CMS Intellicad 14 review

[Danielm103]

Always been a fan of CMS. I had meant to test out v14 back when it was released, I think I couldn’t find the SDK or something. Anyway, Let’s check it.

Good looking interface, Ribbon, menu bar, and title bar. I don’t do drawings much, so I’m mainly going to test out the IRX API.

 

I’ve opened a few good size drawings, it seems responsive, zooming and panning is plenty fast. 

 

 

 

[Danielm103]

3d looks pretty good, I think the nav tool is pretty cool as its activated on mouse over, though it’s hard to see with some visual styles

 

Edited December 1, 2025 by Danielm103

[Danielm103]

Let’s setup IRX and see how it compares to ARX

I setup an ENV path IRX14 that points to the SDK. 

 

I didn’t see any documentation on how to setup a project from scratch. But there is a wizard for visual studio.

I’ve had done this before, basically, I brute force it. There is documentation for .NET and ODA stuff. 

 

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#include files

$(IRX14)\icarx\inc;

$(IRX14)\icrx\OpenDesignSDK;

$(IRX14)\icrx\OpenDesignSDK\Kernel\Include;

$(IRX14)\icrx\OpenDesignSDK\KernelBase\Include;

$(IRX14)\icarx\inc-x64;

 

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#link files

$(IRX14)\icarx\lib-$(PlatformName)

 

[Danielm103]

This is a test with wxArx,  github.com/CEXT-Dan/WxArx

Has a great looking palette, wxDialogs work fine.

 

 

Edited December 1, 2025 by Danielm103

[Danielm103]

This is totally cool! This is a custom entity github.com/CEXT-Dan/ArxTin

I’m very surprised this event worked! And it’s fast!  There were three missing functions

 

acedGetCurrentSelectionSet – missing

acdbSymUtil()->blockModelSpaceId(pDb) – returns null

 

 

Edited December 1, 2025 by Danielm103

[SLW210]

Prices look good.

 

What 3D outputs does it have?

[Danielm103]

this is from the export command 

 

edit: I just realized I was playing with PE, and not PE-plus. I think the later has the 3d tools

 

Edited December 1, 2025 by Danielm103

[BIGAL]

I worked on a package some 30+ years ago using lisp in Intellicad and there was no real problems, a couple of idiosyncrasies, that we had to recode around. No VL at that time, so don't know about current version if VL is supported, perhaps Daniel you can test.

 

Intellicad quotes "he LISP interpreter is an internal API and can even be combined with the macro recording language mentioned above." The Autocad macro is at best useless if you want to edit it any serious way, I would like to know what code is produced by Intellicad if you could look at that as well. I have said before that one cad program macro from many years ago produced VBA code, much like Excel.

 

This a similar example of Intellicad lisp package.

[Danielm103]

I don’t have a lot of lisp routines to test with, only the ones I use to benchmark with, they work, except _VL-TIMES is missing

I was able to compile and load Python, most of the simple scripts I tested seem to work, on the fence on whether or not publish anything. There’s some weirdness preventing me from running my unit tests.