

Within a few months, they'll probably send you an email with a discount of between 20 and 50 percent. If you are interested, I'd encourage you to get a trial version. It was well worth the $150 I paid for it. Analytics by project, user or document Release reporting Newsfeed style activity stream Complete design history and change log Approval and notification. I'm personally interested in only the 2D side of the application, so I didn't really care about the rendering.Īll in all, I have to say that I'm pretty happy with IntelliCAD CMS. The downside is that perpetual license EasyRun products do not have photo rendering because that is a third party product for which (I assume) CMS could not negotiate perpetual licensing. The EasyRun versions are the guys that auto-update. IntelliCAD CMS is one of the member companies that has been around for for over 20 years, I believe. But the reality is that the CAD aspects are essentially identical to AutoCAD and anyone familiar with the command structure will feel at home pretty quickly. So someone might sell a product for fire sprinkler design, while another does hydraulics. Each company then adds on their (non-common) features. You can read about it here: Alternative CAD Platform | IntelliCAD Technology Consortium Basically, however, is about 20 companies (maybe more) that bought into, and co-develop, a library that basically mimics AutoCAD. Other great apps like Autodesk Fusion 360 are SketchUp, SOLIDWORKS, OpenSCAD and BRL-CAD. The best alternative is FreeCAD, which is both free and Open Source. IntelliCAD (not CMS) is a consortium that has been around for a long long time. There are more than 10 alternatives to Autodesk Fusion 360 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Online / Web-based and iPad. The plus side is that I can easily run this on two different computers given that I have one in the shop and one in the house, that feature is very convenient. It is a bit annoying because you have to launch it via a web license, but it does run locally.
FUSION 360 VS FREECAD UPDATE
They have frequent sales of up to 50% off, but the one I chose was a perpetual license, perpetual update flavor.

They have a gazillion flavors (too many, really) of the application available. DWG files - CMS IntelliCAD - Products) into the mix. Communicates with toolbars, context-sensitive shortcut menus, and dialog boxes. Communicates with toolbars, context-sensitive shortcut menus, dialog boxes - and a command line.
FUSION 360 VS FREECAD SOFTWARE
I'll add IntelliCAD CMS ( Compatible CAD Software for. 2D drafting software that can do 3D pretty well.
