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CADian IntelliCAD is a CAD program for 2D and 3D design and drafting, developed and sold by CADianSoft. CADian engine, which is based on the DWGdirect library from the Open Design Alliance reads and writes the“DWG”data format – a widely used file format for storing both graphic and textual information of CAD-related software applications. The CADian IntelliCAD engine not only provides native industry-standard compatibility with DWG, but also has a set of commands similar to AutoCAD by Autodesk, Inc. Similarly, CADian IntelliCAD provides several calling convention routines, or APIs, such as LISP, COM, Visual Basic, and SDS (IntelliCAD's C/C++ Programming API) that allow users the ability to create complex custom CAD applications.

CADian IntelliCAD consists of a generic CAD engine with full abilities to display, modify and create 2D drawings or 3D models. 3D Solid designers can use the Spatial ACIS modeler which built-in CADian and also execute extensive APIs to program powerful specialty applications alike Architectural, Civil, Plant, Mechanical, Electrical, Furniture design and so on. Therefore CADian is an excellent alternative to all CAD designer to use the dwg, dxf, dwf, dgn or IGES formats.