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 23 and in its 15th version. Well this version is 9 which means its the 15th 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 9 built for Intel and Intel only. What's new...     Take a look at our PC9 page.   NEWS............ October 2011 PC update to address Lion issues. A PC update is available taking it to 9.1.1. This update fixes the known issus with Lion. You should update as soon as possible. Please contact us for details if you have not recieved an email already. July 2011 OS LION. Proceed with caution! PowerCADD7 is not compatible and will not operate under Lion. PowerCADD 8 is not considered compatible with Lion. PowerCADD 9 has issues with Lion. They are not show stoppers as such, but are irritating. Avoid upgrading to Lion if you can. Known issues... Registration issues: Likely you have a permissions problem down the file path to: Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/Network/com.engsw.PowerCADD8.plist (PowerCADD 8) PowerCADD9.plist (PowerCADD 9) Every location in the file path must have Read/Write privileges Command Issues: First thing you might try is to set or change the offending command in PowerCADD to an Option plus Keystroke. Second you might check to determine if the shortcut keystroke is used in the System Preferences. Keyboard Stops Working (Commands Stop Working): Commands function as expected in 10.5 and 10.6. However, in 10.7 after using the software for a while, the keyboard stops working. Quit and the the keyboard starts working again. Please notify Engineered Software and we will send an email requesting further detailed information. Some Commands stop working: Quit and restart reestablishes the commands. Please notify Engineered Software and we will send an email requesting further detailed information. Moving Files: Moving files on a volume that is not a Macintosh formatted volume will make the files unreadable. Recent Files: Sometimes too many files are opened. This is an Apple bug not exlusive to PCADD PowerCADD 9 will of course be updated as and when issues with Lion are discovered. PowerCADD version 8 will not be revised and 7 will certainly not work so proceed with caution when updating systems. In addition, also proceed with caution when moving older files to newer systems. We have found that even Apple products have bugs in Lion! A source of information on Lion, making interesting reading if you have enough time! Its far from concise! http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/1. The referenced article indicates that only a very few programs will take advantage of the new features initially and we concur. Importantly Rossetta has gone! If you still use any PPC apps beware they will not work! Dongle drivers are much the same as before. The old driver 5.20 still works fine with 8 and 9 on Lion. All the best. Have fun, enjoy the new Operating System, but proceed cautiously. January 2011 PowerCADD 9 and In2Space. The eagerly awaited PowerCADD v9 and its complimentary 3D partner In2Space are now available.
	PC9 is one of the most productive upgrades yet. Huge improvements to referencing making it accessible and appropriate for the one man business as well as larger companies. PDF to vector import, DWG bang up to date, the list goes on.
	In2Space is designed from the ground up as a complimentary 3D partner for PowerCADD. Copy and Paste from PowerCADD to In2Space and that's you up and running. Real world tool, Walls, Roofs, Floors, all fully parametric. See your designs come to life with ease. From simple floor plans to complex multi level buildings.

More NEWS............

Important!!! Future versions of PC, v10 on will see some major changes in the technologies Apple are providing to developers. There are legacy technologies that Apple will not be supporting in the future. The API's will simply not be available and some old technologies will not be available. Many will be of no consequence, eg PICT, (PDF has been replacing PICT for several years), Publish/Subscribe - Dropped long ago and Quickdraw, replaced by quartz also some years ago.

Most important and which may effect many of you who have been users for many some years.

• Files with resource forks - Reading files with resource forks will not be available in version 10. Files older than version 6 (pre 2002) will not read in version 10. Normal administrative and general housekeeping over the years should result in minor inconvenience. Ensure that you migrate your files to version 6 of PowerCADD or later.

PC7 is now retired. After many years as the staple PowerCADD PPC solution it has been decided that 7 must now be retired. The development platform for PC7 was Code Code warrior has given way to X Code and thus no longer in step with the current processors. As a result 7 cannot be compiled on systems beyond 10.4. In short any problems with system changes simply cannot be fixed. So with regret its time for 7 to go.

November 2009

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

SNOW LEOPARD the latest version of apple OS 10.6 is for Intel Macs only. But more importantly it will not support PC7 through Rosetta which is an optional install. This means in practice that if you are running 7 or maybe even 6 on your Intel Mac should you upgrade to 10.6 7 will certainly not work. We understand that 6 may work under Rosetta but we cannot support it and have no idea how stable it may be. To use PCadd on Snow Leopard you will need to upgrade to 8. Any legacy (aka PPC) software you have may not work. We imagine that many users will have not only PCadd 7 but many PPC app's, Word, Excel, Photoshop etc. Worth checking before an upgrade to Snow Leopard is done.

May 2009.

PCadd7 important notice.

Newer operating systems always present the possibility of incompatibility with older software. PC7 is over 4 years old and PC8 has been available for over a year. PC7 is a pre Intel PPC application and we can not predict how much longer PC7 will continue to run reliably with the latest (10.5.x) OSX systems.

At some point in a future operating system it will not install the interpreter necessary to run PPC software. Only Apple knows when.

Here is a statement from ES on the situation.

"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"

The compilers that are used with PC7 no longer work with 10.5 so it is technically impossible to continue to maintain compatibility with 10.5 and further updates to the OS. We recommend that you do not update your system to 10.5. If you are on 10.5 already beware updating your system when prompted as we have no idea how a system change will effect the smooth running of PC7. PC8 has been available for over a year and we would urge you to consider upgrading to ensure compatibility with further OS upgrades. PC8 is Intel only.

PowerCADD8 update 10.014 is available for all registered users.

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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