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nanoCAD 24

nanoCAD’s 3D Solid Modeling module extends the nanoCAD platform with direct and parametric modeling. It is designed to construct 3D assemblies with 3D constraints and xrefs, and to handle sheet metal modeling.

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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
  • Tool palettes
  • Sheet sets
  • IFC support
  • Powerful Excel-style table editor
  • 2D/3D Point Clouds

Main features

nanoCAD 24 comes with a complete set of design tools for both basic and advanced projects to help you create and edit 2D/3D objects with ease. It lets you draw and modify most geometric objects in multiple ways. Learn more about the features.

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Wide range of Visual Styles

nanoCAD features the abililty to customize visual styles. The editor allows you to create your own style that you can save in the template file. The new visual style "black and white" almost completely imitates a drawing for you in the viewport.

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External References

External references (Xref) allow you to use the same file (such as a drawing or block) in multiple projects. This simplifies work and saves time, as changes to the source file are automatically reflected in all projects where it is used.

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Named views

This nanoCAD functionality allows to create a named view in one click. Set views with the locator tool, name them and then quickly switch between them.

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IFC and BCF

Import IFC files and view them in nanoCAD. nanoCAD also offers BCF functionality; open an IFC file that’s created in a different BIM system and simply exchange notes on it.

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Point Clouds

nanoCAD imports point clouds into drawings. The Import dialog box allows you to import only the regions of clouds you need. Then create and modify clouds with sections and clips.

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Locator View rotation mode

With the Expanded Locator Functionality, you can interactively rotate the view of a model while holding down the Alt key. The mode allows you to rotate around the axis of the viewing direction.

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Wide range of Visual Styles

nanoCAD features the abililty to customize visual styles. The editor allows you to create your own style that you can save in the template file. The new visual style "black and white" almost completely imitates a drawing for you in the viewport.

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External References

External references (Xref) allow you to use the same file (such as a drawing or block) in multiple projects. This simplifies work and saves time, as changes to the source file are automatically reflected in all projects where it is used.

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Named views

This nanoCAD functionality allows to create a named view in one click. Set views with the locator tool, name them and then quickly switch between them.

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IFC and BCF

Import IFC files and view them in nanoCAD. nanoCAD also offers BCF functionality; open an IFC file that’s created in a different BIM system and simply exchange notes on it.

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Point Clouds

nanoCAD imports point clouds into drawings. The Import dialog box allows you to import only the regions of clouds you need. Then create and modify clouds with sections and clips.

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Locator View rotation mode

With the Expanded Locator Functionality, you can interactively rotate the view of a model while holding down the Alt key. The mode allows you to rotate around the axis of the viewing direction.

Other important 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.

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.

(New) 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.

Enhanced UNDO/REDO

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

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.