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Modular Building Institute's 2025 Innovative Product award goes to... ITC member FRAMECAD's Nexa. The award highlights Nexa's innovation in productivity, safety, cost effectiveness, sustainability, and more. 

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Nexa is part of FRAMECAD's end-to-end steel frame design and manufacturing system for rapid construction of buildings. It enhances jobsite efficiency, streamlines factory operations, and simplifies project management, providing real-time data insights, quality control, and capacity management. 

To learn how FRAMECAD benefits from IntelliCAD and collaboration with the ITC, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium congratulates member company ProgeSOFT SA on the release of progeCAD 2026, the latest version of its native DWG/DXF CAD platform for Windows.

ProgeCAD 2026 is released on the new engine with enhanced performance, more automation and specialised tools to speed up daily drafting and design tasks of a CAD professional. The new release showcases the AI Raster Draw toolset integrated to unlock the full potential of CAD designers who make use of scanned drawings and bitmap images in their drafting projects. Thanks to the added AI-based features, it is possible to convert raster images to vector objects editing and cleaning up these images straight in the progeCAD application.

Highlighting the new industry-specific capabilities available for progeCAD 2026, it is worth mentioning the recent porting of two new plugins to progeCAD: Aplitop's tcpMDT for progeCAD intended for professionals in surveying, civil engineering, AEC industries, and SPCAD for progeCAD, the plugin for topography, cartography and cadastral mapping.

ProgeSOFT’s ongoing investment in IntelliCAD technology is an example of how ITC members leverage the platform to create full-featured CAD applications tailored to their markets. Congratulations to the ProgeSOFT team on another successful release.

Consult all new and enhanced progeCAD 2026 features on the official website.

Watch the progeCAD 2026 What's New Video presentation.

Download the progeCAD 2026 30-day fully-functional trial HERE.

Available for the ActCAD 2025 product suite, ActCAD maintenance release 1310485 is now available, which includes numerous improvements and fixes. New commands are also available: EDWFX and FSQKUNGROUP, GEOREORIENTMARKER, RECOVERALL, FREESPOT and FREEWEB, and more. To get the latest ActCAD 2025 Premium, Standard, and Map Drafter versions, ActCAD users can update using the ActCAD command CHECKFORUPDATES.

The most recent ActCAD versions are also available directly from the ActCAD website in the downloads area.

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With products from the ActCAD suite, you can natively create and edit .dwg files for 2D drafting, 3D modeling, BIM (Building Information Modeling), and map digitization projects. ActCAD includes global perpetual licenses and has several licensing options.

ActCAD 2025 is now based on the IntelliCAD 13.1 engine. The ActCAD release includes custom changes to IntelliCAD source code to match its requirements, which is not possible with any other OEM CAD engine. To learn more about OEM options using the IntelliCAD engine, go here. To learn about how ActCAD benefits from membership in the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium, see the success story.

Headed to one of these tradeshows starting May 7, 2025? ITC member FRAMECAD will be there—check them out and learn how they use IntelliCAD in their steel frame design and build systems.

• Sydney Build
  May 7-8, 2025
  Sydney, Australia
• The Offsite Show
  May 7-9, 2025
  London, UK
• CFSEI Expo
  May 7-8, 2025
  Raleigh, NC, US

For more details and to book a meeting for a show, go to framecad.com/events.

FRAMECAD uses IntelliCAD in its end-to-end steel frame design and manufacturing system for rapid construction of buildings. To learn how FRAMECAD benefits from ITC membership, read the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

Headed to Carlson Software User Conference May 6-8, 2025? ITC member Carlson Software delivers a suite of products—many include IntelliCAD. Make sure you check out IntelliCAD while you're there!

The conference is hosting educational and training sessions that cover a variety of industries, products, and workflows for civil, field, surveying, construction, mining, photogrammetry, and 3D precision. They're also spotlighting how they use AI in their products.

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Find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together in this success story. To learn how IntelliCAD helps developers and their products seamlessly use .dwg, go here.

ITC member 4M is now shipping Idea Architecture 24, built with IntelliCAD. Idea Architecture 24 is a complete code redesign and features ongoing BIM file interoperability, 3D BIM architectural composition, topographical design, and much more.

Attending BIM World or Esri IMGIS in April? Head over to see ACCA and learn more about how they integrate the IntelliCAD engine with their products. ACCA delivers software designed for architectural design, structural engineering, analyzing and calculating, energy performance analysis, quantitative studies, site health and safety, and maintenance and management of BIM processes.BIM World
April 2-3, 2025
Paris, France 

Esri International Infrastructure Management and GIS Conference
April 9-11, 2025
Frankfurt, Germany

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ACCA is a member of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium and delivers several BIM and technical products based on the IntelliCAD engine. To learn more about IntelliCAD's BIM technology, go here.

Got a collapsed drift that needs evaluating? Carlson C-ALS HD Scanner accessed a collapsed drift and generated images, video, geographic data, and point clouds. Then using Carlson products, many of which come with IntelliCAD, the condition of the drift could be assessed.

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IntelliCAD is the default CAD engine built-in with Carlson Software products. To find out how Carlson Software and the ITC work together, see the success story. To find out more about IntelliCAD's .dwg technology, go here.

ZWSOFT recently held an Electric Motorcycle Design Competition in Indonesia. And the winners are...

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The competition attracted a wide range of talent, from undergraduate students to seasoned professionals, to use ZWSOFT ZW3D for their designs. Known for its CAD/CAE/CAM design capabilities, ZW3D powered the electric motorcycle designs to completion.

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ZWSOFT has been an ITC member since 2002, and its products are used by over 900,000 users from more than 90 countries and districts. 

CADirect is available in different versions that can include AEC and BIM support, Print2CAD 2026 AI, CADconv AI, CADGPT, and more.

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CADirect 2026 is based on the IntelliCAD 13.1 engine. To learn more about IntelliCAD and its .dwg technology, go here.