ViaCAD 2D/3D has intelligent design tools and an unbeatable price to performance ratio that makes it the ideal choice for CAD designers everywhere. ViaCAD 2D/3D- PC (V6). Only versions 8,9 and 10 of both the ViaCAD and Shark products are compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1. And Yosemite.

• Viacad 2d 3d V9

With the addition of Push/Pull Modeling and 3D Architectural tools, V8 continues to deliver unprecedented ease of use with 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools perfect.

ViaCAD™ 2D/3D provides ease of use with an extensive collection of tools to assist in all of your drawing projects. With intuitive, precision 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools, ViaCAD™ is perfect for architectural drawings, mechanical designs, electrical schematics, Do-It-Yourself projects and more. It’s the perfect design tool for CAD software novices and seasoned designers alike.

Detailed Drafting ViaCAD™ provides a vast array of precision drawing and editing tools, including:. A wide selection of pen styles, color, hatch patterns, and fills. PrecisionPoint™ – enter coordinates, lengths, angles, and offsets quickly and easily.

Smart Dimension tool utilizes standards like Ansi, DIN, ISO, JIS, BSI, even custom dimension preferences. Tolerance dimension styles are also available for mechanical drafting.

Viacad 2d 3d V9

Metric and imperial measurements. Powerful 3D Modeling Create 3D models with a variety of shapes, then edit your designs with Booleans, extrusions, chamfers, blending and more. Take advantage of surface modeling to create complex smooth, curved surfaces. Choose from a variety of modeling methods that best suits the task at hand including 2D drafting, surface modeling, feature based solid modeling, or push/pull direct editing.

From 2D to 3D with One Click Start your drawing in 2D and use it to generate a 3D model. Even choose to automatically update the model as you modify the drawing. Libraries of Symbols and Templates Drag and drop any of 26,000 symbols from categories including architectural, mechanical, electrical, electronic, piping and more. Create flow charts, electrical diagrams, DIY designs for furniture or 3D models of anything you can imagine. Drawing wizards even help you set up your project. Easy Collaboration Complete support for metric units makes ViaCAD™ perfect for sharing work between neighbors, companies and countries.

Even share your data with other applications using one of ViaCAD's many supported file formats. Other Key Features. LogiCursor™ positions the cursor based on angles, snap points, and relationship with other parts of your drawing. Push/Pull Modeling – Intuitive 3D creation and editing. Use your mouse and cursor to drag 2D into 3D or drag 3D faces to change shape. Architectural Tools – Self-healing wall tools, composite wall capabilities, 3D walls/doors/windows.

Add elements with a mouse click, then texture for presentations. Place and modify doors and windows in 3D. Enhanced Gripper graphical editing assistant – Easily edit your drawing with mouse and cursor. Rotate faces in 3D or even drag and drop copies. High Precision Models suitable for concept-to-manufacturing. 19 File Formats to share data including.STL,.DXF/.DWG,.STEP,.IGES, and.SAT.

26,000 Symbols. More than an hour of Training Videos. Whether you’re designing furniture, mechanical parts, detailed architectural plans or a new backyard deck, ViaCAD™ is your must-have design assistant. Release Notes Version: 8.0.3 Size: 574.6 MB This update improves overall stability and adds some additional enhancements. Improved Push/Pull tool stability Push/Pull tool is now associative to the original 2D geometry Added Import support for PLY file format New Delete Bill Of Materials Attribute option Updates to the Gripper Improved mesh selections and modifications Improved memory management Addressed circumstances that caused a crash 50+ minor corrections and improvements Version: 8.0.2 Size: 566.8 MB - Removed unimplemented languages.

Screenshots Mac OSX. Great for the price, with some caveats (8.0.3) 2/14/2013 1:08:00 AM 4/5 By CanMan111 Overall, this is a fantastic product for the price.

It is very similar to Solidworks in many respects, and users of Solidworks will find it easy to get started. For basic 2D and 3D drawing, you can get going very quickly. The software is stable and runs well on my MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM. If you are going to use this tool to have machined parts made, there are a couple of steps you will need that are not in the documentation, and took me a bit of work to figure out. In particular, management of sheets that are generated from 3D drawings is not really covered in the manual, and the addition of dimensions to a sheet that came from a 3D drawing took some experimenting. I was able to figure it out, but it took me a while.

Tech support is non-existent. The company makes it a point to not put any contact information on their web site. So, if you are reasonably good with software, you can probably get what you want from this program. If you are looking for a well-documented product with good tech support, this might not be a good value. It is a good price, but if you can't get it to do what you need, then it is not a bargain at any price.

Complicated, buggy and missing basic functionality (8.0.3) 1/6/2013 2:56:00 AM 2/5 By gerardrj This program has a steep learning curve. Yes, they have on-line tutorials and videos but they blow through the material very quickly and assume you already know how to use the software. I purchased the program to design a house I want to build and the process has been halted frequently with me almost tearing my hair out.

Some of the issues: 1. Inserting a window or door in a wall takes two clicks for no apparently good reason (select wall, select window center). Why can't I just click the wall once to insert a window/door 2. Delete a window or door and a hole is left in the wall. Re-draw the screen, hole stays. At some point the app catches up and re-draws the solid wall but there is no reliable way to cause it to happen 3.

Draw a wall, Draw an intersecting wall. There is no positive indiacator that the walls will be joined, you have to guess and keep fine-tuning the location of one of the walls until it decides to draw the intersection. Want to re-size a wall.

You'd think you could just click the end of the wall and drag it, but no you must drag a box around the end of the wall then drag. The 'Bring to front' and 'send to back' functions simply don't work. Draw a box with fill. Draw a line across the box. You can NOT get the line to draw over the box, it will always go behind the box. Layers don't help at all. Zooming is hyper-active with a Magic Mouse.

Just trying to move the mouse can cause rampant zoom changes. CMD-F (fit to window) is the most common function I use in this application. I frequently can't get the app to quit. It wil start quitting, remove the top tool/status bar then just sit there with one open drawing and no tools.

Either there is no functionality to adjust the transparency of individual components, or the function is fundamentally broken. In trying to find work-arounds for #5 I can't get the transparency of any but one object to change. When you open a file the transpareny setting is ignored until you try to change it, then the object is suddenly drawn correctly again. The auto-3D function is cool, as is the 'auto-roof' but for even general arcitectural design work this program is a chore to use when it works correctly and downright frustrating when it (frequenty) misbehaves. The application simply refuses to properly remember 'recently opened' files. A file I worked on last night and saved does not show in the recent list, but a file I haven't worked on in weeks is there. The auto-3D function is cool, as is the 'auto-roof' but for even general arcitectural design work this program is a chore to use when it works correctly and downright frustrating when it (frequently) mis-behaves.

If you are looking for a program to do any sort of achitectural drawing with, look on and ignore this program.