Why AllyCAD​

Find out why AllyCAD is the preferred choice of thousands of technical designers.

The AllyCAD Advantage

AllyCAD’s industrial strength, advanced functionality and feature rich toolkits make it the only choice for our clients. AllyCAD allows 2D and 3D draughting, is fast and powerful. We have added and improved many features and functionality to give you the AllyCAD Advantage.

– DX rendering engine for fast 3D rendering & image manipulation
– 3D and lightweight polylines, blocks, Xrefs, multiline text
– 3D functionality, meshes, faces, solid shapes & rendering
– Extended modify functions such as stretch, mirror, cut/rub
– Multiple parallel lines with definable styles, line-arc-line
– Database attributes linked to entities, replace text items
– Convert geometry into drawing entities for complex shapes
– Powerful selection filters select entities based on attributes
– Specialised Toolkits that greatly enhance your productivity:
– Survey – SG diagram, general and sectional plans, COGO
– Architectural – makes drawing houses and buildings faster
– Mechanical – includes fasteners, shafts, gears, parts list
– Structural – hot / cold rolled steel sections & building grid
– Enhanced bitmap capability loads multiple large images
= Maximum compatibility with the latest DWG/DXF formats

We are renowned for having the best support in the industry. Our attitude to support is quite simple. We know that time is money, and if you have a problem then we have a problem. When you come on board we automatically give you a years’s support subscription.

Our dedicated Support Centre consists of technical individuals with industry qualifications whose sole responsibility is to answer support calls. You deal directly with us and not with a reseller who cannot offer you quality support. Our programmers are active in communicating with our clients, sales, training and support staff on a daily basis ensuring that they are in touch with your requirements.

AllyCAD is now being used in over 40 different countries and is preferred for its simplicity and versatility. Our client base includes engineers, surveyors and architects who use AllyCAD for large scale projects, as well as thousands of smaller industrial designers and hobbyists who use AllyCAD for their designs of everything from model steam engines to garden sheds and office furniture.

AllyCAD comes with specialised toolkits have been designed to speed up essential but time-consuming tasks relevant to the various CAD disciplines. The following are included:


– General Toolkit
– Architectural Toolkit
– Structural Toolkit
– Mechanical Toolkit
– Survey Toolkit.

The Knowledge Base development team is continually improving AllyCAD in order to meet our users requirements and keep up with the latest industry developments. This close relationship we have with our users is highly prized by our existing clients and is the reason why AllyCAD is the preferred choice of professionals, consultants, local authorities, technikons and universities. This close relationship with you sets us apart from the competition and is essential in developing a CAD package with innovative functions and real benefits that impact directly on your productivity.

Knowledge Base is furthermore one of the founding members of the Open Design Alliance (ODA). The benefits of membership include sharing the costs and effort associated with software development in respect of compatibility with the DWG format as it evolves.

The ODA enables Knowledge Base to develop products faster and better and concentrate on real advantages for the end user. We can quickly and easily keep in step with DWG changes which means that we can focus our efforts on other areas such as making our software more powerful and feature rich.

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