MicroSurvey inCAD 2026

MicroSurvey brings intuitive calculation tools for land surveyors to popular drafting platforms, including BricsCAD®, IntelliCAD and AutoCAD®.  MicroSurvey inCAD 2026 runs on existing AutoCAD® 2026 installations, including AutoCAD®, AutoCAD Map3D®, and AutoCAD Civil 3D®. This release brings support for the latest releases from Autodesk, improvements for floating cloud license users, fixes for licensing bugs reported through helpdesk, and many other improvements behind the scenes.

What’s New in Version 26.0

What’s New

• Support for the 2026 releases of Autodesk AutoCAD, Civil3D, and Map 3D products.
• For floating cloud license customers: we are now populating the computer ID field in our online license management system. This allows you to can see which computer has checked a license out for offline use, and which computers are accessing your license.

What’s Improved

• We resolved many infrequent issues with our cloud-based licensing system to ensure licensing will not get in the way of your work, and your license will be available when you need it.
• When checking a floating network license out for offline use, we now present a confirmation dialog to confirm that the user understands they are taking that license from their available pool of license seats and it will not be available for others to use until it is checked back in, or the time period has elapsed.

Bug Fixes

• With the increase of label styles in the 2025 release, the configuration file (*.cfg) for exchanging presets between installations and versions of MicroSurvey inCAD was not working. We have replaced the *.cfg file with a *.msz which contains all the necessary label style information, and can now read the *.cfg from previous releases.
• The MS_RESCALE command would incorrectly scale ellipses drawn around point IDs.
• Point coordinates in the active coordinate editor were not being updated in some operations in the program. Mostly commonly the Shift Points (SHIFTP), and Rotate Translate Scale (RTS) commands. The coordinates were correct in the point database, would be exported correctly, and would be displayed correctly when the Active Coordinate Editor was closed and reopened.
• When processing XYZ linework with the Active Coordinate Editor open, some datasets would cause a crash.

Important Notes

Compatibility and Upgrades

MicroSurvey inCAD will read and write to *.DWG drawing files and our *.MSZ database interchangeably with our other CAD products: MicroSurvey CAD, embeddedCAD, and SurveyTools for BricsCAD. There are no compatibility issues or workarounds required to use saved MicroSurvey databases between these products. We have supported the *.MSZ format since 2008, and offer conversion utilities for older formats which are described here.

 

MicroSurvey Subscription License

Existing MicroSurvey inCAD users with a current subscription license must enter their License ID and Password to run this version.

Each license has a different subscription plan, so multiple licenses may not have the same expiry date.

You can confirm your subscription expiry date by reviewing the About screen found on the Help ribbon.

If your subscription has expired, you can phone us at 1-800-668-3312 or 1-250-707-0000 to renew it. Without a current subscription plan, you will not be able to work with the new version.

 

MicroSurvey License Portal for Floating License Users

If you have purchased a floating license, you may visit our license page to review usage statistics on your license.

After purchase, you will be asked to create a login for the portal.

Log in to the portal, click "Licenses & Activations", then the desired license to review its details.

System Requirements

MicroSurvey inCAD 2026 is compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows 11.

Full administrator rights are required to install MicroSurvey inCAD 2026, but it can be run by limited user accounts

For detailed system requirements and recommendations, please review this online article.

Run as Administrator

You must run the program at least once elevated with "Run as administrator" access

Clicking “Run” from the installation package does this automatically

If this step is skipped, you may run as administrator by doing the following:

Right click on the MicroSurvey inCAD 2026 icon.

Choose "Run as administrator".

Select "Yes" on the "User Account Control" dialog when prompted to allow the program to make changes to your computer.

After this step is complete, you may run the program from any user account on the computer, even if they do not have administrative privileges.