Rendering
- ACIS® Solids
- iCADLib – Advanced Blocks Libraries
- Traceparts
iCADMac vs. AutoCAD
- iCADMac works with AutoCAD DWG files, without any type of conversion. edit every version of DWG: AutoCAD 2.5 through the latest!
- iCADMac’s user interface is complete with “AutoCAD Like” icon menus and commands.
- iCADMac supports AutoCAD file types: DWG, DXF, .MNU, .SCR, AutoLISP, SHX and TTF fonts, CTB and PCP for Plotting, Hatch Patterns, Linetypes, etc.
- iCADMac supports 3D ACIS Solid Modeling, 3D Surface commands such as revsurf, rulesurf, etc., iCADMac also has 3D Realistic Rendering built in allowing you to make true to life representations of your AutoCAD compatible DWG models. See further comparisons by selecting the button below…
Details
- iCADMac has high compatibility with the DWG drawing file format, from Version 2.5 up to the most recent AutoCAD® 2018.
- iCADMac supports PDF file conversion into DWG with Layers supported. iCADMac can export your drawings in the PDF format.
- iCADMac displays and creates Gradient Hatches
- iCADMac displays and creates tables.
- iCADMac displays and creates and edits DWG drawings with images, photos and raster images.
- iCADMac supports rectangular and polygonal clip on images.
- iCADMac supports polygonal layout viewports.
- iCADMac has Xref Manager which is a module for quick, easy management of external references.
- iCADMac has Standard Interface which is a friendly, familiar environment for AutoCAD® users.
- iCADMac has Property Bar which is a visual and intuitive interface to edit object properties.
- iCADMac has more than 300 additional hatch patterns.
- iCADMac displays and creates tables
- iCADMac has basic rendering functions with Light and Shading management. Advanced module will be available soon for for a small fee.
- iCADMac supports multiple line creation of up to 16 simultaneous tracks.
- Display and edit iCADMac drawings on iPad™, iPhone®, and iPod touch® in DWG and PDF formats.
- iCADMac creates a package containing the current drawing and its dependent files such as References, referenced images, referenced PDF files, font files, font mapping files, PrintStyle files, and Print Configuration files.
- The PDF format is widely used everywhere. If you receive a PDF file that you want to reference as you draw, you can attach it as an underlay and looks it transparent over the drawing entities.
- iCADMac proposes the basic rendering module with multiple Lights and Shadow support. The advanced Ray-tracing module with materials, reflection, transparency and smooth shadows will be available soon as an option module.
- Multiline objects can consist up to 16 parallel lines, called “elements”. Multilines allow quick creation of walls, roads, insulation etc. iCADMac offers a complete configuration mask specially designed to define various multiline styles.
- Revision clouds are used in drawings to indicate that certain areas require or contain revisions. You can create rectangular, elliptical and freehand Clouds to accentuate drawing areas. You can adjust the radius of the sequential arcs of Clouds.
- iCADMac reads and writes 3D solid objects with the ACIS Solid Modeling libraries (the same as AutoCAD®)
Essential for those who deal with Industrial Design, Dies, complex architectural elements and generally for any application in which creating complex three-dimensional shapes quickly and easily.
ACIS solids are available thanks to an agreement signed with Spatial, the supplier of technology for solid modelling to many of the most important CAD software companies in the world.
iCADMac has implemented complete management of ACIS solids including viewing, printing, creating and editing.
Exchange of CAD project data with other CAD software which uses ACIS Solids (such as AutoCAD®) is therefore a simple process!
Creating complex three-dimensional shapes by using solid models is made easier in comparison with the more traditional techniques. - More than 22.000 Blocks are ready to be used for Construction, Architectural, Furnishing, 3D Furnishing, Mechanics, Electrical, Electronics, Steel profiles and many others industries. Thanks to the Blocks Library Management module it is quick and easy to find a symbol you need. iCADLib can be also used to manage libraries of symbols or personal that already exist.
- iCADLib includes the access to Traceparts for progeCAD: Advanced integration with the progeCAD’s Traceparts web portal for easy guided usage of more than 100 millions of blocks.
Directly guided block insertion from the web to your drawings just in a snap.
Introducing iCARE Subscription Services
iCARE is a 1 year subscription-based maintenance and support program. It offers a variety of benefits to help customers get the most out of their iCADMac software. iCARE cuts down upgrade costs and gives customers more value.
For an annual fee, iCARE customers get convenient access to the following benefits:
- Software – You will receive all iCADMac Updates and All New Versions.
- Support – Free Technical assistance via the web with the new help desk service through ticket, email, live chat and remote support.
Buy iCARE now bundled with your iCADMac licenses and save 20% off the iCARE price.
Try NowBuy NowUnprecedented File Compatibility
- iCADMac® uses DWG for it’s design file format, natively without conversion. That means unrivaled compatibility with AutoCAD® Drawing files without need to convert the files first, and no risk for data loss, none.
- iCADMac enables you to export your drawing files in practically every DWG format ever produced. You can take a DWG all the way back to 1983 (if you don’t mind the music!).
- Same with DXF, a standard used by thousands of CAD users to move designs from one CAD system to perform additional analysis or even to edit within a different CAD system.
- DWG files are probably the most convenient and reliable format for viewing drawings on the Apple iPad™
Licensing Options
iCADMac is available with different licensing solutions
SL – Single License
Simple but Stationary. For a single Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro; iMac®; Mac® mini; MacBook Air®; MacBook®.
Simple but Stationary. For a single Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro; iMac®; Mac® mini; MacBook Air®; MacBook®.
USB – USB-Dongle License
This license with a USB-Dongle protection allows to transfer your license from between Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro, iMac®, Mac® mini, MacBook Air® or MacBook®.
Try NowBuy NowThis license with a USB-Dongle protection allows to transfer your license from between Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro, iMac®, Mac® mini, MacBook Air® or MacBook®.
iCADMac System Requirements
- Apple® Mac® Pro, MacBook® Pro, iMac®, Mac® mini, MacBook Air®, MacBook®
- Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
- x86 Intel® processor
- 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended, you may even want more) The easiest way to make your iCADMac perform is to add more memory. It’s the main factor for ensuring your drawings have the least amount of themselves put onto the hard disk to make room for whatever else the machine needs to store in their location… is mega memory!
- 2.0 GB free disk space for download and installation (3 GB recommended). If you decide against that extra ram, you probably should give yourself a little more room for those bigger drawings.
- All graphics cards on supported hardware
- 1,024 x 768 display with true color
- Mac OS X-compliant printer
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I am very happy with iCADMac! iCADMac does everything I need. Great tool!
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