MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2025

MicroSurvey brings intuitive calculation tools for land surveyors to popular drafting platforms, including BricsCAD®, IntelliCAD and AutoCAD®.  MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2025 runs on the AutoCAD OEM 2025 engine, which provides the latest and greatest from Autodesk, including updates to the start page and a new menu by the drawing tabs.

What’s New in Version 25.0

What’s New

• Now running the latest AutoCAD OEM 2025 engine for the best performance and stability from Autodesk.
• The Fast Area command now always shows the perimeter and area on the command line, and when the output scale toggle is turned on, will include the scaled distances and areas.
• On the licensing dialogue, the network license Activate and Deactivate buttons are greyed out when they cannot be used, such as when a license is checked out for offline use.
• Updated the driver to communicate with USB licenses.
• EmbeddedCAD 2025 can now be installed on a virtual machine.
• Added support for the Australian MGA2020 coordinate system using the GDA2020 datum and GRS80 ellipsoid.
• Updated the Coordinate system library parameters for Romania 70 and introduced the Hungary EOV (VITEL2014) system.
• Label Styles for curve labels have been added, previously there was only a single option for curve labels on the MsAnnotate ribbon.

What’s Improved

• The Lot Closure Routine now recognizes lower case letters in the bearing entry field.
• Bearing and Distance label style indexes have been increased from 5 to 10.
• We improved how cloud-based network licenses are handled to reduce the frequency of problems some users experienced.

Bug Fixes

• Drawings which were saved to a file path backed up by Microsoft OneDrive would improperly close due to unexpected locking of files. OneDrive will no longer negatively impact the saving and closing of drawings, causing the Drawing Recovery Wizard to appear when opening those drawings.
• In COGO, when prompted to create a new point and hitting escape to return to COGO, the create point (EDITP) dialog was trapped in a loop with “_REDRAWALL” in the point ID field.
• Using the Active Coordinate Editor to change point layer properties when using Point Blocks would cause a crash.
• Several locked layer crashes, including:
• Changing the MicroSurvey system toggle Point Blocks on or off with any MicroSurvey points on a locked layer.
• MS_POINTUPDATE with any affected entities on a locked layer would cause a crash.
• Creating a new MicroSurvey point with any of the destination layers locked would cause a crash.
• The Lot Closure Routine when using Bearings would show some curve values in Azimuth.
• COGO was not computing the correct direction using the + or – options. For example: 1..2 <return> + <return> 90 <return> would only use the original 1..2 direction.
• When computing volumes from surfaces, the command line output had many extra blank lines included.
• A floating network license could not be checked out for offline use.

Important Notes

Compatibility and Upgrades

MicroSurvey embeddedCAD will read and write to *.DWG drawing files and our *.MSZ database interchangeably with our other CAD products: MicroSurvey CAD, inCAD, 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.

Activating or Updating your USB License Key

Software licenses are stored on the USB key.  These must be activated after a new purchase, and usually require manual updates when new versions of MicroSurvey embeddedCAD are released.

The process is the same for both; click here for detailed instructions.

The USB License Manager program is automatically installed with MicroSurvey embeddedCAD; it can be found in the embeddedCAD folder in your start menu.  Open it with your USB key inserted and click the “Update Key with New Information” button.

You must have an internet connection to use the USB License Manager.  You may download the program and install it on another computer to update keys when corporate policy and firewalls prevent access from your work network.

Annual Maintenance Subscription (AMS) Program

If your AMS has expired, you may not be able to update your key to the current version of MicroSurvey embeddedCAD.

For a detailed explanation of the AMS program and how we use product numbers and USB keys to license our software, please review the following article.

Each key has a different AMS plan, so multiple keys may not have the same expiry date.

You can confirm your AMS expiry date by reviewing the About screen found in the Help menu.

If your AMS has expired, you can phone us at 1-800-668-3312 or 1-250-707-0000 to renew it. Without a current maintenance subscription plan, you may not be able to update your key 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.

MicroSurvey License Server for Network License Users

If you have purchased a network license, you must download and install a copy of the MicroSurvey Network License software on your intended license server computer.

A password is required to install the License Server.

System Requirements

MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2025 is compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11.

A free USB port is required for the USB License Key (local workstation or network server)

Full administrator rights are required to install MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2025, 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 embeddedCAD 2025 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.