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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.  

With IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.7, you can switch between viewports, use entity snaps with the Dimension command, and customize the process of digitally signing binary files on Microsoft® Windows®. The release also includes additional improvements and fixes.

The IntelliCAD Mobile Platform provides ITC Mobile SIG members with a development platform and CAD file viewer (.dwg, .dxf, .dgn, .dwf, .dae, .sat, and various image files; architecture, civil, and mechanical objects; and underlays) that runs on thousands of different Microsoft® Windows® desktop, Google Android™, Apple® macOS®, and Apple iOS mobile devices.

For more details about the IntelliCAD Mobile Platform, go here.

With IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.6, you can now view Spatial Corp. ACIS® (.sat) files and also mechanical objects. User interface improvements include the ability to drag and drop files from your desktop to the drawing window, sort and filter files when opening them, use full-screen mode, and more improvements and fixes.

The IntelliCAD Mobile Platform provides ITC Mobile SIG members with a development platform and CAD file viewer (.dwg, .dxf, .dgn, .dwf, .dae, .sat, and various image files; architecture, civil, and mechanical objects; and underlays) that runs on thousands of different Microsoft® Windows® desktop, Google Android™, Apple® macOS®, and Apple iOS mobile devices.

For more details about the IntelliCAD Mobile Platform, go here.

IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.5 now uses ODA Platform version 22.12 and includes restored support for Apple® macOS® and iOS operating systems. New features in the 1.5 release include a dark user interface theme and native platform user interface themes.

The IntelliCAD Mobile Platform provides ITC Mobile SIG members with a development platform and CAD file viewer (.dwg, .dxf, .dgn, .dwf, .dae, and various image files; architecture and civil objects; and underlays) that runs on thousands of different Microsoft® Windows® desktop, Google Android™, Apple® macOS®, and Apple iOS mobile devices.

For more details about the IntelliCAD engine, go to www.intellicad.org.

IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.4 opens and regenerates drawings using multiple threads, includes an updated user interface and icons, and several additional features. IntelliCAD Mobile Platform now uses ODA Platform version 21.11 and Qt 6.1.

Portland, OR, USA, May 29, 2020 — The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) today announced the release of IntelliCAD® Mobile 1.3.

IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.3 uses ODA Platform version 21.1 and Qt 5.12.8. New support is added for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019, Android NDK R21, XCode 11, C++17 standard, clang-format tool, and the Pdfium library (instead of PDF VI).

What's been happening lately with the IntelliCAD engine? And what's next?

Here's what we learned at IntelliCAD World 2019:

• IntelliCAD 9.1 and 9.2 were released earlier this year. We saw demos of many new features that are trending as important for ITC members: digital signatures, new architectural entities, customizable start page, system variable monitor, STEP and IGES support, Overkill command, and many more.
• BIM solutions for IntelliCAD: attach .rvt/.rfa and .ifc files as underlays and work with BIM data. Architectural objects are already in the mix too, and soon will even be exportable to .ifc files using ODA IFC libraries.
• IntelliCAD Mobile is gaining new ITC member interest and the Special Interest Group is growing. IntelliCAD Mobile can view and navigate various file types: drawings (.dwg, .dwt, .dxf), Design Web Format (.dwf), Open COLLADA™ (.dae), and images (.png, .jpeg, .tiff, etc.). Many new features are being developed for the next mobile version, including plans for voice recording and more measurement tools.
• Sneak peak at IntelliCAD 10 which is in development now, based on the latest ODA libraries. Specifically we got a look at geographic locations and new visual styles that will be available by integration with OpenGL ES2. Lots of other features coming up.
• The latest version of ARTISAN was also demonstrated by Clive Davies of Pictorex. ARTISAN is a photorealistic renderer that is integrated with IntelliCAD and available for ITC member licensing.

In addition to viewing CAD files on mobile devices, you can now use the free ETOOLBOX CAD Viewer to view your .dwg, .dxf, .dwg, .dae, and various image files through application streaming on Microsoft® Windows® desktops. The new ETOOLBOX CAD Viewer version 1.2 now supports viewing .dwg version 2018 files, .dwg files with 3D solids and .rvt/.rfa underlays, and digitally signed .dwg files.

ETOOLBOX CAD Viewer is based on IntelliCAD mobile technology. Check out the news announcement from CAD-Manufacturing Solutions (CMS), maker of ETOOLBOX and member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium.

The product video is also available on YouTube and Vimeo. 

Interested in CAD in the cloud? What about CAD on mobile? Check out what CAD-Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. (CMS) is doing with desktop, cloud, and mobile, all based on IntelliCAD.

Earlier this year CMS released a new version of its desktop CAD, CMS IntelliCAD 9.0. CMS has continued releasing new versions across its product suite, including its full CAD product for cloud and its CAD viewer for mobile. Get more details:

• CMS IntelliCAD 9.0 Premium Edition (PE) Cloud
• ETOOLBOX CAD Viewer 1.2

CMS is a member of the ITC. To learn how CMS and ITC work together to bring CAD to the marketplace, get the success story. If you're specifically interested in CAD for mobile platforms, see IntelliCAD Mobile.

The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) today announced the release of IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.2.1 for ITC Mobile SIG members.

The IntelliCAD Mobile Platform provides ITC Mobile SIG members with a development platform and CAD file viewer (dwg, dxf, dgn, dwf, dae, and various image files) that runs on thousands of different Microsoft® Windows®, Google Android™, Apple® macOS®, and Apple iOS mobile devices.

IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 1.2.1 uses ODA Teigha v4.3.2 and Qt 5.9 (LTS) frameworks.

Notable improvements in the 1.2.1 release include:

• Updated development environment uses VS2017
• Reworked File Open dialog for the mobile platform
• Support for both Commercial and LGPL licenses for the Qt Framework

The mobile platform continues to be an important area of development, and the ITC Mobile SIG has started development of IntelliCAD Mobile Platform 2.0. 

For more details about the ITC Mobile SIG, see the IntelliCAD website.