Overview

DoubleCAD^TM XT PRO is a 2D CAD application with advanced features for outstanding drafting and detailing. It also includes powerful 2D design tools for architectural and mechanical use. 

Works like AutoCAD LTE. But better. Click HERE to find out how.

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DoubleCAD^TM XT Pro is the powerful upgrade to CNET review editor's highest 5-Star rated DoubleCAD XT.

It's an AutoCAD LT® work-alike. But better. For about half the price.

Features

Highlights include:

• Drawing compare
• Hatch pattern creator
• Geometric & dimensional constraints
• Range of intelligent, ACA/ADT compatible architectural objects, including:
• Walls (self-healing; straight and curved)
  *Doors
  *Windows
  *Roofs
  *Rails
  *Slabs
  *Stairs
• Powerful detailing (create associative, 2D views or hatched sections, even from xrefs; cross sections of cross sections; etc.)
• Design Director
• Style Manager
• Self-healing walls (ACA/ADT compatible)
• Self-aligning blocks
• Transparent fills
• Draw order by layer
• Hide objects regardless of layer
• Object snap prioritization
• Explode viewports to create flat 2D geometry, including hidden line views
• Bezier curves
• Advanced polyline editing
• Automatic scaling of units between drawings
• Parametric variable palette
• Input multiple unit types on-the-fly
• Brush style editor
• Enhanced format painter
• Fixed ratio ellipses tools
• Smart dimensions
• Nested xrefs
• Embed images files in drawings
• Superior workflow with Google SketchUp and SketchUp Pro
• Open & save 30 file formats, including .DWG, .DXF, and .DWF formats from AutoCAD R14 to 2009. (Note, any importable file type can be used as an xref.)
• Batch file conversion
• SDK (Software Developers Kit)
• 12-month free premium customer support (email, forum)

Professional Power
DoubleCAD^TM XT PRO is a 2D CAD application with advanced features for outstanding drafting and detailing. It also includes powerful 2D design tools for architectural and mechanical use.

Familiar Environment
DoubleCAD XT PRO is designed to minimize switching costs, and protect your intellectual property in existing drawings. You will be up to speed quickly, immediately benefitting from advances in productivity that will provide a quick return on investment (ROI).

Excellent .dwg support coupled with the ability to read and write nearly 30 file formats, means you will be able to protect and continue to profit from your existing drawings. Unlike IntelliCAD products, DoubleCAD XT PRO is not trying to be an AutoCAD® clone; rather it is designed as an AutoCAD LT® work-alike by providing a user interface similar to the AutoCAD classic interface. The menus, tools, command line, and other user interface elements will be familiar so that you may quickly move on to exploring our innovative advancements.

With the launch of version 2 it should be even more comfortable as many changes have been made to ensure the ESC key, Space Bar, and Enter key behave more consistently. This is so that the muscle memory of AutoCAD users, the reflexive commands so to speak, are consistent right from the start.

Affordable Innovations Enhance Productivity
We've listened to professional designers and drafters, so DoubleCAD XT PRO goes beyond AutoCAD LT to provide more advanced drafting and detailing capabilities at an attractive and affordable price. DoubleCAD XT PRO is for anyone who performs drafting and detailing regularly who is dissatisfied with the cost, lack of innovation, and stagnation of leading 2D CAD applications.

DoubleCAD XT PRO also excels at 2D parametric design with features such as parametric constraints, scripted parametric parts, architectural tools, and parametric AEC objects.

And now with version 2 there is support for customization through the Software Developers' Kit (SDK). The PRO version allows for all sorts of routines, features, or full-fledged vertical applications to be developed and added right to the user interface.

Whether you are starting a project with 2D design, or documenting a 3D model created in another application, DoubleCAD XT PRO streamlines workflows as a companion to many third-party applications.

Some of the valuable features that go beyond AutoCAD LT, and even beyond DoubleCAD XT, include:

• Support for nearly30 file formats allows you to document designs from the most popular 3D modeling systems. Many AutoCAD® users have to purchase file filters to bring in a .SKP (Google^TM SketchUp^TM), .STP, .IGES, .3DM (Rhinoceros®), .3DS (Autodesk® 3ds Max®), .STL, or other models.
• The drafting palette creates associative sections, elevations, and details from existing 3D models, even Xrefs of the models. This is a feature typically found only in expensive MCAD applications for work with solid models, but our drafting palette is designed to work with surface models too - and you can use it on an Xref, even from a SketchUp model.
• Parametric constraints, which are typically found in expensive CAD applications like AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor®, CATIA or SolidWorks® from Dassault Systems, or Solid Edge from Siemens PLM Software.
• Architectural tools, such as those found in AutoCAD Architecture.

Drawing Compare - NEW Feature
An important new feature in version 2 of DoubleCAD^TM XT PRO is the bundling of the DoubleCAD Drawing Compare application. This application installs a menu item so that it can be launched directly from within the Tools menu of DoubleCAD. Select two drawings, whether .2CD, .DWG, or .BMP images, and Drawing Compare will perform a visual comparison of the two.

There are options to switch from one to the other, to show only the differences, or to have the differences blink, quickly highlighting where changes have been made. Zoom In or select to Zoom to Differences to quickly spot any updates.

The drawing comparison is an invaluable aid when working collaboratively on a project, or when picking up an older project and looking to see the status of updates. Use it to compare a design and an As Built drawing to see where changes have been implemented.

Requirements

PC :
Minimum: Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (SP4), XP (SP2), Vista or Windows® 7; 500Mhz or higher processor; 750MB free hard drive space; 512MB RAM (1 GB RAM Recommended); DVD-ROM drive; Video Card with OpenGL driver and 32MB RAM (64MB RAM Recommended); Color monitor with 1024x768 resolution or higher.