nanoCAD is a professional-grade CAD platform fully compatible with the industry’s DWG standard. It offers the standard user interface with a wide set of tools for 2D/3D drafting that can be extended with modules specific to the needs of professionals in engineering, architecture, and construction.
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What you get

Professional CAD platform based on the industry’s standard DWG format

The nanoCAD platform is the ultimate tool for creating, editing, validating, sharing, and managing CAD models. It switches instantly between ribbon and classic styles of the CAD interface so that you can start working with it right away. nanoCAD supports all active versions of DWG, the world’s most popular format for storing CAD drawings – right up to today’s DWG 2018 and all the way back to DWG R11. Registered nanoCAD users always receive technical support free.

Comprehensive Tool Set

nanoCAD 24 provides you with a full set of basic and advanced design tools for creating and editing 2D/3D objects. It offers multiple drawing and editing methods for most geometric elements.

 

Efficient printing

Advanced dimensioning functions

Reusable blocks and references

Dynamic input

Tool palettes

Sheet sets

IFC support

Powerful Excel-style table editor

2D/3D Point Clouds

Drawing recovery, audit, and cleaning utilities for damaged files

Full list of features

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Technical support

Customizable user interface

Open API

Annual updates

New in nanoCAD 24

Batch File Processing

Visual Styles Manager

Materials Library

Arc Text Command

Dimensions

Import of Page Setups in the Batch Print Dialog

Bounding Prism by Selection

UCS by 3D Object Face

IFC Import

3D Knot and Vertex Snaps to Spline

Select Group Command

Inserting an Underlay by Control Points

Highlighting External References in a Drawing

New Commands in the External References Dialog Box

Full list of new features

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nanoCAD 24 Features

User Interface

nanoCAD’s operating principles are designed to look and feel just like other well-known CAD systems. This means that any experienced designer can master nanoCAD instantly. Drawing spaces, command lines, positions of menu items, and icons are recognizable, so there is nearly no need for retraining. You can switch back and forth between the modern ribbon and classic CAD user interfaces instantly. nanoCAD’s visual interface editor customizes almost every aspect of nanoCAD. Settings can be copied from one workstation to another.

Direct DWG Format Support

The wide range of DWG versions supported by nanoCAD (from DWG R11 to today’s DWG 2018) means that drawings can be saved and reused without conversion or data loss in nanoCAD and other CAD systems. To provide a unified processing process, nanoCAD is one of the few systems on the CAD market to offer full support for DWG and all aspects related to it.

Saving unsaved files

nanoCAD’s new save feature prevents data loss in cases where the Save option is accidentally declined, such as when many files are closed at the same time. Other scenarios include deleting objects and then saving the drawing, or when the undo/redo mechanism is turned off. In these cases, the new Save File History option restores files from a temporary storage.

Open API

nanoCAD offers an extensive API for developing third-party applications and add-ons, supporting various languages like JS, VBS, LISP, .NET, and C++. Developers can use the built-in Script Editor for quick utilities or delve into .NET and C++ for more complex projects. Joining the nanoCAD Developer Club grants access to specialized APIs and support. Register on the community site to dive into the world of nanoCAD programming.

Drawing Comparison

nanoCAD allows you to find differences between two similar-looking drawings in model space. It detects objects that have been modified, added, or removed from drawings being compared.

Powerful Excel-style table editor

nanoCAD’s table editor blows away the competition with its powerful set of database-like capabilities, along with tables that embed macros and formulas in cells.

2D/3D Point Clouds

nanoCAD imports point clouds into drawings from laser scanners like TerraSolid (bin), ASPRS (las), and Leica (ptx and pts), as well as generic point cloud files (pcd). The Import dialog box is powerful enough to import only the regions of clouds you need. You can create and modify clouds with sections and clips, and tune visualization parameters, such as color by elevation.

Extensive Commands for Creating and Editing 2D/3D Objects

nanoCAD provides comprehensive tools for 2D/3D object creation and editing:

  • Create and edit 2D/3D objects, text, and design elements
  • Customize display settings and printing for technical documentation
  • Generate tables and specifications using block attributes
  • Configure working environments to international standards
  • View, create, and modify 3D surface objects
  • Seamlessly share technical information with other CAD systems
  • Insert raster images into desig

Locator Function

With the Locator tool, you interactively rotate the view of a model while holding down the Alt key, and then select any point on the locator circle, or choose one of the four marked points to rotate a view by 90◦.The arrow points to the new view rotation position.

Scripting Engine

nanoCAD’s scripting engine allows everyday users to automate routine tasks. You can write macros using Visual Basic Script, Java Script, and other scripting languages supported by Microsoft Windows as well as use the built-in LISP interpreter.

Transparency Command

The new Transparency command toggles the transparency of background pixels in raster images. Access this new command through the ribbon’s Visualization group, the Raster menu, or the Raster toolbar.

Associative Design Elements

For associative dimensions and multileaders created in other CAD systems, associativity with objects is maintained in nanoCAD. Associative links with dimensions can be broken by shifting the grips of extension lines.

More great features

Batch Plot Tools

nanoCAD lets you set up multiple plot areas and plot multi-page sets, which is useful for printing large drawings on small-format printers. The Batch Plot command creates and prints drawing sets without requiring you to babysit the printing process.

Enhanced UNDO/REDO

nanoCAD now moves forwards and backwards through isolated and unisolated objects, affecting the standard Undo/Redo mechanism.

Enhanced External References

nanoCAD improves the External References panel so that external references can be loaded and unloaded, be bound to the current drawing, and to report updates made to xref’ed files – all without needing to reload the current drawing. The redesigned panel also completely removes external references that had been inserted in the current drawing, along with all their associated data.

Enhanced Groups

nanoCAD’s object grouping tool has been reworked. Its functions are added to the context menu (right-click in the drawing), shown as individual commands in the ribbon’s Group section (found in the Main tab), and to the Group toolbar.

Relocating Base Points of Blocks

nanoCAD can change the position of base points in block definitions. The base point corresponds to the location of grips at the insertion points of block references.

New ways to create and modify geometric objects

nanoCAD now draws arcs (including elliptical ones) in the direction that the cursor moves. Circles can be drawn tangent to three other objects. Ellipses and closed polylines can be broken by picking two points. Open objects can be lengthened in both directions. Spline fit points can now be edited by holding down the Ctrl key.