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DesignCAD 2D Express 2025

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$99.99

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Easy and Intuitive 2D CAD Solution

DesignCAD™ 2D Express is a user-friendly CAD program designed for precise 2D drafting and design. Its intuitive interface provides access to a wide range of tools, enabling users to create accurately scaled drawings with ease. Ideal for architectural plans, engineering layouts, and various design applications.

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Key Features

Easy-to-use 2D drafting & design

Smart menus for efficient navigation

Layer management for organized drawings

Associative dimensions for dynamic measurements

Enhanced flexibility when sharing work

Compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG/DXF formats

New Features

Resources

Key Features

PDF UNDERLAY

DesignCAD™ includes PDF Underlay functionality, allowing users to incorporate PDF files into their designs for reference. 2D PDF content can be placed within projects to enhance workflow efficiency and design versatility.

2D PDF Import:

A dedicated import filter enables users to bring 2D geometry from PDF files into DesignCAD™, ensuring precise vector-based content integration for editing and refinement.

2D Adobe Illustrator® Support

DesignCAD™ supports importing Adobe Illustrator^® files, with the option to integrate them as underlays or extract their geometry for direct editing. This feature allows designers to work with Illustrator^® artwork within their CAD projects.

AutoCAD® Compatibility

DesignCAD™ provides full support for AutoCAD^® file formats (DWG and DXF), ensuring smooth import and export functionality. This compatibility enables users to collaborate effectively, maintain industry-standard formatting, and update legacy files.

New Features

ODA Version 25.7 Support

DesignCAD™ supports ODA version 25.7, offering enhanced performance, broader compatibility—including AutoCAD^® support from R12 through 2025—and access to advanced features and optimizations. This version improves stability, extends support for industry-standard file formats, and refines APIs for more efficient development processes.

SketchUp 2024 Support

DesignCAD™’s support for SketchUp 2024 enhances compatibility with one of the most widely used 3D modeling formats. This update allows users to import, edit, and export SketchUp files efficiently, ensuring a smooth workflow^® between the two software programs.

DesignCAD™ Updater

DesignCAD™ introduces a new updater that automatically checks for updates upon startup, notifying users when an update is available. This ensures that users can stay up to date with the latest improvements without requiring manual checks.

Additionally, a new Check for Updates… button allows users to manually verify if any updates are available, providing flexibility in managing software updates.

Points on Path Tool

DesignCAD™ introduces the Points on Path Tool, allowing users to place points along various paths, including curves, splines, lines, vectors, planes, polygons, arcs, and circles. This tool provides precise control over point distribution, helping users create detailed and accurate designs.

Users can choose between two placement modes: defining a fixed distance between points for uniform spacing or specifying the number of points required on a given path. These options allow for greater flexibility in arranging points, making this tool useful for a variety of design tasks.

Basic Shapes

DesignCAD™ is introducing new basic shape geometries to expand its drawing and modeling capabilities. Users can define precise parameters for each shape, ensuring accurate construction and greater control over dimensions. These fundamental shapes enhance flexibility in design, making geometric drafting more efficient and intuitive.

Improved Redraw Performance

The Draw Polyline function has been optimized to deliver significantly improved performance. Zooming in and out or redrawing the drawing now happens much faster, reducing delays and enhancing responsiveness. This optimization results in approximately 7x faster performance.

DesignCAD Reviews

"I've used a couple of different apps for CAD and I am very surprised at how much DesignCAD 3D can do and still be easy to use as it is."

Roger B.

"I have used DesignCAD since version 12 for furniture design. Mostly 2D. Each version upgrade has offered greater value."

Brian F.

"Have been using DesignCAD since the DOS versions and it just keeps getting better and more powerful every year. Dollar-for-dollar, it's the best CAD software available anywhere."

Neal S.

"Still a great program - Been using it since version 12. Easy to learn if you are just learning CAD drawing. I have been using DesignCAD to draw technical drawings for survey mapping in archaeology because it has but has lots of easy to use features. "

Tom A.

I am just starting out with using a CAD program. So far, I am learning the functions and little tricks that are needed to be efficient. I believe this to be a good product for those who want to draw fairly technical documents, and it is very powerful.

John G.

"I have used DesignCAD for close to twenty years, and it is a simple, dependable software. Over the years it has added features and improved its overall performance noticeably in the area of exporting/importing other drawing formats."

John C.

"Simple and stable. Have been using for years. Consider it my second language after English. Does everything I need for 2D drafting, never locks up or crashes, even in Windows. "

Lowell S.

"Our company designs and fabricates furniture and cabinetry for both private and commercial customers. We have the original version off DesignCAD, liked revision capability, so added the newer version."

Don S.

"The program is very useful for almost anyone. I have been using it for a few years now and am just now trying to learn the 3-D portion. Excellent tool."

Mike E.

"Great product for the price! Bought it for home after using it at work for many years. Well done creators. Great, easy to use product. No bull sh#@ and very fast to get small to medium shop drawings out. Allows me to show normal people the ideas in my head quickly and easily. Love it!!"

Mick L.

"I have used DesignCAD for civil engineering designs (buildings, subdivisions, roadways) since first purchasing a DOS version in the early 1990's. DesignCAD is fantastic. I have never come across a drafting project that I could not complete easily in DesignCAD."

Dennis M.

"I am very impressed with the software. I am not a drawing professional but I easily imported AutoCAD files and made the modifications and prints I needed. It seems that all the tools needed by a professional are available. Definitely a 5 Star, I strongly recommend this software."

Roger L.

"This is an inexpensive 2d drafting program. We bought it when we had a hardware issue that was keeping us from getting VisionRez working or the license transferred, but a small job was due. We sorta freaked and bought this, hoping we could use it to draw & get the pool house job out on time while I got the other problems taken care of."

Gardencat.

"The actual software is not that hard if you have autocad or CAD experience, though the interface is different, so even WITH a strong CAD background, expect a learning curve. It would just take time. . They do offer training but that costs more than the software, and looked to take a bigger chunk of time than we wanted to spend."

Gardencat.

"Great for begginers."

Dale Gibb.

"For the money, a very inclusive package, really can't see anything you couldn't create with this."

Chipp s. .

"I haven't figured out how to use it yet, but it's a nice item if you know cad"

Chuck .

"Pretty good basic CAD program. Originally purchased this because a customer sent me a file that they had created with this program. It must have been a much earlier version since I could not open the files. I am still glad that I bought it since I do need to be able to draw and print basic prints."

R.E

"it is a good drawing program if you have experience with AutoCAD. Taking me awhile to get use to it. I have forgotten most of the things on AutoCAD."

KLR handyman

"Great product and a great vendor"

Timothy S