App: ViaCAD Pro 12
Developer: Encore
Genres: Graphics & Design, Productivity

Our 3D CAD software can handle your architectural, mechanical, prototyping, and design planning with ease. All you need is an idea and ViaCAD. Intelligent software at a no-brainer price, ViaCAD Pro offers 2D drafting and advanced 3D modeling toolsets, with easy switching 3D and 2D views. ViaCAD Pro can help you accomplish advanced 3D prototyping, photorealistic rendering, designs for product manufacturing, product packaging, architectural drawings, home remodeling plans, interior design, inventions, and more. If you run an engineering or design firm that needs multiple user seats for your team, we are your new best friend.

2D DRAFTING & ANNOTATION
•	2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints 
•	GD&T Dimensions
•	Text, dimensions,  hatches, and fills
•	26-dimension styles
•	Automatic 3D to 2D drawing conversion
•	Bill of Materials
•	Trim, Extend, Chamfer, Fillet, Offset


3D MODELING TOOLS
•	Push/Pull Modeling converts 2D shapes into 3D  
•	Blending, chamfering, and shelling
•	Boss, cutout, bends
•	Wrap 2D shapes onto 3D bodies 
•	Extrude, lathe, sweep
•	Skin, Cover, Nets
•	Feature-based History Tree 
•	Booleans (Add, subtract, intersect, split) 
•	Geometry Properties (Mass, length, volume, area, perimeters)
•	Associative surface modeling 
•	Tools specific for 3D Printing
   
WOODWORKING TOOLS
•	Joints including rabbet, miter, and dovetails
•	Dado joints including options for through, stopped or blind
•	Edge treatments including cove, round, bullnose, Dupont, waterfall, Ogee 
 
ARCHITECTURAL TOOLS
•	Smart wall, doors and windows
•	Composite walls to show materials
•	Instant 3D walls, roofs, and floor slabs

INTUITIVE DESIGN AND EDITING UTILITIES
•	Multiple Viewports provide 2, 3 even 4 views of your design and drawing between them
•	Integrated Photo Realistic Rendering  
•	 LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor 
•	Gripper adds drag and drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy
•	Customizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop
 
 
COMPATIBILITY AND FILE SHARING
ViaCAD Pro software plays nice with others. ViaCAD Pro is compatible with AutoCAD® with up-to-date DWG import and export capabilities. So your team will be able to work together without forcing everyone to be on the same brand of CAD software.
•	DWG/DXF
•	STEP, IGES, SAT,SAB
•	SketchUp, 3MF, 3DS, OBJ, DAE, VRML


WE WILL HELP YOU LEARN
While ViaCAD Pro is feature rich, we work hard at making it easy by including 17 built in training guides with step by step PDFs and videos.

Release notes:
-Corrections supporting macOS 12 (Monterey)