Welcome!

If you are new to CADwerx products, the following is a brief overview of some of what you'll find here.  Click on any product link below to get more information on that product or click on the screen shot to view the full size screen shot.

Free Stuff:
Click for full size screen shot Freebies -

  • FixHatch -
    Maintains the persistency of the associative setting in the BHATCH dialog. Also makes the default non-associative helping to prevent associative hatches where unwanted (ie. hatching over an xref).

  • FixCombos -
    Resizes the Layer and Linetype combo boxes to display more or all of the layer or linetype name. Can also be manually set to a specific width.
  • [more info / download]
    Nearly Free Stuff:
    Click for full size screen shot BlockWerx 4.0 -

    A full-featured, easy to use block/drawing management/insertion utility. Nothing to setup, it uses your existing directory structure as an organizing principal. [more info / download]
    Click for full size screen shot DocBar 2.0 -

    A toolbar for switching between open AutoCAD documents.  Can be run in image mode (displays preview) or tab mode (like worksheets in Excel).
    New - Work set and sheet set functionality, dynamic current previews, much more... [more info / download]
    Click for full size screen shot CadXplorer 1.0 -

    A full-featured Windows shell extension that adds previews, enhanced tooltips, editors, and additional context menu functions for many AutoCAD files including -
    • .dwg - AutoCAD Drawing, all versions with previews
    • .dwt - Drawing Template
    • .dws - Drawing Standards file (they don't appear to have a preview though)
    • .bak - Backup Drawing
    • .sv$ - Autosave Drawing
    • .sld - AutoCAD Slide (separate view windows as well as preview)
    • .slb - AutoCAD Slide Library (built-in viewer/editor included)
    • .shp - AutoCAD Shape file (built-in viewer/editor included)
    • .shx - AutoCAD Compiled Shape file (built-in viewer/editor included)
    • .pat - AutoCAD Hatch Pattern (single or mulitple, built-in viewer/editor included)
    • [more info / download]
    For developers and CAD managers (freeware):
    Click for full size screen shot AcadInstall 1.5 -

    An AutoCAD installation helper to setup menu's and lsp, vlx, arx applications prior to starting AutoCAD. It will work with any installer able to spawn an external process and pass it the folder where the files are installed (Inno Setup, InstallShield, InstallShield Express, etc.) [more info / download]
    Click for full size screen shot CADwerx License Manager 1.1 -

    A network license server for CADwerx products. Buy only the number of licenses you use at any given time. [more info / download]
    Click for full size screen shot Missing Link 1.0 -

    A tool for developers to debug missing dll linkages. [more info / download]