New BitCAD - Version 6.3
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The new BitCAD V6.3 is available.

BitCAD 6.3 comes with several enhancements and new features that strengthen the position of BitCAD as the real alternative in CAD, allowing you to replace or complement other solutions with bigger costs even more effectively. More powerful than ever, BitCAD is the affordable solution to handle, open, view, change, create and save DWG files.

Within many enhancements, you can find support for the latest DWG version, the DWG2007. BitCAD now works with DWG2007 as native file format, allowing you to open, view, manage and save files compatible with all AutoCAD® versions, from 2.5 to 2008.

You will also find major improvements in BitCAD's engine and stability, being now more effective and efficient than ever.

For last, we highlight the introduction of render functionalities in BitCAD, which allows you to design and create photorealistic samples.

You can try this new version without any commitment downloading a fully functional 30 days trial version here .

 

Here is a detailed list of new features and enhancements in BitCAD V6.3:

Work with DWG 2007 files

  • BitCAD supports opening, modifying, printing, and saving drawings in DWG 2007 format. The DWG 2007 format is now the default format in which BitCAD drawings are saved.

Render Engine

  • Architects, mechanical engineers and all those designers who need to view their own drawings in a photorealistically visualization can now do it in BitCAD using the powerfull engine.

Create and edit color books

  • Now you can create and edit color books, which help you organize collections of colors, right from BitCAD IntelliCAD.

Work with images

  • BitCAD Professional version includes enhanced imaging features to help you work with images in your drawings. Working with images is similar to previous BitCAD versions, with easy-to-use features located on the Image menu in BitCAD.

Use new layout viewport features

There are several new features for layout viewports:

  • Lock layout viewports to lock the model space view or location while panning or zooming in paper space.
  • Clip layout viewports to display only the viewport contents within the clipping boundary.
  • Assign a unique UCS to a layout viewport.

Set text language

  • If you work with text written in a language other than your operating system language, you can select that language in BitCAD so you can view and work with the text.

Reverse the zoom direction of the mouse wheel

  • Instead of zooming in and out moving the mouse wheel forward and backward, you can reverse the settings to zoom in when spinning the mouse wheel backward and zoom out when spinning the wheel forward. This can be especially helpful if you use the mouse with your left hand.

Use new and enhanced system variables

  • New system variables include: DIMARCSYM, IMAGEHLT, RASTERVERNUM, RTDISPLAY, and ZOOMWHEEL.
  • Enhanced system variables include: DELOBJ, FACETRATIO, HALOGAP, HIDEPRECISION, OBSCUREDCOLOR, OBSCUREDLTYPE, OLEQUALITY, and TEXTEVAL.
  • New system variables supported for AutoCAD compatibility only: CAMERADISPLAY, CAMERAHEIGHT, CMATERIAL, CSHADOW, DEFAULTLIGHTING, DEFAULTLIGHTINGTYPE, DIMFXL, DIMFXLON, DIMJOGANGLE, DIMLTEX1, DIMLTEX2, DIMLTYPE, DIMTFILL, DIMTFILLCLR, DRAGVS, DWFFRAME, DWFOSNAP, DWGCHECK, GRIDDISPLAY, GRIDMAJOR, INTERFERECOLOR, INTERFEREOBJVS, LATITUDE, LEGACYCTRLPICK, LIGHTGLYPHDISPLAY, LIGHTLISTSTATE, LOFTANG1, LOFTANG2, LOFTMAG1, LOFTMAG2, LOFTNORMALS, LOFTPARAM, LOGNITUDE, NORTHDIRECTION, OSOPTIONS, PERSPECTIVE, PSOLHEIGHT, PSOLWIDTH, PUBLISHALLSHEETS, SHADOWPLANELOCATION, SHOWHIST, SOLIDHIST, STEPSIZE, STEPSPERSEC, SUNSTATUS, TIMEZONE, UCSDETECT, VSBACKGROUNDS, VSEDGEJITTER, VSEDGEOVERHANG, VSEDGES, VSEDGESMOOTH, VSFACECOLORMODE, VSFACEHIGHLIGHT, VSFACEOPACITY, VSFACESTYLE, VSHALOGAP, VSHIDEPRECISION, VSINTERSECTIONCOLOR, VSINTERSECTIONEDGES, VSINTERSECTIONLTYPE, VSISOONTOP, VSLIGHTINQUALITY, VSMATERIALMODE, VSMONOCOLOR, VSOBSCUREDCOLOR, VSOBSCUREDEDGES, VSOBSCUREDLTYPE, VSSHADOWS, VSSILHEDGES, and VSSILHWIDTH.

Operating systems

  • BitCAD now works on Microsoft® Vista operating system.

Performance

  • Improved performance and reduced screen flickers while using dynamic zoom and pan in paper space.
  • Raster image performance has been improved greatly for both large image files and many image files.
  • A large memory leak with handling complex meshes was removed.

Export files

  • When exporting a drawing to a PDF file, paper size enhancements allow you to select from a list of standard paper sizes, specify a custom size, and choose millimeters or inches for the paper size.
  • When exporting a drawing to a PDF file, the drawing is now centered properly and exports to the correct size and units.

Raster images BitCAD

  • Some raster image types would lose their paths after saving or reloading; this has been fixed.
  • RTDISPLAY is now supported for raster images.
  • The 280 group code for an image entity now roundtrips properly.
  • The Image command is now disabled when no document is active.
  • The Image dialog settings are no longer lost when switching between active images in the list box.

AND MUCH MORE...