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April 30, 2024 — PORTLAND, OREGON — CAD software-maker The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) filed suit today against Indian company JyaCAD Solutions Private Limited (JyaCAD) and its parent company, Scanpoint Geomatics Limited (Scanpoint), alleging breach of contract and seeking an order to compel JyaCAD and Scanpoint to participate in an audit of its software and to pay the ITC over $50,000. The ITC also filed suit against Chinese company Shanghai Erow Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Erow) for breach of contract, an order compelling Shanghai Erow to allow the ITC to audit its software, and to pay the ITC over $35,000.

ITC President David Lorenzo stated, “ITC members have invested millions of dollars and hundreds of man years in IntelliCAD which JyaCAD and Shanghai Erow entered into contracts with the ITC in order to have special access to and use of IntelliCAD. The ITC is committed to taking all action necessary to protect its intellectual property against those who intentionally breach their contracts with the ITC.”
 
Click here to download a copy of the lawsuits: JyaCAD-Scanpoint and Shanghai Erow.
 
About The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium
 
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization funded and directed by its members specifically for the development of the IntelliCAD technology. The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium licenses the IntelliCAD technology to its commercial members, who in turn market and sell applications based on IntelliCAD to their end users. Commercial members have access to the IntelliCAD source code, documentation, developer support, and more. The ITC is also a founding member of the Open Design Alliance, thereby contributing to interoperability in the engineering industry.
 
To learn more about how ITC members use IntelliCAD, see our success stories at: IntelliCAD Success Stories.

This May, come check out FRAMECAD at one of their upcoming shows in Australia, the UK, Ireland, and the US. When you stop by, you can see IntelliCAD in action and learn how FRAMECAD uses IntelliCAD in their steel frame design and build systems.

• Sydney Build >>
  May 1-2, 2024
  Sydney, Australia
• The Offsite Show >>
  May 7-9, 2024
  London, England
• Focus on Framing >>
  May 14, 2024
  Birmingham, England
• MMC Ireland National Conference >>
  May 22-23, 2024
  Kilkenny, Ireland
• CFSEI Expo >>
  May 20-22 2024
  Tuscon, AZ USA

FRAMECAD uses IntelliCAD in its end-to-end steel frame design and manufacturing system for rapid construction of buildings. To learn how FRAMECAD benefits from ITC membership, read the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

Brand new in 2024, ActCAD Nesting is a complete drafting and nesting software package that supports regular and true shape nestings suitable for the sheet metal, textile, fashion, leather, and footwear industries. Its advanced nesting algorithm has been optimized for several years and allows for features such as cutter diameters, preferential hole filling, turbo mode, sequencing, and more.

ActCAD Nesting natively works in .dwg and .dxf file formats while also working with many other file formats.  

• Learn more >> 
• Download a trial >> 

Headed to the Carlson Software User Conference April 22-24, 2024 in Spokane, Washington, US? Check out IntelliCAD while you're there! Carlson Software delivers a suite of products, several of which include IntelliCAD.

Go West 2024 will host educational and training sessions that cover a variety of industries, products, and workflows for civil, field, surveying, construction, mining, photogrammetry, and 3D precision. 

• Conference details >>
• Carlson Software products >> 

Find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together in this success story. To learn how IntelliCAD helps developers and their products use .dwg seamlessly, go here.

Headed to BIM World Paris on April 3 or 4 next week? While there, you can see ACCA presenting on current BIM topics and also live demonstrations of their BIM technologies.

BIM World Paris
Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles
Stand D20

Get details >>
Learn more about BIM products from ACCA >>

ACCA delivers software designed for architectural design, structural engineering, analyzing and calculating, energy performance analysis, quantitative studies, site health and safety, and maintenance and management of BIM processes.

When you stop by to see ACCA in action at BIM World Paris, you'll be seeing IntelliCAD too. ACCA is a member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium and delivers several BIM and technical products based on the IntelliCAD engine. To learn more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

You can see Carlson Software, and the IntelliCAD engine, at these shows next week:

NSSGA Aggregates Academy & Expo
March 25-27, 2024
Nashville, TN USA

West Virginia Coal Show
March 26-27
Charleston, WV USA

Carlson Software has been a member of the ITC since 2007 and many of their products use the IntelliCAD engine. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's .dwg technology, go here.

Interested in IFC and openBIM technology for interoperability and exchanging information seamlessly throughout your build projects? buildingSMART International Summit 2024 is this week and you can attend remotely or in person in Valencia, Spain.

Learn more about the summit and register here. You can still catch some of it.

The ITC's BIM Special Interest Group supports interoperability not only for IFC but also for RVT/RFA file formats. For IFC, ITC members are delivering features to their end users such as importing and exporting .ifc files and also attaching .ifc underlays. To learn more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

This March, come check out FRAMECAD at one of their upcoming shows in Florida, USA to learn about how they use IntelliCAD in their steel frame design and build systems.

• Disasters Expo USA >>
  March 6-7, 2024
  Miami, FL USA
• World of Modular >>
  March 18-21, 2024
  Orlando, FL USA
• AWIC Build24 >>
  March 26-27, 2024
  Lake Buena Vista, FL USA

FRAMECAD uses IntelliCAD in its end-to-end steel frame design and manufacturing system for rapid construction of buildings. To learn how FRAMECAD benefits from ITC membership, read the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

Did you know IntelliCAD has a mobile development platform that includes CAD viewing? Members deploy the technology to view .dwg, .dxf, .dgn, .dwf, .dae, .sat, and various image files on mobile devices. Architecture objects, civil objects, mechanical objects, and underlays can be viewed too.

The IntelliCAD mobile platform is running on thousands of different Microsoft® Windows® desktop, Google Android™, Apple® macOS®, and Apple iOS mobile devices.

The mobile development platform is part of the ITC Mobile Special Interest Group (SIG), which is tailored to member needs for mobile. See more details at https://www.intellicad.org/mobile-platform.  

If you're investigating CAD platforms, you might find it helpful to take a look at the Using IntelliCAD guide which is available at lulu.com in ebook format.

Using IntelliCAD describes how to use IntelliCAD to draw in 2D and 3D, view drawings, dimension entities, work with layers, insert blocks and external references, add custom programs, and everything else you expect from a CAD program.

The guides are available for a small fee.

• For the IntelliCAD 12.1 guides, go here.
• For the IntelliCAD 12.0 guides, go here.

Of course ITC members receive source files and output for the IntelliCAD user guides and other documentation as part of their ITC membership. If you're an end user looking for IntelliCAD documentation, contact the ITC member where you purchased IntelliCAD.