ViaCAD Pro v7 is the all-new set of professional tools designed for both simple and complex tasks to increase productivity. Surface analysis, deformation, tangent covers, surface Booleans, Auto-draw functions, multiple view ports, textures PLUS Ray Trace rendering add even more ease and speed as you draw.   Please note, this is the professional version (MSRP $249) and does require the internet connection to activate/register the software once you install it. 

New for Version 7
Photorealistic Rendering

ViaCAD Pro now includes photorealistic rendering to add visual realism to your designs. Drag and drop materials, textures, and decals onto parts. Use the material editor to tweak reflectance, color, displacement, transparency, and texture space attributes. Add lights, backgrounds, foregrounds or environment maps to further enhance the scene. For output, ViaCAD Pro provides options to generate high quality poster size images.
The Gripper

An intuitive graphical widget that attaches to your objects allowing you to dynamically move, rotate, and scale objects in 2D or 3D.
Custom Palettes

Create palettes using your favorite combination of tools. Use this new feature to customize ViaCAD Pro for your specific workflow process.
Inspector

Easily modify and set the default values for pen, fill, text, and dimension attributes.
More Modeling Power

Curves Extend curve by length, to point, or to another curve.
Surfacing Match by position and surface extend.
Splines Dynamic creation for Bezier, control point and interpolate splines.
Dimension New centerline dimension tool