10 reasons to have ARC+ EXEcutive®:

1. Cost saving compatibility With DWG

With DWG as its primary drawing file format and DWG and DXF support up to version 2009, ARC+ EXEcutive® provides compatibility and exchange capabilities with a wide range of graphics and construction software all over the world. Save drawings back to R12 DWG or DXF format if needed. ARC+ EXECUTIVE® recovers damaged DWG and DXF files in all format versions. Export and import ACIS® SAT files and DWF files to or from other CAD software. Export your drawing data to PDF, SVG, or other vector and image formats.

2. Fast and Easy to Use

ARC+ EXEcutive® is built from scratch, based on current technologies, incorporating the DWG engine of the Open Design Alliance (ODA). Constructed on three decades experience in CAD ARC Technology is committed to provide CAD users a product that ensures speed, ease of use, and reliability.

3. Intuitive Interaction

The Qt® based user interface with dockable toolbars, right-click shortcut menus, and a Properties palette lets you feel at home quickly in ARC+ EXEcutive ®. Fully customize the user interface (UI). No programming knowledge needed. Store individual UI configurations in user profiles. Use aliases for frequently used commands.

4. Smart Drafting Tools

Speed up drafting and constructing using ARC+ EXEcutive® smart tools such as entity snap, entity snap guides, and polar guides. Create custom coordinate systems to align the construction plane to drawing objects.

5. Easy Edits

Quickly reposition, align, copy, or resize entities using entity grips. Use filtered selections to modify a specified set of entities. Use the Properties palette to directly manipulate the appearance of entities such as layer, color, line style, and line weight, or other properties of one or more selected entities. Use the Property Painter tool to copy properties from one entity to apply them to other entities. Dimensions as well as hatches and gradient color fills are related to their associated entities and update automatically.

6. Efficient Reuse of Objects and Styles

Create and insert blocks to reduce and avoid repetitive work. Attach drawings and images as references to share work and participate in workgroup environments. Set up and manage styles for dimensions, text, tables, and Rich Lines to assure conformity with industry and corporate needs and standards.

7. Annotate with Value

Enhance the information value of geometry with notes and tables, leaders and geometric tolerances, or text attributes of block insertions. Record and play Voice Notes to add messages, reminders, or instructions directly in your drawing. Mark up drawing items with freehand sketches. Mask portions of the drawing to exempt them for annotations. Clip referenced drawings to display only what is needed.

8. View Your Design Simultaneously in Different Shade Modes

Use tiled views to view the model from orthogonal or isometric views. Use Roll View to rotate the model in 3D space. Choose from different display modes for individual tiled views: wireframe, hidden lines removal, flat or Gouraud shading. Render the model full screen or in a separate window. Add light sources to view results in a realistic state.

9. Organize multiple layouts with tabbed sheets

Create numerous tabs each representing a sheet to design a layout from which to print. Place view tiles on sheets to arrange different views to the model, or details of the design at different scales. Place frames, title blocks, part lists etc. on the sheets. You can switch between paper space and model space on Sheet tabs to adjust the representation of the model and even edit the model. Organize sets of layers to be displayed in each view tile individually as needed. Clip view tiles on layout sheets with rectangular or irregular shapes.

10. Manage individual options settings

Use the Options center to manage all drafting and system preferences in one place and store them as user profiles to restore them as needed. Create page layouts to reuse print settings when sending your design to the printer or plotter.

1 (additional) reason to have ARC+ EXEcutive® Pro Edition:

1.  Maximum Productivity with Programming Interfaces

The Pro Edition lets you gain maximum user productivity by taking advantage of the Lisp, C/C++, Visual Studio for Applications (VSTA), Delphi, COM, and DRX programming interfaces to create your own functions, routings, and plug-ins. Add active content from other applications using OLE objects in drawings. Easily define and manage user interface elements such as menus and toolbars in XML resources.

2 (additional) reasons to have ARC+ EXEcutive® Solid Edition:

1. ACIS® Based Solid Modeling

ARC+ EXEcutive® Solid Edition includes a 3D Solid Modeler based on ACIS®, the industry standard. Add 3D Solid primitives to your design and use Boolean operations to Unite, Intersect and Subtract Bodies. Extrude or Revolve 2D entities, Sweep 2D entities along a path, or Loft between 2D entities to create Solid objects. Slice and Intersect Solids. Edit the Edges, Faces and Bodies of 3D Solids. Use Regions, created from closed boundaries, to transform areas into 3D Solids and perform Boolean operations on 2D entities.

2. Geographic Information Data

The Solid Edition reads and writes ESRI® Shape files, allowing you to visualize maps and geographics models created by GIS applications.

If you are new to CAD or if you are currently working with Drafting software, such as AutoCAD®, you will feel right at home with ARC+ EXEcutive®.