File
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| 64-bit Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .dwg/.dxf for AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2018 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| .pat,.shx,.lin and etc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Password Protection | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| File Recover and Audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Purge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Etransmit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sheet Set Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CAD Standard .dws | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xrefs in-place Editing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF Underlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DGN File Format Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWG Convert | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Import WMF, SAT, 3DS, DWF, DWFX, DGN, PDF, SVG | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Export to DWG, DWF, DWFX, WMF, EMF, SAT, STL, EPS, DXX, BMP, SVG | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Add Plotter and Plot Manager | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Plot and Publish to PDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish to DWF 2D & 3D | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Collaboration | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| IFC Import | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| PDF Import and Export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACAD Tool Palettes Import Tool | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Single-document Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital Signature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch Digital Signing Tool | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Reset Settings to Default | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DWF Import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| STEP/IGES Files | ✓ | X | X |
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Interface
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Quick Properties | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Hidden Message Settings | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| WorkSpace command | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Color Scheme | M* | M* | L* |
| CUI Menus and Toolbars | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CUI Import & Export | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Drag and Drop Customization | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Visual Menu Customization | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Ribbon/Classic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Properties Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Design Center/Tool Palette | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xref Palette | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Command Line | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clean Screen | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Dynamic Input | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Menu bar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| File Tab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Selection, Snap & Track
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Navigation Cube | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SELECTIONCYCLING | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right-Click + Drag Method | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Selection Preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Select | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Select Similar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xtra Grips for Pline & hatch Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Osnap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grid and Snap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar & OTrack | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Multifunctional Grips | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Group | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ADDSELECTED Command | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Multiple command | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Dimensions
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| DIMCENTER Command | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Reassociate Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DIMTOFFSET | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Rapid Distance | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Standard Dimensions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Associative Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Dimension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qleader | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dimension Break | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multileaders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Constraints | X | X | ✓ |
| Voice Note | X | X | ✓ |
| Dynamic Dimensions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Text
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Text Align / Text Match | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Change Text | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Mtext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-language Character Set | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-place Text Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mtext Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support .shx and .ttf font | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spelling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Check spelling in Mtext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Field | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Revcloud | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wipeout | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Rtext / ArcText | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text Incremental Copy | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Text on line | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Statistics Summation | ✓ | ✓ | X |
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Layers
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Auto Layer | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Change to ByLayer(SETBYLAYER) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Properties Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer States Manager | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Translator | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Layer Walk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Previous | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Isolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unisolate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Lock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unlock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Unlock All | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Lock Other Layers | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Layer Freeze | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Freeze Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Thaw All Layers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Off | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Off Other Layer | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Trun All Layers On | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Delete | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layer Match | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Hatch
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Hatch objects from Tool Palettes | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Gradient Hatches | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gradient Hatches Color Books | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Custom Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Background and Color for Hatch Patterns | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Trim/Extend of/to Hatch Pattern Entities | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Superhatch | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Raster images
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Raster Image Support (Clipping, Transparency, …) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support Kinds of Image Files (bmp\jpg\png\tga\tif\gif\pcx\ecw\…) | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
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Express Tools
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| Lockup (with password) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Layout Merge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synchronize Viewports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Breakpoint Check | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Fast Select (FASTSEL) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Change Base | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Layer Draw Order | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Area Table | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Break Object | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Block Break | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Graphic Compare | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Batpurge | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Layout by Path | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Line2pl | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Sptpl | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| GstarCAD Tools | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Table Tools | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Plot tools | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Drawing Compare | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete Duplicate Objects (OVERKILL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drawing Lock without Password | ✓ | ✓ | X |
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Other
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| LISP Debugger | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLIPIT Command | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Quick Edit Block Attribute Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| System Variable Monitor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Region | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| Dataextraction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Datalink | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Make Shape | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import Layout as Sheet | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewport Scale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VPMAX/VPMIN | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Attribute Increment (ATTINC) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Define Layout Viewport from ModelSpace (M2LVPORT) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Security | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free Scale | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Hatch to Back | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reverse | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Synchronize Attributes (ATTSYNC) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLIP Command | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Array Options | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Align Tool / Arrange Tool | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Areasum | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Table | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Symmetric Draw | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Outline Objects | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Invert Fillet | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Draw and Modify Commands | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offset Multiple | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Helix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real Time Pan & Zoom | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Annotative Objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object Scales | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redraw and Regeneration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout and Paper Space | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layout Viewport settings (Visual Styles) | ✓ | ✓ | P* |
| Magnifier | ✓ | X | X |
| Barcode & QR Code | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Non-rectangular Viewports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shortcut Customization (CUSTACC) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Match Properties Across Drawings | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Multilines and Multiline Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block Create and Insert | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Block Attribute Definition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redefine Block | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refedit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hyperlink | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scale List | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Block Create/Insert/View/Edit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MEASUREGEOM (Sum area and Total Length) | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| AutoXLSTable | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Pline Boolean | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| _____________________________________________ |
3D
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| POLYSOLID | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| PLANESURF | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| SURFOFFSET | ✓ | X | X |
| CONVTOMESH | ✓ | X | X |
| CONVTOSOLID | ✓ | X | X |
| CONVTOSURFACE | ✓ | X | X |
| CONVTONURBS | ✓ | X | X |
| Point Cloud | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| 3D Edition Grips | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| Section Plane | ✓ | X | X |
| Flatshot | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| 3D Surfaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ACIS Modeling & Editing | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| 3D Orbit options | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Render | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| Visual Styles Manager | ✓ | X | X |
| Solid Editing | ✓ | X | ✓ |
| Solprof / Solview / Soldraw | ✓ | X | X |
| _____________________________________________ |
Printing
GstarCAD 2024
ARES 2024
| Features | Professional | Std | ARES Commander |
| CTB & STB Plot Style Files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plot Styles Table Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in Print Driver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import & Editing of Page Setups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publish | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Hide and Shade Plot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch Print | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Arrange Frame | ✓ | ✓ | X |
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Actualizada en Agosto 1, 2023