Melbourne, Australia — Accelicad.com.au today released AcceliCAD 2011 Standard with support for DWG 2010 and 2011 files as well as many features to enhance user productivity and enjoyment.  At just $149, AcceliCAD Standard slashes the price of DWG-compatible CAD software to a level that's affordable for students, hobbyists and professionals alike.

“Users are looking for quality CAD software at an affordable price”, said Ronald Prepchuk, President of Autodsys. “Our standard version gives them the editing tools and compatibility they need along with the assurance that they can get more powerful tools when they need them.” he added.   AcceliCAD is based on IntelliCAD code from the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium and includes many enhancements specific to Autodsys.

AcceliCAD 2011 Standard provides the majoriity of AcceliCAD program functionality with the exception of VBA, ACIS 3D modeling & editing, photorealistic rendering and a number of productivity features that are exclusive to AcceliCAD Pro version. See a version comparison page . 

Key enhancements to AcceliCAD 2011 Standard

• Support for AutoCAD 2010-2011 files
• Four different toolbar bitmap choices - Choose from bitmaps that are similar to AutoCAD 14-2002, AutoCAD 2004-2011 in blue or green, or IntelliCAD 6.6 or later.

AcceliCAD Standard Enhancements Over IntelliCAD Standard

• Polar Angle snapping with Tracking
• Heads Up Keyboard Entry
• Four different toolbar bitmap choices - Choose from bitmaps that are similar to AutoCAD 14-2002, AutoCAD 2004-2011 in blue or green, or IntelliCAD 6.6 or later.  Select the one that is most pleasing or familiar to you.
• Heads Up Keyboard Entry
• Entity Information Window
• System Variable Editor
• Birds-eye Aerial Viewer

At any time users may upgrade to AcceliCAD Pro for the difference in price and gain these additional features and enhancements:

• ETransmit packages all related files including xref's, fonts, and images into a zip file with notes that can be sent to others via email
• Quick Select Select groups of objects for editing operations by specifying matching properties such as layer, color, linetype, or lineweight, or specific types of objects such as all polylines
• Find and Replace - Search any text objects in the drawing including TEXT, MTEXT, Attributes, Dimensions, or Hyperlinks and replace any or all instances with new text as well as zoom to the location
• Array Wizard - Dialog with point and click control of rectangular and polar arrays and preview prior to placing
• Workspace Manager - Select from different pre-defined workspace configurations or create your own.  Default configurations include 2D Drafting, 3D Basics, and 3D Modeling.
• UCS Toolbar Enhancements - All UCS features have been placed on a toolbar along with a pull-down list of all available UCS's including 3D views
• Viewpoint Toolbar Enhancements - Select from standard 3D predefined viewpoints
• 3D Detailing Shapes - Steel and wood shapes can now be created in 3D between two points or by following a polyline path
• Sheetset support - The Batch Plotting function will now open sheetset (sht) files and all layouts
• Network License Management to share licenses with multiple users
• Nearly 200 Additional Hatch Patterns
• Improved Batch Plotting with import and export to Excel
• Toolbar enhancements with one-touch toggle of toolbars to clear the drawing area.
• Encryption/Decryption mechanism for lisp files, hatch patterns, and block libraries
• 100's of user-requested fixes
• VBALOAD - loading of multiple .vbi files at the same time
• Editing of proxy objects – custom objects created in Autodesk applications such as Architecture, Civil, or Mechanical can be edited in AcceliCAD. This function is limited to those objects that will display.
• Reference editing of blocks and xrefs including dimming of non-selected objects
• Custom Entity Display - used by third party applications such as AutoLINE to extend the power of AcceliCAD.
• 2D Projector – create two-dimensional drawings of three-dimensional objects 
• Right-click editing of TEXT and MTEXT objects
• Batch plotting interface allows the plotting of multiple drawings and layouts in one step. Different paper sizes, scales, and pen settings can be applied to each plot. Each batch plot set can be saved to a file for reuse the next time a set of printouts is required.
• Enhanced attribute editing with the new EATTEDIT command
• Enhanced block creation with the new BBLOCK command
• Toolbar pull-down for setting viewport scale
• commands BTRIM and BEXTEND accept blocks as boundaries for trimming and extending entities
• objects snap “FROM” locates entities relative to a point
• Quick dimensioning feature will dimension an entire part or plan in one easy step. Methods supported include continuous, baseline, staggered, ordinate, radius, and datum point.
• Dimension-driven editing, allowing a user to modify a dimension and see the object change to match the new dimension.
• Entity information window that displays relevant information about an object when the user places the cursor over it. This feature also works with ArchT objects to display the object type, style, and size.
• Navigator Toolkit with hundreds of blocks and hundreds of editing commands

AcceliCAD 2011 Standard is also available at $99 as a competitive upgrade from another CAD program. See the upgrade section online for more info.

About AcceliCAD
AcceliCAD is based on the popular IntelliCAD software and contains all of its standard features including DWG file support as well as support for industry standard commands, menu files, script files, shape files, text fonts, hatch patterns, linetypes, LISP programs, SDS/C++ programs, and VBA programs. It also contains many advanced features that make it easier to create and edit DWG files.