Significant advantages by using the new ODA libraries (SDKs v.2021.11)
64bit power engine with best performances on any level
Option for cloud-based multi-licensing
User interface
Enhanced interface with new features concerning the dialog boxes, the status bar, the drawing window and others
New contextual menu enhancements for arrays, tables, multiline text and others.
Improved performance
Significantly faster while selecting entities (up to 7 times)
Two times faster while handling grips & snaps, regenerating large drawings and switching layouts.
Completely re-engineered OpenGL graphics engine for even higher performance.
Enriched Interoperability
New options for Importing a) map files (.shp, .sdf, sqlite), b) pdf files with multiple options, and c) point data from .csv & .txt files.
Placement of an Excel® file as a table in the drawing.
Compatibility with Revit® 2021 files
New features and capabilities
New features regarding the insertion of dynamic blocks
Support of 3Dconnexion input devices
Enhanced layer management (i.e. “Layer Previous” command to reverse changes made to layer settings, restore a layer state, apply more options to layer filters etc)
New options while selecting and/or modifying entities (i.e. for moving selected entities, specifying additional grips for blocks, use of new Rectangular Array, Polar Array, Path Array and Edit Array commands)
New commands for group entities (i.e. Quick Group, Group Edit and Ungroup).
New options for Tables (data, formulas and fields in table cells, linked data from an .xls file, assignment of table styles and others)
New capabilities regarding Text (i.e. tabs for multiline text
Enhanced printing and publishing commands
Digital Signature for dwg files
4MCAD23: Summary of Features
DWG format full compatibility
Native .dwg file support
Read/Write to Autocad format
Interoperability – working with files
Import IFC files (4MCAD PRO)
PDF to CAD conversion –DWG file (4MCAD PRO)
Import Revit files (RFA and RVT format files) (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export IGES format files (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export STEP format files (4MCAD PRO)
Import/Export ACIS 3D Solids *.sat
Working with point clouds – attaching point cloud .rcp/.rcs files
Conversion of entities to three-dimensional meshes or surfaces using the Convert to Mesh and Convert to Surface commands.
Facet Modeler to draw these 3D entity types: box (FMBOX), cone (FMCONE), cylinder (FMCYLINDER), pyramid (FMPYRAMID), sphere (FMSPHERE), and torus (FMTORUS).
Draw construction lines using the new Construction Line command.
FM3DCONVERT and FMEXTRUDE commands to convert more types of three-dimensional entities to other types of three-dimensional entities.
Editing of the 3D entities of the new Facet Modeler: 3D convert (FM3DCONVERT), extrude (FMEXTRUDE), intersect (FMINTERSECT), revolve (FMREVOLVE), subtract (FMSUBTRACT), and union (FMUNION)
Interface
Tool Palette (acad-like Tool Palette)
Ribbon menus & menu bar interface, both together at the same time.
Α number of facilities and auxiliary tools such as Quick CUI command, Right-click a drawing tab to see options for the tab, Cursor Types (regular, gunsightand XOR when overlapping a same color area), “Save Workspace” command for saving a workspace and its settings, “Close All Others” command to close all drawing windows except the current one and many others.
Blocks and External references
Insertion of Dynamic blocks
Convert Block to XRef to convert each occurrence of a selected block to an external reference.
Find and replace blocks (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Block Library with up to 1000 blocks (4MCAD PRO)
Block Library Manager (4MCAD PRO)
Selecting and modifying entities
Selection Filter command to display the Selection Filter pane (allowing to filter and select entities by layer, color, entity type, and linetype).
Selection Cycling tab to specify how to select when selecting entities that overlap.
Overkill command to delete or combine duplicate or overlapping entities.
View and select a range of actions on the Undo/Redo toolbar
Thicken command to convert surfaces and meshes into three-dimensional solids with a specified thickness (4MCAD PRO).
Additional grips and properties to polygons, rectangles and break lines, for smart editing.
Viewing
Advanced Photo-realistic 3D Rendering (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Raster Image Support (4MCAD Standard & 4MCAD PRO)
Graphical Block Preview
CAMERA command to create and modify view settings for a drawing
Text
Work with multiline text using right-to-left fonts.
Create additional types of lists for multiline text.
Resize text using the Scale Text command.
Draw a circle, rectangle, or dashed line around text using the Enclose Text with Shape command.
Position text within a defined space using the Text Fit command.
Print
Export Layout to Model (.dwg)
Publish drawings to DWF and DWFx.
3D Printing files
Auto Publish command to automatically create electronic files (.dwf/.pdf) from the current drawing.
APIs
Microsoft .NET 4.5 API – .NET wrappers for architectural objects.
Load IRX applications automatically in IntelliCAD via the registry.
Autodesk® Development System (ADS) support
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications – VBA 7.1 (4MCAD PRO)
LISP support (including DCL)
Enhanced Performance
High performance when snapping to .pdf files, blocks with many nested entities and point clouds.
Zoom and Pan, extremely fast for clipped external references.
Opening external reference files much faster.
Enhanced performance when selecting by window.
Incremental saving of .dwg files is supported, providing much faster saving of large .dwg files that contain only a few changes.
4MCAD Features
4MCAD Professional
More specifically here are all the three different types of licenses