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Brand new in 2024, ActCAD Nesting is a complete drafting and nesting software package that supports regular and true shape nestings suitable for the sheet metal, textile, fashion, leather, and footwear industries. Its advanced nesting algorithm has been optimized for several years and allows for features such as cutter diameters, preferential hole filling, turbo mode, sequencing, and more.

ActCAD Nesting natively works in .dwg and .dxf file formats while also working with many other file formats.  

Headed to the Carlson Software User Conference April 22-24, 2024 in Spokane, Washington, US? Check out IntelliCAD while you're there! Carlson Software delivers a suite of products, several of which include IntelliCAD.

Go West 2024 will host educational and training sessions that cover a variety of industries, products, and workflows for civil, field, surveying, construction, mining, photogrammetry, and 3D precision. 

Headed to BIM World Paris on April 3 or 4 next week? While there, you can see ACCA presenting on current BIM topics and also live demonstrations of their BIM technologies.

This March, come check out FRAMECAD at one of their upcoming shows in Florida, USA to learn about how they use IntelliCAD in their steel frame design and build systems.

If you're investigating CAD platforms, you might find it helpful to take a look at the Using IntelliCAD guide which is available at lulu.com in ebook format.

Using IntelliCAD describes how to use IntelliCAD to draw in 2D and 3D, view drawings, dimension entities, work with layers, insert blocks and external references, add custom programs, and everything else you expect from a CAD program.

Carlson Software is also there at the ISEE Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, USA. Head on over to see them and the IntelliCAD engine!

CADian 2024 is available now! The latest version includes various features to significantly enhance design workflow efficiency, such as strengthened CADian Explorer functionality, modification previews, super hatches, quick attribute window, enhanced 3D modeling capabilities, AEC Style Manager, Set Z All command, table cell properties, and more.

For CADian 2024 users, complimentary access is provided to industry-specific third-party extensions, including CADian Architectural 3D, CADian Mechanical (MechClick), CADian Civil (Dream), and others.

Just-released CMS IntelliCAD 12.0 includes all the new features found in the IntelliCAD 12.0 engine, including the ability to create reports and report templates, create super hatches, dynamically display and customize the Quick Properties pane, draw splines using control vertices and knot parameterization, use the Geometric Center snap, and export tables to .csv files. CMS IntelliCAD versions with BIM functionality now include AEC styles, roof and ceiling plane symbols for creating roof and ceiling planes, and AEC levels.

Carlson Software just released its Carlson 2024 product line. General enhancements are found in drawing setup, 3D viewing, drawing inspection, and more. Carlson Survey includes improvements to edit-process raw functionality, importing DBX, SurvNET, Carlson Cloud, field to finish, and legal description writer. Carlson Civil contains improved road network and ParkingNET functionality, curb ramps, and templates. Carlson Hydrology delivers many enhancements to sewer networks. And there's a whole lot more.