"CAD Software for Mac and PC. Perfect for a wide variety of design."

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.

ViaCAD users like you show it best.
These few samples from thousands of ViaCAD users say it best.

Christopher Sikora
The medical implant device show here was designed using ViaCAD. The invention was inspired by complications Christopher's son experienced fighting cancer and provides an alternative solution to intravenous nutrition used to kill bacteria. According to Christopher , ViaCAD is "incredibly intuitive, visually refined, and powerful" providing practical tools at an affordable price.

George Davidson
George uses ViaCAD in his construction business to design cabinets, batrooms, closets, and other building projects. In the bathroom project shown here, George used ViaCAD to determine the amount of pipe and fittings requred for the job. George said he likes ViaCAD because it's easy to "explore things in my head" before purchasing material.

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


LogiCursor makes concept to reality a snap

LogiCursor visually works with you in the design process.
LogiCursor Technology anticipates your move and shows you a suggested action to complete it. You draw faster and with more precision.

LogiCursor automatically identifies and snaps to locations of centers, endpoints, midpoints, tangents, and many more, as you draw! Labels for locations appear on the fly, allowing precision alignment in real time. The LogiCursor function can be toggled on or off at any time.

Customize LogiCursor to your drawing style by controlling sensitivity and snap filter options.

Features

Easily Turn Your Drawings Into 3D Models
Unique to ViaCAD Pro! 3D Modeling & Other Features.

Easy Access to Pro Features
• Simple Interface • Pro tools maximize productivity. - Multiple Viewports
• Over 90 Minutes of Video Training - Learn about features, tools, and tips to help you get the most out of ViaCAD Pro!
• Over 26,000 Integrated Symbols - Not a limited time subscription

Easy, fast, feature-rich, without compromise of power.
Features for every type of project - Aerospace,Industrial Design,Technical Illustration,Architectural,Prototype Models

2D Design

2D Automatic Features
Curve to Arc - Convert a spline, ellipse, or conic into a collection of arcs. Especially helpful when interfacing with CNC machines, which do not accept higher order curves. Two options: tangent continuous makes each arch tangent to its neighbor; keep preserves the original curve.
Region Trim - Rapidly trim multiple curves with a single mouse click. Click inside or outside to control which curves are kept or removed.
Automatic 2D Converter - Simple 3D to 2D conversion in one mouse click. Then create multiple 2D views with an additional mouse click!

2D Precision Tools for Faster Design
Tape Measure Tool - The tape measure tool identifies distance, distance components, and the angle relative to the work plane. The distance and angle values are displayed at the cursor for quick reference.
Planar Area Properties - Professional feature for mechanical or architectural engineers needing precise 2D section properties.
Object Transform - Transform objects using polar or linear arrays. Or use versatile tools to translate, scale, rotate, and mirror objects.

3D Design

More Pro 3D Tools
Planar Area Properties - Profesioinal feature for mechanical or architectural egineers needing precise 2D section properties.
Associative Surface Modeling - Create Surfaces acciciative to defining curves. Stitch into solids to perform feature operations.
Analysis Tools - Calculate precise volumes, weights, interferences, centers of gravity, moments of inertia, and other critical data associated with parts.

3D Dawing & Editing Features
Local Face Editing - Provides tools to modify parts independent of previous construction history. Great for working with parts designed from other CAD systems such as AutoCAD, Pro/E, or SolidWorks.
Feature Operations - Intelligent features allow you to edit parts using blending, chamfeing, holes, basses, shelling and bending tools.
Add & Remove Tool - Use Boolean toosl to add, subtract, and intersect parts, generating complex parts from simple ones.

Presentation

3D Modeling, Presentation & More
• Create Prototypes
• Section Cuts
• Texture Library Includes 1500+ items

3D Draw/Edit Features
• Convert 2D profiles into 3D
• History Based Modeling
• Complex Blending
• Complex Shapes
• Twisting & Bending

Complex Design

Precision Tools

Trim Surfaces
ViaCAD Pro supports high end surface trimming operations. Trim to projected text or curves on a surface. Keep, delete or move trim portions based on desing requirements.

Surface Analysis
Surface analysis tools in ViaCAD Pro provides feedback as to smoothness characteristics of the underlying NURB definitons. These tools include curvature and zebra plots. Curvature plot options include Gaussian, Mean, Minimum, Radius, and Maximum Radius. Zebra plots are specifically useful for examining surface continuity between adjacent surfaces.

Surface Matching
Perform class A surface matching operation on neighboring surfaces with either G1 (tangent) G2 (curvature) continuity options.

Skin With Guided Curves
Skin between blue profiles and use green guide curves to further refine and control shape of complex objects.

Surface Booleans
ViaCAD Pro supports Boolean operations on open surfaces. Perform addition and subtraction operations to quickly merge or remove surface areas.

Tangent Covers
The Tangent Cover creates an n-sided surface that is tangent continous to it's surrounding surfaces. The tool is useful for filling voids between surfaces and for capping objects.

Surface functions

Offset Surfaces
Offer surfaces maintan a constant distance normal to a referenced surface. ViaCAD Pro includes offsetting complex trimmed NURB surfaces.

Deformations
Modifying a face using inflate or deflate terminology. Or move a portion of a face to a specific location using the face deformation tools of ViaCAD Pro

Bending Along Curve
The feature will bend a solid along an axis or along a curve. The along curve option will automatically stretch or compress the new shape to precisely flow along the path.