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ViaCAD Pro v7

ViaCAD Pro v7

The Power of ViaCAD with the realism of RayTrace Rendering
Download - Windows -  $249.99 
Download - Macintosh -  $249.99 
CD in Sleeve - Macintosh/Windows -  $249.99 



Product Information

New for Version 7

Photorealistic Rendering

ViaCAD Pro now includes photorealistic rendering to add visual realism to your designs. Drag and drop materials, textures, and decals onto parts. Use the material editor to tweak reflectance, color, displacement, transparency, and texture space attributes. Add lights, backgrounds, foregrounds or environment maps to further enhance the scene. For output, ViaCAD Pro provides options to generate high quality poster size images.

The Gripper

An intuitive graphical widget that attaches to your objects allowing you to dynamically move, rotate, and scale objects in 2D or 3D.

Custom Palettes

Create palettes using your favorite combination of tools. Use this new feature to customize ViaCAD Pro for your specific workflow process.

Inspector

Easily modify and set the default values for pen, fill, text, and dimension attributes.

More Modeling Power

Curves Extend curve by length, to point, or to another curve.
Surfacing Match by position and surface extend.
Splines Dynamic creation for Bezier, control point and interpolate splines.
Dimension New centerline dimension tool

Professionals Prefer ViaCAD. Here's Why...

Great Value

ViaCAD has more powerful features and tools than many CAD packages costing much more.

2D/3D Seamless Interface

Toggle between 2D and 3D, with one mouse click. Start in 2D, add 3D with surface solid modeling tools. Then click back to 2D, making precision editing a snap.

Professional Tools for Savvy Users

Tools designed for both simple and complex tasks to increase productivity. Pros will appreciate tools for surface analysis, deformation, tangent covers, surface Booleans, and more. Autodraw functions, multiple viewports, and textures add a new level of ease and speed, as you draw.

Effortless Cross-Platforming & Compatibility

Share your files with Mac and PC ViaCAD users. Import and export options for popular drafting and drawing formats such as AutoCAD, DWG, .DXF, Adobe Illustrator, and Punch! Home Design products.

  Import Export
DWG, DXF
Google® Sketchup™  
Punch! Objects  
Adobe® EPS  
Adobe® Illustrator® v8
BMP
STEP
PICT-Mac
Grid Surface  
TEXT
CGM  
ACIS® SAT
IGES
Rhino 3DM  
Spline  
Truespace COB  
WaveFront™ OBJ
TurboCAD™ Mac
ViaCAD™ PC/Mac

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows®: Recommended Requirements: Microsoft© Windows® XP Home/Pro SP3, Windows Vista® SP2, Windows® 7, Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ class processor, 4 GB of hard disk space, 1 GB of RAM, Video card, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), DVD-ROM Drive. Macintosh®: Recommended Requirements: Macintosh® OS 10.5 or higher, Intel® Mac®, 4 GB of hard disk space, 1GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), DVD-ROM Drive.