SILICACAD PROFESSIONAL 2022
What’s new in SilicaCAD 2022
SilicaCAD 2022 New Features and Improvements
NEW FEATURES
- Dynamic input feature on Grips
Dynamic input includes command prompts and measurement guides that are displayed on the screen while drawing and editings - Geolocation with interactive background map from Microsoft Bing
Geographic location information is assigned to a drawing file by capturing a portion of the Bing online map to an object known as a map image and embedding it to the drawing area. Map Aerial, Map Road and Map Hybrid visualization supported. With useful contextual Ribbons and menu. - TABLE and TABLEDIT implementation
AutoCAD® like in-place Text editing, numeric Rows and alphabetical Columns. New contextual Ribbons for Tables. - Autodesk Revit® 2021 Import/attach
Support for the recent Revit 2021 file format - Improved Dynamic Blocks handling
New insertion options supported - Wood Details, Steel and Profiles Standards
All shapes are now available in 3D - AutoCAD®- Like Solid grips
Use grips to change the size and shape of 3D solids and extruded surfaces - Smooth Transition
Faster smoother transitions with animation while panning, zooming, or changing views - Improved Array
– New Array Grips
– New contextual Array Ribbons - Nudge function
It is a function used to move objects by holding down the CTRL key then selecting the arrow keys on your keyboard. The object will be moved by pixels in the direction chosen.
NEW COMMANDS
- SHEETSET – Sheet Set Manager
The Sheet Set Manager organizes, displays, and manages sheet sets, a named collection of drawing sheets. Each sheet in a Sheet Set is a layout in a drawing (DWG) file - IMPOINT
Imports 2D-3D points with specified coordinates from a .txt or .csv file into a drawing. Points can be imported as separate point entities, as vertices of a polyline, or as vertices of a spline - BACKGROUND
Defines the type, color, effects and position of the background for named views - TOTALAREA
Calculates the total Area of selected closed entities - ATTSYNC
Applies attribute changes in a block definition to all block references - New perspective mode
Improved Perspective handling and grips in Perspective views - Improved MTEXT
– Added a “Strikethrough” option
– Insert “text only” functionality (Paste Special formatting)
– Clear formatting feature
– Text Symbols Subscript and Superscript are added
– Added “Paragraph” dialog - GROUP handling
– GROUPEDIT: Add, Remove and rename features for Groups
– Group Grips: improved visualization of Groups - SVIMPORT/SVEXPORT
Import/Export of all SilicaCAD Variables
USER INTERFACE
- New START PAGE
Now the redesigned Start Page has a stylish cleaner interface look to offer easy access to a variety of initial actions, including access to drawing template files, recently opened drawings as well as online and learning resources - Search in Options and Drawing Settings Dialog
Typing the name of options, find automatically the relative control in the form. Speed-up the settings control - New View Manager Dialog
View Manager has a new dialog with dynamic input to set a view background, perspective, lens length, clipping, and more - TPNAVIGATE command
Displays a specified tool palette or a palette group. Improved GUI customization - Improved CUI Dialog for customization