Possibly the best 2D draughting system available on the Apple Platform By Engineered Software.

With PowerCADD, drawing, designing and drafting in a natural way allows productive work to be measured in hours and days, rather than months and years. Even though it comes with complete documentation, most people, familiar with the Macintosh interface can begin work with the familiar tools without even picking up the manual. This intuitiveness increases your ability to rapidly become proficient and productive. The interface simply doesn't get in your way and you don't have to think about it.

PowerCADD has just turned 20 and in its 14th version. Well this version is 8 which means its the 14th version after the initial introduction of PowerDraw which was the first serious CAD product on the Mac platform way back in the days of floppy disks and Black and White Screens. PowerCADD followed as the PowerPC became available with another processor change for Apple. Now with yet another processor change and the Intel chip we have the latest incarnation and PowerCADD 8 built for Intel and Intel only.

NEWS............

May 15-2008

POWERCADD 8 SHIPPING IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS!

What's new...     Take a look at our PC8 page.

PowerCADD8 is now shipping in the US and will be available in the UK in just a few weeks time. This version is Intel ONLY! But PC8 and 7 files are fully transparent and can be intermixed. No problem if you have a mixed platform you can happily run 7 along side 8 with no file exchange issues!

PC7 is the application for PowerPC, non Intel users. As such it will be available and supported for some time to come. Those of you that have been PCadd users for some years will recall the transition from PDraw to PCADD where both were available for a couple of years or more.

March 05-2008

Apple's latest Operating Systems make the 7.0.6 update Mandatory. Important for any Leopard users. Please update to 7.0.6. Its is free and and considered mandatory. System 10.4.11 is the last free update before 10.5 and is considered minimum.

PowerCADD 7.0.6 Changes

Added an optional setting in the Print Dialog under PowerCADD settings to print dimmed layers using a gray pen pattern instead of using transparency. This feature may be of assistance when printing to Postscript devices that have quality or time issues when using transparency.

Stability and compatibility with System 10.5.x (Leopard's) "Spaces" feature improved.

Attribute menus will no longer grow as objects are pasted into to a drawing with the "Global Attributes" feature is enabled.

Compatibility with certain older hatch definitions has been improved. Crash fixed.

Some of the attribute menus (lines, arrows, dashes) could under some circumstances grow incorrectly and beyond their allowable range causing command problems and in some cases instability. This issue has been addressed.

Drawing that have acquired too many dashes experienced a problem where the dash editor would crash with no method to remove the excess dashes. The dash edit dialog will always allow removal of dashes.

Versions of 6.x and versions of 7.0.5 and under are not compatible and should not be run with System 10.5.x and above.

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