What is AviCAD?

AviCAD: The Powerful, Native DWG - AutoCAD® Alternative
With Perpetual Licensing

Eliminate subscription fatigue without compromising your workflow. AviCAD delivers a fully compatible 2D/3D environment operating on native DWG files (v2.5 through v2027). Built for cross-disciplinary engineering and architecture, it seamlessly imports Autodesk AutoCAD®, Revit®, IFC, and SolidWorks® models directly into your workspace.

Key Capabilities:

• Advanced Block Management: Full authoring, creation, and editing tools for Dynamic Blocks.
• Multi-Format Interoperability: Perfect for AEC, MCAD, and multi-platform collaboration.
• Unmatched ROI: Delivers a deeper feature set than AutoCAD® LT—including 3D modeling and advanced BIM import—at a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD®, ArchiCAD®, BricsCAD®, or MicroStation®.
• True Ownership: Zero forced subscriptions. Pay once, own it forever.
   

8 Reasons for choosing AViCAD

• Perpetual Licensing available! No annual fee. You decide when to upgrade
• Nothing to learn, if you are AutoCAD® users
• Works natively with DWG! Fully compatible with AutoCAD® without conversion
• Packed with Mechanical & Architectural Tools
  • Mech-Q Engineering Apps included
  • Create architectural layouts in a flash with the EasyArch parametric plug-in
• Export to Google Earth®
• 22.000 blocks ready to use + customizable blocks manager
• Import/Export - PDF, 3D PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE, LWO, POV, Maya, OBJ, BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, SVG.. Now Also: STEP, IGES and Solidworks
• Affordable - 1/4 Price of AutoCAD®

Mech-Q engineering apps included in AviCAD

• Affordable Piping Design Software for Mechanical Engineers

• Easy 3D Ducting & HVAC CAD Tools

• Structural 2d/3d Steel Detailing made easy.

• Mechanical & Material Handing apps...

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AviCAD 2027 - Advanced Features

• PDF Export with Layers - includes PDF/A ISO19005 Standard export
• Flexible Licensing - use AviCAD on all your computers with one license
• PDF to DWG conversion
• Insert BIM models into DWG. IFC and Autodesk Revit® files supported
• Exports STEP, IGES, PDF, DWF, 3DS, DAE (Collada), STL, LWO, POV, MA(Maya), OBJ(Wavefront), BMP, JPG, WMF, EMF, SVG
• Imports STEP, IGES, IFC, Rvt/Rfa (Revit®), SolidWorks .sldprt part files and .sldasm assembly, ESRI-SHAPE SHP, 3DS, DGN(Microstation), LWO, OBJ, STL, IFC, RGT,  DXF, DWF, DWFx
• PointCloud import (ReCap® .rcp, .rcs, .pcg, .isd, .xyz, .ply, .las, .laz)
• Customizable Toolpalettes for Blocks, Hatches and frequently used Commands
• 3D Print - STL export for 3D Printer output
• DWG Compare - Spot every difference in your drawings, instantly
• iCADLib Blocks Manager.  More than 22.000 2D/3D ready-to-use blocks
• Direct access to Traceparts, Cadenas and BIM&CO with millions of blocks and BIM objects ready-to-use
• Parametric generation and insertion of 2D or 3D mechanical/structural components for construction
• ACIS solids
• Dynamic blocks - Advanced Blocks (Insertion/Creation/Editing)
• 3D AEC Architectural - 3D/2D building plugin for architects (Compatible with AutoCAD® Architecture
• Quick Calculator - use the calculator with the Properties palette to change the objects's properties.
• SuperHatch - Create hatch from images, blocks,  xrefs and wipeouts.
• Helix and Loft Commands
• Multileaders
• MAPIMPORT - Geo Data and FDO Import
• Inserts geometries from SDF files, SQLite and SHAPE (esri) files, or can use a database server service like WFS 
• Gradient Hatch
• 2D Isometric drawing - Draw 3D-looking objects with standard 2D tools
• Bitmap/Raster support - Jpeg, TIFF, Png, Gif, ECW, MrSID and Jpeg 2000
• Bitmap polygonal clipping
• Geolocation with interactive background map from Microsoft Bing and ESRI
• Plot Margin Customization - cover the entire sheet area
• Digital signatures to .dwg files
• Spell-check on the fly
• DATALINK - Link a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to a AviCAD table
• XLSIMPORT -  Imports directly an .xls or .xlsx file into a new static AviCAD Table.
• DATAEXTRACTION create a detailed schedule, a parts list, or a bill of materials
• AUTOSEZ - automatic creation of surface profiles  (Topographic Sections - AutoCAD Civil 3D Feature)
• SLOPE creation of slope patterns
• Customization - AutoLISP, Visual Lisp, DIESEL, SDS, ARX, COM automation, .NET 
• Block Editor (Compatible with Advanced Blocks/Dynamic Blocks)
• Raster Draw - The Raster Design® replacement
• Generative AI Drawing Translator - Translate drawings with the power of Translate drawings with the power of artificial intelligence
• QRCODE and Barcodes - Create and insert a QRCODE and Barcodes from any text, URL etc.
• Rubber sheeting - Nonuniform adjustment of images (MAP/GIS)
• Google EarthTM Integration
• 3D PDF Export
• Construction Lines
• Full Tables Support - AutoCAD® like Text in-place editing, numeric Rows, and alphabetical Columns. Cells with Formulas supported.
• Color Books - AviCAD supports standard Color Books
• AutoCAD® like Sheet Set Manager
• Dynamic UCS
• Dynamic Input
• AEC, Civil, GeoMaps, Mechanical objects support
• Geolocation with interactive background map from Microsoft Bing and ESRI ArcGIS
• Flatshot command - Generates an accurate flat view of a 3D model
• AREATEXT -  Calculate boundary area and place the text with the value in the center of the area. 
• ARRAYPATH - Place object copies uniformly along a path or a portion of a path
• Find and Replace
• Express Tools -  A complete set of Extra functions for Blocks, Layers, Texts
• Annotative Objects
• Arc Aligned Text
• Multigrip Editing
• Render engine - AviCAD integrates for free the Artisan Renderer module
• Automatic Perspective image correction
• QUICK PROPERTIES Palette Rapid access to the most useful object properties
• 3DConnection SpaceMouse and CADMouse support
• eTransmit - Compacting and transmitting DWG files with dependences by email
• Eattedit - Advanced Attribute editing
• QDIM - Quick dimensioning
• 3DWALK and 3DFLY - Changes the 3D view in a drawing interactively to create the appearance of walking or flying through the model
• Publish (Batch Plot)
• Raster to Vector converter - Convert your paper drawings to editable DWG files
• Cloud - Share files on Cloud - Supports the major cloud services for file sharing and syncing like DropBox, Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive
• BetterWMF Integration ( https://www.furix.com/betterwmf )