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GSTARCAD VS ACTCAD |COMPARISON

COMPARE THE GSTARCAD  2023 WITH ACTCAD.

 

GGGREMARKS

  • This table is for reference only 
  • Empty space means functionally not supported
  • The package that contains LT version does not support BEDIT
  • Table comparison updated at Sep 1st 2022
     


GstarCAD 2023 ActCAD 2022
Files Pro Std Pro
64-bit Support ✓  ✓  A Big Size Package
.dwg and .dxf  for AutoCAD version 2.5 to latest ✓  ✓  ✓
.pat,.shx,.lin and etc ✓  ✓  ✓
Password Protection ✓  ✓  ✓
File Recover and Audit ✓  ✓  ✓
Purge ✓  ✓  ✓
Etransmit ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Sheet Set manager ✓  ✓ 
CAD Standard .dws ✓  ✓ 
Convert PDF to DWG ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Xrefs in-place Editing (REFEDIT) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DWF Underlay ✓  ✓  ✓ 
PDF Underlay ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DGN Import and Underlay ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DWG Convert  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Import  WMF ✓  ✓ 
Export to DWG, DWF, DWFX, WMF, SAT, STL, EPS, DXX, BMP ✓  ✓   Partially 
Plot and Publish  to PDF ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Publish to DWF 2D & 3D ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Collaboration ✓  ✓ 
IFC format (Import&Export) ✓  ✓ 
PDF Import and Export ✓  ✓  ✓ 
ACAD Tool Palettes Import Tool ✓  ✓ 
Single-document Mode ✓  ✓  ✓  
Digital Signature ✓  ✓  ✓  
Reset Settings to Default. ✓  ✓ 
DWF Import ✓  ✓  ✓  
Interface GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Quick Properties ✓  ✓ 
Hidden Message Settings ✓  ✓ 
Color Scheme ✓  ✓ 
CUI Menus and Toolbars  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
CUI Import & Export ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Drag and Drop Customization ✓  ✓ 
Visual Menu Customization  ✓  ✓ 
Ribbon / Classic ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Properties Palettes ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Design Center / Tool Palettes  ✓  ✓ 
Xref Palette ✓  ✓  XREF Dialog Box
Command Line  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Workspace command ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Clean Screen ✓  ✓  ✓ 
New Dynamic Input  ✓  ✓ 
Menu bar ✓  ✓  ✓ 
File Tab ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Selection, Snap & Track GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Navigation Cube ✓  ✓ 
SELECTIONCYCLING ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Right-Click + Drag Method ✓  ✓ 
Selection Preview  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Quick Select   ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Select Similar ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Xtra Grips for Pline & Hatch Objects ✓  ✓  Not for Hatched Object
Osnap  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Grid and Snap ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Polar & Track  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments options ✓  ✓ 
Group ✓  ✓  More Complex
ADDSELECTED command ✓  ✓ 
Multiple command ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Dimensions GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
DIMCENTER Command ✓  ✓  Partially
Reassociate Dimension ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Rapid Distance ✓  ✓ 
Standard Dimensions  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Associative Dimension  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Quick Dimension  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Qleader ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Dimension Break ✓  ✓ 
Multileaders ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Text GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Mtext supports Numbering, Superscript, Subscrip…… ✓  ✓  Not Support Numbering
Text Align / Text Match  ✓  ✓ 
Change Text ✓  ✓ 
Mtext ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Text ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Adjust Character ✓  ✓  ✓ 
In-place Text Editor  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Mtext Editor  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Support .shx and .ttf font ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Spelling  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Check spelling in Mtext ✓  ✓ 
Fields  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Revcloud ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Wipeout ✓  ✓   Partially 
Rtext / Arc Text ✓  ✓   Arc Text
Text Incremental Copy ✓  ✓ 
Text on line ✓  ✓ 
Statistics Summation ✓  ✓ 
Layers GstarCAD Pro GstarCADStd ActCAD Pro
Auto Layer ✓  ✓ 
Change to ByLayer(SETBYLAYER) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Properties Manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer States Manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Translator ✓  ✓ 
Layer Walk ✓  ✓ 
Layer Previous ✓  ✓ 
Layer Isolate ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unisolate ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Lock ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unlock ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unlock All ✓  ✓ 
Lock Other Layers ✓  ✓ 
Layer Freeze ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Freeze Other Layer ✓  ✓ 
Thaw All Layers ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Off ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Off Other Layer ✓  ✓ 
Turn All Layers On ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Merge ✓  ✓ 
Layer Delete ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Match ✓  ✓  ✓ 
VP layer ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Hatch GstarCAD Pro GstarCADStd ActCAD Pro
Hatch objects from Tool Palettes ✓  ✓ 
Gradient Hatches  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Gradient Hatches  Color books ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Background and Color for Hatch Patterns ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Trim/Extend of/to Hatch Pattern Entities  ✓  ✓  Paritally
Superhatch ✓  ✓ 
Transparency for Hatch ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Trim/Extend/Hatch preview ✓  ✓ 
Raster images GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Raster Image Support (Clipping, Transparency, ...) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Support Kinds of Image Files (bmp\jpg\png\tga\tif\gif\pcx\ecw...) ✓  ✓  Not Support TGA,PCX
Express Tools GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Layout Merge ✓  ✓ 
Synchronize Viewports ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Breakpoint Check (CLOSELINE) ✓  ✓ 
Fast Select (FASTSEL) ✓  ✓ 
Change Base ✓  ✓ 
Layer Draw Order ✓  ✓ 
Area Table ✓  ✓ 
Break Object ✓  ✓ 
Block Break ✓  ✓ 
Graphic Compare ✓  ✓ 
Batpurge ✓  ✓ 
Layout by Path ✓  ✓ 
Line2pl ✓  ✓ 
Sptpl ✓  ✓ 
GstarCAD Tools ✓  ✓ 
Plot tools ✓  ✓ 
Drawing Compare ✓  ✓ 
Delete Duplicate Objects (OVERKILL) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Drawing Lock ✓  ✓ 
Others GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
LISP Debugger ✓  ✓ 
CLIPIT Command ✓  ✓ 
Quick Edit Block Attribute Text ✓  ✓ 
System Variable Monitor ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Region ✓  ✓ 
Dataextraction ✓  ✓ 
Make Shape ✓  ✓ 
Import Layout as Sheet ✓  ✓ 
Viewport Scale ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Attribute Increment (ATTINC) ✓  ✓ 
Define Layout Viewport from ModelSpace (M2LVPORT) ✓  ✓ 
Security ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Free Scale ✓  ✓ 
Hatch to Back ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Areasum ✓  ✓  TOTALAREA
Total Length ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Align Tool / Arrange Tool ✓  ✓ 
Reverse ✓  ✓ 
Synchronize Attributes (ATTSYNC) ✓  ✓ 
Clip ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Array Dynamically ✓  ✓ 
Table ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Formulas in Table ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Symmetric Draw ✓  ✓ 
Outline Objects ✓  ✓ 
Invert Fillet ✓  ✓ 
Draw and Modify Commands ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Offset Multiple ✓  ✓ 
Helix ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Real Time Pan & Zoom  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Annotative Objects ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Object Scales ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Redraw and  Regeneration  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layout and Paper Space ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layout Viewport settings dialog box ✓  ✓ 
Magnifier ✓ 
Barcode & QR Code ✓  ✓ 
Non-rectangular Viewports  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Shortcut Customization (CUSTACC) ✓  ✓ 
Match Properties Across Drawings ✓  ✓ 
Multilines and Multiline Styles  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Block Create and Insert  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Block Attribute Definition  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Refedit ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Hyperlink ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Scale List ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Dynamic Block Create/Insert/View/Edit ✓  Partially Partially
Table Tools ✓  ✓ 
AutoXLSTable ✓  ✓ 
Pline Boolean  ✓  ✓ 
Hole Table ✓ 
Capture Point to CSV ✓ 
3D GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
POLYSOLID ✓  ✓ 
PLANESURF ✓ 
SURFOFFSET ✓ 
CONVTOMESH ✓  ✓ 
CONVTOSOLID ✓  ✓ 
CONVTOSURFACE ✓  ✓ 
CONVTONURBS ✓ 
Point Cloud ✓  ✓  ✓ 
3D Edition Grips ✓ 
Section Plane ✓ 
Flatshot ✓ 
3D Surfaces  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
ACIS Modeling & Editing  ✓  ✓ 
3D Orbit ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Render  ✓ 
Visual Styles manager ✓ 
Solid editing ✓  Partially
Solprof / Solview / Soldraw ✓ 
Printing GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
CTB & STB Plot Style Files  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Plot Styles Table Editor ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Built-in Print Driver ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Import & Editing of Page Setups  ✓  ✓ 
Publish  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Hide and Shade Plot  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Batch Print ✓  ✓ 
Arrange Frame ✓  ✓ 
Auto Publish ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Licensing GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std ActCAD Pro
Stand-alone USB dongle ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Network  USB dongle ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Stand-alone License(Flexnet) Perpetual ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Network License(Flexnet) Perpetual ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Online Register ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Subscription ✓  ✓ 

REMARKS

  • This table is for reference only.
  • Empty space means functionally not supported.
  • The package that contains LT version does not support BEDIT.
  • Table comparison updated on Aug 1st 2023.

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