4MCAD continues to provide amazing value for money, with more and more customers choosing 4M for their CAD needs, saving a considerable amount of money in the process! 4M continues to focus on product improvement with the recent release of 4MCAD V24. Below is an overview of the developments in this new version as well as the key features of this amazing software.
What's new in 4MCAD24
General
Re-engineered Design (ReD) upon the latest ICAD 11.1 engine and ODA22.12 libraries on a 64bit architecture
Significantly faster performances for very large drawings.
3D Walk and Fly tour.
Improved import and editing of tables, publish and visual styles.
Determination of the current location on a map file.
3D rotate cube projection and orbit.
Support of Autodesk® Revit® 2022 files
Performance
Faster polyline vectorization.
Quick Select command is faster by 2x in large drawings.
Faster display of large geographic images.
Faster cursor response in large drawings with no selection preview.
Working with Files
Export three-dimensional models to an .obj (Wavefront Technologies) file.
Import map files by connecting to PostgreSQL, MySQL, and WFS servers.
Support for Autodesk® Revit® 2022 files.
Use the Audit command to check for errors in .ifc files that are attached as underlays.
Export to .pdf files using an improved interface.
User Interface
Home view or use of the rotate arrows using the view cube.
New Visualized ribbon tab
Selecting and Modifying Entities
Break at Point command to break an entity into two without removing a portion of the entity.
3D Positioner command to move and rotate entities interactively in three-dimensional space.
Capability to explode remote text (rtext) entities in drawings created in another CAD program.
Tables
Match Cell command to copy the properties of a source table cell and apply them to selected cells
Insertion of blocks in table cells.
Merge of selected cells by row, column, or all cells.
4MCAD24: Summary of Features
DWG format full compatibility
Native .dwg file support
Read/Write to Autocad format
Interoperability – working with files
Full support of Autodesk® Revit® 2022 files
Import IFC files (4MCAD PRO)
PDF to CAD conversion -DWG file (4MCAD PRO)
Import Revit files (RFA and RVT format files) (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export IGES format files (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export STEP format files (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export ACIS 3D Solids *.sat
Working with point clouds – attaching point cloud .rcp/.rcs files
Import 3D Collada *.dae
3D PDF Export
Export - 2D/3D .pdf, .svg, ,dwf, .bmp, .emf, .wmf, .dwf & .stl file extensions
Open/Save - .dwg, .dxf, ,dwf, .dxb & *.dwt file extensions
Export three-dimensional models to an .obj (Wavefront Technologies) file
Import map files by connecting to PostgreSQL, MySQL, and WFS servers
Use the Audit command to check for errors in .ifc files that are attached as underlays
Export to .pdf files using an improved interface.
BIM entities/objects (4MCAD PRO)
ADT Objects (architectural desktop objects): Creates ADT walls, openings (windows, doors), curtain walls, stairs, ramps, roofs, rails, studs, joists etc
Conversion of entities to walls and slabs.
Steel Elements: creates steelwork elements: profiles, plates, bolts, studs, joists etc.
Wood Elements: creates woodwork elements.
Creation of elevation lines and section lines.
3D Solid Modelling (4MCAD PRO)
Conversion of entities to three-dimensional meshes or surfaces using the Convert to Mesh and Convert to Surface commands.
Facet Modeler to draw these 3D entity types: box (FMBOX), cone (FMCONE), cylinder (FMCYLINDER), pyramid (FMPYRAMID), sphere (FMSPHERE), and torus (FMTORUS).
Draw construction lines using the new Construction Line command.
FM3DCONVERT and FMEXTRUDE commands to convert more types of three-dimensional entities to other types of three-dimensional entities.
Editing of the 3D entities of the new Facet Modeler: 3D convert (FM3DCONVERT), extrude (FMEXTRUDE), intersect (FMINTERSECT), revolve (FMREVOLVE), subtract (FMSUBTRACT), and union (FMUNION)
Interface
Tool Palette (acad-like Tool Palette)
Ribbon menus & menu bar interface, both together at the same time.
Α number of facilities and auxiliary tools such as Quick CUI command, Right-click a drawing tab to see options for the tab, Cursor Types (regular, gunsightand XOR when overlapping a same color area), “Save Workspace” command for saving a workspace and its settings, “Close All Others” command to close all drawing windows except the current one and many others.
Home view or use of the rotate arrows using the view cube.
New Visualized ribbon tab
Blocks and External references
Insertion of Dynamic blocks
Convert Block to XRef to convert each occurrence of a selected block to an external reference.
Find and replace blocks (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Block Library with up to 1000 blocks (4MCAD PRO)
Block Library Manager (4MCAD PRO)
Insertion of blocks in table cells
Selecting and modifying entities
Selection Filter command to display the Selection Filter pane (allowing to filter and select entities by layer, color, entity type, and linetype).
Selection Cycling tab to specify how to select when selecting entities that overlap.
Overkill command to delete or combine duplicate or overlapping entities.
View and select a range of actions on the Undo/Redo toolbar
Thicken command to convert surfaces and meshes into three-dimensional solids with a specified thickness (4MCAD PRO).
Additional grips and properties to polygons, rectangles and break lines, for smart editing.
Break at Point command to break an entity into two without removing a portion of the entity.
3D Positioner command to move and rotate entities interactively in three-dimensional space.
Capability to explode remote text (rtext) entities in drawings created in another CAD program.
Viewing
Advanced Photo-realistic 3D Rendering (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Raster Image Support (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Graphical Block Preview
CAMERA command to create and modify view settings for a drawing
Text
Work with multiline text using right-to-left fonts.
Create additional types of lists for multiline text.
Resize text using the Scale Text command.
Draw a circle, rectangle, or dashed line around text using the Enclose Text with Shape command.
Position text within a defined space using the Text Fit command.
Export Layout to Model (.dwg)
Publish drawings to DWF and DWFx.
3D Printing files
Auto Publish command to automatically create electronic files (.dwf/.pdf) from the current drawing.
APIs
Microsoft .NET 4.5 API - .NET wrappers for architectural objects.
Load IRX applications automatically in IntelliCAD via the registry.
Autodesk® Development System (ADS) support
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications - VBA 7.1 (4MCAD PRO)
LISP support (including DCL)
Enhanced Performance
High performance when snapping to .pdf files, blocks with many nested entities and point clouds.
Zoom and Pan, extremely fast for clipped external references.
Opening external reference files much faster.
Enhanced performance when selecting by window.
Incremental saving of .dwg files is supported, providing much faster saving of large .dwg files that contain only a few changes.
Faster polyline vectorization.
Quick Select command is faster by 2x in large drawings.
Faster display of large geographic images.
Faster cursor response in large drawings with no selection preview.
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