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ABC AutoCAD is engaged from years in the development of custom software upon request for its customers. All this work is achieved in order to supply the maximum aid to customers and to allow you to always work with efficiency and rapidity. If you want to automate the design procedures, to make the repetitive operations immediate, to connect the graphical elements to database with a simple interface or you have any other requirement of customization, don't not hesitate to contatact us. Our technicians are ready to help you! To know more, take a look to our customers services.


Free opensource software

In this page you find some of our samples of plugins for AutoCAD.
ABC AutoCAD software in this page is free and opensource.
This means that our software comes supplied with the source code, so that you can be sure that it does not contain spyware, malware or other annoying elements of disturbance. And you can also copy, modify, give it to other people or simply use it for free.

Windows Vista Users:

When Setup program request you to choose the installation folder for the program, choose one that's non contained in the standard Program Files folder. Due to write limitations on the Program Files folder imposed by Vista, our installation and configuration script for AutoCAD would fail. Choose a different folder contained elsewhere.

See a video tutorial:

Video for ImportShapes
coming soon other tutorials for our free software.

Download free programs:

ImportShapes:
import ESRI ® Shape in AutoCAD.

ImportPoints:
AutoCAD addon to import points listed in text files or a database into AutoCAD.

MyHatch:
AutoCAD addon to create custom hatches for AutoCAD.

Raster Manager:
AutoCAD addon to insert world georeferenced raster images or to save gereferencing world file for raster images.

Stadium:
AutoCAD addon for projecting steps for theaters or stadiums.

MyHatch plugin for AutoCAD

Custom Hatch creation.

If you need more than AutoCAD standard patterns for your hatch, this program is the solution! With MyHatch you can create hatches from scratch working inside AutoCAD, using lines and special tools to simulate arcs and circles.

AutoCAD allows users to create .PAT files containing hatch definitions, but you need a program like this to generate text for those files if you want to create complex hatches. This software also allows you to store your hatches sketches inside a drawing for future reuse or editing.

Download the Italian version
Download the English version
Download use and installation guide

Import Shapes

Import ESRI ® Shape files in AutoCAD.

Who works with GIS has often the problem of facing with files in ESRI ® Shape format, containing geometry and attributes. This program allows you to import SHP files (and attached DBF Attributes) in AutoCAD, making a copy of linked tables and relinking the copies through the standard database tools already avaible in AutoCAD.
The obtained DWG is a normal AutoCAD drawing, that's also 100% compatible with AutoCAD Map 2008.
Import Shapes recognize Shape files of type Point, PointM, PointZ, PolyLine, PolyLineM, PolylineZ, Polygon and PolygonM, PolygonZ. The only limitations: there is no import option only for MultiPatch files (3D surfaces) and M dimension is not considered.
The attributes are linked retaining their original format (DBF), without changing tables' structure while importing, but cloning them in a project folder and reconnecting them through an AutoCAD data connection (UDL) and standard link templates.

This program helps people working in AutoCAD with maps in ESRI ArcGIS or ArchView format(SHP files). ImportShapes imports different shape files on different layers giving the option to change colors, linetypes, symbols (blocks), and even filling areas (with hatches), automatically creating layers and blocks, if they don't exist.

See a video tutorial here
Download the English Beta version

Software Import Points

Insert points automatically from a database or a text file.

Insertion of points from database and rows of text. If you have lists of points (coordinates and attributes) in a text file, a worksheet or a database, you can import them inside your DWG.

This program helps who works in AutoCAD with relief instruments or anyway has lists of remarkable points in a database, in rows of a text file, rows of Excel, Access, DBase (format also used by Shape files of ESRI), or in any other ODBC compliant database. ImportPoints allows you to import points or blocks with attributes in AutoCAD, transferring the coordinates and alphanumeric attributes from the source table to the design, automatically creating layers and blocks, if necessary. Moreover you will be able to assign the scale, the name or the layer to the imported blocks basing them on the values of the source fields of the database.

See a video tutorial here
download the english and italian version (to select the english or italian version, in the main import dialog window, click on the flags button).

Software Raster Manager

Inserts and georeferences raster images in AutoCAD.

Who works in AutoCAD with maps (i.e. technicians of the territory and Public Administration) will for sure appreciate this program.

Raster Manager places georeferenced raster images using World correlation format (typically avaible for Technical Papers from Public administration) in the design of you DWG.
It places, scales and rotates the image in the right way, as described in the attached (required) World file.
Raster Manager also allows to create the world correlation file, in a simpler way - and even with more pecision - than more sophisticated software like Autodesk Raster Design from Autodesk (but keep in mind that Raster Design has also many other features...).
Without need of expensive investments for sophisticated software, this simple addon places the image, and in a single click creates the World file if needed.
Moreover you will be able to assign not uniform scales on X and Y, a thing you can't normally achieve in AutoCAD, but fully supported by AutoCAD, so that the complete compatibility is maintained with users who don't own Raster Manager. This way you will solve the problem of imported images that sometimes are stretched in one direction by the scanner.

See a video tutorial here
Download the English version

Software Stadium

Calculation of gradinate for stages and theatres.

Program for the calculation of the profile of gradinate or disposition of the seats in order to guarantee the visibility of the theater box.

The program is free and opensource.

download the Italian version (sorry for english speaking people, but translations are welcome...)