The ENGINEERING VIEW MODE variable enables switching the bottom view from ACAD’s default to a true engineering projection, enhancing visual accuracy in technical drawings.

The Drawing Merge feature enables batch analysis, splitting, and merging of drawings through Xrefs, offering customizable layout settings. Additional capabilities include viewing entity properties and exporting the drawing list to a .lst file for enhanced project organization.

GstarCAD 2026 now supports saving extraction settings in .GXE files, and reusing them as templates. You can also edit .GXE files to add or remove drawings, objects, or properties. Any tables linked to the same .GXE file will display the changes when those tables are updated.

The PDF import engine has been upgraded to the modern, actively maintained PDFium library—boosting import speed, enhancing raster image rendering (transparency, clarity, color accuracy), improving text recognition and decoding (same-line text is recognized as MText, with each character assigned a width factor based on the first character), and delivering crisper hatch displays.

The Batch Purge tool now supports cleaning up registered applications, zero-length geometries, empty text objects, and orphaned drawing data.

Frame records can now be previewed sequentially. Clicking any record initiates the preview, while pressing the spacebar advances through frames with the active frame highligh

The DIMCORD command now features leader lines instead of polylines, so moving a text block automatically carries its leader with it, making label placement more intuitive. The updated “Parameters” dialog also lets you adjust scale and text height, and includes new Group and Auto Switch options for greater flexibility and ease of use.

The DIMCORD command now features leader lines instead of polylines, so moving a text block automatically carries its leader with it, making label placement more intuitive. The updated “Parameters” dialog also lets you adjust scale and text height, and includes new Group and Auto Switch options for greater flexibility and ease of use.

GstarCAD interface has been reconstructed using the WPF framework and our own technologies to deliver both visual polish and technical power: Over 1500 SVG icons and refined themes deliver a sleek, scalable look; New architecture ensures faster performance and seamless .NET compatibility; Usability improvements include customizable ribbon tabs, enhanced Recent Documents, and a space-saving embedded text editor.

GstarCAD interface has been reconstructed using the WPF framework and our own technologies to deliver both visual polish and technical power: Over 1500 SVG icons and refined themes deliver a sleek, scalable look; New architecture ensures faster performance and seamless .NET compatibility; Usability improvements include customizable ribbon tabs, enhanced Recent Documents, and a space-saving embedded text editor.

While Geometric Constraints were first introduced in last year, GstarCAD 2026 expands this powerful feature with Dimensional Constraints and Parameters Manager. These enhancements enable precise control over object sizes and proportions, and provide tools to create, edit, and organize dimensional constraint parameters, reference parameters, and user variables for greater design flexibility.

Adds dedicated tools for placing center marks and centerlines on circles and symmetrical geometry. These associative objects update automatically with the geometry, enhancing drawing precision and simplifying annotation in mechanical or architectural layouts. (Available in SP1)

Integrated with ARCHLine.XP, this plugin enables direct transfer of drawings in DWG or IFC format between GstarCAD and ARCHLine.XP, eliminating tedious import/export steps and offering an effortless CAD-to-BIM workflow.

Adds support for Code 39 barcodes for low-cost, alphanumeric labeling with broad industrial compatibility.

Tool palettes can now be customized by importing XTP files, allowing the integration of text, separators, and block references from ACAD configuration sets. This streamlines workflows and ensures consistency across projects.

This feature compares a specified drawing with the current drawing, using revision clouds to highlight the differences. It allows users to configure comparison settings, import objects from the compared drawing, and export and bind the results into new snapshot drawings for future reference.

Introduces a dedicated “3D Modeling” interface alongside the GstarCAD Classic and 2D Drafting workspaces. It displays only 3D-related toolbars, menus, and palettes—hiding unnecessary UI elements to maximize your modeling screen space.

This plotter supports only black-and-white output and greatly reduces drawing file sizes while preserving the accuracy of lines, text, and dimensions.