11 Facts About IntelliCAD

IntelliCAD is a CAD editor and development platform with an Application Programming Interface API published by the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium through shared development.

ITC IntelliCAD is not sold directly to end users but is licensed to consortium members who support the shared development by paying annual fees, similar to a co-op arrangement, in exchange for permission to distribute IntelliCAD-based solutions worldwide with their own end-user license agreements.

Nevertheless, after several years of background development, "Visio IntelliCAD" was finally released for the first time to the public in 1998 with a very low price compared to AutoCAD.

Twelve thousand licenses of IntelliCAD were sold in the first three months before new concerns over software stability emerged.

Visio's IntelliCAD 98 sold about 30,000 copies—far less than some expected.

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IntelliCAD development seemed to need more resources than Visio could grant it.

Early 2000s IntelliCAD 3 introduced complex linetypes, XREF clipping and IntelliCAD's first display and printing of ACIS 3D solids on May 22,2001.

IntelliCAD 4 released with full ACIS 3D solid modelling in 2003.

IntelliCAD 5 added workspaces with tabs and DWF file support in October 2004.

Mid 2000s IntelliCAD 6 added True Color color support, ADeko Raster raster image support tool, previewing thumbnails while viewing drawing files, drawing and viewing elements, and attaching WAV files as audio notes in November 2005.

Late 2000s During the 2008 ITC meeting in Athens, Greece, the first test release of IntelliCAD 7 was announced with a complete replacement of the old ITC internal database and the old "SDS" API with newer DWGdirect and DRX APIs from the ODA.