REDMOND, WA, USA, Nov 6, 2026 – ACTCAD is pleased to announce a significant maintenance release for ACTCAD 2027, focused on improving performance, reliability, licensing technology, and overall user productivity. This release introduces several major platform enhancements, a brand-new nesting solution, and extensive refinements across the product architecture.

Highlights of This Release

• Enhanced Licensing Technology
  Introduced a more robust, secure, and reliable licensing framework to provide improved activation, validation, and license management experiences.
• Introduction of ACTCAD Nesting
  Added the all-new ACTCAD Nesting module powered by our proprietary nesting engine, delivering optimized material utilization and improved production workflows.
• Expanded Map Drafter Availability
  The Map Drafter module has been significantly improved and is now available for use with both ACTCAD Standard and ACTCAD Premium editions.
• Faster Performance Across the Platform
  Multiple core optimizations have been implemented to improve application speed, responsiveness, and overall operational efficiency.
• Extensive Command Refactoring
  More than 200 commands have been completely refactored to improve stability, maintainability, performance, and user experience.

New Features

• BCYCLEORDER Command
  Added a new command for reviewing and managing the cycling order of Dynamic Block visibility states, providing greater control over block behavior and presentation.

Product Enhancements

• Command History Optimization
  Improved command history performance by intelligently truncating excessively long text entries and controlling overall history length.
• REVCLOUD Improvements
  Enhanced arc length calculations by removing DIMSCALE dependency from minimum and maximum arc length computations, providing more consistent results.
• Operation History Management
  Improved undo tracking and history recording when switching between Model Space and Paper Space through double-click operations.
• Ribbon Interface Enhancements
  Improved RibbonPanel functionality with the implementation of DefaultText and LocalizedText properties, enabling proper display text management.
• Property Palette Improvements
  Enhanced support for custom properties containing varying values, including full handling of the *VARIES property condition.
• Visual LISP Enhancements
  Introduced the new VLISPOPEN command while maintaining existing VLISP functionality. Additionally, VLIDE now operates as an alias for VLISP.
• AI Review Dialog Improvements
  Enhanced visibility and user attention handling for AI-generated Command and LISP review dialogs.
• SELECTBYHANDLE Enhancement
  Updated command behavior to display selection grips after object selection, improving workflow clarity.
• Configurable AI Trust Levels
  Added support for configurable AI trust levels, providing administrators and users with greater control over AI-assisted workflows.

Resolved Issues

• AI Command and LISP Tools
  Resolved Standard edition build issues related to RunCommandTool and RunLispTool components.
• Setup AI Dialog Stability
  Fixed an issue that could cause the application to become unresponsive when closing the Options dialog after accessing the Setup AI dialog.
• AI Property Processing
  Replaced some deprecated utf string conversions for improved compatibility and maintainability.
• AI Feature Visibility
  Corrected an issue where the Setup AI button could appear in product builds that do not include AI functionality.
• Standard Edition Build Reliability
  Fixed a build error caused by an incorrect import of Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop.targets.
• RunLispWithReviewDialog Build Fix
  Resolved some build issue caused with some include file.

Commitment to Continuous Improvement

This ACTCAD 2027 maintenance release reflects our ongoing commitment to delivering a faster, more reliable, and feature-rich CAD platform. With stronger licensing technologies, the introduction of ACTCAD Nesting, enhanced GIS drafting capabilities, significant performance improvements, and extensive command-level refinements, users can expect a more productive and dependable CAD experience.

About ActCAD

ActCAD brings Global Collaborated Technology Expertise to you at very affordable life-time price. ActCAD is powered by the most latest IntelliCAD 10.1a engine, Open Design Alliance Tiegha Libraries and ACIS technologies. ActCAD has many enhancements, features and commands on top of IntelliCAD core. The add-on features, express menu commands allow ActCAD to become more productive for day-to-day projects. ActCAD works very closely with IntelliCAD on Development and Quality Assurance. Thanks to our highly automated test and build systems to keep our costs minimal. IntelliCAD was started in 1999 and has over 1 million trusted users now using IntelliCAD world-wide. ActCAD is a commercial member with active role in Release Committee and Board of Directors of IntelliCAD. For more information, visit http://actcad.com.