GstarCAD 2026 features a completely redesigned interface that provides a sleek, modern look to enhance the user experience.
Performance improvements across various tasks significantly boost efficiency. Notable new features include Dimensional Constraints, Parameters Manager, DWG Compare, and innovative tools such as Drawing Merge and View Mode Switch.
Additionally, updates to DIMCORD, Batch Plot, Batch Purge, and PDF Import further enhance usability. Let's take a closer look at these exciting updates!
Performance
Boosted Performance to elevate your design experience to new heights.
Performance
GstarCAD 2026 signifies a substantial advancement in performance over its 2025 predecessor, guaranteeing an expedited, more fluid, and enhanced design experience for users.
Drawing opening speed improved by over 40% on average
Common operations improved by over 20% (REGEN, MOVE, COPYCLIP, MIRROR, UNDO, REDO, etc.)
In addition to these overall gains, key performance enhancements are listed below:
Improvements
Enhanced functionalities to optimize the design experience.
Interface Reconstruction - IMPROVEMENTS
The GstarCAD interface has been meticulously redesigned utilizing the WPF framework along with our proprietary technologies, thereby enhancing both its visual sophistication and technical robustness.
Visual Refresh:
``The color schemes and proportions have been thoroughly redesigned, featuring over 1,500 icons meticulously redrawn in SVG format to ensure precise and smooth display across all scales. Additionally, the refined theme colors and display effects contribute to a sophisticated and contemporary aesthetic.
Technical Upgrade::
The system is built upon a new WPF architecture that features optimized secondary development interfaces and enhanced data handling capabilities. Furthermore, its full compatibility with ACAD libraries ensures a seamless and zero-cost migration for existing .NET-based workflows.
Usability Optimization:
The Recent Documents feature now presents icons alongside names, accommodating up to 50 entries. Subpanels are now capable of being pinned, and ribbon tabs and panels can be swiftly customized through a right-click option. Furthermore, the text editor has been integrated within the ribbon to optimize screen space, complemented by several other enhancements to the user interface.
DIMCORD
The DIMCORD command has been enhanced to incorporate leader lines in place of polylines. This enhancement allows for the automatic movement of leader lines together with their corresponding text blocks, facilitating a more intuitive process for label placement. Furthermore, the revised "Parameters" dialog enables users to adjust scale and text height, and it introduces new Group and Auto Switch options, thereby offering increased flexibility and ease of use.
Data Extraction
GstarCAD 2026 now provides the functionality to save extraction settings in .GXE files, allowing users to reuse them as templates. Furthermore, users have the capability to edit .GXE files to add or remove drawings, objects, or properties as needed. Any tables linked to the corresponding .GXE file will reflect updates made to those files when the tables are refreshed.
Batch Plot
Frame records can now be previewed in a sequential manner. Selecting any record will initiate the preview, while pressing the spacebar will advance through the frames, with the currently active frame highlighted for ease of reference.
PDF Import
The PDF import engine has been enhanced through the integration of the modern and actively maintained PDFium library. This upgrade substantially increases import speed and improves the rendering of raster images, yielding better transparency, clarity, and color accuracy. Furthermore, advancements in text recognition and decoding allow for same-line text to be identified as MText, with each character receiving a width factor determined by the first character. Additionally, the upgrade provides clearer hatch displays.
Batch Purge
The Batch Purge tool now provides enhanced capabilities for the removal of registered applications, zero-length geometries, empty text objects, and orphaned drawing data.
New Features
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Parametric Constraints (Phase 2)
Parametric Constraints were initially introduced in GstarCAD 2025, featuring support for Geometric Constraints. The subsequent release of GstarCAD 2026 significantly enhances this capability by incorporating Dimensional Constraints and a Parameters Manager. These advancements facilitate precise control over the dimensions and proportions of objects. Furthermore, they offer robust tools for the creation, modification, and organization of dimensional constraint parameters, reference parameters, and user-defined variables, thereby providing increased flexibility in design processes.
DWG Compare
This feature facilitates the comparison of a designated drawing with the current drawing by employing revision clouds to emphasise the differences. It enables users to customise the comparison settings, import objects from the drawing being compared, and export as well as bind the findings into new snapshot drawings for future reference.
3D Modeling Workspace
The introduction of a dedicated "3D Modeling" interface complements the existing GstarCAD Classic and 2D Drafting workspaces. This specialized interface exclusively features 3D-related toolbars, menus, and palettes, thereby concealing unnecessary user interface elements to optimize the available modeling screen space.
TIFF Version 6
(CCITT G4 2D Compression)
Plotter Support
This plotter is designed to provide black-and-white output, significantly reducing the size of drawing files while ensuring the accuracy of lines, text, and dimensions is preserved.
Tool Palette:
XTP File Import
Tool palettes can now be customized through the importation of XTP files, allowing for the integration of text, separators, and block references from ACAD configuration sets. This advancement enhances workflow efficiency and promotes consistency across projects.
Drawing Merge
The Drawing Merge feature facilitates batch analysis, as well as the splitting and merging of drawings through the use of Xrefs, while offering customizable layout settings. This feature further enhances workflow by enabling users to view entity properties and export the drawing list to a .lst file, thereby improving project organization.
Engineering Projection
The ENGINEERINGVIEWMODE variable facilitates the transition from the default bottom view in ACAD to a true engineering projection. This adjustment significantly enhances the visual accuracy of technical drawings, thereby improving overall precision in engineering documentation.
GstarCAD for Mac
Leveraging the technical innovation and practical experience of Apple’s M series chip architecture and macOS system, GSTARCAD has successfully completed a comprehensive code migration, unlocking the full computing potential of Apple computers.
The interface interaction remains consistent with the Windows version, while performance has made a significant leap, achieving a native level of optimization.
Additionally, it is thoroughly adapted to the unique Apple user experience. This enhancement allows for the precise capture of design inspirations with extremely fast operations, fostering innovation and improving efficiency in the design process.
Compatible to: Apple silicon M-series, arm64
You can download the latest GstarCAD 2026 right here. Enjoy a 30-day trial, no license key needed. Happy exploring!
UPGRADE FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF GSTARCAD?
If you have purchased a GSTARCAD 2025 new license from us, you may be entitled to a free upgrade to GSTARCAD 2026.
Please log in to the GstarCAD license portal to check the upgrade status. If the product name displayed is GstarCAD 2026, your license key is ready to be upgraded.
Download the GstarCAD 2026 and install it on the same machine with an existing activation license.
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