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nanoCAD Plus saves you over $7,000 per seat compared to AutoCAD

6 December 2013. Nanosoft begins to rival general CAD market with its nanoCAD Plus, a highly capable CAD program designed for serious users, and priced to change the rules of the game
AutoCAD® dominates the general-purpose CAD market. But, even though many of those users are happy with AutoCAD’s capabilities, a significant number of them are seriously looking for an alternative. 
It’s all about the money: The full version of AutoCAD is expensive. For too many users this kind of cost is not sustainable, especially for ones with tight budgets and they get stuck using older versions. Some users justify installing a few “extra” copies, and put themselves in danger of being audited and sued by the BSA, the anti-piracy organization that represents many major software vendors. Those who are more fastidious about legalities often limp-along with too few copies of AutoCAD to get the job done, or make due with the lower cost AutoCAD LT, even though it has limited capabilities.


Nanosoft provides a solution
nanoCAD Plus was developed as a high-quality AutoCAD alternative, designed not only to meet the needs of serious users, but also priced low enough to change the economics of CAD for users.

nanoCAD Plus became available in October 2013. It is a professional-grade CAD program that works very much like AutoCAD, natively reads and writes AutoCAD compatible DWG format files (both current and older versions), and it has AutoCAD-style application programming interfaces (APIs).


Unlike AutoCAD, nanoCAD Plus requires no big up-front license fee, nor does it demand any big downstream update fees. It is sold via a simple annual subscription, at only $180/year, including priority support, bug fixes, and updates. The only extra-charge option is support for floating network licensing, which adds $40 per seat.

Consider these cost comparisons:

A single seat of nanoCAD Plus will save you $7,000 compared to a single seat of AutoCAD (based on a 10 year use period, including subscription.)
You can buy 5 seats of nanoCAD Plus for what it would cost you to buy a single seat of AutoCAD, and the initial cost of those 5 seats would still be more than $3,000 less than the initial cost of the single seat of AutoCAD.
If you consider only initial costs, you can get 25 seats of nanoCAD Plus for what you’d pay for a single seat of AutoCAD.
Two seats of nanoCAD Plus cost less than the annual subscription cost for a single seat of AutoCAD. For many organizations, replacing existing AutoCAD seats with nanoCAD Plus results in an immediate cost savings.
Unlike AutoCAD, there are no penalties for not renewing a nanoCAD Plus subscription. If you let a subscription lapse, and renew it months late, the cost is the same.

nanoCAD Plus can be downloaded from http://nanocad.com