GiveMePower Corporation plans to provide its PowerCAD software development systems for free to existing AutoCAD developers.

The company claims this will allow thousands of software add-ons written for use with AutoCAD to be migrated and sold as productivity enhancing plug-ins for GiveMePower's PowerCAD Pro Windows-based CAD system and its PowerCAD CE Pro portable CAD system, a 2 and 3-dimensional CAD system for Microsoft's Windows CE/Pocket PC handhelds.

According got GiveMePower, third party developers create add-ons that make CAD software work more efficiently, enhancing productivity for end users involved in the design and manufacture of virtually any man-made product or structure. PowerCAD enables AutoCAD developers to leverage their existing customization and Lisp/C++ programming techniques, reducing the effort required to port their applications to PowerCAD.

AutoCAD developers can extend existing add-ons directly into the field or to the shop floor on mobile/wireless Pocket PC or newly emerging wireless tablet PC's such as Advantech's MobiPanel, using PowerCAD CE as the base CAD platform.