DataCAD Versions Comparison Chart
  DataCAD DataCAD LT
DataCAD 11 DataCAD X3 DataCAD X4 DataCAD LT 11 DataCAD LT X3 DataCAD X4
12 13 14 LT 12 LT 13 LT 14
    $1,295     $295
    Buy Online     Buy Online
Drafting
'Smart' parametric walls Included Included Better! Included Included Better!
'Smart' parametric doors and windows Included Included Included Included Included Included
'Smart' parametric arrows   Included Included   Included Included
'Smart' view-dependent symbols    Included Included      
Automatic wall intersection cleanup Included Included Included Included Included Included
User-selectable wall intersection cleanup  Included Included Better! Included Included Better!
Complex user-defined line types Included Included Included Included Included Included
Pen Styles Included Included Included Included Included Included
Complex user-defined associative hatch patterns Included Included Included Included Included Included
Associative dimensions (DIN and AS1100) Included Included Included Included Included Included
Polyline and related editing tools Included Included Included      
Object snap on-the-fly Included Included Included Included Included Included
Virtual object snapping Included Included Included Included Included Included
GetSnap smart snapping Included Included Included Included Included Included
3D object snapping Included Included Included Included Included Included
Dynamic Snap Indicator Included Included Included Included Included Included
Direct distance input method Included Included Included Included Included Included
Direction / Distance input mode Included Included Included Included Included Included
Relative and absolute Cartesian input mode Included Included Included Included Included Included
Relative and absolute polar input mode Included Included Included Included Included Included
XREFs (External Reference Files) Included Included Better!      
Self-XREFs (Internal Reference File) Included Included Included      
SketchUp XREFs Included Included Included      
Bind XREFs to Symbols Included Included Included      
XClips (Reference File Clip Cubes) Included Included Better!      
SClips (Symbol Clip Cubes) Included Included Better!      
Fence Clips Included Included Included      
Merge Clipping Boundaries    Included Included      
HyperView linking Included Included Included      
Hyperlink to external file Included Included Included      
Hyperlink to Internet URL Included Included Included      
Command line alias Included Included Included      
Spell checker with international-language dictionaries Included Included Included      
Architectural text styles (Vector-based fonts) Included Included Included Included Included Included
Support for TrueType fonts Included Included Included Included Included Included
DataCAD TrueType Font Included Included Included Included Included Included
Automatic boundary detection for hatching (Contour search) Included Included Included      
Knockout fills     New!      
Solid color fills Included Included Included Included Included Included
Pattern fills Included Included Included Included Included Included
Bitmap fills Included Included Included Included Included Included
Layer manager with support for long layer names Included Included Included Included Included Included
Persistent (a.k.a. Modeless) Layer Manager   Included Included      
Multi-line Text (a.k.a. MText) Included Included Included Included Included Included
Scale-independent Text (Lock Size)   Included Included      
Scale-independent Dimensions (Lock Size)     New!      
Scale-independent Hatching (Lock Size)     New!      
Scale-independent Symbols (Lock Size)     New!      
Lock Text Angle    Included Included      
Support for SHX fonts Included Included Included Included Included Included
Entity Properties Editor Included Included Included      
Modeling
3D geometric primitives modeler Included Included Included Included Included Included
3D Polylines    Included Included   Included Included
Vector-based hidden line removal Included Included Included Included Included Included
Raster-based hidden line removal Included Included Included Included Included Included
Digital Terrain Modeling (Drop Mesh) Included Included Included Included Included Included
TIN (Triangular Irregular Network) Surface Modeler Included Included Included      
Ruled Surface Modeler Included Included Included Included Included Included
3D Knife Included Included Included      
3D Sectioning Tool Included Included Included      
o2c-based Object Viewer Included Included Included Included Included Included
Sun Shader   Included Included      
Convert TrueType fonts to 3D Included Included Included Included Included Included
3D Boolean Operations Included Included Included      
3D Edit Planes Included Included Included      
B-Spline and Bézier curves with extrusion   Included Included   Included Included
Polygon Normal Options    Included Included   Included Included
Shading
Real-time walk-through  Included Included Included      
7 user-definable light sources (variable color) Included Included Included Included Included Included
1 sunlight source Included Included Included Included Included Included
Sun shadow casting (variable color) Included Included Included Included Included Included
Superimpose scene over background photo Check Included Included Included Included Included
Custom edge color, width, and overshoot Included Included Included Included Included Included
Anti-aliased shading Included Included Included Included Included Included
Texture mapping    Included Included      
Material definitions by color    Included Included      
Material definitions by layer    Included Included      
Material definitions by entity    Included Included      
Rendering
Real-time walk-through Included Included Included Included Included Included
3 fixed ambient light sources Included Included Included Included Included Included
1 sunlight source Included Included Included Included Included Included
User-definable light sources (variable intensity) Included Included Included Included Included Included
User-definable light sources (variable color)   Included Included   Included Included
Raytraced shadow casting Included Included Included Included Included Included
Superimpose scene over background photo Included Included Included Included Included Included
Anti-aliased rendering Included Included Included Included Included Included
Raytracing Included Included Included Included Included Included
Dynamic 3D material preview Included Included Included Included Included Included
Transparency Included Included Included Included Included Included
Reflection Included Included Included Included Included Included
Smoothing Included Included Included Included Included Included
Self-illumination Included Included Included Included Included Included
Texture mapping Included Included Included Included Included Included
Texture masking Included Included Included Included Included Included
Texture origin Included Included Included Included Included Included
Material definitions by color Included Included Included Included Included Included
Material definitions by layer Included Included Included Included Included Included
Material definitions by entity Included Included Included Included Included Included
Embedded Material Definitions Included Included Included Included Included Included
Included Seamless Textures 250 250 250 40 40 250
Included Material Definitions 600+ 600+ 600+ 400+ 400+ 600+
Included Backgrounds Included Included Included Included Included Included
Import materials and textures from o2c objects Included Included Included      
Import materials and textures from SketchUp files Included Included Included Included Included Included
Printing
Support for any Windows-compatible printer Included Included Included Included Included Included
WYSIWYG Print Preview Included Included Included Included Included Included
Multi-scale Printing Layout Included Included Included      
Convert Multi-scale Layout to DWG Included Included Included      
Batch printing direct and to .PRN and .PDF Included Included Included      
Print to PDF with layers Included Included Included      
Date, Time, and File Stamps Included Included Included Included Included Included
Map 15 colors to 15 pens       Included Included Included
Map 255 colors to 15 pens Included Included Included      
Windows Compatibility
Windows XP/Vista/7 Included Included Included Included Included Included
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000            
Network Awareness Included Included Included Included Included Included
Interface supports Windows XP themes Included Included Included Included Included Included
MDI (Multiple Document Interface) Included Included Included Included Included Included
Multi-view windows Included Included Better! Included Included Better!
Standard toolbar Included Included Included Included Included Included
User-definable icon toolbars Included Included Included Included Included Included
View-sensitive icon toolbars Included Included Included Included Included Included
User-definable context-sensitive icon toolbars Included Included Included Included Included Included
Global, unlimited undo/redo Included Included Included Included Included Included
Cut, Copy, and Paste to/from Windows applications Included Included Included Included Included Included
Dynamic Zoom with Mouse Wheel Included Included Included Included Included Included
Dynamic Panning with Mouse Included Included Better! Included Included Better!
"Select All" via [Ctrl] + [A] Included Included Included      
Estimating and Take-offs
Automated 3D framing with take-offs Included Included Included Included Included Included
File Compatibility (Open, Import, or Paste)
.DWG AutoCAD R2010 - 2011 drawing file   Included Included   Included Included
.DWG AutoCAD R12 - R2009 drawing file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DXF Data Exchange Format file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.AEC DataCAD drawing file (double-precision) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DC5 DataCAD drawing file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DLF DataCAD layer file (double-precision) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.LYR DataCAD layer file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DSF DataCAD symbol file (double-precision w/layers) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.SM3 DataCAD symbol file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DC+ DataCAD Plus drawing file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.LY+ DataCAD Plus layer file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.SM+ DataCAD Plus symbol file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TXT ASCII text file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.WMF Windows Metafile Included Included Included Included Included Included
.EMF Enhanced Windows Metafile Included Included Included Included Included Included
.O2C Objects to See file Included Included Included      
.ACO ArCon file Included Included Included      
.3DS 3D Studio Included Included Included      
.STL Stereo Lithography Included Included Included      
.BMP Windows bitmap Included Included Included Included Included Included
.JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.GIF Graphic Interchange Format Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TIF Tagged Image Format File Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TGA Truevision Targa Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PNG Portable (Public) Network Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PCX PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PCD Kodak Photo-CD Image Included Included Included Included Included Included
.SKP SketchUp 6 Included Included Included Included Included Included
.SKP  SketchUp 7   Included Included   Included Included
.SKP SketchUp 8   Included Included   Included Included
.XLS Excel Spreadsheet Included Included Included      
.PAK DataCAD Pak-N-Go Archive Included Included Included      
.DMF DataCAD Material File Included Included Included Included Included Included
File Compatibility (SaveAs, Export, or Copy)
.DWG AutoCAD R2010 - 2012 drawing file   Included Included      
.DWG AutoCAD R2004 - 2009 drawing file Included Included Included      
.DWG AutoCAD R2000 - R2002 drawing file Included Included Included      
.DWG AutoCAD R12, R13, and R14 drawing file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DXF Data Exchange Format file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DWF WHIP! (Design Web Format) Included Included Included      
.AEC DataCAD drawing file (double-precision) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DLF DataCAD layer file (double-precision) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.DSF DataCAD symbol file (double-precision w/layers) Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TXT  ASCII text file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.WMF Windows Metafile Included Included Included Included Included Included
.EMF Enhanced Windows Metafile Included Included Included Included Included Included
.O2C Objects to See file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.ACO ArCon file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.3DS 3D Studio Included Included Included Included Included Included
.STL Stereo Lithography Included Included Included      
.BMP Windows bitmap Included Included Included Included Included Included
.JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TIF Tagged Image Format File Included Included Included Included Included Included
.TGA Truevision Targa Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PNG Portable (Public) Network Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PCX PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic Included Included Included Included Included Included
.EPS Encapsulated PostScript Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PCD Kodak Photo-CD Image Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PRN Windows printer file Included Included Included Included Included Included
.PDF Adobe Acrobat Portable Document file Included Included Included      
.WRL Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) file Included Included Included      
.RAY DC Render file Included Included Included      
.SKP SketchUp 6 Included Included Included Included Included Included
.SKP SketchUp 7     New!      
.SKP SketchUp 8     New!      
.PAK DataCAD Pak-N-Go Archive Included Included Included      
.DMF DataCAD Material File Included Included Included Included Included Included
Miscellaneous
64-Bit Double-precision database Included Included Included Included Included Included
64-Bit Double-precision Display List Included Included Included Included Included Included
Maximum drawing file size 1,024MB 1,024MB 1,024MB 15MB 32MB 32MB
Automatic purge of unused data Included Included Included Included Included Included
Drawing file compression Included Included Included      
Drawing Session Backups Included Included Included      
Automatic Drawing Backup and Recovery Included Included Included Included Included Included
Symbol Browser Included Included Included Included Included Included
Included 2D/3D Symbol Library 3,200+ 3,200+ 3,200+ 1,900+ 1,900+ 3,200+
Symbol (a.k.a. "Block") Text Attributes Included Included Included Included Included Included
Maximum number of line types per drawing 256 256 256 256 256 256
Embedded line types Included Included Included Included Included Included
Line type manager Included Included Included Included Included Included
Line type creator Included Included Included      
Maximum number of hatch patterns per drawing Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Embedded hatch patterns Included Included Included Included Included Included
Hatch pattern manager Included Included Included Included Included Included
Maximum number of layers 32,768 32,768 32,768 1,000 1,000 1,000
Maximum number of icons per toolbar Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Maximum number of characters per layer name 256 256 256 256 256 256
B-Spline, maximum number of control points 8 20 20 8 20 20
Bézier, maximum number of control points 8 20 20 8 20 20
3D Slabs and Polygons maximum number of nodes 36 36 256 36 36 256
3D Quadrics (Shpheres, Cones, etc.) max. divisions 26 36 128 36 36 128
DCAL (DataCAD Applications Language) Included Included Included Included     New!
DCAL for Delphi Included Included Included Better!     New!
DCAL for C++ Included Included Included Better!     New!
Selection Sets Included Included Included      
Text Scale Included Included Included      
Customizable keyboard macros Included Included Included      
Hard-coded keyboard macros       Included Included Included
Identify, Set All Included Included Included      
User-definable default drawings Included Included Included      
Customizable scales, angles, and distances Included Included Included Included Included Included
Architectural scale fractions 1/64, 1/128, 1/256 Included Included Included      

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