Providing a Complete Alternative CAD solutions For Engineering, Architecture and Mechanical
Files | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
32-bit / 64-bit Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
.dwg/.dxf for AxxxCAD version 2.5 to 2016 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
.pat,.shx,.lin and etc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Password Protection and Digital Signatures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
File Recover and Audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Purge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Etransmit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sheet Set Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CAD Standard .dws | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DWF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PDF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DGN Import and Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Import to WMF, SAT, 3DS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Export to DWG, DWF, DWFX, WMF, SAT, STL, EPS, DXX, BMP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Plot and Publish to PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Publish to DWF 2D & 3D | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Interface | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
CUI Menus and Toolbars | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CUI Import & Export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Drag and Drop Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Visual Menu Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Ribbon/Classic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Properties Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Design Center/Tool Palette/Xref Palette | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Command Line | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Work Spaces Switching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Clean Screen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dynamic Input and Auto Complete | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Content Explorer | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Clickable Command Line Options | ✓ | ✓ | |||
File Tab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Selection, Snap & Track | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Selection Preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Selection Effect Customization | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Quick Select | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Select Similar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multifunctional Grips | ✓partially | ✓partially | ✓partially | ✓ | ✓ |
Osnap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Grid and Snap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Polar & OTrack | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments options | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Group | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dimensions | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Standard Dimensions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Associative Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Quick Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Qleader | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dimension Break | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multileaders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Smart Dimensioning | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Text | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Mtext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mtext Superscript and Subscripts | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-language Character Set | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
In-place Text Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mtext Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support .shx and .ttf font | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Spelling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Field | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Revcloud | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Wipeout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Text Incremental Copy | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Autobullets and Numbering | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Text on line | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Layers | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Layer Properties Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer States Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Translator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Layer Walk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Previous | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Isolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Unisolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Lock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Unlock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Lock Other Layers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Layer Freeze | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Freeze Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Thaw All Layers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Off | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Off Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Trun All Layers On | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Delete | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layer Match | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hatch | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Gradient Hatches | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Background and Color for Hatch Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Trim/Extend of/to Hatch Pattern Entities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Superhatch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Raster images | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Raster Image Support (Clipping, Transparency, ...) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support Kinds of Image Files (bmp\jpg\png\tga\tif\gif\pcx\...) | ✓ ECW & JPEG 2000 not supported yet | ✓ ECW & JPEG 2000 not supported yet | ✓ ECW and JPEG 2000 not supported yet | ✓ | ✓ |
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Express Tools | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Text Align / Text Match | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ Text Align | ✓ Text Align | |
Change Text | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Areasum | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Align Tool / Arrange Tool | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Batpurge | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Layout by Path | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ Array path | ✓ Array path | |
Line2pl | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Sptpl | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD Tools | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Plot tools | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Drawing Compare | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Delete Duplicate Objects (OVERKILL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Drawing Lock | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Statistics Summation | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Others | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Invert Fillet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Draw and Modify Commands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Offset Both Option | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Helix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Real Time Pan & Zoom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SteeringWheels | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Redraw and Regeneration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layout and Paper Space | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Layout Viewport settings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Magnifier | ✓ | ||||
Barcode & QR Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Cloud Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Non-rectangular Viewports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Shortcut Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Match Properties Across Drawings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multilines and Multiline Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Block Create and Insert | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Block Attribute Definition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Others | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Refedit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hyperlink | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Digitizer Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Scale List | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dynamic Block Create/Insert/View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dynamic Block Editor (BEDIT) | ✓ | Partially | ✓ | ✓ | |
Table Tools | ✓ | ✓ | |||
AutoXLSTable | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Pline Boolean | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
3D | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
3D Surfaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ACIS Modeling & Editing | ✓ | ✓ | |||
3D Orbit options | ✓ | ✓ | Partially | ||
Camera | ✓ | ||||
Render | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Visual Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Solid editing | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Solprof / Solview / Soldraw | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Printing | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
CTB & STB Plot Style Files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Plot Styles Table Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Built-in Print Driver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Import & Editing of Page Setups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Publish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Viewport Max | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Hide and Shade Plot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Batch Print | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Arrange frame | ✓ | ✓ | |||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Programming | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
ActiveX, Including In-place Editing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Entity Data Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Action Recording and Action Macros | ✓ | ||||
LISP vl-, vlr-, vla- and vlax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
LISP Encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
(SDS/ADS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
DCL / DCL engine / COM API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Visual Basic for Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
VBA VBI Projects Support | ✓ | ✓ | DVB | ||
.Net Framework | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
GRX (GstarCAD Runtime eXtension) | ✓ | ✓ | ARX | ||
CUI Menu Support/Diesel Expressions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Diesel Expressions | ✓ | ✓ | |||
MNU and MNS File Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
API (Toolbar & Menu Customization) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
GstarCAD 2016 | AxxxCAD 2016 | ||||
Licensing | Pro | Std | LX | 2016 | LX |
Stand-alone USB dongle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Network USB dongle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Stand-alone License | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Network License | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
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*Table comparisonand information is from Gstarsoft 2016 | |||||