Performance enhancements boost productivity

IntelliCAD 13.0 delivers powerful performance enhancements that redefine efficiency and speed:

• Faster 3D Navigation: Experience a significant boost in speed when changing views in large 3D models, whether using the View command, view manager, or view cube.
• Rapid File Access: Open drawings with numerous blocks or external references in record time, allowing you to dive into your work without delay.
• Enhanced Data Extraction: All phases of data extraction—extraction, property selection, preview, and report creation—are now faster and more efficient.
• Improved Text Editing: Edit large blocks of multiline text with enhanced responsiveness, making text-heavy drawings easier to manage.
• Enhanced Dynamic Dragging: Move large blocks with ease and speed—grip dragging is now significantly faster, making your workflow smoother and more responsive.
• Accelerated Boundary Computation: Experience faster hatch boundary calculations in complex drawings.
• Faster Response in Large Files: Zoom, pan, copy, and paste are faster in heavy drawings.

  Unlock advanced block capabilities

IntelliCAD 13.0 enhances your workflow with significant improvements to advanced blocks. Enjoy seamless editing with numerous enhancements in the Properties pane, contextual ribbon properties panel, and a new block lookup table viewer. Plus, with the new Reset Block feature, you can instantly revert advanced blocks to their original settings, giving you greater control and flexibility. New system variables also give you control over advanced block grips: BGRIPOBJCOLOR, BGRIPOBJSIZE, BPARAMETERCOLOR, BPARAMETERSIZE.

  Control entity highlighting before selection

Ensure your pre-selections stand out clearly, making your design process smoother and more intuitive, by choosing the visual effect applied to entities during selection preview. Use the  PRESELECTIONEFFECT system variable to determine whether entities display with a dashed line or glow effect, and use the PRESELECTIONEFFECTCOLOR system variable to set the glow effect color. 

  Utilize the optimized LISP engine

Our completely redesigned LISP API dramatically increases both performance and compatibility, enhancing execution of legacy scripts and functions.

Elevate your print and publish experience

Enjoy seamless print previews with full support for DWF and DWFx print drivers, and take advantage of advanced visual styles with OpenGL ES, ensuring your printed and published designs look exactly as intended.

Convert RVT to IFC with ease

For IntelliCAD versions that support working with BIM files, convert your Autodesk® Revit® files to the IFC format for enhanced analysis. You can also import the resulting IFC file directly into IntelliCAD 13.0 as AEC entities, expanding your project possibilities.

  Enhance your DGN editing experience

For IntelliCAD versions that support native .dgn file creation and editing, we've added powerful features to enhance your workflow:

• Export BMP Files: Easily convert your designs to high-quality BMP files for versatile use.
• Undelete Command: Recover deleted elements effortlessly with the new Undelete command.
• Copy Nested Entities: Simplify complex designs by copying nested entities with ease.
• Parallel Entity Snap: Achieve precision with the parallel entity snap.
• Enhanced Drawing Explorer: Seamlessly navigate views, external references, blocks, and layer filters, all within the intuitive Drawing Explorer.

Do more with reporting data in tables and Excel spreadsheets

Added to the data types you can create reports from are external references, advanced blocks, attributes, and AEC entities. With IntelliCAD 13, you can also pull data from .dgn, .ifc, .rvt, and .rfa files (where supported) and apply column filters to ensure your reports meet specific conditions. Improved performance, sorting, data formatting, and filtering will streamline your reporting process to gain deeper insights from your design data.

Elevate your 3D modeling experience

IntelliCAD 13.0 introduces powerful enhancements for 3D modeling, enabling you to convert 3D models to precise 2D projections using the Flatshot and Solid Profile commands. You can also take advantage of new surface commands like Network, Offset, Fillet, Extend, and Trim to achieve greater control and creativity in your 3D designs. Plus, the Cone command now includes new options that make it easy to create truncated cones.

Integrated calculators

IntelliCAD's Quick Calculator is your powerful, all-in-one tool for performing fast calculations directly from your drawing data. Whether you need to solve complex equations, convert units, measure angles and distances, multiply vectors, or push a result to the command line, the Quick Calculator is the ultimate integrated computation tool.

If you instead need to calculate expressions directly from the command line or while running a command, type CAL or -CAL to calculate mathematical and geometric expressions without leaving the command line.

 Discover even more features you requested...

• Insert a geographic location by address lookup.
• Add digital signatures to DWFx files.
• Use OpenType fonts.
• Specify conversion options for external references and shapes when importing .dgn files.
• Add a segment to the end of a polyline using the grip menu.
• Use the Set Z All command now with leader entities.
• Customize buttons located on the ribbon, menus, and toolbars using .ico files.
• Set the SELECTIONAREAOPACITY system variable to control the transparency of the selection area during window and crossing selection.
• Set the SELECTIONEFFECTWIDTH system variable to control the line width used for the glowing highlight effect.

Make shape and linetype definition files

• Create a shape definition from selected entities, and save it to a shape (.shp) file or automatically compile it to a compiled shape (.shx) file.
• Create a linetype definition from selected entities, and save it to an .lin file.

Load ARX runtime extensions 

In addition to the enhanced pre-release of our IcARX API, a game-changing tool designed to simplify the porting of AutoCAD® ObjectARX applications, IntelliCAD can now load ARX, CRX, and DBX files directly from the Load Application command.

Experience the new Options user interface

Finding options and setting your own program preferences just got easier with the all-new Options design, which is highly compatible with other CAD programs. Not ready for the new Options look? Use OPTIONSCLASSIC to set your preferences using the previous design.

  Expand your BIM capabilities

For IntelliCAD versions that support working with BIM files:

• Add AEC dimensions to quickly measure walls, door, and windows.
• Convert Revit files to IFC files.
• Validate IFC files.
• Create corner windows.
• Display IFC underlays with layer properties.
• Attach a railing to one component of a stairway flight.
• Create or edit various new AEC styles for dimensions, spaces, structural members and structural member shapes, roof slabs and roof slab edges, AEC polygons, list definitions, mask blocks, mass elements, materials, multi-view blocks, and profiles.