ViaCAD® 15 Pro
Designed with professionals in mind, ViaCAD® Pro delivers the flexibility of mesh-based and solid modeling to help you quickly go from 3D design concept to completion. 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.
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Professional 3D CAD software that packs a Punch! but won’t break the bank
ViaCAD® Pro places the full power of 3D designing right at your fingertips. ViaCAD® Pro’s precision solid modeling and drafting toolsets make it perfect for those who do CAD design as part of their profession. The addition of mesh-based modeling coupled with subdivision technology makes creating 3D conceptual drawings a snap. It also contains 2D switching, so you can toggle back and forth between 2D and 3D views as needed.
ViaCAD® Pro can help you design projects such as:
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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.
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.
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We will help you learn
While ViaCAD® is feature rich, we work hard at making it easy by including intuitive tools like our LogiCursor™ that makes CAD a snap by suggesting your next move as you draw.
Your purchase of ViaCAD® also includes access to our training tutorials, so you will not have to learn through trial and error. We are experts at creating CAD software and our tutorials will help you to become an expert user quickly.
Simple and flexible pricing
We offer ViaCAD® Pro in two different pricing models to best suit your needs*.
Permanent License - Download once and own it forever. Ideally suited for users who need a single license or users who feel they may not need to upgrade each year.
Annual Subscriptions - This is ideal for multiple user seats. With an active subscription, you will always be receiving the latest enhancements and new functionality.
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ViaCAD® Pro makes Advanced 3D and 2D Design Work seem Easy
Get professional quality CAD design output without pulling your hair out. Our software includes a wide selection of tools so that the right tool for the task is just a mouse click away. ViaCAD® Pro has 3D mesh modeling capability with subdivision technology to go from coarse to smooth surfaces. You (and your customers) will be blown away the photorealistic rendering of your finished designs.
- Design complex organic shapes with extensive NURB Surface modeling tools
- 2D Geometric and Dimensional Constraints to manage geometrical relationships between 2D shapes
- 3D Solid Primitives, including Spheres, Cylinders, Cones, Tori, Prisms, Paraboloids
- Push/Pull Modeling allows 3D surfaces to be edited with your mouse and cursor
- Powerful 3D Editing tools such as Blending, Chamfering, and Shelling
- Architectural and Woodworking tools such as Rabbet, Miter and Dovetail joints
- Extensive 2D drafting tools such as text, Dimensions (including area dimensions), 3D to 2D drawing, bill of materials (including fraction measurements)
- Multiple Viewports provide 2, 3 even 4 views of your design and drawing between them
- Integrated Photo Realistic Rendering and support for Keyshot LiveLinking™
- And much more!
Intuitive Design and Editing Utilities
Drawing precisely is easy with ViaCAD®. We have designed it to be user friendly and intuitive to work with.
The LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor to potential point selections in the drawing.
The Gripper adds Drag and Drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy and has a graphic widget to perform non-uniform scaling via a handle.
Customizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop in rectangular, polar (circular), and isometric layouts.
Precision Drafting and Annotations
ViaCAD® Pro is also a robust design documentation tool with over 20 customizable Dimension Styles, including industry dimension formats.
Other great features to help you document and annotate your projects include:
- 26 Dimension Styles
- 250+ Drafting Tools
- 2D Dimensional and Geometric Constraints
- Bill of Materials
- Import Bitmaps for logos and reference images
- Spell Check is provided for another level of accuracy
- Single click Fills and Hatch
3D Modeling Tools
ViaCAD® provides powerful solid modeling technology found in many higher-end products. Additionally, ViaCAD® Pro delivers surface modeling tools to expand design capabilities.
- Feature-based History Tree for editing
- A complete design tool with Extrusions, Booleans, Surface Modeling for more complex smooth surfaces
- Precise geometry suitable for 'concept to manufacturing'
- Associative Surface Modeling
Rendering Tools
PBR (Physically Based Rendering) accurately represents how light interacts with materials, making it ideal for photorealistic applications like architectural visualization, product design, and game development. Key Features include:
- Photo Render Tool Palette: Access tools for creating photo-rendered images.
- General Settings: Adjust Render Presets, Engine Type, Default Material, Render Halt Time, Samples, Threshold, Curves, Text and Dimensions, Ground Shadows, Refresh Interval, and Light Tracing Depth.
- Area Dimension: The Area Dimension tool is designed for area-based measurements of collections of closed curves or polygons. It offers two main options: Leader Line Dimension and Text at Centroid. The tool is associative, meaning any modifications to the selected curves will automatically update the area dimension. It also integrates seamlessly with constrained systems, ensuring that changes to any dimension value will reflect in the area measurement.
- HDRI Settings: Configure HDR images, Rotation, Gain, and Gamma.
- Backgrounds: Select Background Images.
- Sun, Sky & Laser Light Settings: Adjust Skylight, Sunlight and Laser Light parameters.
- Materials: Different Material Types, such as Glossy, Metal, and Glass, with Parameters Like Diffuse, Specular, Roughness, and Transparency.
- Textures: Preset Textures with settings for Type, Gain, and Scaling.
- Post Effects: Including Tone Mapping, Denoising, Color Aberration, Vignette, And Gamma Correction.
- Denoiser: Reduces image noise using Intel Open Image Denoiser.
- Gamma Correction: Adjusts image Brightness and Contrast.
- Tone Mapping: Converts HDR pixel values to LDR for display on standard monitors.
- Vignette: Darkens image edges to draw attention to the center.
- Color Aberration: Simulates chromatic aberration effects.
- Photo Render Library: Offers a collection of materials, HDRI, and backgrounds for easy use.
Architectural Planning Tools
ViaCAD® Pro includes all the professional level architectural tools you and your team need to draft, print, and collaborate on projects together.
- Architectural Wall tools
- Composite Walls to show materials
- Parametric Doors and Windows
- Instant 3D Walls, Roofs, and Floor Slabs
- Compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG files
- ACIS®-based geometry means you are creating with the same technology as software that costs thousands of dollars
Woodworking Tools
ViaCAD® Pro includes tools to speed up your woodworking projects. You can quickly create otherwise tedious joints such as Dado joints and miter joints.
- Joints including Rabbet, Miter, and Dovetails
- Dado joints including options for Through, Stopped or Blind
- Edge treatments including Cove, Round, Bullnose, Dupont, Waterfall, Ogee, and Custom
- Tongue & Groove
3D Printing Tools
Prepare and validate your designs for 3D printing with ViaCAD® Pro’s suite of 3D printing tools:
3D Print Check
Verify the print viability of your models.
Surface Normals Check
Ensure that facet normals correctly define the inside and outside areas of a part. Incorrectly oriented facet normals can cause issues during 3D printing. This tool identifies such problems and provides several commands to help correct them.
Overhang Analysis
Visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. It compares meshes, surfaces, and solid facets normals to the work plane direction. Angles that are less than or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted in red.
Wall Thickness Analysis
Inspect models for areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solid facets are examined using ray intersections.
Preview Slices
Slice models to check for closed, non-overlapping Sections, essential for 3D printing.
Auto Position
Automatically position your model within the positive coordinate system for printing. 
Support Structure
Add manual support geometry for 3D printing.
Printer Volume Display
Visualize the printing boundary as defined in the Printer Definitions dialog box.
Printer Definitions
Set key parameters of the 3D printer to ensure compatibility with your designs.
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Punch!CAD™ Copilot: The Ultimate AI-Powered Design Partner
Unlock the full potential of your design process with Copilot, the AI-driven companion seamlessly integrated into ViaCAD®. This integrated AI tool streamlines navigation, expedites your project's progress, and enhances your design endeavors with insightful analysis. Copilot supports two levels: Copilot Help and Copilot Professional.
Copilot Professional includes Talk to your CAD Data, general AI access, and Text to Image. Copilot Professional is adept at handling diverse multilingual requests, from guiding you through the initial steps of using ViaCAD® to sharing intriguing details about your file or providing insights on design trends and principles.
Punch!CAD™ Copilot is your go-to assistant for a multitude of tasks:
- Instant Answers: Get precise, on-the-spot answers to your ViaCAD® queries, enabling you to focus on what you do best—designing.
- Data Insight: Dive deep into your CAD data with Punch!CAD™ Copilot’s analytical prowess, extracting valuable insights to inform your design decisions.
- AI Expertise: Benefit from an extensive AI knowledge base that not only understands your general questions but provides contextually relevant solutions.
- Text to Image: Use Text to Image AI to create textures and background for photo render.
With Punch!CAD™ Copilot, you’re not just working smarter; you’re transforming the way you interact with your CAD software—effortlessly and efficiently.
* Punch!CAD™ Copilot Help is included with all variants as a complimentary 1-year subscription, while Punch!CAD™ Copilot Professional is available for purchase as a 1-year subscription
Tool Help Within Punch!CAD™ Copilot
ViaCAD® has taken a significant step forward by integrating its tool help content directly within Punch!CAD™ Copilot. This integration means that users have immediate access to a wealth of information, including text descriptions, visual aids through images, and, for some topics, even video links. This feature is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the tools and their applications, making it easier for users to learn and apply the functionalities of ViaCAD® effectively. The inclusion of multimedia resources within Punch!CAD™ Copilot ensures that users can quickly grasp complex concepts, enhancing the overall user experience and proficiency with the software.
Layer Sets
Enhance your ViaCAD® experience with the Layer Sets feature, a powerful tool designed to optimize your design space. Layer Sets enable you to effortlessly save and manage your layers, view orientations, and zoom levels, ensuring a seamless transition between different phases of your project
Fastener Library
Enhance your ViaCAD® designs with the ANSI Fastener Library, a comprehensive collection of nuts, bolts, and washers. Now easily accessible within the Symbol tab in the Concept Explorer, this library simplifies the insertion of fastening components into your projects.
Blend Version
ViaCAD® now offers the flexibility to revert the ACIS blend version to a previous setting, providing an alternative solution when the default blend doesn’t meet your needs.
This updated feature ensures that you have more control over your design process, allowing for precision and customization in your blending operations.
Convert Text to Surface
The change object type tool now supports converting text to ACIS surface faces.
This feature is a testament to our commitment to providing versatile and powerful tools for designers to express their creativity without limitations.
Symbol Manager Preview Sizes
Elevate your design process with the versatile Symbol Manager in ViaCAD®’s Concept Explorer. Now featuring three distinct preview size options, you can customize how you view and select symbols with ease.
Symbol Manager Names
Optimize your design workflow with the updated Symbol Manager Names feature in ViaCAD®. This enhancement allows you to toggle the display of symbol names for a more personalized and organized workspace.
Selection of Co-Planar Faces: Select Faces Same Plane
Discover the power of precision with ViaCAD® ’s new feature, Select Faces Same Plane. This tool streamlines your modeling process by intelligently selecting all faces of a solid that reside on the same plane, ensuring uniformity and accuracy in your designs.
Shear Transform
Introducing the Shear Transform feature in ViaCAD®, a dynamic addition to the Transform Utilities palette. This new option brings a fresh dimension to your design toolkit, allowing you to apply shear transformations to curves, surfaces, and solids with precision and ease.
Verify Clearance
Elevate your design precision with ViaCAD®’s Verify Clearance feature. This innovative tool now includes the capability to accurately calculate the spatial clearance between two solids, ensuring your components fit together perfectly.
Surface Cover from Points
Transform your design process with ViaCAD®’s Surface Cover from Points feature. This new addition to the Surface tool palette empowers you to craft surfaces directly from designated point locations, offering unparalleled precision and customization.
New Render Example File
Explore the nuances of creating stunning, realistic images through our detailed example file. Learn how to leverage HDR for vivid lighting and how to position cameras for the perfect shot, enhancing the visual impact of your designs.
This new example file is a treasure trove for both novice and expert users, aiming to elevate your rendering skills to new heights with ViaCAD®.
Animation Rebound
Bring your ViaCAD® animations to life with the new Animation Rebound feature. This enhancement to the Animation dialog box introduces a Rebound option, enabling animations to trace a path and then return to their starting point for a seamless loop.
This new option adds a dynamic twist to your animations, perfect for presentations and demonstrations that require a polished, cyclical motion.
Imported Textures Copied to User Custom Folder
Enhance your ViaCAD® experience with the Imported Textures feature, which now conveniently copies any imported textures directly into your custom texture folder. This seamless integration allows for easy access and management of your textures.
Start Up Screen Updated
ViaCAD®’s Start-Up Screen has undergone a transformative update, now featuring the Explorer on the right side of the screen for enhanced accessibility. This integration allows for quick and easy access to frequently used commands, streamlining your design process by providing immediate entry points to Entity information, Layers, Symbols, and the ViaCAD® Copilot tool.
Gripper Now Enabled by Default
ViaCAD® introduces an intuitive enhancement: The Gripper is now activated by default. This convenient tool, featuring a graphical widget, simplifies the manipulation of objects, allowing you to move, scale, and rotate with ease. For those who wish to customize their Gripper settings, adjustments can be made on the Gripper Properties page. This update ensures a more user-friendly experience, enabling you to interact with your designs effortlessly right from the start.
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Windows Recommended Requirements:
Microsoft® Windows® 7, 8, 10, or 11¹, Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD® Athlon64™ class 64-bit processor, 3 GB of hard disk space, 8 GB of RAM, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), OpenGL/DirectX9 Compliant video card with 256MB of dedicated RAM, Internet Connection required2
Macintosh Recommended Requirements:
Macintosh® OS 10.11 through 15¹, Apple Mac with Intel or Apple processor, 4 GB of hard disk space, 8 GB RAM or greater, Mouse Pointing Device (wheel button recommended), Internet Connection required2
¹ Program compatibility is not guaranteed for earlier operating systems, requires a machine with an operating system using x64 (64-Bit) architecture.
2 User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges.
Licensing Policy
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Perpetual License: A one-time purchase that allows you to use the software without time limitations. It remains functional as long as the hardware and operating system support it, making it an ideal choice for long-term investment. |
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Subscription License: An annual subscription that includes access to the latest updates, new features, and technical support. If the subscription is not renewed, access to the software is revoked. |
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Network License: Allows multiple users within the same network to access the software. Perfect for organizations needing to manage multiple licenses. Contact [email protected] for more information. |
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Floating License: A flexible licensing option (also known as a concurrent license) that allows a set number of users to share licenses. This is ideal for teams where not all users need access to the software simultaneously. |
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Companion License: One companion license is offered to customers using the current version and is on valid support. Customers can install the program on one companion machine used by the same registered user. This is a courtesy feature used by our customers and is helpful if you want access to the program at both work and home. |
2. Volume Licensing:
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We offer volume licensing discounts for businesses and educational institutions purchasing multiple licenses. This helps organizations save on costs while equipping their teams with powerful CAD tools. Rates vary based on the number of seats ordered. For more information, please reach out to our sales team at [email protected] |
3. Educational Licensing:
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Special pricing and licensing options are available for students, educators, and academic institutions. This ensures that future professionals have access to industry-standard tools at an affordable rate. For more information, please reach out to our sales team at [email protected] |
4. Trial Versions:
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Free trial versions are available for those who want to try out the software before making a purchase. This allows potential customers to evaluate the features and performance of our products. |
5. Maintenance & Support:
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Our Maintenance & Support plans are valid for one year from the date of purchase and can be extended annually. These plans provide access to Technical Support and Software and Maintenance Updates (Patches). We highly recommend extending the maintenance plan to ensure continuous access to the latest updates and support. Maintenance & Support Renewal is available for versions up to 5 years old. |
6. Upgrade Policy:
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Upgrades include new and improved features and Maintenance & Support for one year. Upgrades are available for versions up to 5 years old. |
7. License Reactivation Policy:
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Customers on active support can request reactivation of their license to another machine in case of hardware failure. This ensures that you can continue using TurboCAD without interruption. |
Sales Policy
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1. Refund Policy: We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on all our products. If you’re not satisfied with your purchase, you can request a full refund* within 30 days of purchase. * Please note that bank fees will be deducted from the refund amount. |
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2. Promotions and Discounts: Promotions and Discounts are generally offered during product releases and major holidays. We encourage you to sign up for our product newsletter on our website to receive special offers and stay updated on the latest deals. |
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3. Customer Support: Our dedicated customer support team is available to assist with any questions or issues related to licensing and sales. We strive to provide prompt and helpful service to all our customers. |